Palin hits Obama for 'terrorist' connection

[Nambe]

Source: CNN

The McCain campaign is delivering on its announcement to step up attacks on Sen. Barack Obama with little more than a month until Election Day.

Referring to Obama’s relationship with William Ayers, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin accused Obama of associating “with terrorists who targeted their own country.”

Speaking at a fund-raising event in Colorado Saturday, Palin said: “This is not a man who sees America as you and I do – as the greatest force for good in the world,” Palin said, according to a statement released by the McCain-Palin campaign. “This is someone who sees American as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists who targeted their own country.”

Palin was reacting to a New York Times article published Friday about the Democratic nominee’s association with Ayers, a member of the 1960’s radical group the Weathermen. The group was involved in bombings of the Pentagon and the Capitol but federal criminal charges against Ayers were eventually dropped. ...

Read more: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/04/palin-h... /

[Bryn]

1. Dear Sarah Palin

Up yours!

[Goldie999]

30. Hangin' out with the Weather Underground

Obama is a few months older than I am. We were age 7 (turning 8) in 1969. I'm sure Obama was about as much of a radical terrorist as I was back then.

[PatrynXX]

34. good radar :P

Seriously, never really heard of The Weather Underground. The weather underground to me was this site all about weather. Been a member since early last year. wunderground.com So of course I had to ask them why name themselves that. Duh. It's a knock on this. So anyone want to think that the forecasters are in league with the terrorists...

[awoke_in_2003]

38. who do you think

brought us hurricane Ike?

[Bryn]

57. LOL

[Baby Snooks]

45. And don't forget he's the anti-Christ....

The anti-Christ is a Muslim. Says so in the Bible. Wave your flag, send in your $25, and vote for McCain to save us all from the Muslim terrorists and the anti-Christ and now the American terrorists as well.

Facts, in case no one has noticed, mean nothing to Republicans. They are like little children who have never been taught to think for themselves. And so they just believe in whatever they're told. By their preacher and by their politician. Why would either of them lie to them?

This is going to get worse. Not better.

[ixion]

50. and if CNN would practice journalism

they would have reported this right alongside her ludicrous claim, and then gone on to point out the her ties to a secessionist movement are far more recent and far more substantial that Obama's ties to the Weather Underground were.

[prairie populist]

69. And include a photo of her wearing her Alaska flag pin above her US flag pin

at the debate. Alaska First anyone?

If a Democrat were to have done that those photos and accompanying claims it was proof of anti-American beliefs would have been viral within 30 minutes of the candidates taking the stage.

[elleng]

62. Right, Goldie!

And if you're a boy (please pardon my 'incorrectness' here!), you prolly WERE a terrorist at age 7!!!!

[TerribleLarryDingle]

2. Smears:

The Battle cry of the looser.

Desperation has set in.

Time to break out the Keating 5.

[George II]

39. Maybe she should read this!!!

http://suzieqq.wordpress.com/2008/09/03/national-enquir... /

[Baby Snooks]

47. Oh god don't!

Someone, probably Gidget, would point out that the Keating Five today would have done nothing illegal. And probably they wouldn't have.

[rucognizant]

48. World Wildlife Fund is running a commercial about the polar bears shrinking habitat.

It's pitiful. I called the number they post for donations......1-888-358-9997
The guy I talked to DID NOT KNOW THAT palin is SUEING the Govt. to keep the polar bear OFF the endangered species list.
He was properly horrified and gave me headquarters # to call Monday so I can tell them to include that news in their commercial.
That number is 1-800-960-0993.
That might lose the Repugs a lot of votes.

[Gillian]

3. No conviction, no foul. The west coast Weathermen did good.

Our brothers and fathers were being dragged into a horrible war against their will. The west coast Weathermen were idealistically non violent. It was very difficult to get on the news so they may have blown a few empty ROTC offices. Those were terrible times. Many peaceful demonstrators were injured badly and had few rights.

[Nambe]

12. I agree! Ayers is a dedicated activist, not a sleazy politician.

The repugs are using Palin for smear and it will get much worse. There are a large number of boomers out there who remember those days and have the scars to prove it. The association with Ayers is a big stretch but it would be nothing to be ashamed of IMO.

[davidinalameda]

17. blowing up offices is not non-violent

[Gillian]

27. My bad, I got caught up in a relativity fog.

I guess an office that teaches 18 year olds to kill kill kill has feelings too. They should have taught them how to die. ROTC graduates were killed at an alarming rate in the jungle.

[davidinalameda]

58. that's one does in a war

kill people

the Viet Cong were killing people as well-American people and other Vietnamese people as well

blowing up an ROTC office doesn't stop the killing

[doodadem]

4. Wasn't this whole thing pretty much debunked already?

It turned out to be that they were both on some community committee together way back when. For godsakes, is the McCain campaign saying you can't even be in the same room with a person now without checking out their entire life history???

[Proletariatprincess]

23. it was debunked....

I wonder why the NYT ran the photo today....suspicious timing after the McCain camp said it was going to get dirtier. So much for the "ultra liberal" NYT.

[FreeStateDemocrat]

43. Righteous question: Why is the NY Times engaging in gutter, smear, yellow journalism?

How low can you go, all the news that will sell papers not matter how duplicitous the factual content is.

[WarbirdForObama]

5. Hey Sarah

I wanna talk about your Hubby's Ex-Business Partner.

How long exactly were you screwing him?

BTW, doesn't your Bible kinda, sorta advise against playing the vertical shuffle with someone other than your Hubs?

[frankly_fedup2]

28. You betch hun! (nt)

[felinetta]

6. I have seen radical speakers

I guess I can't run for office I saw many non-mainstream speakers in college in the 70's. Angela Davis, Christine Jorgensen to name only two. I'm glad I attended SUNY Albany where there was a lot more tolerance.

[redwitch]

68. I saw Christine Jorgensen in the late 1970's.

She was so lovely and so eloquent. I was really touched (and educated) by her.
Guess I'm a terrorist too.

[Demeter]

7. Sarah Has Earned The Title: DESPICABLE!

[LiberalFighter]

8. The definition of a terrorist was different in the 60's then it is now.

The current definition of a terrorist only applies to those at or after the time the legislation was passed. And to all efn Republicans.

[Lost River Ledger]

9. If they want a character war.....bring it on Mr, McCain.....

Keating 5.....Mrs. McCain II enjoying the benefits before divorce......need I go on?

[LiberalFighter]

10. How do we know that Palin doesn't send secret messages to the Russians?

[George II]

40. She stands in her attic window, facing Russia, and sends smoke signals...

[Frisbee]

11. "This is not a man who sees America as you and I do..."

You're right (for once) Sarah, he hasn't ever said anything about Illinois seceding from the union.

[wtmusic]

13. Nasty, nasty

may she be relegated to the dustbin of history come 11/5

[DBoon]

14. Did Sarah ever associate with abortion clinic bombers?

Is she sure?

I bet somewhere in her network of radical dominionist associates is someone who fully intended to murder medical staff providing women with gynecological services.

I want the NYT to spend 2,000 words investigating this possible connection right now!

[xyouth]

15. Wow I like it!!!

There can't be too many degrees of separation there.

[kirby]

29. Or how about a political party advocating the succession of Alaska from the USA? n/t

[George II]

41. We've got videos of that, and she did so WHILE she was Governor!

[prairie populist]

71. And she continues to wear her Alaska flag pin above the US flag pin -

a gross violation of flag protocol the republicans would crucify a Democrat for doing.

[HopeHoops]

16. "Obama can see bin Laden from his house!"

[cosmicone]

18. Our 527s need to quickly attack this and not let it fester like

the swiftboat. We can shove this tactic down their throat if we act fast enough. Ignoring it and taking the high road didn't work for Kerry.

The trailerpark hicks believe this shyt.

[nebenaube]

19. Damn.. talk about projection! n/t

[krispos42]

20. And once again...

This is like the pot calling the Corningware black!

[MetaTrope]

21. Al-Qaeda's first American cell was in...McCain's ARIZONA

While McCain was showing up in photo ops handing out "freedom fighter" plaques to Taliban leaders in the mid-'80s, al-Qaeda was setting down roots in Tucson. How about if somebody talks about that?

http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a1986alk...

[BigAnth]

22. I guess that this opens the door for blasting Sarah about her ties to the Alaska Independence Party

The ones who are seeking to secede from the union. Sarah was never an official member, but her hubby was. And we know that she's been associating with him.

[Itchinjim]

24. Secessionist Sarah...

accusing Obama of associating with America-haters?

People in glass houses, Sarah....

[cap]

25. Rovian tactic again

hit an opponent with your weakness

[Proletariatprincess]

26. Jane Smiley has a great article on Huffpo

Smiley is a treasure....check out her article...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-smiley/william-ayers...

[DrZeeLit]

33. Jane Smiley is one of my heroes! What a writer! Brava, Jane!

[BayjanDem]

31. Fact Check

After hearing about this story for more than a year, I did my own checking. I researched who the Weathermen were, what they did etc..This claim that Ayers is a terrorist is a stretch to say the least. But of more importance is the claim that Ayers has molded Obama, influenced his career. There is no proof of either and even if there was, Ayers is reformed and a respected educator. He gave Obama $200.00. There paths crossed, but there is no evidence that Ayers has had any impact on Obama. If this guy were this dangerous terrorist, the govt would go to his job and pick him up. Or his house, or where ever he gets his gas etc. The pitiful mccain/palin ticket is DESPERATE as Obamas numbers continue to rise. Now, about that Keating group..

[Edith Ann]

32. American terrorist.s

I guess the terrorist on the right who target their own country don't count. Such as KKK and Timothy Mcveigh. We will never know who was behind Timothy McVeigh now that he is dead but "betcha" they are out there.

[kmac3]

35. On the trail of last resort . . . . .

No big surprise .... The McCain campaign has nothing left to campaign with other than fabricated stories to assinate character ...In this case, not even a new fresh one. Dumb gets dumber! How low can they get and still face the public?

[radfringe]

36. so much for "not looking back" meanwhile troopergate and keating 5...n/t

[George II]

37. Quite frankly, Sarah Six Pack with the impending bastard grandchild....

....go fuck yourself!

You've proven over and over again in the six weeks you've been out of Alaska confinement that you have no useful knowledge of anything south of Anchorage, so why don't you just go back there!

Ayers was a "terrorist" (not even referred to that at the time) back in the '60s, when Obama was younger than 10 years old and probably not even living in the US when he was a "terrorist".

Look at your own running mate - aiding and abetting the North Vietnamese during his "captivity", and a willing participant in the largest bank failures since the Depression (Keating Five) He's an adulterer and, if truly the devout Catholic he makes out to be, a divorced SINNER! All for the fortune of Oxycontin-Cindy which was earned by getting people drunk.

And how about you, with all your ethics violations as Governor and your illicit affair with your husband's business partner.

You assholes want to start this shit? Ok bitch, let's go!!!

[DogPoundPup]

42. I BETCHA' Obama has a good comeback lined up for Sarah Moosehunter

about this desperate act on the part of Painin/McCainiac. No Problem!

[AnneD]

84. I think Barak was 8-10 years old when

this 'terrorist activity' was going on. Talk about living in the past.....

[Shardik]

44. Bitch. n/t

[RBInMaine]

46. So here comes the desperate dirt campaign: ALL HANDS ON DECK AND SLAM THESE ASSHOLES HARD !!!!

OK, here it comes. We knew it. I hope every Democrat sharpens their "knives" and gets ready to go after McSLIME and his MISS-NUTCASE running mate with Keating 5, Hagee, Parsley, HER Pentecostal INSANITY and every piece of rotten dirt we can heave at these lying right wing crazy scumbags. HIT BACK HARD DEMOCRATS AND COUNTER HIT HARDER!! I urge every Dem to write to your editors, and URGE your local Dem and Obama campaigns to HIT BACK HARD AND NOW !!!!

[Purveyor]

49. While Faux news and the 'hatewing' radio hosts will give this much play, the public is much more

concerned with the economic meltdown that is currently taking place.

Indeed, the massive Wall Street bailout will not quell the daily dose of dismal economic news.

Now the States are in trouble and global finance systems are crumbling.

The lowly scum on the neocon right already threw this shitball up against the wall and it didn't stick. Nor will it this time, imho.

[Number23]

51. Could the Obama spokesman have sounded any weaker??

"Obama campaign spokesman Hari Sevugan called Palin's comments "offensive" and "not surprising given the McCain campaign's statement this morning that they would be launching Swift Boat-like attacks in hopes of deflecting attention from the nation's economic ills."

Weak!

"What's clear is that John McCain and Sarah Palin would rather spend their time tearing down Barack Obama than laying out a plan to build up our economy," Sevugan said."

Absolutely pathetic. I am fully aware that the mighty Obama-Biden machine is probably in the process of bringing MAGNIFICENT pain to that fool Palin and McCain for their deceitful comments, but this initial reaction is pitiful. They know certain folks are dying to try to link Obama with terrorists and this type of milquetoast response is not going to cut it.

[FVZA_Colonel]

52. Umm, I read that article, and it basically said that there was nothing of substance to connect

Obama and Aeyers.

[elleng]

60. Oh, so you mean

NO FACTS????

Well why then would she even bother to mention it????

Oh, because she's a REPUBLICAN? I see!

[ibegurpard]

53. AIP anyone?

eom

[and-justice-for-all]

54. What a fucking lying bitch!

Obama needs to knock her on her fucking theocratic ass!

KEATING FUCKING 5!!!

[CBHagman]

59. I prefer the term "Nixon's whore."

Or perhaps Atwater's slut. Or Karl Rove's -- well, you know.

In short, someone who campaigns dirty and has nothing to offer but tearing other people down.

We already knew Sarah Palin quoted fascist sympathizers. She cited Westbrook Pegler, though not by name, in her acceptance speech at the RNC. Some people simply refer to him as a conservative columnist, or merely ant-FDR. Harry Truman referred to him as a "guttersnipe." But that's not the half of it. Pegler spoke favorably of assassinating Robert Kennedy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdQYA_timcA

http://www.newsweek.com/id/158769

Palin likes to invoke the lovely lines of Pegler, a political columnist who built his reputation on investigating people in power. But in quoting his paean to small-town values, Palin leaves out that Pegler was an anti-Semite who, according to his 1969 obituary in The New York Times, wrote that he regretted that a bullet aimed at Franklin Roosevelt "hit the wrong man."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr/gover...

Fascist writer Westbrook Pegler, an avowed racist who Sarah Palin approvingly quoted in her acceptance speech for the moral superiority of small town values, expressed his fervent hope about my father, Robert F. Kennedy, as he contemplated his own run for the presidency in 1965, that "some white patriot of the Southern tier will spatter his spoonful of brains in public premises before the snow flies."


In any event, the politics of resentment and racism and character assassination have had a long, long run in the GOP, and Palin is clearly part of that disgraceful tradition.

[seafan]

55. Don't forget Bush Family buddies Orlando Bosch and Luis Posada Carriles.

'Trust Me, Republicans, Going After Obama for His ‘Terrorist Ties’ is a Very Bad Idea', September 9, 2008


Palin hits Obama for 'terrorist' connection, October 4, 2008

(Less than 48 hours post VP debate, starring Secessionist Sarah Palin and her Todd-piece)

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."

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.

.....

Bring it on, babe.

[bronxiteforever]

56. Swiftboat Sarah the Drillbilly from Alaska

[llmart]

61. Now THAT'S funny.....

"Sarah the Drillbilly". I love it! It's my new name for her.

[bronxiteforever]

66. Thanks!

[truthisfreedom]

64. Drillbilly Tundra Trash!

[varun]

75. LOL

Love it

Drillbilly Tundra Trash

[scarface2004]

63. palin is a piece of shit!!!

obama was eight years old when the 60s radicals were in vogue!!!! fuck you you piece of shit!!! you re the extremist bitch!!

[Bryn]

65. Sarah Palin, if you ever get in the White House

We will be coming to White House just like people did in V for Vendetta movie wearing Guy Fawkes masks and black cape and black hat. We, the people, will consider you the TERRORIST! A threat to America. When you point at Obama, screaming "TERRORIST" you are actually pointing at YOURSELF.

[unkachuck]

67. hey winky....

....you and and your Republican Party have killed more Americans, and continue to kill more Americans with your corrupt, destructive economic and foreign policies than terrorists ever could....how many of the 50 million uninsured are the Republicans going to kill this year through neglect?

....do you want real homegrown terrorism?....then look at johnny, a 26 year veteran of Washington sleaze, and then look in the mirror....

....hey winky, are going to WINK your way into the racial shit next?....you know, wink-wink, nudge-nudge, he's not really one of us....

[mbee]

70. I believe she's the one with the

guns!

[Dukkha]

72. big talk from a John Birch supporter

[Ian David]

76. What can you tell me about that photo? n/t

[EndElectoral]

73. Yeah, well palin sleeps with a known secessionist, an unpatriotic traitor to the US

and Palin addressed the group's convention.

THeir desperation is beginning to show and it's ugly.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

74. I wonder if she's close to any abortion clinic bombers...

That nutcase preacher, maybe?

[comanche12]

77. Sarah Palin is an eco-terrorist.

Her vicious campaign against wolves shows that she hates what runs free. Shouldn't there be a Constitutional amendment against flag-waving while laying waste to wildlife?

[Ferret Mike]

82. That is the issue that grinds my war ax about her

Anyone who supports shooting wolves and bear from airplanes and drilling in the The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is my enemy in a no compromise fashion.

Go home bitch, and take the old (Mc)insane dog who picked you with you.

EARTH FIRST!

[liberal1973]

78. Sarah Palying just proves how un-American she is.

The un-American Sarah palying is clearly a sack of crap republican just like McBush and Bushco.

Oh yeah what kind of change?

[NeoTheo]

79. "Speaking at a fund-raising event in Colorado Saturday"

Which means she is currently in the heart of Jesus land whipping up the fears of the religious fanatics in the country, as it has long been know that McCain despises the religious right, and so Sarah's job is to bring them fully on board.

Or in other words she was hired to slut for Jesus which apparently these nut jobs are lapping up like the lemmings that they are. These people are an enemy of the Constitution and therefore an enemy of America.

[denverbill]

80. The secessionist traitor wants to crawl back into the gutter huh?

I guess we know why she didn't win Miss Congeniality when she lost the Miss Alaska pageant.

[Xipe Totec]

81. The lipstick is coming off, pig says (nt)

[fascisthunter]

83. Oh Sarah has now compleyetly fallen down the rabbit hole

another dispicable lying corporate hack pre-brainwashed by another cult pretending to represent a god.