McCain Camp releases statement from John Murtagh: "Barack Obama's friend tried to kill my family."

[sabra]

:crazy:

http://www.standardnewswire.com/news/816203460.html

Statement from John M. Murtagh on Barack Obama's Relationship with William Ayers

Contact: Press Office, 703-650-5550; www.JohnMcCain.com


ARLINGTON, Va., October 8 /Standard Newswire/ -- Today, John M. Murtagh made the following statement on Barack Obama's relationship with William Ayers:

"When I was 9 years-old the Weather Underground, the terrorist group founded by Barack Obama's friend William Ayers, firebombed my house. Barack Obama has dismissed concerns about his relationship with Ayers by noting that he was only a child when Ayers was planting bombs at the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol. But Ayers has never apologized for his crimes, he has reveled in them, expressing regret only for the fact that he didn't do more.

"While Barack Obama once downplayed his relationship with Ayers, today his campaign took that deceit one step further. Barack Obama now denies he was even aware of his friend's violent past when, in 1995, Ayers hosted a party launching Obama's political career. Given Ayers' celebrity status among the left, it's difficult to believe. The question remains: what did Obama know, and when did he know it? When did Obama learn the truth about his friend? Barack Obama helped Ayers promote his book in 1997, served on charitable boards with him through 2002, and regularly exchanged emails and phone calls with him through 2005. At what point did Barack Obama discover that his friend was an unrepentant terrorist? And if he is so repulsed by the acts of terror committed by William Ayers, why did the relationship continue? Any honest accounting by Barack Obama will necessarily cast further doubt on his judgment and his fitness to serve as commander in chief.

"Barack Obama may have been a child when William Ayers was plotting attacks against U.S. targets -- but I was one of those targets. Barack Obama's friend tried to kill my family."


In February 1970 John Murtagh's father was a New York State Supreme Court justice presiding over the trial of the so-called "Panther 21," members of the Black Panther Party indicted in a plot to bomb New York landmarks and department stores. Early on the morning of February 21, three gasoline-filled firebombs exploded at their home on the northern tip of Manhattan, two at the front door and the third tucked neatly under the gas tank of the family car. The same night, bombs were thrown at a police car in Manhattan and two military recruiting stations in Brooklyn. A few weeks after the attack, the New York contingent of the Weathermen blew themselves up making more bombs in a Greenwich Village townhouse. In late November that year, a letter to the Associated Press signed by Bernardine Dohrn, Ayers's wife, promised more bombings.

[AspenRose]

1. Oh. My. GAWD.

[rubberducky]

3. You beat me to it!

[KittyWampus]

2. McCain's friends had women and children slaughtered in Central/South America, Iraq and too many

places to list here.

[ailsagirl]

4. God, how desperate can they get?? And transparent??

Bastards

[slinkerwink]

5. yep. It's meant to counter any response ad of Obama at 8 years old

with an ad featuring Murtagh at nine years of age.

[stopbush]

6. Coward McCain doesn't have the guts to make his accusations to Obama's face.

He hides behind Palin's skirts and issues missives from anonymous campaign staffers.

Jerk.

[1corona4u]

7. How low will they go....

I smell deep desperation.

[maddezmom]

8. Jeebus GAWD

[Schema Thing]

9. What a pussy. Confront Ayers directly if you're so up in arms about it.

[LibraLiz1973]

10. ROFLMAO

They never stop.


Whatever

[nam78_two]

11. ..

:crazy:

[Sorceress]

12. HE WAS ACQUITTED!!! Why is this concept so difficult to grasp?

[krkaufman]

39. That's not going to be a workable defense for the Obama campaign.

[Sorceress]

44. I'm not suggesting Obama argue that...

However, this Ayers argument drips in hypocrisy considering Keating and the fact that this guy was actually convicted. Obama happened to be in this guy's (Ayers) orbit decades later after he had (seemingly) calmed down. However, McGrumpy was knee deep in bed with Keating when his ish hit the fan. Totally different and these @ssholes know it.

[City Lights]

13. The stench of GOP desperation is wafting through my home.

I don't know whether to :rofl: or :cry:, so I'll just :eyes:.

[Ganja Ninja]

34. I've lived through 9 presidential elections in my adult life and this

one is the strangest, most desperate and insane campaign I've ever seen.

[Overseas]

14. Wow, the people of Illinois must be really really stupid to have elected this guy

first to state legislature and then to the US Senate. God what idiots those millions of Illinois people were.

:dunce:

[KayLaw]

15. It doesn't even make sense.

Yes, Obama was a child when Ayers was plotting attacks, but I was one of those targets. What?!?

Obama was just a child but Ayers never apologized.

KayLaw never heard of Ayers before last week, but I was one of those targets.

There's just no logic there at all.

[nxylas]

49. It's not meant to appeal to people who use logic

The target audience will just hear "Obama pals around with terrorists", shit themselves like startled ponies and vote Republican. At least, that's the plan.

[MaineDem]

16. Good Lord

THis is beyond the pale.

[EnviroBat]

17. John McCain killed innocent women and children in Viet Nam.

Oh, yes, we can totally "go there" now if this is the shit they are going to pull.

[gmoney]

24. Did he?

I thought all he did was drink, screw, and crash planes...

[nashadvocate]

18. Attorney: Palin Must Now Be Investigated for Incitement

Article here: http://sethabramson.blogspot.com/2008/10/opinion-following-death-threat-against.html

*****

[livetohike]

30. Welcome to DU!

:hi: and thanks for the link.

[KayLaw]

31. I agree.

Thanks for the link.

[TwilightGardener]

19. Theater of the absurd, now.

[zulchzulu]

20. So Mayor Daly's friend.... n/t

[firedupdem]

21. Why isn't Barack's friend in jail you dumb asshole? Go to the

police station and report it!

[spanone]

22. 'barack obama's friend' oh go screw yourself murtagh

[blogslut]

23. Simple rebuttal

John McCain - board member of the World Anti-Communist League

[Hepburn]

25. TOTAL...FUCKING...BULLSHIT!!!!

I am 60 years old and a war protestor from the 1960s. I am well aware of the Weathermen. HOWEVER, until I thought about it, and looked it up, I had forgotten TOTALLY who the hell Ayers is or was.

Obama was in grade school...how the fuck was HE suppose to know who Ayers was????

[Vinca]

26. McCain is running the most pathetic campaign in U.S. history.

What a disgusting footnote he'll be in the history books.

[high density]

27. Reads like satire

This is pathetic.

[JohnMcCant2008]

28. What a vile, despicable, babykiller..........

[redqueen]

29. We knew they were this shameless.

Seems early for it... but it's hardly surprising.

[kestrel91316]

32. McSame needs to grow a pair and denounce in the same way every single person

who has ever worked with or served on a board with or lived near Ayers.

Guilt by association: you don't get to pick and choose who you apply it to.

[sellitman]

33. Roves stench is all over this.

What a crock of shit!

[endthewar]

35. Notice how they threw in the "Black Panter Party" line as well

Yeah, no race-baiting there. :crazy:

[ErinBerin84]

36. insanity.

[SIMPLYB1980]

37. WTF!

[krkaufman]

38. This is their Swift Boat ... and it's going to continue for the next 28 days ...

... and I hope the Obama campaign takes it seriously.

[FatDave]

43. Exactly, which is why Obama has to address it right fucking away.

And don't forget the coward angle.

(edited for typos)

[TornadoTN]

47. I have a feeling Obama will respond forcefully to this - and so will the campaign

Get ready - Palin's AIP connections and McCain's connection to the U.S. Council For World Freedom (He sat on their board!) is going to get really big, really fast.

[Enrique]

48. and it's coming from McCain directly

not from a 527. Unbelievable.

[krkaufman]

40. My favorite... "Ayers' celebrity status among the left"

Celebrity?

I didn't have a clue who Ayers was until the primaries, and didn't know he was white until just the other day, after the McCain campaign started Operation Desperate Storm.

[TheDonkey]

41. I guess Palin thinks Jesus and all his talk about forgiveness can go fuck himself

McTroll/Pig campaign is a mess.

[TornadoTN]

45. I wouldn't mind seeing this issue framed that way

No matter the follow-up, they would be caught in the headlights.

[yardwork]

42. Ok, it's on.

[TornadoTN]

46. I think Palin's husband and her support for the AIP just got a lot bigger

It's been on the back burner since she was selected as VP. Also, McCain's own little connection to former Nazi's and their little fascist hate group down in South America is going to get a lot of play.

[Princess Turandot]

50. These comments by Murtaugh appear to come from a column that he wrote in 4/08..

for the 'Manhattan Institute for Policy Research'. Their web site contains this:

Looking toward the future, the Manhattan Institute launched the Young Leaders Circle in January 2007, to provide a forum for young professionals in the New York metropolitan area interested in free-market ideas and public policy. The circle already has over 100 members, who hear such leading thinkers as David Brooks, Shelby Steele, William Kristol, and Steve Forbes discuss the pressing issues of the day in an evening lecture and cocktail party series.

Ah, Brooks, Kristol and Forbes: the Conservative Youth-y Brain Trust!

http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/about_mi_30.htm

Murtaugh article: http://www.city-journal.org/2008/eon0430jm.html

John M. Murtagh is a practicing attorney, an adjunct professor of public policy at the Fordham University College of Liberal Studies, and a member of the city council in Yonkers, New York, where he resides with his wife and two sons.

From the Yonkers City Council Web Page:

John M. Murtagh
District 5
914.377.6315 office 914.377.3555 home
email: [email protected]

http://www.yonkersny.gov/Index.aspx?page=70

[Undercurrent]

51. So?

No nuke? I was expecting a nuke. Is this all they've got? That's some mighty slim pickins at the bottom of that mud barrel for old man McCrud.

Ayers did some bad things many many years ago. By the time Obama had a chance to grow up, go to college, and move to Chicago, Ayers was a college professor. They were acquaintances who lived and worked in the same neighborhood. They were not friends, buddies, or pals.