Posted on 10/05/2008 11:45:08 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3
(SAN FRANCISCO) Before her campaign plane took off for a Sunday fundraiser here, CBS News asked Sarah Palin to respond to an analysis by the Associated Press that concluded her attempts to establish a friendship between Barack Obama and Weather Underground member William Ayers were “unsubstantiated and carried a racially tinged subtext that John McCain himself may come to regret.”
"The Associated Press is wrong,” Palin said. “The comments are about an association that has been known but hasn't been talked about, and I think it’s fair to talk about where Barack Obama kicked off his political career, in the guy's living room.”
Palin was referring to an event that Ayers hosted for Obama early in the Illinois senator’s career. But the AP notes, “No evidence shows they were ‘pals’ or even close when they worked on community boards years ago and Ayers hosted a political event for Obama early in his career.”
In what the AP called “a deliberate attempt to smear Obama” in a way that was “exaggerated at best if not outright false” and at a time when the McCain campaign has been losing ground in the polls, Palin on Saturday told an enormous crowd in Carson, California, that Obama “sees America as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists.”
Palin repeated her string of highly personal attacks against Obama’s character and judgment at two private fundraisers throughout the day, even as she lamented that CBS News’ Katie Couric asked her questions in a series of interviews that made her think, “C’mon, let’s start talking to the American people about the issues you guys want to know about.”
Palin on Saturday painted Obama as someone who “is not a man who sees America as you and I see America,” and on Sunday, Palin did not back down an inch in hammering the Democratic nominee.
“And he, of course, having been associated with that group, a known domestic terrorist group, it's important for Americans to know,” she told CBS News. “It’s really important for Americans to start knowing who the real Barack Obama is."
The AP analysis noted that the McCain/Palin campaign’s decision to raise the issue of Obama’s “otherness” is one that the Arizona senator may come to regret, if not on a political level, than on a personal one.
“John McCain occasionally looks back on decisions with regret,” the AP wrote. “He has apologized for opposing a holiday to honor Martin Luther King Jr. He has apologized for refusing to call for the removal of a Confederate flag from South Carolina's Capitol.
“When the 2008 campaign is over McCain might regret appeals such as Palin's perhaps more so if he wins.”
cant we easily prove this?
wouldnt there have been a press release?
Palin on Saturday painted Obama as someone who “is not a man who sees America as you and I see America,” and on Sunday, Palin did not back down an inch in hammering the Democratic nominee.
“And he, of course, having been associated with that group, a known domestic terrorist group, it’s important for Americans to know,” she told CBS News. “It’s really important for Americans to start knowing who the real Barack Obama is.”
Points for pithiness.
Excellent Response!
Gotta love how the AP editorializes the news.
If we saw anti-palin media frenzy before - she’s actively attacking Obama now, and hitting where it hurts.
They’re getting so overt now. Read that article carefully and see all the snippy comments.
AP=Anti Palin
http://americanissuesproject.org/
Here is the BILL AYERS ad, pass it around.
I heard an interview with someone from this project last night, it was absolutely CHILLING.
They spent a big chunk of money on lawyers to even get this produced, all of it is true, Obama’s high priced liberal inside D.C. lawyers were all over them before they even released it. They are being intimidated with CRIMINAL prosecution for a political ad.
What is going on with Obama is pure Stalinist tactics. In Missouri, as he said the threat of being CRIMINALLY PROSECUTED for not telling the truth about Obama is enough for 95% of people to Shut Up.
They were threatening CRIMINAL prosecution if you disagreed that 95% of people would get a tax cut with Obama’s plan.
Please also watch this video too and pass it around.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094322/posts
Our only way to fight back is to educate people, about 20-25% of the people are lost in this country, we will win this election.
“Palin did not back down an inch in hammering the Democratic nominee”
What I want to see in every whiny story penned by some MSM weenie.
Seriously.
I had to reread it just to make sure that the AP wasnt quoting some BaaBama flunky. Nope it was the actual AP article writer!
Will the American people see through this ridiculousness. Don't back off an inch, Governor! The American people need to know about the truth about Obama's associations.
The AP can easily prove their assertions by demanding the Chicago Annenberg Challenge release its notes. No? They can’t handle the truth.
That ad needs to be on YouTube where it can be seen by more people.
“John McCain occasionally looks back on decisions with regret,” the AP wrote. “He has apologized for opposing a holiday to honor Martin Luther King Jr. He has apologized for refusing to call for the removal of a Confederate flag from South Carolina's Capitol.
“When the 2008 campaign is over McCain might regret appeals such as Palin's perhaps more so if he wins.”
This closing passage, more than anything else, tells me that this new McCain strategy is working. The press is trying an emotional appeal directly to McCain (who they know is susceptible to that kind of pablum).
It is, in essence, saying, "please stop this attack before you cost The Messiah the election!"
What a twisting and perverting of logic.
Ayers and his Bomber Wife are both white.
There is a clip when Obama used his time as chairman for Ayer’s group in Chicago as justification of his executive experience. It’s somewhere out there.
The story wasn’t written by “The Associated Press”.
It was written by the AP writer DOUGLASS K. DANIEL.
He was the same guy who smeared Tony Snow in his AP obituary.
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