By: Jonathan Martin

How much does McCain’s campaign want to keep the focus on Obama’s character?

They previewed Palin’s prepared attack on Obama and Ayers from her raly this morning in Florida.

Evidently, there’s been a lot of interest in what I read lately. Well, I was reading my copy of The New York Times the other day, and I was really interested to read about Barack’s friends from Chicago. 

Turns out, one of his earliest supporters is a man named Bill Ayers. And according to The New York Times, he was a domestic terrorist and part of a group that, quote, “launched a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol.”

Wow. And there’s even more to the story. Barack Obama said Ayers was just someone in the neighborhood. But that’s less than truthful. His own top advisor said they were, quote, “certainly friendly.” In fact, Obama held one of the first meetings of his political career in Bill Ayers’s home. And they’ve worked together on various projects in Chicago. 

Why does she talk as though the Times piece Saturday was the first revelation about Obama’s ties to Ayers?   I guess they want to make it seem as though this is a new story, but the quote Palin pulls out about how close the two were is not from the Times but from Ben Smith’s reporting in February.

 

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