LOL!
Obama didn't say "My friends" 27 times. He didn't claim that fixing social security was easy. He didn't say that he "knew how" to capture bin Laden. Sorry, but McCain is who he is, and at 72 he's just too old to be taking on the responsibility of president.
So Obama has surrounded himself with radicals? Warren Buffett? Caroline Kennedy? Bill Richardson? His former pastor, the Rev. Wright, perhaps - the equiv of the right's lovable Jerry Falwell in my book. Perhaps you insist on some nefarious connection between Obama and Bill Ayers - who contributed the monumental sum of $200 to Obama's Illinois Senate re-election fund some years ago?
Bill Ayers and Barack Obama at one time lived in the same neighborhood in the city of Chicago, and both had worked on education reform in the state of Illinois. The two met "at a luncheon meeting about school reform."[41] Obama was named to the Chicago Annenberg Challenge Project Board of Directors to oversee the distribution of grants in Chicago. Later in 1995, Ayers hosted "a coffee" for "Mr. Obama's first run for office."[42] The two served on the board of a community anti-poverty group, the Woods Fund of Chicago, between 2000 and 2002, during which time the board met twelve times.[42] In April 2001, Ayers contributed $200 to Obama's re-election fund to the Illinois State Senate.[41] Since 2002, there has been little linking Obama and Ayers.[42] The senator said in September 2008 that he hadn't "seen him in a year-and-a-half."[43] In February 2008, Obama spokesman Bill Burton released a statement from the senator about the relationship between the two: "Senator Obama strongly condemns the violent actions of the Weathermen group, as he does all acts of violence. But he was an eight-year-old child when Ayers and the Weathermen were active, and any attempt to connect Obama with events of almost forty years ago is ridiculous."[41] CNN's review of project records found nothing to suggest anything inappropriate in the non-profit projects in which the two men were involved.[44] Internal reviews by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time magazine, The Chicago Sun-Times, The New Yorker and The New Republic "have said that their reporting doesn't support the idea that Obama and Ayers had a close relationship".[45]
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The Republicans controlled the Presidency and Congress for 6 of the past 8 years - but the current mess "isn't their fault"?
The American people will decide that in November. |
