rssPalin Went Rogue With Ayers Attack
Wednesday, November 05, 2008 at 2:54 pm
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Another noteworthy item from the forthcoming Newsweek piece: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin apparently decided to attack Sen. Barack Obama’s ties to William Ayers without the blessing of Sen. John McCain’s advisers.
Palin launched her attack on Obama’s association with William Ayers, the former Weather Underground bomber, before the campaign had finalized a plan to raise the issue. McCain’s advisers were working on a strategy that they hoped to unveil the following week, but McCain had not signed off on it, and top adviser Mark Salter was resisting.
According to Newsweek, the U.S. Secret Service informed the Obama campaign that the number of threats against the Democratic presidential nominee sharply increased during the time in September and October in which the crowds at McCain-Palin rallies became noticeably angrier. This also coincided with the GOP candidates’ Ayers attacks.
Incidentally, Ayers granted his first interview since becoming a prominent campaign issue yesterday to The Washington Post.
Ayers, an author and education professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, said he thought the accusation by Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin that Obama had been “palling around with terrorists” was absurd.
“Pal around together? What does that mean? Share a milkshake with two straws?” Ayers said in his first interview since the controversy began. “I think my relationship with Obama was probably like thousands of others in Chicago. And, like millions and millions of others, I wish I knew him better.”
According to The Post, Ayers and Obama do have one shared experience in recent months — with the increased media attention to their relationship, Ayers, like Obama, received multiple death threats.
9 Comments
Comment posted November 5, 2008 @ 2:55 pm
Now I know where Alaska is located on the map. Thank's Sarah Palin! (wink.)
Comment posted November 5, 2008 @ 3:19 pm
Like rats from a sinking ship. Are they running from an Ayers suit?
Comment posted November 5, 2008 @ 10:23 pm
Nothing like an UNinformed trigger happy vice presidential candidate. Lord help us, she is coming back to Alaska.
Comment posted November 6, 2008 @ 11:36 am
I don't get it … the secret service protects all presidential and vice presidential candidates. Why didn't they bitch slap Palin for spiking threats against Obama?
Comment posted November 6, 2008 @ 1:31 pm
claiming that Ayers and Obama had a relationship of any kind does not support the claim of death threats against Obama….as 4 people were arrested the week of the DNC….with loaded weapons to kill Obama….well before Palin came into the picture….so for all of you who think that Palin was the first bring the issue up I would suggest that you aren't listening…….
Comment posted November 6, 2008 @ 6:15 pm
Yes, Palin is a rogue diva but she didn't go on the Ayers attack without the consent and encouragement of the McCain camp. She was on that ticket for one reason only: to fire up the apathetic base. How to do that? Rile up their basest instincts with inflammatory accusations. She did that and she did it well. By having these accusations come from her, McCain and his top aides could claim their hands were clean and she did it on her own. She was used but I don't feel sorry for her. She brought it on herself by running for an office that she knows she is not qualified for. It was her ego she was putting first, not the country.
Comment posted November 6, 2008 @ 7:36 pm
I don't get it … the secret service protects all presidential and vice presidential candidates. Why didn't they bitch slap Palin for spiking threats against Obama?
Comment posted November 6, 2008 @ 9:31 pm
claiming that Ayers and Obama had a relationship of any kind does not support the claim of death threats against Obama….as 4 people were arrested the week of the DNC….with loaded weapons to kill Obama….well before Palin came into the picture….so for all of you who think that Palin was the first bring the issue up I would suggest that you aren't listening…….
Comment posted November 7, 2008 @ 2:15 am
Yes, Palin is a rogue diva but she didn't go on the Ayers attack without the consent and encouragement of the McCain camp. She was on that ticket for one reason only: to fire up the apathetic base. How to do that? Rile up their basest instincts with inflammatory accusations. She did that and she did it well. By having these accusations come from her, McCain and his top aides could claim their hands were clean and she did it on her own. She was used but I don't feel sorry for her. She brought it on herself by running for an office that she knows she is not qualified for. It was her ego she was putting first, not the country.
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