BY RICHARD SISK in Strongsville, Ohio, and DAVID SALTONSTALL in Indianapolis
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
Thursday, October 9th 2008, 12:26 AM
... Obama fired back on ABC News: "Why don't we just clear it up right now: The notion that somehow <Ayers> 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 has had only sporadic associations with Ayers, a distinguished professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, since meeting him in the 1990s ...
Obama suggested McCain didn't have the chutzpah bring it up face to face. "I am surprised that, you know, we've been seeing some pretty over-the-top attacks coming out of the McCain campaign over the last several days, that he wasn't willing to say it to my face," Obama said ...
Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden said the serious-minded debate questions from average Americans showed voters are "looking for a steady hand, leadership, an optimist - not an angry man lurching from one position to another" ...
"I can take four more weeks of John McCain's attacks," Obama told a boisterous crowd at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. "But the American people can't take four more years of John McCain's Bush policies" ...
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