Conservative nonprofit group with past link to McCain to spend $2.8 mil on ad linking Obama & Ayers

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Group to spend $2.8 million on anti-Obama ad
By JIM KUHNHENN

WASHINGTON (AP) — A conservative nonprofit group with a past link to Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign is spending $2.8 million on an ad questioning Democrat Barack Obama's relationship to a founder of the 1960s radical group Weather Underground.

The ad, which is expected to begin airing Thursday in Michigan and Friday in Ohio, focuses on William Ayers, whose Weatherman organization took credit for a series of bombings, including nonfatal explosions at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol 40 years ago.

American Issues Project, the sponsor of the ad, is a nonprofit 501(c)4 organization. One of its board members, Ed Failor Jr., was a paid consultant for McCain's campaign in Iowa last year. The campaign paid his firm $50,000 until July 2007. American Issues Project spokesman Christian Pinkston said Failor has no connection to the McCain campaign now.

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The ad is the first for the American Issues Project. As a nonprofit organization, the group does not have to identify its donors or the amounts they contribute. McCain in the past has criticized independent groups, even those that support him, that air negative campaign ads.

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[WeDidIt]

1. EXCELLENT, $2.8 million wasted trying to link him to a guy

whose house he visited once.

[griffi94]

2. right

because lord knows the media wouldn't bring it up unless there was solid proof.
2.8 million will buy a lot of noise.

[izzybeans]

3. Who happens to be a professor at UIC on Chicago's south side.

That University of Illinois, it's one dangerous place. :sarcasm:

[Rosa Luxemburg]

4. when he was 8 years old?

is that the one?

[anonymous171]

5. Obama should just flat out accuse McCain of accepting money from terrorists.

I think freepers dug up some information on that.

[FrenchieCat]

6. So it seems that we will be hearing more about Ralph Reed, Abrahmoff,

and Grahmm.

OK.