ENGLEWOOD, Colorado (CNN) — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Saturday slammed Sen. Barack Obama’s political relationship with a former anti-war radical, accusing him of associating “with terrorists who targeted their own country.”
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin lashed out at Sen. Barack Obama’s ties to controversial figure William Ayers.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin lashed out at Sen. Barack Obama’s ties to controversial figure William Ayers.
Palin’s attack delivered on the McCain campaign’s announcement that it would step up attacks on the Democratic presidential candidate with just a month left before the November general election.
“We see America as the greatest force for good in this world,” Palin said at a fund-raising event in Colorado, adding, “Our opponent though, is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country.”
Palin made similar comments later at a rally in Carson, California. CNN Fact Check
Obama’s Chicago, Illinois, home is in the same neighborhood as Bill Ayers, a founder of the radical Weather Underground, which was involved in several bombings in the early 1970s, including the Pentagon and the Capitol, and the two have met several times since Obama’s 1995 campaign for a state Senate seat.
How does that not reflect poorly on the McCain group? I mean, really, how does it not?
Obama is over here saying “look at his record, he did this, this and this” and McCain is over on the other side saying “when he was 8, he lived in the same neighborhood as an accused, but not convicted bomber.” They are grasping at straws and I cannot understand how so many people can’t see this.
I also didn’t realize how young Obama was (48 whenever that statement was made!) and I would think that more people would vote for someone younger. I mean, I can see the seniors voting McCain, he’s their age, supposedly on their side (ha!) but…
As I said a few posts ago, I want someone who is going to inititate the change we need, not bring us four more years of decline. I don’t need the US to be a world supoer power, but I certainly don’t need it to become a third world country either, where our children are broadcast on European televisions as needing a few pennies a day for rice. In my world, we get that country, we send them food, and while I have always believed we should help our own homeless, our own hungry, I have never in my life thought that our country as a whole would turn into that hungry little girl.
