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Bill Ayers latest bomb
Pundit Review —
Bill Ayers latest bomb This is not the way the Obama campaign wanted to spend day one of the convention, responding to negative ads. We will be hearing a lot about “dirty politics” in the coming days. I asked Jeff Jacoby last night if raising the Obama- Ayers connection was fair game or dirty politics, here’s that cut, Strangely Timed Obama Response Ad on William Ayers ABC News’ Tahman Bradley Reports: As Michelle Obama prepares for a primetime speech that will talk about her and Barack Obama’s American values, the Obama campaign is using a new television ad to take on the issue of Obama’s association with a 1970s radical who bombed the ...
Obama Threatening TV Stations For Airing Ayers Ad
Nice Deb —
With some success - both CNN and Fox News have declined to run this ad:
Unable to dispute the basic truth of the ad, the Obama camp has tried another tack. Sic the Department of Justice on the group, the “American Issues Project, who made the ad, and aggressively pressure TV stations who plan to run the ad: ...
Obama: champion of freedom of speech—except if that speech is against him
neo-neocon —
Obama is protesting an ad that targets his association with domestic 60s terrorist Bill Ayres. Here’s the ad:
Obama is asking his supporters to threaten to boycott stations running the ad. I have no problem with that; it’s a classic technique used to put economic pressure on entities that air programs and/or ads that are considered offensive by one group or other.
But the Obama campaign is going beyond that. In a letter to the Justice Department, Obama’s general counsel Bob Bauer wrote that:
The project is “a knowing and willful attempt to violate the ...
Smelling Smoke In The Ayers
Wizbang —
I like to consider myself a reasonably good writer, and one of the hallmarks of a good writer is the general avoidance of cliche's. But there's a reason why a phrase degenerates into a cliche': it's because it has more than a grain of truth. And as I consider the story of the relationship between Senator Barack Obama and unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, and in particular the actions taken by Senator Obama's presidential campaign, I keep hearing certain tired and trite phrases: "Where there's smoke, there's fire." "When you find yourself taking the heavist flak, you know you're over the target." "Methinks the lady doth protest too much." And as much as I ...
