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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?
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To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (51101)10/11/2008 8:35:03 AM
From: cirrus  Read Replies (1) of 224694
 
More likely McCain will avoid the issue because it could very well backfire. I know you won't agree, but Obama can make a compelling case that:

1) He was eight when Ayers was tossing bombs some forty some years ago.

2) Ayers has been a respected figure in the Chicago educational and political scene in the many years since his Weatherman days. Don't get all riled up at me about this - take it up with someone from Chicago.

3) His relationship with Ayers was incidental. Hillary and just about everyone else interested in Ayers turned heaven and earth to find something more concrete but couldn't. Just saying there is or must be doesn't cut it. Good luck.

4) They served on a board supervising the Annenberg Project. What's a firebombing radical doing on the board of an organization founded by a Regan Republican?

5) If we're going to look at judgement, lets talk about that Keating guy and the S&L mess...

The right hounded the Clintons for years, claiming there was so much so more to Whitewater that Clinton was hiding. They wound up spending years and $100 million of taxpayer dollars investigating Whitewater and ended up with nothing more than semen on a dress. Now they're starting this stuff with, as McCain himself described Ayers, "a washed up old terrorist" - claiming that Obama is, like Clinton, hiding something - but they can't say what. The right is crying "Wolf!" again.

USA TODAY suggested Monday that we stipulate that a) Obama is not a terrorist and b) McCain is not crook - and move on.
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