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Obama Tries to Quash Ayers Ad

By Larry Johnson on August 23, 2008 at 1:45 AM in Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Joe Biden, Michelle Obama

Bud White’s excellent piece on the Republican 527 ad now hitting the airwaves showing only part of Barack Obama’s relationship with unrepentant American terrorist, Bill Ayers, has the Obama campaign worried. First, here is the ad:

Second, the Obama campaign has sent this letter begging stations not to run this ad. Here’s the letter:

aiplettertostations.pdf

Obama’s folks are in a snit that their Golden Child is being associated with terrorism. Well, too damn bad. It is true. Barack was in bed with Bill Ayers for at least 13 years.

Up to this point Barack’s team has avoided scrutiny on this issue because the media is too damn lazy to do simple investigation. Barack has tried to pretend that Ayers was just some guy from the neighborhood. Bollocks!! Ayers hired Barack to run a multi-million dollar foundation for him.

This ain’t swift boating. This ad is true and Barack has to offer a credible explanation of why he climbed into bed with Ayers. It may have made sense in the milieu of Chicago politics, but this dog won’t hunt in a national election. In fact, this dog will continue to bite Barack’s derrière for the duration of the campaign.

I asked a friend who knows someone who has seen the video to Michelle Obama making disparaging remarks about “white” folks. You know, those angry God hugging, gun toting mouth breathers. He wrote me the following:

But there is a very strange air about Republican operatives. In the last three weeks, I’ve talked to real insiders in VA, GA, AL and here. They all remind me of a unit waiting to cross the line of departure on an attack. Quiet, determined, last cigarette, last “can of peaches out of the ration,” radio checks, confident. They all use the term “safely nominated” when referring to Obama. That is weird.

They can’t wait to start taking Barack apart on the issues the media chose to ignore up to this point. And when the attacks intensify Joe Biden’s foreign policy expertise won’t matter one whit.