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Palin says Obama friendly with terrorists

source: http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4932E920081004?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

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ENGLEWOOD, Col., Oct 4 - Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin accused Democratic candidate Barack Obama on Saturday of "palling around with terrorists," in the latest sign the campaign is turning increasingly nasty.

The comment by Palin, whose running mate John McCain is vying against Obama for president in the November 4 election, was dismissed by the Obama campaign as "gutter politics" and came shortly after the McCain campaign had already called the U.S. senator from Illinois a liar.

With polls showing McCain trailing Obama in many battleground states, including several won by Republicans in the 2004 election, Palin said "There is a time when it's necessary to take the gloves off and that time is right now."

Speaking at a fund-raiser in Englewood, Colorado, she launched an assault on Obama just days after both candidates urged Congress to set aside partisan politics to pass a $700 billion bad-debt securities package in a bid to free up frozen credit markets.

"Our opponent though is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough that he is palling around with terrorists who would target their own country," Palin said of Obama, also calling him an embarrassment.

Palin cited a New York Times story on Saturday that examined Obama's relationship with Bill Ayers, a former member of the Vietnam-era militant Weather Underground organization who is now a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The Times concluded they were not close.

Obama spokesman Hari Sevugan said, "Today, the McCain-Palin team took their discredited, dishonorable campaign one desperate step further, announcing that they were going to try 'turning a page on this financial crisis' and launching more personal attacks on Senator Obama."

"Instead of offering solutions for working Americans and families struggling through a failing economy, they have offered more gutter politics and false attacks," he said in a statement.
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15 comments // Palin says Obama friendly with terrorists

  • metalcookiesxy70
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      metalcookiesxy70  

    • Seriously what a bastard!!! Obama only wants to make peace with the leaders of the "foreign" countries, she(Palin) only wants to fool the people with such nonsense garbage...she talks the talk, but will she walk the walk? .....In other words will she prove all of these things? By the looks of it...

    • 3 years ago
  • Marilynn_Murray
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      Marilynn_Murray  

    • According to Wikipedia.......

      Bill Ayers and Barack Obama at one time lived in the same neighborhood in the city of Chicago, and both had worked on education reform in the state of Illinois. The two met "at a luncheon meeting about school reform."[41] Obama was named to the Chicago Annenberg Challenge Project Board of Directors to oversee the distribution of grants in Chicago. Later in 1995, Ayers hosted "a coffee" for "Mr. Obama's first run for office."[42] The two served on the board of a community anti-poverty group, the Woods Fund of Chicago, between 2000 and 2002, during which time the board met twelve times.[42] In April 2001, Ayers contributed $200 to Obama's re-election fund to the Illinois State Senate.[41] Since 2002, there has been little linking Obama and Ayers.[42] The senator said in September 2008 that he hadn't "seen him in a year-and-a-half."[43] In February 2008, Obama spokesman Bill Burton released a statement from the senator about the relationship between the two: "Senator Obama strongly condemns the violent actions of the Weathermen group, as he does all acts of violence. But he was an eight-year-old child when Ayers and the Weathermen were active, and any attempt to connect Obama with events of almost forty years ago is ridiculous."[41] CNN's review of project records found nothing to suggest anything inappropriate in the non-profit projects in which the two men were involved.[44] Internal reviews by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time magazine, The Chicago Sun-Times, The New Yorker and The New Republic "have said that their reporting doesn't support the idea that Obama and Ayers had a close relationship".[45

    • 3 years ago
  • dabne
  • VoyagerFilms
  • sueathome
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      sueathome  

    • I am so glad that the "evil" the Christians love to talk about has finally showed it ugly head above ground! Sarah Palin leads the pack.

    • 3 years ago
  • cybama
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      cybama  

    • Neghie, I agree. A friend recently told me her favorite quote was, "Do unto others BEFORE they do to you." Touché!

    • 3 years ago
  • spaniel3580
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      spaniel3580  

    • this woman has no morals, no shame and no class! I was appalled when she started winking during the debate and what the heck was with the "dog gone it" and "ya darn right" and her put on folksy act. My dog has more class!

    • 3 years ago
  • bptelford
  • Neghie
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      Neghie  

    • Its only gonna get nastier from the Republican side. I say the Democrats need not only take off the gloves, they need to take off all their clothes, boxers and all, and piss all over those liars or else they'll do it first. It's what they do.

    • 3 years ago
  • Marilynn_Murray
  • huntre
  • Conniepae
  • Vierotchka
  • wholefreespirit
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      wholefreespirit  

    • What else do they have left!? We knew they were going to get dirty again didn't we? It's like the bully kid on the playground resorting to the "Yeah, well your mom is fat!" retort when they get humiliated in front of the other kids.

    • 3 years ago
  • synclaire
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