Obama campaign rejects Palin 'terrorist' gibe

[DeepModem Mom]

Source: CNN

(CNN) -- Barack Obama's campaign has quickly rejected Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's claim that he associated "with terrorists who targeted our own country."

Palin attacked Sen. Obama on Saturday for his brief political relationship with Bill Ayers, a founding member of the radical Weather Underground, which was involved in several bombings in the early 1970s, including attacks on the Pentagon and the Capitol. Obama was a child at the time of the bombings.

Obama and Ayers, now a university professor, have met several times since 1995, when both worked with a non-profit group trying to raise funds for a school improvement project and a charitable foundation. CNN's review of project records found nothing to suggest anything inappropriate in the volunteer projects in which the two men were involved.

Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt said the two had not spoken by phone or exchanged e-mail messages since Obama came to the U.S. Senate in 2005. He said they last met more than a year ago when they encountered each other on the street in a Chicago neighborhood where both live....

(Palin) referred to an article in Saturday's New York Times about Obama's relationship with Ayers, now 63. But that article concluded that "the two men do not appear to have been close. Nor has Mr. Obama ever expressed sympathy for the radical views and actions of Mr. Ayers, whom he has called 'somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8.'"

Several other publications, including the Washington Post, Time magazine, the Chicago Sun-Times, The New Yorker and The New Republic, have debunked the idea that Obama and Ayers had a close relationship....

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/05/palin.obama.terrorist.claim/index.html

[Fluffdaddy]

1. We knew the Ayers stuff was coming. They are running scared

Can the Rev wright crap be far behind? I know Fox news is dieing to run the Wright video 20 times an hour again

[heliarc]

9. Coming?

Unfortunately Hillary hammered him with it in the primaries... so thankfully people have already digested this bit of gristle.

[Sam Ervin jret]

2. And Palin associates with witch hunters And McCain associates with known felons. What 's that got

to do with the proverbial price of tea?

It's the price of gas, groceries and this bailout that needs to be discussed.

But we all know that's the whole point behind bringing up ancient, irrelevant, public, distant relationships.

[BearSquirrel2]

4. Speaking of witch hunters ..

Speaking of witch hunters, Palin has her own crazy preacher problem!!!!

[Tutonic]

3. Little bit off tipoc here. Reading overseas news and Taliban may be

planning a HUGE strike against US pre-election. Bush is bombing the hell out of Pakistan--trying to destroy civilian lcoations and irritate the war lords. I think this is the October surprise to help Mccain.

[BlueCaliDem]

5. CNN just labeled Palin's "gibe" FALSE as of 3:30 p.m.. eom

[MooseGoose]

6. That's the real news here.

I don't remember the MSM doing any kind of fact checking on these kinds of things in 2000 and 2004. They just passed it all on through, in the interests of "fairness." CNN has been running their "Truth Squad" segment for a while now. I hope they get big ratings to encourage other networks to follow suit. Wouldn't it be nice if the news networks had to compete based on accuracy and objectivity of what they present?

[BlueCaliDem]

12. Yes, it should be the real news but sadly it came slow but vanished swiftly.

After nearly the entire Sunday morning having to listen to "Obama - Ayers, Obama -Ayers" then came the fact check in-between showing it was FALSE... then it went back to "Obama -Ayers, Obama - Ayers" in every way, shape and form they could milk it.

Disgusting.

[HillbillyBob]

7. Lest we forget Why there are terrorists...it is because puke

corps have been STEALING from the citizens of these countries.
Besides Who LET the 911 attacks happen in the first place when 10 or so other counties
Intll services warned the US and even the Clinton Admin warned dimples that
there was to be an attack. Funny thing is our very own cia trained and supplied
osama bin ladin in Afghanistan during the 80s.
I think we should push the gop is the terrorists enabler and friend since ghwb was head of the cia And president and osama and saddam were his buddies and his pets murderers.

[tclambert]

8. McCain associates with George W. Bush

And THAT'S gonna cost him the election.

[yellowcanine]

10. And Palin associates with Alaska Independence Party members, even sleeps with one.

[llmart]

11. In all fairness to Palin.....

she is unable to do the math involved in figuring out how old Obama was when the Weathermen were around. It would probably entail her taking her shoes off to count that high.