Posted on 08/20/2008 8:21:29 PM PDT by BulletBobCo
(CNN) — Barack Obama's campaign is linking John McCain to the infamous Jack Abramoff scandal that ended several Republicans' political careers three years ago in a new campaign ad hitting Georgia airwaves Wednesday.
The 30-second spot is the Obama campaign’s second negative ad in the past 24 hours. It attacks the Arizona senator for his association with former Christian Coalition head Ralph Reed, one of the Republicans implicated in the scandal.
The ad also seems to suggest McCain didn't call Reed to testify before a Senate panel he chaired in return for political favors.
“When the Senate investigated, the senator in charge never even called Reed to testify….And that senator? John McCain. And who’s now raising money for McCain’s campaign? Ralph Reed," the ad's narrator says. "For 26 years in Washington, John McCain’s played the same old games. We just can’t afford more of the same.”
The TV spot sparked a sharp rebuke from McCain campaign spokesman Brian Rogers, who called it "ridiculous," and noted Obama's connection to Bill Ayers, the current University of Chicago professor and one-time leader of the militant group "Weather Undeground."
“If Barack Obama wants to have a discussion about truly questionable associations, let’s start with his relationship with the unrepentant terrorist William Ayers, at whose home Obama’s political career was reportedly launched," Rogers said. "Mr. Ayers was a leader of the Weather Underground, a terrorist group responsible for countless bombings against targets including the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon and numerous police stations, courthouses and banks."
Reed, who lost a bid in 2006 for lieutenant governor of Georgia, had promoted a McCain fundraiser last week in the Atlanta area that netted the presumptive Republican nominee $1.75 million in campaign cash.
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The boy is getting desperate. He’s toast.
But it won't help him. Instead, he needs a bold, positive policy proposal to offer hope and change, and he just doesn't have such a plan.
I have to ask my son when his Boy Scout troop is going to start their popcorn drive.
Ralph Reed versus Bill Ayers. Hmmm. I think Ralph is more acceptable to most Americans. This was a strategic blunder by the Obama campaign.
Obama slaps McCain with a cold fish. McCain goes after Obama with a shark!
It’s on!!!
Link?
Frankly, the MSM's willingness to look the other way is on this issue is sickening.
Imagine what the MSM would do if McCain had a friendship with someone who tried to bomb the Pentagon??? The Press is absolutely shameless.
Obama thought McCain wouldn’t fight back. He miscalculated.
Being book smart and having common street walking sense are two entirely different things. Obambi isn’t the first to be running a deficit on common sense.
Just keep whackin that neophyte over the head with his commie anarchist associations!
What do Obama and Osama have in common?
Friends that have bombed the Pentagon.
>>>>>“If Barack Obama wants to have a discussion about truly questionable associations, let’s start with his relationship with the unrepentant terrorist William Ayers, at whose home Obama’s political career was reportedly launched," Rogers said.
Bring it on!
Isn't the link at the top?
You’re Fearmongering! /s
L0L
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. The Messiah will cry that is a racist comment:)
Hussein accepted money from Abramoff as well from Tony Rezko.
Still wishful thinking. I would love it if he tanks and falls behind by double digits in Ohio and Florida. Then he will truly be toast. He's dreaming if he really thinks he's getting Virginia.
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