Oct 09 2008
The Obama connection
Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama recently sat down with ABC News anchor Charlie Gibson. They talked about the Palin-McCain smear campaign against him…
Read about it here: Obama: McCain Scoring ‘Cheap Political Points’
Sen. Barack Obama says the personal attacks levied against him by the campaign of his presidential rival, Sen. John McCain, particularly references to his association with 1960s anti-war radical Bill Ayers, are an attempt to “score cheap political points.”
“Why don’t we just clear it up right now,” Obama told ABC News’ Charlie Gibson in an exclusive interview for World News. “I’ll repeat again what I’ve said many times. This is a guy who engaged in some despicable acts 40 years ago when I was eight years old. By the time I met him, 10 or 15 years ago, he was a college professor of education at the University of Illinois . . . And the notion that somehow he has been involved in my campaign, that he is an adviser of mine, that . . . I’ve ‘palled around with a terrorist’, all these statements are made simply to try to score cheap political points.”
Obama said that the McCain campaign is making personal attacks “the centerpiece of the discussion in the closing weeks of a campaign where we are facing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and we’re in the middle of two wars.”
“I think that makes very little sense, not just to me but to the American people,” Obama said.[..]
“I am surprised that, you know, we’ve been seeing some pretty over-the-top attacks coming out of the McCain campaign over the last several days, that he wasn’t willing to say it to my face. But I guess we’ve got one last debate. So presumably, if he ends up feeling that he needs to, he will raise it during the debate.”
See also: “The Truth About Barack Obama and William Ayers.”
The next few weeks are going to be fun as we watch Johnny McCain and Sarah Palin grow more and more desperate. Johnny has been lusting after the presidency of the United States for a long, long time. He is seeing it slip through his fingers yet again and he is not the least bit happy about it. I don’t know what Sarah Palin’s excuse is, other than just being a typical Republican and a complete airhead.
P.S. Sen. Obama brings up a very good point. He and Sen. McCain shared a stage in Nashville, Tennessee for over 90 minutes just night before last. If Sen. McCain is so concerned about Sen. Obama’s association with William Ayers, why didn’t he just ask him about it? Is he afraid to talk about it face to face? It’s always easier to stab someone in the back when they aren’t able to defend themselves, right? Hey, it’s the Republican way.
Final note to Sarah and Johnny: Don’t ask the question if you don’t want to listen to the answer.
One Response to “The Obama connection”
Thank you for this wonderful video. We are, unfortunately, seeing too much of the McCain/Palin circus and not enough of this. Articulate, well-spoken, calm discussion of fact.
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