Obama: McCain Scoring "Cheap Political Points" (challenges McCain to "say it to my face")

ABCNews ^ | Oct.. 8, 2008 | By KATIE ESCHERICH and LAUREN SHER

[PleaseNoMore]

Sen. Barack Obama says the personal attacks levied against him by the campaign of his presidential rival, Sen. John McCain, particularly references to his association with 1960s anti-war radical Bill Ayers, are an attempt to "score cheap political points."

"I am surprised that, you know, we've been seeing some pretty over-the-top attacks coming out of the McCain campaign over the last several days, that he wasn't willing to say it to my face. But I guess we've got one last debate. So presumably, if he ends up feeling that he needs to, he will raise it during the debate."

[T. Rustin Noone]

BROKAW: “Last question from a lady in New Hampshire,”What don't you know and how will you go about learning it?”

OBAMA: “I know everything.”

McCAIN: “I don't know the following:”

“1 - I don't know how a person can write and push legislation which allows a physician carrying out a botched abortion to condemn the life that was delivered to die in a soiled linen closet.”

“2 - I don't how a person can run for president having never presented his credentials that he is indeed a ‘natural born citizen’ in this country.”

“3 - I don't know how a student in America in the mid-eighties can travel to Pakistan at a time when such travel was forbidden by the State Department unless it was on something other than a US passport.”

“4 - I don't know how a person running for president can somehow magically arrive at Harvard Law School without having some previous records left at his previous colleges and universities.”

“5 - And finally, I don't know how a 3rd-year associate at a prestigious Chicago law firm can suddenly be the Chairman of the Board of a $150 million not-for-profit extolling the virtues of experimental education having no previous experience at anything except suing the CRA for not providing loans for people completely unqualified to manage their lives let alone their financial obligations.”

“Now - how would I go about learning these things? I would require the industry that is journalism to do their f**king jobs.”

[Red Steel]

McCain did come close to bringing up Ayers in last nights debate by alluding about it....

[rangeryder]

"OMG. He's daring him to raise it as an issue in the next debate? I don't know what answer 0bama has planned but it had better be a good one."

Two words, "Keating 5". Was watching Fox this afternoon, and Ayers was brought up by a McCain supporter. Fox, (of course, always "fair and balanced"), had an Obambi supporter on as well. He ripped right into the McCain supporter with the Keating five b.s., and in a rage stated that the Keating Five thing was "directly related" to the financial crisis today. This Obigot supporter got into such a rage that he never allowed the McCain supporter to talk; he just kept on raging about how McCain's involvement with Keating "was the start of today's crisis".

So there is the answer. Obambi will rip into McCain with this vicious cunard if McCain directly raises Obambi's association with Ayers in a live debate. McCain knows that once Obastard drags this Keating 5 skunk accross the nation, the stink will remain even after McCain has satisfactorily debunked it.

[Crimson Elephant]

McCain should come out and say that he is glad Obama now indicates he is willing to have several real, actual debates and looks forward to hearing the schedule of those real debates.

[aroostook war]

Just wait till this Odinga thing gets out there.

I can’t wait. You talkin’ Raila or Fidel Castro Odinga?

[weegee]

Obama recieved more contributions from Fannie Mae than any other politician in the past 19 years CUMMULATIVE. All except for Mr. Dodd who is CONDUCTING THE HEARINGS!!!

[weegee]

Why Ayers case is risky for McCain-Palin [Barfer] (CNN 10/08/08 Roland Martin)

[lentulusgracchus]

Four of the infamous five were Democrats.

No, that's incorrect. Two of them, Pete Domenici and John McCain, are Republicans.

John Glenn of Ohio was one of the Democrats.

Keating was just a world-class sleaze and operator.

[lentulusgracchus]

This Obigot supporter got into such a rage that he never allowed the McCain supporter to talk; he just kept on raging about how McCain's involvement with Keating "was the start of today's crisis".

Standard ACORN "thugshizzle": Don't let the white m******* talk; jam him hard, and keep talking until the clock runs out.

Mary Berry and Eleanor Holmes Norton do that all the time. Run your mouth, run out the clock, suck all the air out of the room.

[RaginApache]

Hello. I need help in getting the following out. I’m new here and am short on time.

Here’s a Farrakhan vid that struck me as the off the scale of the weirdometer. He’s talkin up Obama bigtime.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OowxMcVTjTE

Thanks

[BlueVelvet]

I saw some really good graphics about this on some threads today but can’t remember which threads. They really get the message across.

[Boiling Pots]

McCain, for all his faults, possesses more toughness in his little finger than the whole of 0bama.

He SHOULD “say it in his face.”

Call out Obama’s anti-American true feelings, John!

[seekthetruth]

I see what you mean. McCain can hit on Obama if he is questioned about it, but otherwise let Sarah do the hitting. I just hope the truth about Obama gets out but I guess nothing would sway those who are totally in love with Obama. I get ill when I think about all the folks who are so uninformed and just don’t care to learn.

[seekthetruth]

Excellent points! I wanted McCain to hit hard at the debate but now realize that would not have been good. The debate was to answer questions from folks in the audience, rather in truth from Tow Brocow.:)

I think those of you saying let Sarah and others take it to Obama are right. McCain can keep on the same goal of talking about issues and comment about Obama’s inexperience and bad judgement when the subject comes up.

Obama has got plenty to answer to and after Corsi’s interview with Hannity & Colmes on Monday there will be lots more for Obama to come clean about. Hope Obama says “Why doesn’t Corsi say it to me face to face”, because Corsi would and he will have documents to back up what he says!

[bayliving]

bttt

[bayliving]

That Farrakhan clip would make a great ad all by itself!

[RedEyeJack]

“Bob Bennett, the high-powered Democratic attorney who headed the investigation, said he recommended McCain and Democratic Sen. John Glenn be dropped from the inquiry because he found them far less culpable than the other three senators. But the Senate’s Democratic majority refused his recommendation because it would have taken the only Republican out of the inquiry.”

Chicago Sun-Times Oct 7, 2008

[kevkrom]

I agree. McCain should say it to his face, and then follow it up with questions about Obama's days at Columbia, membership in the SDS and the New Party, and his illegal meddling in a foreign election for a marxist who wanted to impose Sharia law on Kenya.

[weegee]

4 of the 5 were Democrats:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Five

The Keating Five were five United States Senators accused of corruption in 1989, igniting a major political scandal as part of the larger Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s.

The five senators:
Alan Cranston (D-CA)
Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ)
John Glenn (D-OH)
John McCain (R-AZ)
and Donald W. Riegle (D-MI)

were accused of improperly intervening in 1987 on behalf of Charles H. Keating, Jr...

Pete Domenici is not among those names.

[weegee]

A Democrat Culture of Corruption DOUBLE-PLAY.