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 its 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 senators 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 Obamas 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, Cmon, lets 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. Its really important for Americans to start knowing who the real Barack Obama is."
The AP analysis noted that the McCain/Palin campaigns decision to raise the issue of Obamas 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.
“Gotta love how the AP editorializes the news.”
I just fired off an email to them on that very point.
What about Rev. Wright, the left’s David Duke? What is the media going to say if she goes after associations with him? Predictable but not right.
BTTT
Moronic AP finds race an issue? I don’t get it - Ayers is white!
Reminds me of an incident a few years back, when Rush called some large women “water buffaloes”. And this was somehow considered racist! Just a few minutes prior on that very day, I called a large white guy who messed up some work on my home a water buffalo, unbeknownst to me and the rest of the world that that had a racist connotation.
The AP is truly part of the Obama campaign. Again, I have no clue as to how his association with Ayers makes this a racist statement.
So they admit the connection but say there is no connection at the same time. That kind of a connection to a terrorist that they acknowledge is quite substantial - and they act like it is no big deal for someone to have an event hosted for them by a terrorist in their home? Are we living in the twilight zone or what here?
LOL, you said it so much better than I did.
Can you imagine her as veep and legislation not going McCain’s way? The dems would be scared to death that she’d go straight to the people and slam the idiots!
Dignifying the tripe that Mr. Douglass K. Daniel writes as "analysis" is absurd. He is a partisan hack, not some AP oracle of truth.
I did some searching, and Mr. Daniel shows up frequently with this kind of misquoting or quoting suspect sources as truth. For instance, AP Reports 'Bush Lied' Study Funded by Ultra-leftist George Soros which dissects one of Mr. Daniel's efforts.
NewsBusters also has this page http://newsbusters.org/people/douglass-k-daniel with some more of Mr. Daniel's work. His hateful piece on the occasion of Tony Snow's death was especially disgusting.
Of course, when your best known literary effort is about a television series (Lou Grant: The Making of TV's Top Newspaper Drama), you are still probably a cut above your average AP reporter.
Just you wait and see. Now that she's fighting back, the narrative will once again change. They're going to ramp up the Palin Destruction Squad to annihilate her once and for all.
I think Palin is thinking, "I not leaving the national stage without giving these jerks as good as I got." They've been merciless to her, why shouldn't she go down swinging.
Wrong... they ARE winning. McCain/Palin WILL wil on November 4.
Kick Their Ass !! You Go Girl!
7 October 1969 Bombing of Haymarket Police Statue in Chicago, apparently as a kickoff for the Days of Rage riots in the city October 8-11, 1969. The Weathermen later claimed credit for the bombing in their book, Prairie Fire.
8-11 October 1969 The Days of Rage riots occur in Chicago in which 287 Weatherman members from throughout the country were arrested and a large amount of property damage was done.
6 December 1969 Bombing of several Chicago Police cars parked in a precinct parking lot at 3600 North Halsted Street, Chicago. The WUO stated in their book Prairie Fire that they had did the explosion.
27-31 December 1969 Weathermen hold a War Council meeting in Flint, MI, where they finalize their plans to submerge into an underground status from which they plan to commit strategic acts of sabotage against the government. Thereafter they are called the Weather Underground Organization (WUO).
13 February 1970 - Bombing of several police vehicles of the Berkeley, California, Police Department .
16 February 1970 Bombing of Golden Gate Park branch of the San Francisco Police Department, killing one officer and injuring a number of other policemen.
6 March 1970 Bombing in the 13th Police District of the Detroit, Michigan. 34 sticks of dynamite are discovered. During February and early March, 1970, members of the WUO, led by Bill Ayers, are reported to be in Detroit, during that period, for the purpose of bombing a police facility.
6 March 1970 bomb factory located in New Yorks Greenwich Village accidentally explodes. WUO members die . The bomb was intended to be planted at a non-commissioned officers dance at Fort Dix, New Jersey. The bomb was packed with nails TO INFILICT MAXIMUM CASUALTIES UPON DETONATION.
30 March 1970 Chicago Police discover a WUO bomb factory on Chicagos north side. A subsequent discovery of a WUO weapons cache in a south side Chicago apartment several days later ends WUO activity in the city.
10 May 1970 Bombing of The National Guard Association building in Washington, D.C..
21 May 1970 The WUO under Bernardine Dohrns (Ayers current wife) name releases its Declaration of a State of War communique.
6 June 1970 The WUO sends a letter claiming credit for bombing of the San Francisco Hall of Justice; however, no explosion actually took place. Months later, workmen in this building located an unexploded device which had apparently been dormant for some time.
9 June 1970 - Bombing of The New York City Police Headquarters.
27 July 1970 - Bombing of The Presidio army base in San Francisco. [NYT, 7/27/70]
12 September 1970 The WUO helps Dr. Timothy Leary, break out and escape from the California Mens Colony prison.
8 October 1970 - Bombing of Marin County courthouse. [NYT, 8/10/70]
10 October 1970 - Bombing of Queens traffic-court building . [NYT, 10/10/70, p. 12]
14 October 1970 - Bombing of The Harvard Center for International Affairs [NYT, 10/14/70, p. 30]
1 March 1971 - Bombing of The United States Capitol . [NYT, 3/2/71]
April, 1971 abandoned WUO bomb factory discovered in San Francisco, California.
29 August, 1971 - Bombing of the Office of California Prisons . [LAT, 8/29/71]
17 September 1971 - Bombing of The New York Department of Corrections in Albany, NY [NYT, 9/18/71]
15 October 1971 - Bombing of William Bundys office in the MIT research center. [NYT, 10/16/71]
19 May 1972 - Bombing of The Pentagon . [NYT, 5/19/72]
18 May 1973 - Bombing of the 103rd Police Precinct in New York
28 September 1973 - Bombing of ITT headquarters in New York and Rome, Italy . [NYT, 9/28/73]
6 March 1974 - Bombing of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare offices in San Francisco
31 May 1974 - Bombing of The Office of the California Attorney General.
17 June 1974 - Bombing of Gulf Oils Pittsburgh headquarters .
11 September 1974 Bombing of Anaconda Corporation (part of the Rockefeller Corporation).
29 January 1975 - Bombing of the State Department in (AP. State Department Rattled by Blast, The Daily Times-News, January 29 1975, p.1)
16 June 1975 - Bombing of Banco de Ponce (a Puerto Rican bank) in New York .
September, 1975 Bombing of the Kennecott Corporation .
October 20, 1981 - Brinks robbery in which several members of the Weather Underground stole over $1 million from a Brinks armored car near Nyack, New York. The robbers murdered 2 police officers and 1 Brinks guard. Several others were wounded.
1981 Guilty as hel*. Free as a bird. America is a great country, Ayers said when interviewed by David Horowitz.
September 11, 2001 I dont regret setting bombs. I feel we didnt do enough. Ayers is quoted in a New York Times article.
Its true-
I’d believe it myself, but we have a lot of independents and apoliticals in this country who are planning on voting Obama but would NOT vote for him if they knew this stuff.
We don’t have that much time. How to best get this out there?
Info blast should be well written and concise with bullet items and linked reference sources. Make sure the links work!
I think there are two separate things going on here. Yes, the McCain campaign could be in better shape, and we could have had a better candidate. It is what it is.
The fact that the Drive-bys have been in Palin-induced apoplexy for over a month, and seeing it get worse, that’s fun to watch. They’re doing more damage to their own credibility (as if they ever had any) than anyone else’s.
Don't you just love this?
I have some news for the AP...NOW, is still "early" in the Illinois Senator's career.
good, this forces the media to talk about it
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