Obama hits McCain for making Ayers the "centerpiece of his campaign"

[ProSense]

October 09, 2008

Obama on Ayers: 'I assumed that he had been rehabilitated'

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In the interview, which was taped this afternoon and will air tomorrow, and which you can listen to above, Obama recalled moving back to Chicago after law school, and becoming involved in civic life there.

"The gentleman in question, Bill Ayers, is a college professor, teaches education at the University of Illinois," he said. "That's how i met him -- working on a school reform project that was funded by an ambassador and very close friend of Ronald Reagan's" along with "a bunch of conservative businessmen and civic leaders."

"Ultimately, I ended up learning about the fact that he had engaged in this reprehensible act 40 years ago, but I was eight years old at the time and I assumed that he had been rehabilitated," Obama said.

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Obama also lashed McCain for focusing on Ayers on a day of dramatic economic turmoil, calling th issue a "red herring."

"The fact that Senator McCain wants to make this the centerpiece of his campaign is pretty remarkable," he said. "We are going through an enormous challenge right now. "

"Senator McCain surely doesn't believe that I've endorsed any of the actions that (Ayers) has taken," he said. "They're trying to distract from the economy."

"We've got the biggest economic crisis on our hands since the Great Depression and Senator McCain's team has said in the newspapers, they've said it publicly, 'If we talk about the economy, then we lose the election,'" Obama said.

[msongs]

1. the word Obama/Biden are looking for is COWARD!!!!! use it and get props from male voters because

sometimes ya just have to tell it like it is - hiding behind women, sneaking crap into ads, bypassing the face to face chance to say it like a man just a few nights ago. ALL that mccain war hero crap was a total fraud except for the actual POW time, and even then he sang like a canary for the North Vietnamese propaganda films according to what Ive read on the internet.

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[ProSense]

2. Pure

cowardice

[Getwiththeprogram]

3. Country First

And this is what McPalin believes is putting country first. Sure looks like putting election first to me

[Cha]

4. Yep, mccain's got ayers and palin sitting

right there in the centerpiece of his campaign and mccain's over there looking for Mr Puddles.

[demokatgurrl]

5. Kicking- and he should keep saying "Reagan"

every time he discusses this (which, hopefully, won't be many times)