Democratic candidates implode like its 1970
source: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/17/us/politics/17truth.html?ref=politics
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The debate, their 21st of the primary campaign but first in seven weeks, came at a critical juncture in the contest for the support of Pennsylvania Democrats, whose vote in Tuesday's primary will set the race's course. Several weeks of heated exchange between Obama and Clinton came crashing to low point during the ABC debate held in Philadelphia.
Co-moderator George Stephanopoulos raised Obama's association with Bill Ayers, Weather Underground member. The 'radical' leftist group set off bombs at the Pentagon and other locations during the Vietnam War.
During preparations for a bombing in 1970, there was a highly publicized explosion in a Greenwich Village safe house which killed a number of Weather Underground members.
The Ayers question was reportedly raised by conservative talk show host Sean Hannity.
Obama said of Ayers, "This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor ... in Chicago who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He's not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis. And the notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values doesn't make much sense."
While Clinton further attacked Obama for his acquaintance with Ayers, Obama noted that her husband, former president Bill Clinton, had pardoned two members of The Weather Underground.
Clinton also seized the chance to attack Obama for his comments earlier this month that many economically struggling Pennsylvanians in small towns are "bitter'' and "cling to guns or religion."
Co-moderator George Stephanopoulos raised Obama's association with Bill Ayers, Weather Underground member. The 'radical' leftist group set off bombs at the Pentagon and other locations during the Vietnam War.
During preparations for a bombing in 1970, there was a highly publicized explosion in a Greenwich Village safe house which killed a number of Weather Underground members.
The Ayers question was reportedly raised by conservative talk show host Sean Hannity.
Obama said of Ayers, "This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor ... in Chicago who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He's not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis. And the notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values doesn't make much sense."
While Clinton further attacked Obama for his acquaintance with Ayers, Obama noted that her husband, former president Bill Clinton, had pardoned two members of The Weather Underground.
Clinton also seized the chance to attack Obama for his comments earlier this month that many economically struggling Pennsylvanians in small towns are "bitter'' and "cling to guns or religion."
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