Sarah Palin really took the offensive today, and showed her “pitbull” side. Referring to Barack Obama’s friendship with self-confessed domestic terrorist Bill Ayer’s, she accused Obama of “palling around with terrorists.”
You can see more about it below:
As we reported here, Obama’s links with Ayers are well-documented.
Obama doesn’t take negative hits very well. The Reverend Wright scandal cost him several state primaries against Hillary Clinton. Then, Hillary Clinton’s 3 a.m. ad made a noticeable difference in Ohio and Texas late in the primaries. In July, Obama had a 9 point lead in Gallup which the Paris Hilton / Britney Spears “celebrity” attack ad released by the McCain campaign erased virtually overnight.
For the last month or so, Obama hasn’t had many personal attacks to deal with. Clearly, with a month to go, the GOP is going to send Palin on the offensive.
Can’t wait for the fireworks!
October 4th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Yawn. Another transparent tactic to prop up their failing strategy.
If Palin had “won” the debate, as suggested on this very site, the McCain campaign would be riding on that wave of issue-related ideological dominance and not relying on smear tactics. But they aren’t.
This move reeks of desperation and proves they know they lost the debate and are not resonating with wide sections of voters.
October 4th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
Its not fair to lump Wright and Ayers together. One is a controversal preacher but not known to have ever tryed to blow anyone up. How on earth Ayers escaped conviction and got a University post is beyond me but he is clearly no reverend. Sandra Good of the Manson Family said the Tate Labianca murders were because they, the gang, was at war with society. She herself wasn’t involved in the crime, but knew the ones who were and all of them are serving life sentences in prison after California revoked the Death Penalty at one point. I don’t see any difference between the intent there and I would find it rather bizarre to find Charlie a professor today in one of our better Universities. Wanting to win the election is one thing, but to muddy and merge the facts is just low balling everyone’s intelligence.
October 4th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
Desperation sure isn’t a pretty sight, lol.
Oh Silly Sarah, can we talk about your connection to The Independence Party in Alaska that advocated cession from the USA?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwvPNXYrIyI
October 4th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
Without defending Ayers’ past, he is now a part of Chicago society. He works to reform education and housing. He just so happened to work on two committees that Obama worked on, worked for the same university, and lived in the same neighborhood. The notion that they wouldn’t have known or worked with each other at some point is ridiculous and practically inavoidable. But the point is — knowing someone is not the same as sharing their opinions, and it certainly isn’t the same as harboring latent terrorist intentions.
Let’s call this what it is — a desperate attempt at distraction — and move on.
October 4th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
I would agree crossing paths with ayers in chicago politics would be fairly likely given the two may champion the same causes. But I wouldn’t overlook Ayers past as it says something fundamental about his soul and character as it put civilians at peace at risk. No amount of good deeds can undo that as he planned and then carried out the plans, though not as effectively as mcveigh. Still as a committed revolutionary you still ahve to think about the people and their lives and not play God with them as we must always remember Satan is the ultimate dissembler who can convince people to do truly evil things even in the name of what they think is good. If all he was was a public speaker, and actor, an educator, or writer of course you can forgive and forget, but clearly he chose to work on the dark side. Wright for his part has chosen to work on the bright side controversal rabble a rouser he may be. He wants to gently kick you in the shins to wake you up, not blow you to smithereens. So we should not forgive any of these people who would take our lives for “their” cause. I don’t think revisiting Ayers history is a distraction, it just shows how crazy politics can be, even here in the good ole USA and obama being a player in all of this can’t get up from that dog with fleas without a few himself.
October 4th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
you see to me people that do things like that are theives, thieves of other people’s lives.
October 4th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
The problem with attacking Obama over any relationship he had with Bill Ayers is, if you ask the average person on the street who Bill Ayers is, they will shrug their shoulders and ask “Who?” Now, if it were OJ Simpson, or someone else like that, then maybe you would have something. But Bill Ayers? Bill Who?
October 4th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Ayers is a terrorist pure and simple, and Obama did much more than “Cross paths” with him.
You Obama kool-aid drinkers need to get your heads out of the sand and wake up.
October 4th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
I don’t know why we have relationships with Germany. Why do we treat the Germans as international colleagues rather than the warmongers they are? We’ve got to make it known that we do not support their imperialism and genocide! But we can be glad a maverick like McCain would never pall around with Germany.
October 5th, 2008 at 12:08 am
Katharine Fields, you hit the nail on the head. People do horrible things, but when 40 years have passed and that person or group of people have expressed regret and changed their paths drastically, it’s time to move on. 234, you expressed similar sentiments with an excellent analogy about Germany.
But, it really doesn’t matter how we choose to judge Ayers, because as others before me have pointed out. Obama isn’t “pals” with Bill Ayers. They’ve met a scant handful of times and shaken hands. Ayers donated some money to Obama’s 2000 run for state senate, which was not done at the behest of any encouragement by Obama. Obama went to the same party as Ayers in 1999. They served on the same committee. Whoop de doo. There is no public record of the two speaking in years.
It’s really not the same thing as the Rev. Wright connection, who was once a mentor to Obama. But if Obama survived the Wright controversy, he will easily escape unscathed by this Ayers silliness.
October 5th, 2008 at 2:11 am
What a ridiculous story! For one, Palin got the idea in the firsts place from the NY times, which according to Palin is hardly ever wrong, that said:
“the two men do not appear to have been close. Nor has Mr. Obama ever expressed sympathy for the radical views and actions of Mr. Ayers”
This is just mud slinging (and lazy mud slinging at that!)
October 5th, 2008 at 4:42 am
It appears that most right wing Christians have never heard of the Sermon on the Mount. Hypocrisy thy name is GOP.
October 5th, 2008 at 6:11 am
you should judge ayers heart for what he did, and that of those who currently support him in maintaining his elevated social position. You should judge their hearts as well. Nothing of what he did is defensible or you are really morally off your compass. But I wouldn’t see what obama did as be anymore than a politician crossing paths. Its not his fault the good people put ayers on committees that decide aspects of society’s welfare. He(ayers) is just a mole from satan’s house.
October 5th, 2008 at 8:19 am
I seem to recall an image of Donald Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam Hussein.
Should we draw some conclusions from that, or am I just pulling sh*t from my butt?
Republicans are such hypocrites.
October 5th, 2008 at 8:37 am
You know your campaign is in bad shape when your biggest hope is pinned on tearing your opponent down rather than convincing the American public of your own strengths…
October 5th, 2008 at 8:37 am
ridiculous manipulative logic Buck. Of course they are in the dark dance of the devil and ayers came cut from the same cloth. Why do you assume those in authority over us actually represent “all” the people in everything they do. There is no defense for ayers other than to ask for God’s forgiveness as to the disposition of his black marked soul. What you think satan can’t reach inside our corporation, our government, even our churches? There is no hypocracy here, just factual information for you to admit is right.
October 5th, 2008 at 8:42 am
Is it true they pay obamaite staffers $7 an hour to robotically blog some of these replies? They don’t seem written by individuals, but rather by machines or from a script.
October 5th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Yes, Brian. It’s true. $7.00 an hour. You can also make $7.00 serving french fries. I think they’d do more good behind a fast food counter, don’t you?
October 5th, 2008 at 10:18 am
I wouldn’t wish that on anyone having worked in kitchen’s myself with a bunch of stressy people. But the robotic thing is disingenuous and defeats the whole concept of free speech as they are the same as plain old placquard posters. Why don’t they rebel or revolt and make their reposts more original and individual instead of trying to just mear the blogosphere. Anyways, Obama may well have a better health plan approach than mccain as getting health insurance on a job is about the one remaining perk and to be taxed on that or have it reduced would be like the last straw as I already pay half the permiums out of pocket. To think market forces will decrease health care spending without us, we the customers, having to pay some price is fantasy. WE will get stuffed into lousy beurocratic hmo’s trying to cut costs to the bone, very short doctor visits, deferring scans and tests till we are teetering on the brink, using cheaper older drugs and generics, blocking the new biotech innovations as too costly, etc etc.. We lost our pensions, our 401ks were a scam, our vacations truncated, can’t take our sick days, expected to come when called whenever, and no real raises for decadesk, and now McCain speaking for corporate america wants our employee health care benifits reduced as ultimately it will be cheaper for business again. I even like Palin but who are they working for? Even I could come up with a better health plan using a lifetime national risk pool with copays and merging medicare and medicaid and vet care into it. You still get to pick who you want with a finite pot of money which will pressure the health care providers to meet your price if they want to stay in business and most will. It will bring prices down and bring earlier preventative care to the people saving end of life huge exenses in the long run. They need to have some actuarys research this rather than policy people and they will see its merits.
October 5th, 2008 at 10:35 am
Ahem, so when people have opposing opinions on things they must be paid Obamabots.
Has it ever occured to you that the other candidate just might make a lot more sense to a large group of people out there?
1. Denial
2. Anger
3. Bargaining
4. Depression
5. Acceptance
Looks like quite a few folks are approaching stage 2. I call that progress.
October 5th, 2008 at 10:42 am
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October 5th, 2008 at 10:46 am
your just a wize guy obama-ite or anti-mccain-ite, but still I have no idea of what your politics really are, its just that some of the obamabot posts are stilted and don’t read real. You gotta remember obama didn’t vote so often in congress when he should have I don’t think the taxpayers got their money. And if on something so basic as that(being sent to washington to vote for the people who elected him) it is fairly outrageous. This goes to character frankly. McCain has his problems too and I am not sure who he really works for either. but we need some clairty here on both accounts. If you elect me I will go an vote on each and every issue.
October 5th, 2008 at 10:47 am
Ha Jay, that’s a good one.
As for tearing down a candidate, in October, that’s what the candidates do. Obama has ads calling McCain old, and stating that his POW years made him mentally unstable. I think palling with terrorists is about on the same level as that.
October 5th, 2008 at 11:31 am
Ignatius,
time for you to back up your statement with proof. As far as I’m concerned he called him ‘erratic’, not old. But since all the ads can be easily found on the internet, be my guest to convince me otherwise.
Links please. Or McCain might ban you for rumour mongering.
October 5th, 2008 at 11:53 am
Get your own site, jay, and you can ban whomever you like. As for the ads, you can find them in our past posts.