Politics | 11/12/2008 3:52 pm
Sarah Palin Revives Ayers Attack For Obama

©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."
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