In a video statement, Plouffe predicted the McKlan Campaign would turn into an “Unprecedented Sleaze Factory” these next three weeks.
http://thepage.time.com/2008/10/14/plouffe-predicts-unprecedented-sleaze-factory/Well...if there was every a question, Plouffe has just been proven right --
McCain Response to Plouffe Video
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“This much is clear: Barack Obama and William Ayers were friends before that relationship became a political embarrassment for the Illinois Senator–Obama did pal around with a terrorist. According to his campaign, Barack Obama no longer believes Ayers has been rehabilitated. And William Ayers did target his own country. So what part of Governor’s Palin’s remarks are ‘beyond the pale.’ Perhaps Mr. Plouffe does not like Governor Palin’s inference that Barack Obama palled around with Ayers because Barack Obama has a different view of America than most of us. Yet the Obama campaign has offered no alternate explanation–they have not conceded that the relationship was simply the result of a serious error in judgment.
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“The only thing ‘beyond the pale’ here is the Obama campaign’s failure to explain how it is that Barack Obama carried on a decade long friendship with a man who sought to topple the U.S. government through violence.”–Michael Goldfarb, McCain-Palin Spokesman
http://thepage.time.com/mccain-response-to-plouffe-video/