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Team McCain rolls out Murtaugh to continue focus on Ayers
Hot Air ^ | October 8, 2008 2:20 pm | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 10/08/2008 1:48:17 PM PDT by 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?


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ayers; mccain; obama; weatherman
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Video at hot Air....Here are both parts of Greta van Susteren’s interview with Murtaugh from the spring:
1 posted on 10/08/2008 1:48:18 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

great great great!!!!!!

must keep this narrative flowing


2 posted on 10/08/2008 1:49:34 PM PDT by housedeep
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Dukakis, Willy Horton
Obama, William Ayers.

Just that simple.


3 posted on 10/08/2008 1:50:10 PM PDT by xcamel (Conservatives start smart, and get rich, liberals start rich, and get stupid.)
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To: housedeep

Needs to do video ad ... a statement doesn’t have same impact.


4 posted on 10/08/2008 1:52:35 PM PDT by RonnieFan
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To: xcamel

Hang Ayers around his scrawny neck until his campaign is DEAD, DEAD, DEAD!


5 posted on 10/08/2008 1:52:52 PM PDT by rightwingextremist1776
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

It’s great that he’s released this! On the other hand, he had several opportunities last night to hammer this in front of 20-30 million people or whatever it was. Along with BO’s stupid “95% of Americans getting tax cuts” rhetoric etc.


6 posted on 10/08/2008 1:54:04 PM PDT by albie
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To: housedeep

Ayer’s wife, Bernadine Dohrn = Domestic Bin Laden

From;

http://www.sodahead.com/question/155269/

Bernadine Dohrn made numerous contacts with Fidel Castro’s Cuban Mission at the UN in 1968 and 1969, during which time she arranged for SDS groups to visit Havana.

After returning from Cuba, Dohrn and others met with North Vietnamese and Viet Cong representatives in Budapest, Hungary, to discuss antiwar strategy on US campuses. Speaking a few days later at an assembly of revolutionary student movements at Columbia University, Dohrn reported that the Vietnamese communists she met in Budapest were working with US GIs in Saigon, attempting to obtain military information.

As a gesture of solidarity, the Vietnamese who Dohrn met in Budapest presented her with a ring made from an American aircraft shot down over North Vietnam. Bill Ayers would receive a similar ring while meeting with Vietnamese communists in Toronto. He later recalled being so moved by the gesture that he “left the room to cry.” He said, “I realized...America was an evil... and that I was... living inside the belly of the beast....”

In January 1969, at the request of the Cubans and the Vietnamese, Dohrn assembled another SDS delegation to travel to Havana to plan what the Chicago Sun-Times called an “antiwar campaign during an eight-day seminar with representatives of Hanoi and the Viet Cong.”

Dohrn became a key planner in the founding of the Venceremos Brigades. Ostensibly a “solidarity” program for US leftists to visit and support Castro’s Cuba, the group was actually organized by Cuban intelligence as a covert attack on US security.

Cuban secret police offered the “brigadistas” money, advice and logistical support. Some Americans were also given guerrilla warfare training and instructed in the use of weapons and explosives.

While they were in Cuba, Huynh Van Ba, a representative of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam (Viet Cong) advised his American allies to “look for the person who fights hardest against the cops.” Dohrn stayed in telephone contact with Ba after returning home.


7 posted on 10/08/2008 1:55:09 PM PDT by Son House ( It takes a Woman)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
The McCain camp should release a simple 30 second ad with this picture.

"Meet William Ayers, domestic terrorist, bombed the Pentagon, Capitol building, and families' homes... Meet William Ayers... the man who launched Barack Obama's political career..." (then allow 20 seconds of silence with just this picture)


8 posted on 10/08/2008 1:56:25 PM PDT by avacado
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79fC0jAi2gc


10 posted on 10/08/2008 1:57:48 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: xcamel

Bernadine Dohrn “served on panels with Obama” referenced, thought the rest of the article has info;

Senator helped fund organization that rejects ‘racist’ Israel’s existence

http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/sfl-barackbash1,0,4014780.story?page=1

http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/sfl-barackbash1,0,4014780.story?page=2

Ayers is married to another notorious Weathermen terrorist,

Bernadine Dohrn, who has also served on panels with Obama. Dohrn was once on the FBI’s Top 10 Most Wanted List and was

described by J. Edgar Hoover as the “most dangerous woman in America.”


11 posted on 10/08/2008 1:58:42 PM PDT by Son House ( It takes a Woman)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

O’Bambi season is officially Open.

He can expect shots from all over re: his associations ‘til the cows come home and the chickens too.


12 posted on 10/08/2008 1:59:00 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... Donate to FR ... Capitol Switchboard: (202) 224-3121)
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To: albie

There is still another debate to bring up the Ayers relationship. Don’t think that the non mention last night didn’t have impact. You have to keep the opponent guessing. Still 4 wks till the election so Ayers story needs to be drawn out.

Get obama down in the made up polls and he will get desperate and so will the msm.


13 posted on 10/08/2008 1:59:20 PM PDT by Doug TX
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
It was posted here at least once:

TERROR VICTIM'S QA FOR BARACK

You might want the moderator to correct the title with the correct spelling, Murtagh.

14 posted on 10/08/2008 2:00:32 PM PDT by Aliska
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To: avacado; igoramus08
credit to igoramus08


15 posted on 10/08/2008 2:00:34 PM PDT by petercooper (IQ tests for all voters!)
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To: petercooper

Ayers old man was very wealthy. He was on many boards including the board of directors of Searle Corp. Big company. The old man could afford good lawyers to get the son off.


16 posted on 10/08/2008 2:04:49 PM PDT by Frantzie
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To: avacado

Good idea!


17 posted on 10/08/2008 2:08:22 PM PDT by LegalEagle61 (If you are going to burn our flag, please make sure you are wearing it when you do!)
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To: NormsRevenge

When is Dohrn’s name, the earmarks for family or disappearing grants, the Kenya stuff, etc gonna get thrown out there? I hope Fox plays the interview w/Corsi 24/7 when it comes out. Bambi has a “Swiftboat Deficiency.”


18 posted on 10/08/2008 2:10:10 PM PDT by GnuHere
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To: LegalEagle61
Isn't the last debate like only a week away? What format will that be? I think last night it woudl have been hard for McCain to bring Ayers up in the format they had plus in the time constraints they had, McCain needs a bit of time to make a clear, concise, statement that the American people will understand. He still has plenty of time, ads will be out by not just his campaign but the 527's and of course by Palin speaking at rallies. Carl Cameron said that Hannity has both McCain and Palin interview on his show tonight all about the associations.

Plus the Clinton's are suspiciously silent...what do they know is going to happen as far as an Oct surprise? I never count them out either.
19 posted on 10/08/2008 2:12:57 PM PDT by LegalEagle61 (If you are going to burn our flag, please make sure you are wearing it when you do!)
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