william ayers

Claiming that Americans must “Stop Sotomayor” from wreaking havoc and terrorism on the country from a perch on the nation’s highest court, this new Committee for Justice ad warns that like “Barack Obama’s buddy, Bill Ayers,”  Judge Sonia Sotomayor led a group supporting violent terrorists. That support apparently took the form of a statement by [...]

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 [...]

I’ve been doing my best today to ignore the McCain campaign’s current non-issue du jour — the release of a video showing Sen. Barack Obama’s attendance at a going-away party for a pro-Palestine professor, Rashid Khalidi. But it looks like this is all that matters to Sen. John McCain.

NEW YORK — A new survey of likely voters conducted by The New York Times and CBS found that the McCain campaign’s recent negativity and personal attacks on Sen. Barack Obama may have done more damage to Sen. John McCain than the intended target.

BLUE BELL, Pa. — Last week, it seemed as if every rally featuring Sen. John McCain or Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was marred by somebody in the audience yelling out something awful about Sen. Barack Obama.
But at the three rallies I’ve attended this week — one a joint appearance of McCain and Palin, the others [...]

Cindy McCain, wife of Sen. John McCain, has long played a supportive role on the campaign trail. She frequently introduces him, praises his record and appeals to female voters to support him. However, in the last couple of days, she has taken on the role of attack dog.
Yesterday, before the presidential debate in Nashville, she [...]

Is Bill Ayers the new Kevin Bacon?

On a McCain campaign conference call with reporters today, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani used a leading question about Sen. Barack Obama’s work with former Weatherman William Ayers on the board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge — a program to improve the city’s schools — as a launching pad from which to attack the [...]