What is wrong with Republicans? Have lost their effing mind? Palin Says Obama Pals With Terrorists By JIM KUHNHENN, AP posted: 4 HOURS 14 MINUTES AGOcomments: 10267filed under: Election News, Barack Obama, Sarah PalinPrintShareText SizeAAAENGLEWOOD, Colo. (Oct. 4) - Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on Saturday accused Democrat Barack Obama of "palling around with terrorists" because of an old 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, served on a charity board with Ayers several years ago and has denounced his radical views and activities. . The Republican campaign, falling behind Obama in polls, plans to make attacks on Obama's character a centerpiece of candidate John McCain's message in the final weeks of the presidential race. 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 about Obama "palling around with terrorists" comes as e-mails circulate on the Internet with suggestions that the Democratic candidate is secretly a radical, foreign-born Muslim with designs against the U.S. — even though Obama is a native of Hawaii, a Christian and has no connections to Muslim extremists. Palin, Alaska's governor, said that 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." The escalated effort to attack Obama's character dovetails with TV ads by outside groups questioning Obama's ties to Ayers, convicted former Obama fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko and Obama's former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Ayers is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He and Obama live in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood and served together on the board of the Woods Fund, a Chicago-based charity that develops community groups to help the poor. Obama left the board in December 2002. Obama was the first chairman of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a school-reform group of which Ayers was a founder. Ayers also held a meet-the-candidate event at his home for Obama when Obama first ran for office in the mid-1990s. In an interview with CBS News earlier in the week, Palin didn't name any newspapers or magazines that shaped her view of the world. On Saturday, she cited a New York Times story that detailed Obama's relationship with Ayers. Summing up its findings, the Times wrote: "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.'" Earlier Saturday, Palin spent 35 minutes at a diner in Greenwood Village where she met with Blue Star Moms, a support group of families whose sons or daughters are serving in the armed forces. Reporters were allowed in the diner for less than five minutes before being ushered out by the campaign. Palin, whose 19-year-old son, Track, deployed last month as a private with an Army combat team, was overheard at one point commiserating with one of the mothers: "Any time I ask my son how he's doing, he says, 'Mom, I'm in the Army now.'" Taking one question from reporters about competing in battleground states, Palin repeated her wish that the campaign had not pulled out of Michigan, a prominent state in presidential elections where Obama leads by double-digit percentage points in recent polls. "As I said the other day, I would sure love to get to run to Michigan and make sure that Michigan knows that we haven't given up there," she said. "We care much about Michigan and every other state. I wish there were more hours in the day so that we could travel all over this great country and start speaking to more Americans. So, not worried about it but just desiring more time and, you know, to put more effort into each one of these states." http://news.aol.com/elections/artic...s/200425?icid=100214839x1210642785x1200661922 Whats next for them? are they gonna call all the demcrats terrorists? OH WAIT... they ALREADY call them Terrorist on TV 24/7. Truly Sick.
Actually palin reaches a pary of the voting bloc that McCain was not able to himself (fundies) It's smart politics. I just hope that McCain has a long healthy life.
For his own sake, yeah, sure For his own sake, I'll raise a glass. In terms of his presidency, I don't think it matters. I offered an analysis of the debate that included consideration of electoral college numbers projected from polling data compiled by RealClearPolitics.com. Eight hours after that analysis, Obama picked up four votes in the projection, as new data from New Hampshire brought the state from "toss-up" to "leaning" for Obama. In the thirty-two hours since, Obama has seen his "leaning" total decline by 21 electoral votes, but that was because data from Pennsylvania moved that state from "leaning" to "solid" as the Democratic ticket's lead grew to 9.6% in that state, and his national average, according to RCP, increased slightly to 5.9%. The question is whether this data precedes the debate, or if it is indicative that Governor Palin's performance in the debate on Thursday night was insufficient to stop the bleeding. Obama/Biden has also picked up ground in Nevada, from +0.5% to +1.8%. Barring conspiracy theories, it appears that McCain/Palin is trailing, both in terms of states and the nationwide average, and still losing ground. Key states in determining progress for the GOP ticket would be Colorado, which slipped from "leaning" for Obama to a "toss-up", although the Democratic ticket still has a 4.4% lead, North Carolina (Obama +0.5%), and also Missouri and Indiana, where McCain/Palin leads by thin margins of 1.7% and 2.2% respectively. Everywhere else McCain/Palin hold a state, it's solid support, with the 9.5% advantage in Georgia being the weakest. If the GOP ticket is still bleeding, the election is Obama and Biden's to lose. If we have yet to see a post-debate bump reflecting renewed or recovering confidence in Governor Palin, the questions are how much of a bump, and how much progressive momentum. We are one month out exactly, and while McCain and Palin have at least a mathematical chance (take all toss-up states, don't lose a state currently favoring them, and take one state—any state—away from Obama) to pull it off. How much can McCain and Palin accomplish, and how quickly? ____________________ Notes: "RealClearPolitics Electoral College". RealClearPolitics.com. Viewed October 4, 2008. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/maps/obama_vs_mccain/
You guys are the disturbed ones, supporting someone like Obama who is surrounded by crazy and racist people from his family to his pastor.
Look who is talking... hahah hahaha racist? Hahaha.. and Republicans aren't racist? LMAO!!! Mr. Spock do you live in a cave some where?
there are racist from all parts of the map, but obama isnt just a nobody, he is running for the presidency, and he is surrounded by racist hateful people that hate the US. you really cant comprehend that simple fact? what more needs happen so you understand how dangerous he is, not just for the US, but for the whole world.
How is supporting a black president in any way racist mr spock? Surely you can understand how strange and oxymoronical that can sound to someone that doesn't know what you're thinking. What is one example of how the people he surrounds himself "hate the US"?
As I always say, never make generalizations unless theyre true. And in this case, its not true. Certainly some Republicans are racist. But most are not, for example, me.
Well, supporting a candidate simply because of his race and for no other reason is most deinitely racist. And you cant deny that theres a ton of people who are doing just that.
I'm sure there are racists in BOTH parties. Just because republicans think equal rights means equal rights, and democrats think equal rights means MORE rights for minorities (than anyone else); doesn't mean republicans are "racist". It just means democrats buy minority votes by giving them MORE rights. Then democrats try spinning the truth by basically saying, if you don't give minorities MORE rights than anyone else, then you're a racist....Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
please explaine to me how giving gays an equal right to marry who ever they love the same as anyone else is giving them "more rights"
We won't hold our breath I, too, am curious as to what Cazzo's answer will be, presuming of course it will be anything other than a tumbleweed silence.
I know a few girls who brag about all the money they get from the gov just for having a (black) child of someone that used them for sex and left. This while a few others that were in the service and put their life on the line can't get a dime for medical issues. Way off topic, but hey.
the stupid bitch Palin says "Nuculer" like a thousand times. Thats enough for me. More bush in my opinion. How hard is it to pronounce nuclear correctly, epecially when you're running for the second highest office in the country and debating on national television.
