Posted on 10/06/2008 8:26:08 PM PDT by pissant
With under a month until election day, Sen. John McCain's campaign stepped up its rhetoric against Sen. Obama.
The latest charge this weekend from the McCain campaign was not that Obama will raise your taxes or will prematurely pull out of Iraq, but rather that Obama is not American enough.
Such a line of attack is not only disappointing and disrespectful but is also a distraction from the issues that face our country.
Speaking at rallies across Colorado and California on Saturday, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin repeatedly said, " Our opponent is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough, that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country."
She continued, "This is not a man who sees America like you and I see America."
Palin was referring to Obama's known loose association with former Weather Underground member Bill Ayers. Ayers was a member of the radical leftist organization responsible for the bombings of government buildings during the 60s and 70s.
Palin referred to an article, "Obama and 60s Bomber: A Look Into Crossed Paths," from The New York Times in making her comments about the extent of Obama and Ayers' relationship.
According to the article, both Obama and Ayers served on a charitable board from 2000-2002, and Ayers once made a $200 donation to Obama's re-election campaign for Illinois State Senate in 2001. The article goes on to say that there is no evidence that Obama and Ayers had a close relationship while working on the same board.
Any reading of this article leads to one conclusion; Palin's attack is based on a lie without merit. Obama has never "palled" around with Ayers, nor does he subscribe to Ayers' political views.
The fact that Obama was only a young boy when Ayers was a member of the Weather Underground reinforces the absurdity of an implication that Obama is secretly tied to radical politics.
A few weeks ago when the credit crisis worsened, McCain showed us his worst political instincts as he waffled back and forth trying to find a position that would gain public approval. Before that, his pick of Palin for vice-president showed a candidate willing to put the needs of the Republican base before the needs of the country. And now McCain, down in most national polls and in many swing states, is making his last-ditch effort trying to convince voters he's more American than Obama and that Obama is someone Americans should fear.
The he's "not a man who sees America like you and I" attack is another in a long line of attacks questioning Obama's patriotism. Obama is an easier foil than most because he comes from a diverse background and has, as Obama himself admits, "a funny name."
We have seen these kinds of attacks before in politics, but what makes these negative attacks so disconcerting this time around is that they are coming from McCain's campaign. The same John McCain who stood up to "agents of intolerance" in 2000 and has tried to build a career around principle and character.
McCain has shown in the past few weeks that he's more than willing to put politics above principle, as his campaign has becomes increasingly more about fear then about the future.
With unresolved wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a financial crisis and other pressing issues the country deserves better than a campaign of fear and innuendo.
Andrew Martinez is a senior journalism and political science major from San Antonio.
Loose association with Ayers? I guess that means launching a political career and being friends is “loose”?
You can’t attach his patriotism as he has no Patriotism!
I do not think the wuss could fight his way out.
Ah, ah, ah. Not so fast Andrew. That line is a pimp-slap to Obama's running mate who attacked those who oppose higher taxes as being unpatriotic.
An oversight I'm sure you will correct in your next issue.
If this crap he writes isn’t ignorance on his part, this Andrew idiot is just spewing the marxist line: Bold face Lies!
Typo in title
This is quite true from the evidence thus far presented. Obama saw fit to become members at Trinity where Reverend Wright dutifully called America the "biggest killers in the world" for many years. One does not become a member in a church who espouses views opposite one's own. One looks for a church family which agrees with your views.
Obama launched his political career from Bill and Bernardine Ayers' living room for a reason; they shared a view of an America in desperate need of "change". Obama dispensed millions of dollars of Annenberg money, hired by Bill Ayers, to indoctrinate schoolchildren to "change". This was clearly a cause they shared.
Obama travelled to Kenya to stump for Raila Odinga, who felt that Kenya was desperately in need of "change", and so did the Muslim and communist warlords who backed Odinga with machetes and cash. This was clearly a cause they shared.
Obama was the lead trainer and legislator for ACORN, who felt that the American banking system of ensuring home buyers had good jobs and credit was desperately in need of "change". Well, change has gotten us to this crisis.
Now Obama feels that the tax code and corporate profits are desperately in need of "change". Change will bring "fairness", stripping "rich" persons and "windfall profits" of money they don't "need".
I don't question Obama's "patriotism". I think Obama will do exactly what he thinks is best for "his country". He will bring "change" to the greatest country on Earth, for the "greater good" and "fairness".
Let them eat Change. Let them eat Hope. From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
McCain had better paint a picture of Obama in true colors. Change is coming, fast.
Obama’s friends:
Ayers - noted for founding and operating a group whose intention was to overthrow the government of the United States. To this day he still feels that he did not commit enough treason.
Wright - “God damn America.”
Farrakhan - enough said.
M. Obama - “America is a downright mean country.”
Biden - “paying higher taxes is patriotic.”
Gee, the attacks on his “patriotism” are so unfair.
Here's a little history lesson for you Andy (apparently something they don't teach very well at Baylor)
Also doesn't like to wear an American Flag pin. Heck, we don't even know if BHO really is an American.
This is the litmus test issue. Any Obamabot who tries to dismiss the Obama/Ayers ties must acknowledge and account for Obama’s seven years as an Ayer’s puppet on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge from 1995 to 2002.
If they don't mention it, they are just regurgitating talking points of the Obama campaign, and are either painfully ignorant, or deliberately and willfully ignorant.
“This is not a man who sees America like you and I see America.”
Over at KOS (a.k.a. Lib Media Showprep chat room) this is being called “Palin/McCain Inciting Hatred & Racism”
In fact, ANYTHING negative about Obama is now called, “Palin/McCain Inciting Hatred & Racism”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8QcpdUtxNQ
How about Obama openly campaigning for his communist cousin Odinga who signed a pact with Muslims to enact Sharia Law if elected and started riots when he lost. Obama campaigned for an openly Anti-American candidate in a foreign country in 2006 at taxpayer expense.
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