About that Obama-Ayers “connection” . . .
Presidential candidate Barack Obama has been accused by mud-slinging Republicans of nurturing a close association with a 1960s anti-war radical named Bill Ayers. But here’s the skinny, from an Oct. 8 ABC article:
Why don’t we just clear it up right now,” Obama told ABC News’ Charlie Gibson in an exclusive interview for World News. “I’ll repeat again what I’ve said many times. [Ayers] is a guy who engaged in some despicable acts 40 years ago when I was eight years old. By the time I met him, 10 or 15 years ago, he was a college professor of education at the University of Illinois…And the notion that somehow he has been involved in my campaign, that he is an adviser of mine, that…I’ve ‘palled around with a terrorist,’ all these statements are made simply to try to score cheap political points.”
Obama said that the McCain campaign is making personal attacks “the centerpiece of the discussion in the closing weeks of a campaign where we are facing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and we’re in the middle of two wars.”
Thank you, Senator Obama. I couldn’t have said it better myself.