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Politics : THE WHITE HOUSE -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (19586)	4/19/2008 7:40:49 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25737

Re: "Right, those are the rules of the game played in our court system," Exactly. Rules. Court. Law. (It's called rule of law in a Constitutional Democracy... and we are DAMNED LUCKY to have it....) Re: "but we don't have to play those games outside of court..." Correct. Another wonderful thing, Freedom of Speech, means we can bloviate mostly all we want to.... (And, no pesky 'rules of evidence' apply. :-) Re: "He claims he did it...." Did WHAT???????????? See below: Ayers' brother charges Clinton camp with 'McCarthyism' Slams focus on 'Obama's alleged ties to so-called terrorist' April 19, 2008 suntimes.com BY CHRIS FUSCO Staff Reporter/cfusco@suntimes.com Bill Ayers' brother, Rick Ayers, is lashing out at Hillary Clinton, accusing her of "McCarthyism" for making an issue of rival Barack Obama's links to Chicago professor Bill Ayers during this week's Democratic presidential debate. "The fact that she would drag up this pathetic red herring about Obama's alleged ties to so-called terrorist Bill Ayers (my brother!) brings her right down to the level of Fox News and the National Enquirer," blogged Rick Ayers, a California high school teacher and author. "This is the most base version of McCarthyism," he wrote. "Obama should have taken a page from Joseph Welch when he confronted the red-baiting senator during the Army-McCarthy hearings. He should have said, 'Senator Clinton, are you really going to go there? Do you have no shame?'" Clinton raised the relationship as a potential general election sore spot for Obama should he defeat her. Obama then downplayed his ties to Bill Ayers, who spent 10 years as a fugitive in the 1970s as a member of the Weather Underground, which protested the Vietnam War by bombing government buildings. Obama — who lives near Bill Ayers, received a $200 campaign donation from him in 2001 and served with him for three years on a not-for-profit's board — also said he "detested" the Weather Underground's acts. Still, Clinton slammed Obama for not severing all ties with Bill Ayers. The Clinton-Obama exchange has since lit up the Internet, with some, like Rick Ayers, excoriating Clinton for her remarks and others praising her for noting Obama's ties to Ayers, who is an education professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The only casualties in the Weather Underground's bombing activities were three members of the group who died making bombs in a Manhattan town house in 1970. The group was known then as the Weathermen. Jim Wagner, a retired FBI agent who was working in New York when the town house explosion happened, said he thinks Obama owes voters a better explanation about Ayers. "The general public does want to know what the relationship is,' said Wagner, who did not work on the Weather Underground case and went on to become an FBI official in Chicago. Ayers "committed crimes, didn't suffer any consequences and didn't admit he really did anything wrong. I'm kind of shocked at that." Ben LaBolt, an Obama spokesman, on Friday defended Obama's handling of the Ayers matter and noted Clinton has ties to the Weather Underground through her husband, former President Bill Clinton. “In the debate, Obama called the acts Ayers committed 40 years ago ‘detestable,’ . . . and any attempt to connect him with those events is outrageous,” LaBolt said. “While Obama, Mayor Daley, and others in Chicago’s academic and civic communities have known Bill Ayers in recent years . . . President Clinton pardoned a member of the Weathermen who participated in a heist that left two police officers and a security guard dead, and commuted the sentence of another, and we have yet to hear where Senator Clinton stands on President Clinton's actions.” A Clinton spokesman did not return messages.