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Friday, October 17, 2008
"Terrorist" McCain Robo-Call in Delco, elsewhere

Residents in Delaware County are reporting receiving robo calls at home that accuse Democrat Barack Obama of "working closely" with "domestic terrorist" Bill Ayers, "whose organization bombed the Capitol, judges homes, and killed Americans." The message goes on to say that Obama's relationship with Ayers, now a professor of education with whom the senator served on a charitable board, proves that Obama does not have the judgment to be president.

The male voice reading the script identifies the call as paid for by the McCain-Palin campaign.

"It was very disturbing," said a Havertown woman who received the call, who did not want to give her name for fear of retaliation. "You listed to it and you get the impression that Obama himself is a terrorist," she said. "It should not be this way." The recipient described herself as a registered independent who supports Obama.

Other media outlets are reporting its a national effort:

"More remarkable than the message (coming after a presidential debate in which John McCain said he didn't care about a "washed up terrorist") is the reach of the campaign itself. The Huffington Post received dozens of emails from voters who had either received the call or gotten a voice mail with a recording. Reports came from Ohio, Colorado, New Mexico, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Missouri, North Carolina, Florida, Texas, West Virginia, Maine, New Hampshire, Indiana, Delaware, Illinois, Georgia and even Canada." That from the Huffington Post, an Obama leaning outlet. 

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Posted by Tom Fitzgerald @ 11:06 AM  Permalink | 77 comments
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Posted 11:59 AM, 10/17/2008
Philth
Yeah, Obama's a terrorist. Please... Sounds like the old Bush-Rove-Chaney mantra: "Whan all else fails, scare people." No point in talking issues when you can convince people there's a terrorist lurking in the linen closet. Budget crisis? Crumbling infrastructure? Losing a war? Just tell people there's a terrorist. Presidential candidate you don't like? He must be a terrorist. I sincerely hope a mass suicide happens with all the imbeciles who believe this garbage.
Posted 12:10 PM, 10/17/2008
Phrossty
fgomarty - If I posted that you are a close-minded person without the capacity for independent thought, would that be a nasty attack or simply stating the obvious?
Posted 12:12 PM, 10/17/2008
jreese
Barack Obama was 8 years old and living abroad when Ayers committed his crimes. Please don't judge me based upon my acquaintances from 25 years ago. I was into He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.
Posted 12:29 PM, 10/17/2008
djsaitta
What about McCain's terrorist friend, G. Gordon Liddy? We're supposed to believe that serving a prison term makes it okay for a presidential candidate to associate with him?
Posted 12:36 PM, 10/17/2008
fgomarty
Actually, the over/under on suicides will be lefists when they wake up and realize the messiah was just a wet dream they had.
Posted 12:37 PM, 10/17/2008
murray1
Ayers' office door is decorated with pictures of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Che Guevara and Malcolm X.
Posted 12:39 PM, 10/17/2008
fgomarty
to Phrossty: It would be a lie. Again I will say that only liberals regard someone telling the truth about them as a nasty attack.
Posted 12:39 PM, 10/17/2008
sillybilly
How Dare they actually tell the Truth! Next they will get a plumber to get Obama to admit he is a Socialist. Oh, they already did.
Posted 12:43 PM, 10/17/2008
Grill
Obama did not merely "serve on a board" with Bill Ayers as he is prone to lie about. Ayers held a meet and greet event for OBama in his home! Obama accepted campaign checks from him in the past. That shows poor judgement. Of course that was the old, "I'm right there with you liberal white folks about how evil our federal government was and you had the right to take those actions" Barack Obama when he was running for a State Senate seat and NEEDED the upper middle class ex-hippie white vote in his district to be elected along with the REverend Wright disciples. Now that he does not need both (Illinois is a lock) he minimizes his associations with both through revisionist history and the press who LOVE revisionist history just march right along with their comrade in arms.
Posted 12:51 PM, 10/17/2008
Bob1
Obama wasn't 8 years old when he sat in repeated meetings of a charitable board with Ayers and then worked for the same multimillion dollar grant program. And he wasn't 8 when Ayers and his wife Bernadine Dohrn, who in some ways was even more violent, hosted a campaign function for his state senate run in 1995, in Chicago. He most definitely knew who Ayers was. I grew up in the 60's and the Weather Underground spread a lot of fear; it is pretty disturbing to see a presidential candidate with this history. Ayers called it "an American Red Army". Other quotes from Ayers: "Kill all the rich people...Break up their cars and apartments...Bring the revolution home...Kill your parents." Annenberg was also no angel, by the way, and neither is McCain. To portray Obama as an innocent, virtuous politician is wrong. This just shows that he is really no better than McCain. What's fair is fair. And by the way, we won't judge you based on your acquaintances from 25 years, ago, but we would for 12 years ago. And we appropriately would for both if you were running for president.
Posted 12:54 PM, 10/17/2008
Bob1
Liddy is a creep. But tell us. Did Ayers serve his debt in jail?
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Posted 01:56 PM, 10/17/2008
tonyS
What about McCains "palling around" with Keating?
Posted 02:22 PM, 10/17/2008
tdoc
Ayers didnt do any time because the cops broke the law and violated his rights when they arrested him...thats their fault, not his. But, i imagine you police state, fear/war mongers out there have a problem with protecting basic civil liberties (or what we have left of them).
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