politico.com - 10/14/2008
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Here's the audio of Obama's new radio spot responding to attacks on his relationship to Bill Ayers. It's a version of his television spot accusing McCain of using "smears" to avoid talking about the economy, but — unlike the TV spot — mentions Ayers by name and ...
chicagotribune.com - 10/15/2008
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As his name was tossed back and forth
Tuesday in the fury of the presidential campaign, 1960s...
radical William Ayers spent the day as he often does, working quietly as a professor and trying to ignore the political tempest. Officials at the University ...
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Bill Ayers: 'What could I possibly add?' -
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thepage.time.com - 10/14/2008
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Speaking on St. Louis radio, the candidate says
Obama’s recent comments have “probably ensured” the former Weather...
Underground leader will come up in Wednesday’s debate. “I was astonished to hear him say that he was surprised I didn’t have the ...
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McCain: Last Debate Will Probably Include Ayers
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Obama Radio Ad Plays Defense on Ayers
The Page by Mark Halperin —
... Radio ad offers the most detail yet on Obama’s tie with the former radical leader.
Narrator: “Bill Ayers is a professor of education who once served with Obama on a school reform board, a board funded by conservative Republicans tied to McCain.”
Says Ayers will have “no role” in an Obama administration and concludes, “With no plan to fix our economy, smears are all (McCain) has left.”
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New Obama Radio Ad Pushes Back On Ayers Smear
TPM Election Central —
... The Obama campaign goes up with a new radio ad in Wisconsin pushing back in detail on the William Ayers smear -- the first spot, to our knowledge, that mentions Ayers by name: ...
ACORN: From Defense to Further Reform
The Moderate Voice —
... I don’t see the last of those (nor the apology) in ACORN’s response.
Forget the damn association, weak or strong, with a certain presidential candidate. Buttoning down the hatches is the right thing to do, period — for the past, present, and future credibility of all aggressive voter-registration drives.
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Speaking of a certain presidential candidate, I love his campaign’s latest on the Ayers issue. Despite my past comments on that subject — and my current ...
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(CNN) – The campaign of Sen. John McCain called on Sen. Barack Obama Tuesday to “rein in” community organizing group ACORN and “to work aggressively against wide-scale voter fraud.”
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