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Palin accuses Obama of link to 'terrorist'

Governor says advisers want her to get tough on Democratic senator

By Jim Kuhnhenn
Associated Press

ENGLEWOOD, COLO.: Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on Saturday accused Democrat Barack Obama of ''palling around with terrorists'' because of an association with a former '60s radical, stepping up an effort to portray Obama as unacceptable to American voters.

Palin's reference was to Bill Ayers, one of the founders of the group the Weather Underground. Its members took credit for bombings, including nonfatal explosions at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol, during the Vietnam War era. Obama, who was a child when the group was active, has denounced Ayers' radical views and activities.

While it is known that Obama and Ayers live in the same Chicago neighborhood, served on a charity board together and had a fleeting political connection, it's a stretch of any reading of the public record to say the pair ever palled around. And it's simply wrong to suggest that they were associated while Ayers was committing terrorist acts.

Falling behind Obama in polls, the Republican campaign plans to make attacks on Obama's character a centerpiece of candidate John McCain's message in the final weeks of the presidential race. Coming late in the campaign, Palin's remark could be particularly incendiary, however, and could knock Obama off his focus on the troubled economy.

Palin told a group of donors at a private airport, ''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 also said, ''This is not a man who sees America as you see America and as I see America.''

The Obama campaign called Palin's remarks offensive but not surprising in light of news stories detailing the campaign's come-from-behind offensive.

''What's clear is that John McCain and Sarah Palin would rather spend their time tearing down Barack Obama than laying out a plan to build up our economy,'' Obama campaign spokesman Hari Sevugan said in a statement.

Palin's remark comes as e-mails circulate claiming Obama is secretly a radical, foreign-born Muslim with designs against the United States.

Palin, Alaska's governor, said donors on a greeting line had encouraged her and McCain to get tougher on Obama. She said an aide then advised her, ''Sarah, the gloves are off, the heels are on, go get to them.''

ENGLEWOOD, COLO.: Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on Saturday accused Democrat Barack Obama of ''palling around with terrorists'' because of an association with a former '60s radical, stepping up an effort to portray Obama as unacceptable to American voters.

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wub

Posted 06:48 AM, 10/05/2008

Is Sarah Palin trying to impress us by citing the New York Times? If so, she should talk about the rest of the article too. Like the facts that: The acts in question occurred when Obama was 8 years old; after the charges against Ayers were dropped, he earned a doctorate in education at Columbia (1987), was a professor of education at the University of Illinois, authored or edited 15 books, was an influential advocate for school reform, has been praised by Chicago Mayor Richard Daley ("He's done a lot of good in this city and nationally"), met Obama when both were working for school reform in a project funded by Walter Annenberg (President Nixon's ambassador to the United Kingdom), and overlapped (in 2000-2002) with Obama on the Board of a charity that had supported Obama' community organization work in the 1980's. Again according to the NYT article cited by Palin, there is no evidence that he has had any influence on Obama, and Obama has referred to him as "somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago ..." Such absolutely baseless attacks appear to be the latest attempt of the Palin/McCain ticket to distract people from the real issues that should be being discussed. Shame on Senator McCain, who used to be the candidate of integrity (whom I admired and supported the last time he ran for President).


j2289

Posted 05:22 PM, 10/05/2008

How did we get in this financial mess? For answers, watch this You Tube 11 minute video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU6fuFrdCJY
















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