Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
Posted on 10/05/2008 1:12:55 PM PDT by Red Steel
ABC News' Imtiaz Delawala Report: Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin defended her charge that Sen. Barack Obama has been "palling around with terrorists," and disputed a characterization by the Associated Press that her remarks connecting Obama to former 60's radical William Ayers were racially tinged.
"The comments are about an association that has been known but hasn't been talked about, and I think it’s fair to talk about where Barack Obama kicked off his political career, in the guy's living room," Palin said on the tarmac of the Long Beach, CA airport this morning.
At three events yesterday, Palin raised Obama's ties to Ayers, one of the founding members of the Weather Underground, a 60's radical group that took credit for bombing attacks around the country, including explosions set off at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol in the early 1970's.
Obama has served on a charitable board with Ayers, who lives in the same Chicago neighborhood as Obama, and Ayers and his wife hosted a meet-and-greet in 1995 launching Obama's bid for his first term in the Illinois State Senate.
"This is not a man who sees America as you and I see America," Palin said of Obama to 13,000 supporters at a rally in Carson, CA yesterday afternoon. "We see America as a force for good in this world. We see an America of exceptionalism. Our opponent is someone who sees America as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists who target their own country."
In an analysis of Palin's comments, Associated Press writer Douglass Daniel wrote that while Palin "may have scored a political hit each time, her attack was unsubstantiated and carried a racially tinged subtext that John McCain himself may come to regret."
Palin called the AP's characterization "wrong," saying Obama's ties to Ayers, given his known connection to the Weather Underground, are a legitimate point of criticism of the Democratic presidential nominee.
"And he of course, having been associated with that group, a known domestic terrorist group, it's important for Americans to know," Palin said of Ayers. "It's really important for Americans to start knowing who the real Barack Obama is."
The Obama campaign yesterday denounced the comments by Palin as "shameless" and "offensive," saying that Obama has never been close to Ayers, and that he has "strongly condemned the despicable acts Ayers committed 40 years ago, when Obama was eight" years old.
The McCain campaign has not raised the association between Obama and Ayers with great frequency since Obama became the Democratic nominee. Palin's comments on Ayers this weekend are part of a new strategy to raise questions about Obama's judgment and personal associations.
When asked at a debate in April to explain his relationship with Ayers to voters, and how he would "explain to Democrats why it won't be a problem," Obama dismissed the relationship, saying Ayers was "a guy who lives in my neighborhood" who was "not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis."
"So this kind of game, in which anybody who I know, regardless of how flimsy the relationship is, is somehow -- somehow their ideas could be attributed to me -- I think the American people are smarter than that," Obama said at the time. "They're not going to suggest somehow that that is reflective of my views, because it obviously isn't."
EVERY BLOGGER AND CONSERVATIVE ARTICLE WRITER NEEDS TO ENGAGE IN A RELENTLESS CAMPAIGN TO DISCREDIT THE MEDIA AND SHOW THAT IT IS NOTHING BUT THE PROPAGANDA ARM OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY!
THIS ELECTION IS BOTH A CHALLENGE AND PRESENTS AN OPPORTUNITY TO DESTROY THE GOEBBELS-MEDIA-PROPAGANDA ARM OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY.
DAILY POINT OUT THEIR BIAS. DAILY SHOW HOW THEY ARE LYING TO THE PUBLIC. DAILY SHOW HOW THEY HATE AMERICA AND ARE PART OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY!
Comments from the McCain campaign backing Sarah:
“The last four weeks of this election will be about whether the American people are willing to turn our economy and national security over to Barack Obama, a man with little record, questionable judgment, and ties to radical figures like unrepentant domestic terrorist William Ayers. Americans need to ask themselves if they’ve ever befriended an unrepentant terrorist, or had a convicted felon help them buy their house — because those aren’t smears, those are true facts about Barack Obama.” —Tucker Bounds, spokesman McCain-Palin 2008
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/05/ap-palins-a-racist-for-bringing-up-ayers-or-something/
“Obama has never been close to Ayers, and that he has “strongly condemned the despicable acts Ayers committed 40 years ago”
if he condemned the acts of 40 years ago.... How in the world did he wind up in this guys living room 13 years ago? Are we to belive that Obama did not Know who Ayers was when he went to the guys house?
Give me a break... Stop the CONMAN
Not gonna work this time.
BTW: Which race? Is it anti- black or anti white?
Don’t worry the McCain campaign will be by to shut her up soon.
Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
http://www.youtube.com/user/OurCountryPAC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E0ycYEGtqU
Obama Doesn’t Want His Daughters Punished with a Baby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNzmly28Bmg
CNN on Obama’s Infant Born Alive Act Rejection
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPZCXcTwZPY
Jill Stanek on Obama and Born Alive Infant Protection Act (MUST SEE)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIdbYjmbFzo
Obama Cover-up Revealed On Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Bill
http://www.nrlc.org/ObamaBAIPA/ObamaCoverup.html
Explosive Audio Found Obama arguing against BAIPA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypDwNpgIUQc
Babies left to die!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIdbYjmbFzo
If McCain really wanted to win the election he would have vote NAY on the biggest swindle perpetrated on the taxpayers of the US — The so called “Emergency Economic Stability Act”, which is in fact will turn out to be the “Emergency Corruption Stimulus Act”.
If that is the original title it is very misleading.
Anyone who launched their political career in the home of an UNREPENTANT TERRORIST---
deserves to have the fact repeated early and often,,,,
and OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER!!!
I don’t think that’s going to happen.
Jeez, I read this and thought Palin was defending Ayers’ comments.
Crappy headline.
But that’s ABC for you....
Anti-terrorist. That’s shameful to the Obama campaign.
The crAP comes running in to the defense of Obozo’s terrorist associations, waving the race card.
Like ... who’s surprised.
We need to pile the associations on all at once and not dribble them out a bit at a time, he can’t dismiss years of associations and scores of these kinds of America-hating radicals so easily when they’re shown as a pattern, as the big picture.
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