The Real Barack Obama
Obama opens Ayers can of worms, McCain camp responds (Updated 2x)
“McCain knows Obama denounced Ayers’ crimes, committed when Obama was just eight years old.”
A true statement, Barack, but what about all those years Bill was your boss at the Chicago Annenberg Challenge and you worked side by side on the board of the Woods Fund, for starters? Blech! (Much, much more here on the Ayers-Obama relationship—which Obama has conveniently brushed aside.)
This would be the same Barack Obama who helped climb his way up the Illinois Combine ladder by playing poker with Chicago power brokers. Once again, it appears that Obama has showed us a tell.
After speaking with Steve Schmidt of the McCain camp, Rich Lowry at National Review Online the following last night at 9:17 PM:
That they’ve made a strategic decision to air a commercial about William Ayers is perplexing. I don’t understand it, but put that aside. The ad is misleading. It states the McCain campaign is running an ad on the issue and it’s not. This a pattern of attacking from a platform of disingenuousness when Obama accuses his opponent of attacking when he’s not, in an attempt to disqualify the issue from the debate. Here’s Obama’s problem with regard to Ayers. When he was asked directly, Obama described Ayers as just a guy who lives in his neighborhood. We know that’s not accurate. Before we get to the place where we can ask, “Why does Barack Obama have a relationship with an unrepentant terrorist?” we have to ask, “Why is Barack Obama not being forthcoming about his relationship?” This is what he has to realize: He’s a candidate for president of the United States of America. He’s not in a state senate race where he can disqualify all his opponents from running. He’s deluding himself if he doesn’t think his relationship with an unrepentant domestic terrorist who was part of this viscous, crack-pot group will give the American people pause. If he does, he’s being very naïve. And he’s being misleading. It says a lot about Barack Obama. John McCain is not running an ad on Ayers and William Ayers was not just someone who lived in his neighborhood.
Watch Obama’s anti-McCain ad on Ayers. Now was this a stupid move or what?
