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RNC ad brings up Rezko, Ayers

Posted: Thursday, October 09, 2008 5:28 PM by Mark Murray
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From NBC's Mark Murray
The Republican National Committee's independent expenditure unit has announced that it will begin airing a TV tomorrow that hits Obama on his ties to Chicago politics -- as well as Tony Rezko and Bill Ayers.

But the ad will run only in the battleground states of Indiana and Wisconsin, which border Illinois.

This advertisement is similar to one the McCain campaign unveiled last month -- although that one didn't mention Ayers.

Script:
The Chicago Way. Shady politics.
That's Barack Obama's training.
His teachers?
Tony Rezko convicted of corruption, money laundering, aiding and abetting bribery.
Rezko got Obama in on a shady land deal.
William Daley. Heir to the Chicago machine. A top Obama advisor.
And William Ayers. Leader of a terrorist group that bombed the US Capitol.
Obama's first campaign was launched at a gathering at Mr. Ayers's home.
There's more you need to know.
The Republican National Committee is responsible for the content of this advertising.

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Its time to fight fire with fire.  Bring up everything that McCain and Palin are linked to.  How do you think that secessionist party will play to the nation republicans?
Karl Rove - you are back. If you don't have anything intelligent to say, then attack. Oh, what about Charles Keating?
Oh please McCain...then I guess we should chide you for Keating...the iran contra connection...the rich Italian that is now in prison that you were not too long ago on his yacht..you know that guy Anne Hathaway was engaged to.  Now what was McCain doing on his yacht just recently????  Oh McCain doth protest tooooo much.  Time for the DNC to bring out your filth.  And you are one dirty politician.  Oh and McCain I resent your comment about not taking advice from a Chicago politican...I was born and raised there and believe me you are much more a dirty person than I could ever think of being.
Sad. Senator McCain's final legacy will be a smear campaign.
And this, of course, is doing SOOOO much to help the millions of folks who have lost their homes, pensions, and retirement income thanks to Bush/McCain/Gramm economics.  Talk about grasping at straws.
Wow. At this point you would think the Republican National Committee would be savvy enough to cut it's losses.
McCain is a Dead Man Walking.

His slimebag attacks are leading up to a result of the second largest landslide defeat in history. Instead of licking their wounds, facing the music, accepting reality, and cutting losses, the GOP leadership is choosing to dig the party into a hole that is so deep that we can start talking about the 60 Democratic senate seats as a given as well.
Dumb. Dumb. Dumb.
All Obama has to do is bring up the fact that John McCain is one of the Keating 5.  And if McCain sinks really low and plays the race card.  Obama can merely say something along these lines:

"McCain is not a Racist, as far as I know"
http://voteforamerica.net/editorials/Comments.aspx?ArticleId=96&ArticleName=McCain+is+Not+Racist%2c+as+Far+as+I+Know

Obama 343, McCain 195
http://voteforamerica.net/electoral.aspx
The American people want to hear about how our next president will get us out of this financial mess. Since McCain doesn't have a clue, Palin doesn't have a brain, the only thing they can do is resort to some of the most nasty and vile campaigning I've ever seen... Maverick...Reformer...a pig by any other name still wears lipstick!
Rezco is busy spilling his guts to the feds. He's got the current governor of Illinois (Democrat, small wonder) up for indictment soon, perhaps today even. Just a matter of a few more days before he gives up Obama.
The stock market TANKED AGAIN and all McCain has is character assassination to run on?

McCain has been in the military and government for umpteen years and the only thing he has is to show Obama is one of those "that one" crowd?
So now the RNC is having to spend money to defend reliably-red Indiana?  Wow!  McCain's prospects are looking bleak.
Why are all of Obama's friends, assoiciates, and political pals either in jail, going to jail, or should be in jail?
What have we gained in the last 8 years that is worth a decatrillion dollar debt?
In the last 8 years, Bush-McCain policy has killed thousands of American soldiers and given us a decatrillion dollar debt.
McCain may be old, but it appears Obama is corrupt.
And the point from the Republicans is?  

Will this fix the economic crisis we are in?

Wish the Republicans would have dug this deep into Wall Street...but then again why would they?  Can not loose the $$ from them big corps.
Has anyone noted that the GOP always has to resort to these lies and distortions about the Democratic candidates?? That is because it is the only way to grab the "Bubba Vote" since the Republicans endorse policies which favor the wealthy!! Vote your pocketbooks, America!!
McCain's Ayers ad was right on.
WHO WILL BE SLEEPING IN THE LINCOLN BEDROOM IN AN OBAMA WHITEHOUSE? This is a serious question that has captured my attention. The question is in reaction to what almost everyone sees – a media blatantly refusing to report on legitimate issues and distorting anything or anyone who stands in the way the Obama election efforts. How many reporters are looking for people who can tell Obama’s story? I’m not sure anyone can without damaging Senator Obama. Go to: http://zachjonesishome.wordpress.com/2008/10/02/who-will-be-sleeping-in-the-lincoln-bedroom-in-an-obama-whitehouse/
I am trying to understand what more we need to know? Whether Ayers will be Obama's Secretary of Education? Whether Obama and Ayers played "horse" together in Obama's driveway? Whether the two traded turns on the lats machine at the local Y? That they had a secret handshake? Instead of asking open-ended questions you neocons, just put the worst fantasies out there and let us laugh at your ridicolous outdated Atwater/Rovian/Schmidt tactics THAT NO LONGER WORK!!! Deal with it!
*** What more do we need to know? ***

McCain/Palin are desperate and will do anything to try and steal this election.

What's next, a 9/11 ad with Obama super-imposed over collapsing buildings?

ENOUGH!!!

VETERANS FOR OBAMA!
From McCain’s “101 Ways To Create a Distraction From the Economy.”
This is what we've come to?

Seriously?

Two wars and a tanking economy?

Seriously?

Gas that I can't afford?

Seriously?

A non-existent IRA and a sinking 401(k)?

Seriously?

We deserve better.

God willing, on Nov. 4, we'll get it.

This is so shameful, McCain. I used to think you were better than this.

http://www.rodneyhopper.com
Isn't this old news? Did n't Sen.Clinton bring this up in the primary?

How about an Ad on how to fix the economy? Most of us do not have the luxury to think about these issues. We are worried about our jobs, how to pay our bills and whether we can afford grocery and gas.
Distraction. Distraction. Distraction. Maybe you won't notice the economy is tanking and Senator McCain and the Republicans don't have a clue as to what to do about it.
Now, this is getting too damned far.  The place this campaign is going is no good for the country.  They are stirring up a hate movement that will erupt.  I have recieved emails of t-shirts where racism is an understatement.  It is one thing to argue with someone about politics, but to spread this much hate is unforgivable.  Do they not think that it will not spread to interactions with everyday Americans?

I implore the McCain Campaign; do not open a box that citizens cannot close.
It will only show how out-of-touch McCain is and   highlight Sarrah's closed link to terrorism and treason; her husband.

Great!
Culture vs  economy is not working for repugs.
Talk about change/reform you can believe in coming from McCain/Palin. Yup,that's right repugs, you can't.

I'm so glad we have the Keating 5 out there for we the people to judge this lying, manipulative, un-convicted, likely Alzheimer's ( his memory IS impaired)  criminal. I hope everyone sees the Maverick is really a desperado (bandit) wanting to occupy the White House.
As of yet the lying, leader of deregulation wants to blame the meltdown on Obama. Republican McCain has being doing this since the 1980's until the present. What's more he'll continue to rob this country, if elected

In 2001, Ayers published Fugitive Days: A Memoir. Ayers has not denied the quotes, but he protested the interviewer's characterizations in a Letter to the Editor published September 15, 2001: "This is not a question of being misunderstood or 'taken out of context', but of deliberate distortion.

In the ensuing years, Ayers has repeatedly avowed that when he said he had "no regrets" and that "we didn't do enough" he was speaking only in reference to his efforts to stop the United States from waging the Vietnam War, efforts which he has described as ". . . inadequate [as] the war dragged on for a decade."

Ayers has maintained that the two statements were not intended to imply a wish they had set more bombs.

Why can’t  McCain, that stupid Hannity, Limbaugh, and Palin set the record straight?

Enough
Americans have brains and most of US use them. We are not ignoramUS.

Obama/Biden
McCain =more of the same.
Nobody but Obama/Biden
Yawn....lets talk about jobs, the economy, the foreclosure problems, the bank failure, the stock market.  People get to know people of their lives.  This is not new stuff.  Isn't McCain lucky that Obama isn't bringing up McCain's connection to some very shady people...like G. Gordon Liddy, just to name ONE.
Alaska Supreme Court Rules Against Republicans. Troopergate Report to be Released Tomorrow:

http://www.adn.com/palin/story/550940.html
the repulican party are bunch of idiots
Macain has lot of skeleton in his closet and all this  acusation about obama is not true.
GOP THIS UR PLAN WILL NOT WORK...pls focus on the economy and stop this bullsit
Senator MCCain needs to watch his tacit approval of the comments being made at his rallies. He is race baiting and has chosen this as his campaign tactic because he isn't holding his own when discussing the issues. Where is his dignity and honor now? It is sad to see someone like him sell every inch of his soul for the presidency!
Stop giving this false BS airtime. Make them pay to run their false claims!
LOL, won't work, too late. New CNN Poll has Obama up even in "WEST VIRGINA" by 8 points. West Virgina!

Happy trails to you McCain and Palin. By the way Governor Palin, an iceberg awaits you back in Alaska. The kind that naturally floats away from land as the Natives stand on the shore and wave goodbye.  
The moment their backs are against the wall, McCain and Palin turn to lies and hate. Isn’t that what we have now? We have had eight years of lies and hate coming from the White House and the Vice Presidents’ residence, with Bush and Cheney. We can’t afford four more years of lies and hate with McCain and Palin. Someday the Republican party needs to ask itself why the base of their party is so motivated by hate.
Why are all of Obama's friends, assoiciates, and political pals either in jail, going to jail, or should be in jail?
J. Kass, Chicago
*********

What? You only know 2 people in your life?  Really?  You think these 2 are all in the vast country that Obama associates with?  You must lead a truly lonely and sad life if thats what you believe.  Here is an idea...pay attention and stop letting others think for you.
According to the  Chicago Sun-Times Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama has surfaced in the federal corrupton case against his longtime campaign fund-raiser, Tony Rezko.

Tony Rezko and Barack Obama first met in 1990 through Rezmar, one of Rezko's companies.  Obama was employed in 1993, by the Chicago law firm Davis Miner Barnhill & Galland, who were community groups in partnership with Rezmar.  Using these groups, and with Obama's help, the law firm helped Rezko acquire over $43 million in government funds to fix low-income apartments.  During one of Chicago's coldest winters in recent years, a dozen different lawsuits caused the City of Chicago to force Rezmar to turn on heat for its tenants.  

Barack had decided to move into politics with a run at State Senate, Obama was aware of all of the law suits but still accepted plenty of his donations for this and future runs from Rezko.  Obama received $2,000 each from two of Rezko's fast-food businesses.  Rezko had become someone Obama could rely on to build his early political foundation.

Obama run against Democrat Congressman Bobby Rush in 2000, Rezko donated another $1,000 each from himself, his wife, and four other employees at Rezmar, as well as bundling an unknown amount from others.  Obama did not return these donations at the time but returned it eight years later after having already raised over $100 million in his bid to become President.

When Obama began his campaign for United States Senate in 2003 and 2004, Rezko again helped Obama.  He gave $11,500 of his own money, Dan Mahru wo was Rezko’s partner give another $5,000, his wife and brother gave $1,500, and three others gave $3,500, $3,000 and $1,500 each.  Rezko then held a fundraiser on Obama's behalf and personally bundled for his Senate and Presidential Campaigns until Obama found it suddenly convenient to return his donations when people began to learn who Rezko was.

Obama disclosed, in a 90-minute interview with Tribune reporters and editors, that Rezko had raised more for Obama's earlier political campaigns than previously known, gathering as much as $250,000 for the first three offices he sought.

Tony Rezko and Barack Obama , friends for almost twenty years.  Rezko's antics of exploiting the black and low-income communities in Obama's own district were enough to be sued by the City of Chicago, and now he has been indicted by the United States Department of Justice.  But apparently this was not enough for Obama to turn down his dirty money and connections.
PALIN: It says that, I think Barack Obama's position on that, thanks to his association with Ayers and the radicalism there with an education-- an education system that Bill Ayers, anyway, supports, I think shows you too that Barack Obama is so far out of mainstream America. And the policies, I fear that he would support that are so far left, that are maybe today in the campaign packaged up to look really pretty and mainstream, they are not.
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I CANNOT BELIEVE SOMEONE COULD BELIEVE SOMEHTHING LIKE THIS. GO READ ABOUT AYERS.  He was a 60 radical.  Having radical views and revolution are something that america was founded on.  He went a little far in blowing things up but that was in the 60s the guy has been a teacher for many years an he is free walking around.  Barrack didnt meet him until the 90s.  Palin Mccain and anyone who buys into this without reading a lil bit is retarded.
Nothing more sleazy then a desperate Republican! This country is going south because of 8 years of Republican "leadership". And then during the election the only thing they have left is to try and sleaze their way to the end of election. WAKE UP PEOPLE! This country is despised because of this type of "leadership" ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
McCain, you're making a hysterical liar out of yourself and a travesty of this election.

Your brief career as a broadcast star for Ho Chi Min gets left alone; your actions on the day the USS Forrestahl exploded, killing 130 doesn't get any play; your adultery; I've read you slammed a 90 yo Strom Thurmond against a wall; you wouldn't even shake your opponent's hand after the debate - you sicken me, and slinging mud is not what you and the female bitbull need to be doing.

The world economy is teetering. Turn up the hearing aid: THE WORLD ECONOMY IS TEETERING! INSTILLING FEAR FOR FEAR'S SAKE SEEMS A BIT treasonous.


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