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Obama: I Assumed Ayers Had Been Rehabilitated
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Posted on 10/09/2008 6:45:37 PM PDT by Chet 99

In an interview with conservative Philadelphia radio talk show host Michael Smerconish today, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., said his relationship with William Ayers is being questioned and his middle name is being invoked at events for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to distract voters from the economy.

You can listen to the audio HERE, courtesy of Politico.

"This is a red herring," Obama said of the Ayers story," because people don't want to talk about the fact that economy over the last eight years has been mismanaged to the point that we're teetering on a really, really bad situation.

Smerconish asked about the myriad Republicans at McCain-Palin events this week who referred to "Barack Hussein Obama."

"I don't think there's any secret about this," Obama said. "My father was from Kenya so I've got an Arab-sounding name, and I think most people know that I was raised by my mom who was from Kansas, which is why I've got a Kansas-sounding accent…When people are purposely doing this in connection with a theme the McCain campaign's decided they want to pursue in the past few weeks, which is to go after me personally, in some pretty aggressive ways, then, you know they're trying to distract from the economy."


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KEYWORDS: ayers; obama; pa2008; smerconish
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To: Chet 99

Smerconish is no conservative. He is like David Brooks and Tucker Carlson. What does it matter if Ayres is rehabilitated. Terrorists are like pedophiles. They can never/should never be trusted again? Obama needs to be hammered on this.


81 posted on 10/09/2008 7:15:53 PM PDT by LeonardFMason
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To: NonValueAdded
"If his accent is from Kansas, I’m Toto."

Do they say Pocky-Ston in Kansas?

83 posted on 10/09/2008 7:16:46 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Chet 99
This guy thinks he expels lilac turds.

I thought Clinton was a narcissist. But, when the Media kisses your rear all day, I guess it's hard not to feel confident.

84 posted on 10/09/2008 7:18:44 PM PDT by rightinthemiddle (Without the Mainstream Media, the Left is Nothing.)
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To: Chet 99

Rehabilitated? That sounds like a word a true Marxist would use. Rehabilitated is what happens after you have served your sentence in a re-education camp. Rehabilitated-reinstated into the Communist Party in good standing long after you were shot.


85 posted on 10/09/2008 7:19:10 PM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: Chet 99
"This is a RED herring," Obama said

Hw appropriate - given that it's obammy speaking...

86 posted on 10/09/2008 7:19:20 PM PDT by GunnyB (Once a Marine, Always a Marine)
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To: Chet 99

Smerconish himself would disagree with the conservative moniker. He has stated that he is a registered republican and has expressed many liberal viewpoints on the air. His main attraction to the magical one is, oddly enough, foreign policy.

Also, his wife is a fund raiser for obama, so it’s no small wonder that he got an interview.


87 posted on 10/09/2008 7:19:30 PM PDT by new cruelty (I don't want my daughters punished with obama.)
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To: Chet 99

Whine, baby, whine.

Barack Hussein Obama
Barack Hussein Obama
Barack Hussein Obama
Barack Hussein Obama
Barack Hussein Obama
Barack Hussein Obama

All you need is money (Soros) and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere (Obama). — Aldous Huxley

Obama is a cry baby wimp who bullies to get his way. Well, it won’t work this time.


88 posted on 10/09/2008 7:20:46 PM PDT by HighlyOpinionated (All You Need is Money [Soros] and a Candidate Who Can Be Coached to Look Sincere [Obama]. A. Huxley)
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To: sobieski
"Who uses the expression ‘rehabilitated’ in that way but Communists?"

Good point.

89 posted on 10/09/2008 7:22:32 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Chet 99
....and I think most people know that I was raised by my mom who was from Kansas, which is why I've got a Kansas-sounding accent...

He tries to make it sound as if an accent is hereditary. Of course he means she talked with an accent around him but I'm sure many Kansans would be surprised to know that his accent mirrors theirs.

90 posted on 10/09/2008 7:23:54 PM PDT by torchthemummy (Why Is The Educational Establishment Comfortable With Ayers' Unrepentent Radicalism (Terrorism)?)
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To: indylindy

I’ve never known ANYONE ever that sounded like the sniveling Obama. His inflections, tones, awkward pauses in the wrong places, jerky manner of speaker in fits and starts. He has very weird vocal mannerisms.

And “I thought he was rehabilitated” is the lamest excuse I’ve ever heard in my life. I guess “He’s not the Bill Ayers I knew” isn’t going to cut it in this case.


91 posted on 10/09/2008 7:24:01 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Darth Tokarev

Do you know that yesterday when Obama was in Indianapolis and talking about Evan Bayh and his dad Birch, Obama said, “the acorn doesn’t fall far from the tree”? Sounded like a shout out to me. Or, maybe that’s just a phrase they use in Kansas or sumpin. ;)


92 posted on 10/09/2008 7:24:45 PM PDT by jennyjenny
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To: Chet 99
Obama: I Assumed Ayers Had Been Rehabilitated

If true (and I don't believe it for a minute) then Hussien Obama is too STUPID for the White House. He's either a liar or an idiot... maybe both.

93 posted on 10/09/2008 7:25:32 PM PDT by CurlyBill (Obama bin Biden MUST LOSE!!!)
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To: Chet 99

So the I didn’t know him lie isn’t working and has to move to this lie. His internal numbers must be on fire to have to take this talking point to his mediots.

Pray for W, Palin/McCain and Our Troops


94 posted on 10/09/2008 7:29:03 PM PDT by bray (It's the Corruption Stupid)
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To: Chet 99
"So, you know, the central point this is not somebody who advises my campaign, it's not somebody who is part of my, you know, inner circle in any way...."

Yeah, I would never kick off my campaign with a party at the house of someone who was in my inner circle...

"And I've strongly condemned his actions."

Must be one of those page A-23 articles from the AOP that I missed...

95 posted on 10/09/2008 7:30:17 PM PDT by castlebrew (Gun control means hitting where you intended to!)
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To: Chet 99

What a professional liar.


96 posted on 10/09/2008 7:37:32 PM PDT by loungeSerf (Freedom Sucks! Obama 08)
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To: Northern Yankee

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97 posted on 10/09/2008 7:38:17 PM PDT by Son House ( It takes a Woman)
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To: Chet 99
In an interview with conservative Philadelphia radio talk show host Michael Smerconish today,

First of all, Smerconish is not conservative. He's a complete phony, follow the ratings, crypto-lib.

Second of all, Obama is a complete and total liar.
98 posted on 10/09/2008 7:39:08 PM PDT by Antoninus (Ignore the polls. They're meant to shape public opinion, not measure it.)
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To: Yaelle
which is why I've got a Kansas-sounding accent…

I have a funny feeling we aren't in Kansas anymore toto...

99 posted on 10/09/2008 7:44:53 PM PDT by Terriergal ("I am ashamed that women are so simple To offer war where they should kneel for peace," Shakespeare)
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To: All

B.Hussein O.must think that what happens in Chicago stays in Chicago.
Everybody and their dog knows Ayers is a frickin’ folk hero to the leftist CPUSA minded crowd. With Mr.0 at the head of that pack of liars, connivers, and thieves, certainly directing adoration to the terrorist Ayers, the jihadist Farrakan, and the racist Wright..

You will know them by the company they keep....


100 posted on 10/09/2008 7:45:01 PM PDT by lrb111 (Minutemen - Doing jobs the White House won't do.)
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