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Current Mood: Angry & Angry I try to stay away from politics as it’s such a “personal” subject and people tend to get hot under the collar and can’t seem to allow others to have differing opinions. This is one of the things I HATE about it. I am outraged by the recent attacks by the McCain/Palin ticket though and felt I had to do my part to stop the smear. So I felt obligated to write…
The McCain/Palin ticket is now reverting to negative politics. Palin is trying to connect Obama to William Ayers. My husband’s friend tries to get him to tell me this “crap” about Obama’s book and how he believes that he had a ghost writer. Come on folks. I am smarter than that. And this smear just confirms my convictions. Barak says: “What you won’t hear from this campaign or this party is the kind of politics that uses religion as a wedge, and patriotism as a bludgeon — that sees our opponents not as competitors to challenge, but enemies to demonize. Barack Obama, June 3, 2008
I admire that! I want to see a campaign run on the real issues. Leave the mud slinging out of it. My son was complaining about the advertisements on the radio yesterday and how they are so negative instead of talking about the issues. (He’s 11 and a McCain fan.) Our family is diverse in their politics. I let him talk and then asked him to pay close attention to the advertisements he’s hearing. Note who is slinging the mud and who is not. I’m curious what he will find next week when I ask him to tell me what he’s noticed. In response to the Palin attack, I went to the Fight the Smears website to see what they had to say. Here is their response copied directly from their site.
Smear groups and now a desperate McCain campaign are trying to connect Barack to William Ayers using age-old guilt by association techniques. Here’s the truth: the smear associating Barack to Ayers is “phony,” “tenuous,” – even “exaggerated at best if not outright false.”
William Ayers is a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, with whom Barack served on the board of an education-reform organization in the mid-1990’s. According to the Associated Press, they are not close: “No evidence shows they were “pals” or even close when they worked on community boards years ago …”
Smear groups and the McCain campaign are trying to connect Obama to acts Ayers committed 40 years ago – when Barack was just eight years old. Here’s what the New York Times reported on the connection:
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.”
Barack has publicly denounced Ayers’ radical actions from the 1960’s:
Senator Obama strongly condemns the violent actions of the Weathermen group, as he does all acts of violence. But he was an eight-year-old child when Ayers and the Weathermen were active, and any attempt to connect Obama with events of almost forty years ago is ridiculous.
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Laughing
I guess technically she is correct.
