The “News agency who shall not be named,” along with others, is reporting that the last few weeks of the campaign could get VERY personal.
On Saturday, Sarah Palin finally led the campaign in whacking Obama with his Bill Ayers connection:
“This is not a man who sees America as you see it and as I see America,” Palin said today. “We see America as the greatest force for good in this world. If we can be that beacon of light and hope for others who seek freedom and democracy and can live in a country that would allow intolerance in the equal rights that again our military men and women fight for and die for, for all of us.”
She then continued, “Our opponent though is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country.”
Of course, the MSM quickly ran to Obama’s aid with retorts along the line of the following:
But as the New York Times reported today, Obama was never “palling around” with Ayers. “A review of records of the schools project and interviews with a dozen people who know both men, suggest that Mr. Obama, 47, has played down his contacts with Mr. Ayers, 63. But the two men do not appear to have been close. Nor has Mr. Obama ever expressed sympathy for the radical views and actions of Mr. Ayers, whom he has called ‘somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8.'”
Those vapidity of that retort has been covered time and again so no need to rehash that. Now that Palin has taken up the line of attacking Obama about the company he keeps, the Obama campaign, responding as if this is a second grade playground fight says: “Oh yeah, well, so are you!” The Obama campaign threatens to drag out the Keating 5 history as their retort of “bad associations.”
Bring it on!
No one of the MSM outlets have spent ANY time investigating Obama’s links and involvement with Ayers, Rezko or the Chicago Political machine. On the other hand, they have spent inordinate time trying to dig up dirt on Palin, to no avail, creating false scandals for McCain….and, they’ve looked into the Keating 5 and have already tried to do McCain in with an attachment to McCain!
In case you forgot, the New York Times tried to resurrect McCain’s involvement to the Keating 5 back during the primaries, February, 2008 to be exact. They tried to derail McCain’s primary run. Not for a lack of effort, they were unable to make the charges stick. In fact, Bob Bennett (Bill Bennett’s brother) came to McCain’s defense, both during the original Keating 5 investigation and again in February:
ROBERT BENNETT, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Well, Senator McCain did not want a repeat of what occurred years ago in South Carolina, namely a real smear campaign, and asked me to assist them, and I have been assisting him. And this — I’m just — I think what the “New York Times” did here was shameless, just shameless. As you pointed out in the lead, it’s almost entirely unsourced.
You know, I’m in a pretty unique position to talk about John McCain. First, I should tell your listeners I’m a registered Democrat, so I’m not on his side of a lot of issues. But I investigated John McCain for a year and a half, at least, when I was special counsel to the Senate Ethics Committee in the Keating Five, which, by the way, this “New York Times” article goes back to and discusses, goes back years and years.
And if there is one thing I am absolutely confident of, it is John McCain is an honest and honest man. I recommended to the Senate Ethics Committee that he be cut out of the case, that there was no evidence against him, and I think for the “New York Times” to dig this up just shows that Senator McCain’s public statement about this is correct. It’s a smear job. I’m sorry.
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BENNETT: Well, you know, maybe I was prophetic. I wrote that chapter a long time ago. If your listeners want to know about the Keating Five case, I have a whole chapter on it. What happened was that I had recommended that John McCain be cut out of it and not go forward. And, you know, I call it the way I see it. As I said, I’m a Democrat. And I recommended they go forward against Senators DeConcini, Senator Cranston and Senator Riegle.
But if you cut out John McCain, you would have had 28 days of public hearings with just Democrats in the dock. So, it’s probably the first time in the history of the Senate that they rejected the advice of their counsel to exonerate a senator.
Obama has shown time and again a lack of understanding about history. That’s a trait that should be a concern to many people. However, in this case, I’m happy that Obama has no awareness of history. If he had, he would know that Keatin 5 has been beat to a pulp by all of his best historical corrupters. Despite their best efforts they haven’t been able to twist the facts far enough to indict McCain.
If “associations” become the issue during the last 4 weeks, expect the Obama bus to be hitting a lot of road bumps!
