Ok. Wavering Dems. It's time to fucking pick sides. NOW.
McCain: Lobbyists? Ayers!
McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds, responding to Obama's shot at the candidate's lobbyist purge, raises Bill Ayers:
Just a few years ago when Barack Obama was beginning his career in politics he was launching it at the home of William Ayers, an unrepentant domestic terrorist who his chief strategist said Senator Obama was certainly friendly with. If Barack Obama is going to make associations the issue, we look forward to the debate about Senator Obama's associations and what they say about his judgment and readiness to be commander in chief.
The McCain campaign has recently put a strict policy in place and all personnel are required to be in compliance with it. Many fine people may have a conflict that is not reconcilable. Barak (sic) Obama’s dragging the names of good people through the mud publicly is the worst type of character assassination, especially when he has not made the names of his policy advisors public. Isn't that exactly the old politics he claims to reject but he is so clearly embracing?
I'm a bit of an aficionado of the Ayers story, and while I do think there's more to know about the men's relationship, I don't really see the analogy here. Ayers isn't running an arm of Obama's campaign.
Anyway, can't you just feel the bipartisan goodwill, as the campaigns feel eachother out?
ALSO: Between the "few years" (that's 1996) and the "Barak," you could almost get a Mark Salter memo out of this one.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0508/McCain_Lobbyists_Ayers.html
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