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."

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

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

Simply not true. In fact, our relations with Pakistan in the 1980s were probably as close as they've ever been, what with them being our conduit to the mujahaddin in Afghanistan.