McCAIN: "Very frankly, Dana, I don't give a damn about an old unrepentant terrorist."

[kpete]

"Very frankly, Dana, I don't give a damn about an old unrepentant terrorist."

-- Sen. John McCain, in an interview with Dana Base on CNN, obviously getting tired of talking about Barack Obama and 1960s radical William Ayers.

http://www.wvec.com/news/topstories/stories/wvec_top_101308_mccain_rally.10ac0eb1e.html#

[OneGrassRoot]

1. Oh, Ayers....

I thought he was talking about Cheney.

[frogmarch]

4. haha! Good one! nt

[Barack_America]

2. Then who, pray tell, is running your damn campaign?

:shrug:

[Clio the Leo]

3. Good! Neither do the rest of us! ....

.... now maybe we can move on to how you're proposing we fix the economy Senator.

[McCCain4retirment]

5. I was shocked when he said that

Obama is certainly pushing McCain's button


I love it.

[jeff30997]

6. Very frankly McCorn...

I can't wait 'til you're gone withe the wind.

[Cha]

7. Because there's nothing to talk about.

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"In March 1995, Mr. Obama became chairman of the six-member board that oversaw the distribution of grants in Chicago. Some bloggers have recently speculated that Mr. Ayers had engineered that post for him.

In fact, according to several people involved, Mr. Ayers played no role in Mr. Obama's appointment. Instead, it was suggested by Deborah Leff, then president of the Joyce Foundation, a Chicago-based group whose board Mr. Obama, a young lawyer, had joined the previous year. At a lunch with two other foundation heads, Patricia A. Graham of the Spencer Foundation and Adele Simmons of the MacArthur Foundation, Ms. Leff suggested that Mr. Obama would make a good board chairman, she said in an interview. Mr. Ayers was not present and had not suggested Mr. Obama, she said.

Ms. Graham said she invited Mr. Obama to dinner at an Italian restaurant in Chicago and was impressed.

"At the end of the dinner I said, 'I really want you to be chairman.' He said, 'I'll do it if you'll be vice chairman,' " Ms. Graham recalled, and she agreed.

Archives of the Chicago Annenberg project, which funneled the money to networks of schools from 1995 to 2000, show both men attended six board meetings early in the project -- Mr. Obama as chairman, Mr. Ayers to brief members on school issues.

Similarly, according to an Obama campaign fact check of conservative columnist Stanley Kurtz's "false allegation that Bill Ayers arranged Obama's chairmanship of the Annenberg Board," Obama was "recommended for the CAC chairmanship by Deborah Leff, nominated by Pat Graham, and elected by the original Annenberg Board." The fact check quotes Leff saying: "While working with Adele Simmons and Patricia Graham to identify a highly qualified person to chair the education reform organization the Annenberg Challenge, I recommended Barack Obama to serve as Chair. After meeting with Obama to review his qualifications, Patricia Graham asked Obama to become a candidate for the position." The fact check also quotes Ken Rolling, former executive director of the Annenberg Challenge, saying: "After being recommended by Deborah Leff and recruited by Pat Graham, Barack Obama was elected as Chair of the Annenberg Challenge by the founding Board of Directors of the Annenberg Challenge -- Susan Crown, Pat Graham, Stanley Ikenberry, Ray Romero, Arnold Weber, and Wanda White."

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http://mediamatters.org/items/200810070032

[wildflower]

8. He actually says this a couple times a day; Schmidt too

It's clearly a line they've rehearsed.

It goes something like this: "I don't care about a washed-up terrorist who...(mention one or more deeds here) and said as recently as 2001 that he wishes he did more. But I believe Obama needs to be more honest with the public (etc.)."

I've heard it many times now and I wonder if anyone believes it.

Listen for it whenever he or someone else in his campaign talks about this issue. I wonder if he'll use the line in the debate.

[KewlKat]

9. I wonder if this statement will end up on youtube?

[blogslut]

10. Then why do you keep bringing it up Grandpa?

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