Team McCain rolls out Murtaugh to continue focus on Ayers

Hot Air ^ | October 8, 2008 2:20 pm | Ed Morrissey

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Chris Cillizza wonders whether John McCain may have decided to drop the William Ayers topic when it didn’t come up in last night’s debate.  The McCain campaign answered today by releasing a statement from John Murtaugh regarding his close brush with the Weather Underground terrorists that Ayers helped lead.  It doesn’t look like the McCain campaign has any intention of dropping Ayers at all:

Today, John M. Murtagh made the following statement on Barack Obama’s relationship with William Ayers:

“When I was 9 years-old the Weather Underground, the terrorist group founded by Barack Obama’s friend William Ayers, firebombed my house. Barack Obama has dismissed concerns about his relationship with Ayers by noting that he was only a child when Ayers was planting bombs at the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol. But Ayers has never apologized for his crimes, he has reveled in them, expressing regret only for the fact that he didn’t do more.

“While Barack Obama once downplayed his relationship with Ayers, today his campaign took that deceit one step further. Barack Obama now denies he was even aware of his friend’s violent past when, in 1995, Ayers hosted a party launching Obama’s political career. Given Ayers’ celebrity status among the left, it’s difficult to believe. The question remains: what did Obama know, and when did he know it? When did Obama learn the truth about his friend? Barack Obama helped Ayers promote his book in 1997, served on charitable boards with him through 2002, and regularly exchanged emails and phone calls with him through 2005. At what point did Barack Obama discover that his friend was an unrepentant terrorist? And if he is so repulsed by the acts of terror committed by William Ayers, why did the relationship continue?

[Signalman]

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Keep hammering them McCain/Palin. Fight. Fight. Fight!

[pabianice]

So what? Perhaps 50% of McCain voters will see this. How does this help?

[Presbyterian Reporter]

I hope everyone is sending this story to their friends. Here is the commentary I made when I sent it out to my circle——

Click on the link below to see the videos associated with the story.

I heard in one video, not sure if it is in the ones linked, that Michelle Obama and Bernadette Dohrn worked for the same law firm in Chicago.

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/08/team-mccain-rolls-out-murtaugh-to-continue-focus-on-ayers/

This is why the Obama camp is in denial mode regarding when did Obama know Ayers and what did he know!!!!!!!!!!

[GOPsterinMA]

WOW!!! Thanks for posting...what a devistating video. McCain should run it, ASAP.

[nutmeg]

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