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McCain Prepares Rezko Ad; Wright "Now Fair Game"; GOP 527 Attacks
The Atlantic ^ | Thursday, August 21, 2008 | Marc Ambinder

Posted on 08/21/2008 1:55:48 PM PDT by kristinn

Sen. John McCain's campaign is finishing a hard-hitting television ad highlighting Barack Obama 's ties to shady Chicago land dealer Tony Rezko, the one-time Obama patron who was convicted earlier this summer of fraud.

A campaign official said that the decision to Go Rezko was Obama's. "He's opened the door to this," the official said.

The ad will be released to network news divisions in time for their broadcasts tonight.

Though McCain is widely perceived to to drawn first blood by attacking Obama's character, the official said that the difference between Obama's mocking McCain for his wealth and his shaky answer on the number of homes he owns was that McCain's charge "reflects an existential reality," where Obama's charges "attack Cindy. She owns the homes. I thought he said the wives were off-limits."

McCain strategists hope that Obama's brass knuckles punch doesn't work. "Americans don't like this class warfare stuff," the official said. They aspire to be rich, the official said. They don't aspire to eat arugala or hang out with celebrities.

Earlier in the news cycle, McCain's press team invoked Obama's friendship with a former member of the Weatherman, William Ayres, and an official said that even Obama's former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, "is now fair game." The official declined to say whether the campaign was contemplating running an advertisement linking Obama to Wright.

(Excerpt) Read more at marcambinder.theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 527groups; ads; ayers; ayersobamaconnection; billayers; billyayers; classwarfare; domesticterrorism; electionads; mccain; mccainads; obama; obamaayersconnection; pentagonbombing; proterrorist; rezko; underground; weatherman; weathermanned
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To: kristinn

NOW it gets fun!


21 posted on 08/21/2008 2:08:36 PM PDT by cake_crumb (Terrorist organizations worldwide endorse Obama.)
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To: jveritas

“It is going to get very ugly very quickly. Obama will come back with the ‘Keating 5’.”

Yup. And Mrs. McCain and her father did invest in one of the properties offered by Jefferson Savings and Loan. This is gonna’ be a mess.

Even though Bob Bennett said he is certain that McCain did nothing illegal, it was still “poor judgment” to meet with the loan shark (whose name escapes me at the moment.)


22 posted on 08/21/2008 2:09:32 PM PDT by Constitutions Grandchild
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To: henkster

I would agree that his surrogates should do the heavy lifting, not McCain himself.


23 posted on 08/21/2008 2:10:30 PM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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To: impeachedrapist
Obama's connection to his terrorist friend, Ayres, has been given a 'free pass' in the MSM!

It's about darn time that friendship starts getting more exposure!

24 posted on 08/21/2008 2:10:36 PM PDT by stockstrader (CHANGE--a euphemism for further dividing our country along racial, social and economic lines)
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To: henkster

I think....just maybe...this was a brilliant trap that Obama walked right into...Rezko is now in play.
if so...well done camp McCain!


25 posted on 08/21/2008 2:10:37 PM PDT by housedeep
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To: MEGoody

I would like to see, it say something about one reason he said he was unsure how many houses he owned was because he thought, should he count the one he lets his aging Aunt live in, and juxtapose that to Obama’s brother living in a hut on a dollar a day.


26 posted on 08/21/2008 2:10:43 PM PDT by za_claws
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To: henkster
"Obama just gave that to McCain, and now the counter-punch will hopefully be the knockout blow."

Yep. Obama's so sharp he keeps cutting himself.

27 posted on 08/21/2008 2:10:49 PM PDT by cake_crumb (Terrorist organizations worldwide endorse Obama.)
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To: kristinn
God Bless. Obama needs to be savaged on these connections. Especially Wright. This article affirms what I've been hoping... That the McCain camp is waiting for the country to tune in before it goes nuclear.

People, the left jumps on news and gets active. We need to do the same. I have just finished donating money to this group. http://www.americanissuesproject.org/

If they're running 2.8 million about Ayers in OH and MI that's exactly what we need. Open the checkbooks. Even small donations. We need to be able to match the left in grassroots technological fund raising/movement. I donate money to any outside group that takes a good swipe. So far these guys are my second after Vets for Freedom.

28 posted on 08/21/2008 2:12:13 PM PDT by AirForceGeorge
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To: bahblahbah

There is also Michael Pfleger. McCain has much more peripheral associations with Hagee etc than Obama (20+ years in that Black Liberation Theology church). Someone else mentioned here that that church is racist. Yes, but the key is that it evolved from the Latin American “Liberation Theology”, which was Marxist to the hilt. (In fact it was intended to “infiltrate” the Catholic church with communists, since they realized their atheism did not sit well with the Latin Americans). The Black Liberation church up here simply added racism to the mix.
I think the Marxist connections with the church Obama attended for so many years is where the push should be.
Many Americans do not know yet of this connection. My wife, who is originally from Latin America, saw it right away.


29 posted on 08/21/2008 2:12:46 PM PDT by Sigurdrifta
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To: bahblahbah
hit him with Rezko but leave Wright out of this. They’ll hit back with Hagee and Parsley and the average joe won’t be able to sort things out

Nah, the average Joe has nothing against a Hagee or Parsley, the liberal media does. The average Joe is a white guy or gal with a family trying to make ends meet who has had racism shoved down their throat for the past 30 years and is sick to death of it. Show wright in all his racist glory right next to Obummer, the only people it will piss off is the lying media who try and spin their warped view as that of the Average American, which it isnt.

30 posted on 08/21/2008 2:13:03 PM PDT by Snurple
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To: Constitutions Grandchild
I am 100% sure that McCain did nothing illegal in this whole Keating 5 issue but in a 30 second political ad they can come up with a lot of lies against McCain.
31 posted on 08/21/2008 2:14:11 PM PDT by jveritas (God Bless President Bush and our brave troops)
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To: kristinn

Careful with the early enthusiasm - hellry’s waiting in the wings in Denver. If she’s the nominee, she wins. We’re doomed. Timing is everything.


32 posted on 08/21/2008 2:15:11 PM PDT by newfreep ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: Constitutions Grandchild

Obama’s brother. George, lives in a hut in Kenya, on one dollar a month, and McCain has 7 houses. Which is the damest story?


33 posted on 08/21/2008 2:15:57 PM PDT by tessalu
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To: Sigurdrifta
"Yes, but the key is that it evolved from the Latin American “Liberation Theology”, which was Marxist to the hilt."

Right, and no matter that he threw an aid under the bus when he was caught, that Che Guevara flag at his Houston headquarters was SIGNIFICANT.

34 posted on 08/21/2008 2:16:06 PM PDT by cake_crumb (Terrorist organizations worldwide endorse Obama.)
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To: Maelstorm

“Black Liberation theology is racism pure and simple.”

Its also based on a southamerican for of Marxism.


35 posted on 08/21/2008 2:17:40 PM PDT by Beagle8U (FreeRepublic -- One stop shopping ....... Its the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: Beagle8U

* Southamerican FORM of Marxism.


36 posted on 08/21/2008 2:18:34 PM PDT by Beagle8U (FreeRepublic -- One stop shopping ....... Its the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: za_claws
. . .should he count the one he lets his aging Aunt live in, and juxtapose that to Obama’s brother living in a hut on a dollar a day.

Oh, that would be good!

37 posted on 08/21/2008 2:19:06 PM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall cause you to vote against the Democrats.)
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To: newfreep
If she’s the nominee, she wins.

Not a chance. She still has the almost-insurmountable negatives she's always had, and she still has Bill around to screw things up.

It's a potent cocktail of woe.

38 posted on 08/21/2008 2:19:09 PM PDT by JennysCool (A man who served his country well vs. a walking Che poster. Is it really that tough a choice?)
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To: kristinn

TOO SOON FOR THIS! We cannot bring Rezko in until after the DNC! Remember the lesson of Torricelli! Knock down Obama too much now and Hillary will be the nominee after Denver.


39 posted on 08/21/2008 2:20:06 PM PDT by montag813
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To: kristinn
He's being Weathermanned.


40 posted on 08/21/2008 2:20:30 PM PDT by weegee (The higher taxes that Obama demands of Americans are 'Above my Pay Grade'.)
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