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Politics | 11/12/2008 3:52 pm

Sarah Palin Revives Ayers Attack For Obama

By The Staff at wowOwow.com
©AP
Sarah Palin this week said she’s "comfortable" with Barack Obama as our commander in chief, but that doesn’t mean the Governor’s given up on attacking her former rival.

Speaking with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer today, Palin again revived attacks on the President-elect’s association with William Ayers, a professor at University of Illinois Chicago whose past includes working with the Weather Underground. That group set off a series of bombs in the late 60s, actions that Palin equates with "domestic terrorism,” a charge lobbed in Obama’s direction on numerous occasions leading up to last week’s election.

While discussing some of the nastier aspects of the presidential campaign, Blitzer reminded Palin of her previous comments, like when she said of Obama, "Someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect that he is palling around with terrorists who would target their own country." It’s then that Palin invoked Ayers’ name, telling Blitzer that she thinks the 63-year old deserves more scrutiny: "Well, I still am concerned about that association with Bill Ayers. And if anybody still wants to talk about it, I will, because this is an unrepentant domestic terrorist who had campaigned to blow up, to destroy our Pentagon and our U.S. Capitol. That’s an association that still bothers me.

"And I think it’s still fair to talk about it. However the campaign is over. That chapter is closed. Now is the time to move on and to, again, make sure that all of us are doing all that we can to progress this nation."

Blitzer went on to ask Palin if she regrets any of her remarks or the general tone of the campaign’s last weeks, to which Palin replied, "I do not think that it is off-base nor mean-spirited, nor negative campaigning to call someone out on their associations and on their record." When asked if it was her idea to bring up Ayers in her stump speeches, the Governor described the decision as "collaborative,” before again insisting our nation needs to move beyond the last few months and keep our eyes on the future. "I don’t want to point fingers backwards and play the blame game, certainly, on anything that took place in terms of strategy or messaging in the campaign."

47 Reader Comments (so far…) Sign In or Register to comment

Catherine Kaiman
Decades back, down in my hometown of Eagletown, Oklahoma, Ayers would have had his head blown off then his body wrapped in newspaper and stomped into the ground. Our local sheriff would have given us both the shotgun and newspaper to do this. Okpulot Taha Choctaw Nation Then they would have diminished themselves to the same level in which they viewed Ayers.
By Catherine Kaiman on 11/13/2008 11:52 am
gulliver fourmyle
osage/les francais here—-you speak with forked tongue—-sachem—-
By gulliver fourmyle on 11/14/2008 10:55 pm
Sherrie Crews
Palin’s ignorance is a hell of a lot more dangerous than William Ayers.
By Sherrie Crews on 11/13/2008 9:01 am
Tee Zee
You’re so right Sherrie! William Ayers has said there’s no relationship, Obama has said there’s no relationship what more does this idiot need…can she read?????? and in the next breath she tells us I would take a job in the Obama administration if he would give her one. Really!
By Tee Zee on 11/13/2008 9:13 am
Monica Robinson
I was surprised CNN picked up on the ‘sara’ interview. Just ‘whine’ her up and let her talk…that way we all know just how ignorant she really is.This woman really needs to get a life!
By Monica Robinson on 11/13/2008 9:33 am
OMGIAMGOING NUTS
You people actually BLAME Palin for this? Are you flippin’ serious? Blitzer ASKED her! And she answered. HONESTLY!
By OMGIAMGOING NUTS on 11/13/2008 9:57 am
John G
She’s an incompetent person, but blame? I don’t. She just should be kept away from national politics. And BTW, an attempt to keep alive a dead hot-button issue isn’t honesty, it’s politickin’, plain and simple.
By John G on 11/13/2008 11:35 am
OMGIAMGOING NUTS
John G Contrary to ‘your’ beliefs Gov. Palin is a GOVERNOR which one can’t be if they are incompetent. Period. She not going to be “kept away” from national politics because once again…she “is” the Governor of Alaska. And for just for the record here, this “dead hot-button issue” wasn’t written by moi, I simply replied to it. Now you have a wonderful day. STAY TUNED: that hot-button issue guy AYERS will speak.
By OMGIAMGOING NUTS on 11/13/2008 1:10 pm
John G
U and I do not agree about anything, and you cannot read, apparently. I was referring to Sarah bringing up the dead hot-button issue. I couldn’t care less about it if you brought it up… why would I even respond? I also hasten to point out that Ronald Reagan was a state governor, and he was incompetent also, so that isn’t a good enough reason to put Sarah in the spotlight.
By John G on 11/13/2008 2:38 pm
OMGIAMGOING NUTS
John G I agree that we don’t agree on ‘anything’ (which I don’t find odd since YOU are on a wOw site) Anyway…I know what you were referring to. “I” didn’t brink it up dimwit the WRITERS of wOw did! Perhaps you need to sit back and think before you begin your stupid rants. JUST FOR THE RECORD: Palin did NOT bring up Ayers! Deal with the fact that Sarah Palin “is” and will continue to be in the spotlight. :)
By OMGIAMGOING NUTS on 11/13/2008 3:18 pm
John G
What you seem to not understand is that the result of any election is not due to the quality of the person/motion up for grabs, it’s a direct reflection of the electorate. Sarah is governor of Alaska, therefore the required majority of Alaskan voters think (erroneously, as it happens) that she was the correct choice. Sarah is in no way qualified, and never will be, to be president of the United States. That people like you like her for any political reason says volumes about you and nothing about her. BTW: you and I don’t disagree because of our gender. We disagree because of your belief system.
By John G on 11/13/2008 5:15 pm
OMGIAMGOING NUTS
John G Understand? What you don’t seem to understand is that Sarah Palin is/was more qualified than what we are stuck with! She has more executive experience and if you were honest with yourself you’d agree. Keep lying to yourself. It’s “speaking volumes.”
By OMGIAMGOING NUTS on 11/13/2008 5:32 pm
starry Nite
William Ayers granted an interview check your local listings.
By starry Nite on 11/13/2008 11:07 am
Okpulot Taha
Merrell G comments, “I would work with Ayers. And why would you call me a hypocrite?” You are an American. You are expected to support and defend our American values. Working with, associating with a known traitor and a known terrorist is hypocritical because you are not standing up for our American values while claiming to be a good American. Merrile G continues, “WE WERE TERRORISTS in VIETNAM!” We? Our boys and girls who fought in Vietnam are terrorists? My husband came home with two bullet wounds. He stayed in country the first time he was shot to lend support to his buddies. Second time, no choice, he was sent home near death. If not for a Choctaw medicine man, I believe my husband would have died. My husband is a terrorist? My presumption is you are one of those who threw dog crap at our troops returning home from Vietnam. Perhaps you should visit the Vietnam memorial and smear dog crap all over this monument. There you will find over fifty-thousand names of our boys and girls who died in Vietnam. All are terrorists per your beliefs. You should exercise caution, though. If some of the ‘Nam boys are there paying tribute to their fallen friends and see you do this, they might just up and urinate on you. Are you sure my husband is the terrorist? Okpulot Taha Choctaw Nation
By Okpulot Taha on 11/14/2008 7:12 pm