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Look how the AP reported about Ayers in this news story... """""" Obama was roughly 8 years old when Ayers, now at the University of Illinois at Chicago, was working with the Weather Underground, which took responsibility for bombings that included nonfatal blasts at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol. McCain's vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, has said that Obama "pals around with terrorists." """""" First of all, bring up how many time Team Obama has lied about the relationship... there's noway he didn't know about his past... Second, bring up that there was Weathermen were active up to I think...

Anyone attending Tuesday's town hall debate is welcome to use the following questions: 1. Why shouldn't voters view your association with the radical William Ayers as evidence that you are sympathetic to the similarly radical views of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, your pastor of 20 years? 2. You characterized Ayers as " respected." What do you respect about him? Do you respect any other unrepentant terrorists? 3. Do you agree with the National Journal's assessment that you're the nation's most liberal senator? If not, whom do you maintain is more liberal? 4. Could you please cite three things you've done as...

1. Dig in at Ayers Go after Obama's 2002 conference with Ayers "Intellectuals In Times Of Crisis" since they're trying to question McCain's judgment and call him crazy in times of Crisis... this was after the stomping on the flag incident and saying he was unrepentant about his bombing adventures 2. Bring to light CAC's purposes and ridicule their results... 3. Pivot into the economy by hitting hard McCain's proposal for reform in 2005... also talk about right regulation and wrong regulation... defend McCain on Keaton and bring up Rezko... bring up McCain narrative of reform after Keaton and compare...

Intellectuals in Times of Crisis Experiences and applications of intellectual work in urgent situations. William Ayers, UIC, College of Education; author of Fugitive Days Douglass Cassel, Northwestern University, Center for International Human Rights Cathy Cohen, University of Chicago, Political Science Salim Muwakkil, Chicago Tribune; In These Times Barack Obama, Illinois State Senator Barbara Ransby, UIC, African-American Studies (moderator)

It's time to twist the knife on this story... keep dripping in details the media doesn't like to talk about... Obama endorsed Ayer's book Ayer's gave Obama fundraisers Obama was serving with Ayers when his book fugitive days(September 10, 2001 publication date) came out when he gave this and this interviews... If you leave this alone it will be worthless, you've got to twist some more... take the focus off of "terrorist" and put it on left wing radical... who just happens to be an unrepentant terrorist...

Today Palin stuck hard on Ayers, and Obama has called it an "act of desperation"... Team McCain must put out a statement before tomarrow... 1. Detail how Obama has lied about his associations. 2. Ask the rhetorical question, would the media be forgiving about McCain's friendship with an abortion bomber? How would they judge this? 3. Detail what Obama actually did when he was associated with Ayers? He failed at school reform pushing nonsense and gave money to an anti-Israeli palestinian(woods fund)... 4. Hit back on the "swiftboat" meme with "astroturf". Detail some of Axelrods work, detail how he used...

In the Couric interview, Palin mangled her talking points so badly that all anybody noticed noticed was the mangling itself; the points themselves receded into the background. Her much-improved performance last night, though, had the paradoxical effect of throwing the weakness of the GOP message in this election cycle into sharper relief. To my mind, one of the more telling moments in the debate came when Palin, unbidden, latched on to a Biden reference to education, and started talking about all the teachers in her family, and how her kids attend public school, and then did her shout-out to her...

Can anyone get me a list of sites where the PUMAs(Party Unity My A**) hang out at?

and everybody email it to all you're friends... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5tZc8oH--o Add this too... How the Democrats Created the Financial Crisis: Kevin Hassett http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aSKSoiNbnQY0

When Sen. Barack Obama was given the floor to speak during White House negotiations, according to White House aides, he did so raising concerns about a House Republican alternative to the Paulson/Bernanke $700 billion bailout. But those concerns weren't necessarily his, as he was not aware of the GOP plan before reviewing notes provided him by Paulson loyalists in Treasury prior to entering the meeting. According to an Obama campaign source, the notes were passed to Obama via senior aides traveling with him, who had been emailed the document via a current Goldman Sachs employee and Wall Street fundraiser for...

The Obama campaign has written radio stations in Pennsylvania and Ohio, pressing them to refuse to air an ad from the National Rifle Association."This advertisement knowingly misleads your viewing audience about Senator Obama's position on the Second Amendment," says the letter from Obama general counsel Bob Bauer. "For the sake of both FCC licensing requirements and the public interest, your station should refuse to continue to air this advertisement." The ad, "Hunter," conflates Obama's anti-gun stances of the 1990s with his current, more pro-gun, stand, and was chided for inaccuracy in The Washington Post, an item to which Bauer's letter refers.NRA spokesman...

VICE-President hopeful Sarah Palin has denied an affair with her husband Todd’s business partner. The Republican candidate is furious over claims she cheated on Todd — dubbed the First Dude — in 1996. The National Enquirer claims she had an affair with his snowmobile dealership partner Brad Hanson. The magazine said it took place when Palin was mayor of home town Wasilla and started because she was “lonely” while Todd was away working on oilfields. The alleged fling ended when Palin, 44, confessed to furious Todd. Palin denies ever cheating on Todd and Republican John McCain’s campaign has threatened legal...

Any Questions?  Five years ago, Republicans proposed "the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry [in a decade]." (Source: New York Times) Democrats on the House Financial Services Committee blocked efforts at fixing Fannie and Freddie. Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) said, "Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac... are not facing any kind of financial crisis," At least 18 times since 2001 Democrats blocked efforts at overhauling Fannie and Freddie even as accounting scandals and executive ripoffs became public. Why? For starters, the top two recipients of Fannie and Freddie campaign donations were Democrat fatcats Chris Dodd ($165K) and Barack...

Ethan Winner, an executive with a Public Relations firm connected to a senior Obama campaign advisor has admitted to distributing a video designed to smear Republican Vice Presidential nominee Governor Sarah Palin. An investigation has shown that David Axelrod, chief media advisor to Obama had previously worked with the PR firm chief Chuck Winner on another campaign.In 1996, a group of investors penned Proposal E in Detroit which allowed for casinos. The investors hired the firm Winner/Wagner & Mandabach to study the chances of passing that proposal. As told in an article written by Laurence B. Deitch, an attorney for the proposal...

As a early Palin-booster who's expressed disappointment with what we've seen from John McCain's running mate to date, I think it's reasonable for me to explain what, exactly, I was hoping for from the Alaska governor - who has, after all, been placed in an excruciatingly difficult situation over the last few weeks. The answer, I think, is something along the lines of what we saw from Mike Huckabee during the primary season. Huckabee was just as much of a political outsider as Palin (albeit one with more years in statewide office), he had the same sort of non-elite...

(FAIRBANKS) – In response to the political turn taken by the Legislative Council's inquiry into Walt Monegan's removal from office, today Christopher Huffman, a Fairbanks small business owner, filed an Alaska Freedom of Information Act request with Senator Kim Elton, Senator Hollis French, Stephen Branchflower, and Walter Monegan. The request seeks "all documents pertaining to the Alaska State Legislature inquiry" into the Monegan matter, including all documents related to the hiring of Stephen Branchflower and the evaluation of any other candidates for the position; all communications between Mr. Branchflower, Mr. Monegan, Sen. Kim Elton, or Sen. Hollis French and other...

Senator Joe Biden is spending between three to four hours a day prepping for his debate with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, with that time to be increased over the next two weeks. According to campaign insiders, at least ten to 15 outside volunteers -- beyond those already working on the campaign -- are assisting in both Biden's and Obama's debate prep. Debate prep for both John McCain and Palin hasn't been made public, though it is known that Palin is putting in study time for her October 2nd debate in St. Louis. Of biggest concern to Biden, and the focus...

Has some fascinating stuff. One, age appears to be a much bigger drag for McCain than race is for Obama (25% say their friends or neighbors are uncomfortable voting for a 72-year old; 6% say they are uncomfortable voting for an African-American). I'm interested in how McCain has fared in some of the personal attribute questions. He's closed the gap in "fights for people like me" from 53% to 33% in May, to 48% to 42% now; closed the gap on "will unite the country" from 53% to 33% in May to 47% to 39% now; and tied Obama...

Writing in response to my suggestion that the McCain campaign has wanted for creativity, I think Rich Lowry makes a strong case that they've been quite tactically imaginative, and I agree with Rich that they wouldn't be where they are today if it weren't for some brilliant improvisations. What I had in mind, though, was ideological creativity - the sort of creativity, for instance, that might have provided stronger talking points for your new-minted veep nominee to trot out when the subject turns to, say, the state of the economy. The McCain camp has found exactly one good domestic-policy talking...

The author of the latest anti-Barack hit book is appearing on WGN Radio in the Chicagoland market tonight, and your help is urgently needed to make sure his baseless lies don’t gain credibility. David Freddoso has made a career off dishonest, extreme hate mongering, even calling legislation to protect people from hate crimes the “Thought Police.” And WGN apparently thinks this card-carrying member of the right-wing smear machine needs a bigger platform for his lies and smears about Barack Obama — on the public airwaves. .... Rosenberg’s producer said the flood of calls and emails the show received was the...