McCain phone message about Ayers

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Registered: 10-13-2008
McCain phone message about Ayers
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Sat, 10-18-2008 - 9:19am

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Republicans launched an enormous wave of phone calls Thursday blasting Sen. Barack Obama for "having worked closely with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers," party sources said.


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Registered: 10-18-2008
Sat, 10-18-2008 - 9:27am

I'd say McCain has more of a terrorist problem than Obama. Watch Letterman call him on it and see how McCain plays the brain fog card:


http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/letterman-busts-mccain-his-ties-g-gor


I agree, though, that the Ayers thing is more trumped up McCain nonsense. McCain can't win with his policies so he's doing everything he can to get as far away from them as possible.


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Registered: 10-14-2008
Sat, 10-18-2008 - 9:33am
Yep, and McCain Maine co-chair Susan Collins is none too happy about them:
GOP Senator Slams McCain Robo Call

October 17, 2008 8:17 PM

ABC News' Teddy Davis and Rigel Anderson report: Embattled Republican Sen. Susan Collins is calling on Sen. John McCain to stop paying for automated phone calls which describe Sen. Barack Obama as having "worked closely" with "domestic terrorist Bill Ayers."

"These kind of tactics have no place in Maine politics," said Collins spokesman Kevin Kelley. "Sen. Collins urges the McCain campaign to stop these calls immediately."

Contacted on Friday by ABC News, the McCain campaign would not say if it was going to heed the request of Collins who serves as his campaign's co-chair in Maine.

"Obviously, Sen. McCain has great respect for Sen. Collins. But beyond that," said McCain spokesman Brian Rogers, "we don't have any comment."

Ayers is the former leader of the Weather Underground. To protest the Vietnam War, his organization ran a domestic bombing campaign which resulted in fatalities.

Obama, who was 8 years old at the time, has repudiated those acts as "despicable." Friday's statement from the Collins campaign came after Maine's Democratic Party issued a press release earlier in the day challenging the Republican incumbent to denounce what it called "blatantly false phone calls personally attacking" Obama.

Collins' Democratic opponent was not satisfied.

"If she truly feels that strongly about it," said Carol Andrews, communications director to Democratic Rep. Tom Allen, "she should resign as co-chair of McCain's campaign in Maine."

Here is the script of the McCain-RNC robo call about Bill Ayers, which Collins criticized on Friday:

"Hello. I'm calling for John McCain and the RNC because you need to know that Barack Obama has worked closely with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, whose organization bombed the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, a judge's home and killed Americans. And Democrats will enact an extreme leftist agenda if they take control of Washington. Barack Obama and his Democratic allies lack the judgment to lead our country. This call was paid for by McCain-Palin 2008 and the Republican National Committee at 202-863-8500."

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Registered: 10-12-2008
Sat, 10-18-2008 - 9:38am

No he didn't say he didn't care about the Bill Ayers thing.

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Registered: 10-13-2008
Sat, 10-18-2008 - 9:44am

I have to just say to all the Republicans out there - honestly, if John McCain had run his campain without these kind of

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Registered: 10-13-2008
Sat, 10-18-2008 - 9:49am

I beg to differ that Obama hasn't been honest about the Ayers thing.

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Registered: 10-08-2008
Sat, 10-18-2008 - 9:57am

I am taking Obama's advice and not celebrating too early.

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Registered: 07-03-2008
Sat, 10-18-2008 - 9:57am

They should be ashamed of themselves for doing this. I HATE ROBO calls! I want to scream a bunch of obsenities at them and cant! Lucky for me, I have the "call waiting feature" so i can just "flash" them out. BUT, what if someone has to call 911 and can't because of a ROBO call! Did they ever think about that. When you need to call 911 every second counts! they should be made to stop this cr@p right NOW!

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Registered: 10-12-2008
Sat, 10-18-2008 - 10:06am

Oh another false claim from the left.

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Registered: 07-03-2008
Sat, 10-18-2008 - 10:11am
WHO CARES? I really don't care. What I care about is here and NOW. I care about the issues we are facing. I care about not having to pay tax on Health ins. Are you aware that healthcare cost are rising higher than the normal inflation amount? It will go up at leat 7% a year. McCain's plan will only give you 2% more over that 5,000. Read his plan carefully.
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Registered: 10-12-2008
Sat, 10-18-2008 - 10:16am

We will have to agree to diagree.

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