The web ad comes about 24 hours after top McCain campaign aides seemingly took the Ayers "issue" (I use the word loosely)
off the table.
But as long as we're on the subject, McCain's associations continue to be increasingly interesting as well. We've known for a while that McCain has
befriended a convicted felon who advised his supporters on how best to shoot federal officials, used the
money of a convicted criminal to help buy a house, befriended a radical
anti-Catholic televangelist, befriended a radical
anti-American televangelist, was a long-time associate of Charles Keating, and hired for his campaign the
publisher of a Confederate nostalgia magazine who has described Nelson Mandela as a "terrorist." This week, we also learned about McCain serving on the board of the extremist
U.S. Council for World Freedom, where he worked alongside Iran-Contra figures, and a eugenics researcher studying "white superiority."
Last night, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann had a very interesting report on McCain's associations, including the McCain campaign touting an endorsement from Leonore Annenberg, who helped created the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, where, wouldn't you know it, Obama and Ayers met. Olbermann also noted McCain having hooked up with a right-wing hate group called the Oregon Citizens' Alliance, despite warnings McCain received from then-Sen. Mark Hatfield, an Oregon Republican, about the radical nature of the organization.
While hanging out with the group, McCain heard speakers praise -- you guessed it -- domestic terrorists. McCain could have gotten up and left, but didn't.
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