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'Rogue' Palin Was Reading From Script

McCain team wrote 'palling around with terrorists' line: book

Jul 10, 09 4:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin was actually on message when she attacked Barack Obama’s relationship with former Weatherman Bill Ayers during last year's campaign, the Atlantic reports. A new book, The Battle for America, reveals that Palin received an email from top McCain staff suggesting she use the Ayers attack.... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • terrorist • campaign • McCain 2008 • campaign staff • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • Bill Ayers • President Obama

Ayers, Rev. Wright Team Up for Middle East Peace

Obama's former liabilities joke about their roles

May 18, 09 10:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Two of the toughest thorns in Barack Obama's side during the presidential campaign joined together in Chicago yesterday for the first time, the Tribune reports. The Rev. Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers shared a stage at a kickoff rally for a march for Mideast peace. It was their work on... More »

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Barack Obama • Israel • Chicago • Palestine • Israel and Palestinians • rally • Palestinians • Arab Israeli conflict • Jeremiah Wright • Election 2008 • Bill Ayers • Israelis • William Ayers • march

(Newser) - Former Weatherman Bill Ayers was denied entry yesterday into Canada, where he planned to speak at an education conference, the Globe and Mail reports. The controversial academic, who made headlines during the election for his link to Barack Obama, said he had visited Canada more than a dozen times.... More »

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Canada • border security • Toronto • US-Canadian border • Bill Ayers • University of Toronto • William Ayers • Weather Underground • academic freedom

OPINION

 Bill Ayers: I Was Not a Terrorist 

But I saw no 'path to a rational discussion' during campaign

Dec 6, 08 11:22 AM CST
(Newser) - Even as John McCain was painting him as a domestic terrorist in Barack Obama’s rogues gallery of acquaintances, William Ayers kept silent. “I saw no viable path to a rational discussion,” he writes in today’s New York Times. Now that the election’s over, it’... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • domestic terrorism • Bill Ayers

opinion

 Why 
 Terry  
 Gross  
 Is Great 
 

NPR host's interview of Bill Ayers is absolutely textbook

Nov 20, 08 4:10 PM CST
(Newser) - Terry Gross is one of the best interviewers in the business, and her recent session with Bill Ayers proves why, writes James Fallows in the Atlantic. The host of NPR’s Fresh Air avoids common modern pitfalls: She’s neither attack dog nor lapdog, and doesn’t try to prove... More »

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NPR • interview • Bill Ayers • Terry Gross

Unrepentant Ayers: I Was 'Demonized'

Campaign piñata says of his radical past:
We didn't do enough

Nov 14, 08 8:56 AM CST
(Newser) - William Ayers broke his silence this morning on Good Morning America, and he was anything but repentant. The former ‘60s radical called the attacks on him “a profoundly dishonest narrative” designed to “demonize” him, ABC reports. But he didn’t apologize for controversial deeds by him or... More »

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Barack Obama • radical • hippies • interview • Bill Ayers

Bill Ayers Will Appear on ABC Tomorrow

Campaign bogeyman will discuss path to
'60s radicalism

Nov 13, 08 11:08 AM CST
(Newser) - After keeping a low profile through the presidential election in which he became a talking point, Chicago activist Bill Ayers will appear on Good Morning America tomorrow, ABC News reports. In the exclusive TV interview, Ayers will discuss his transformation into a 1960s radical and his memoir, Fugitive Days. More »

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presidential campaign • GOP • hippies • activists • interview • Bill Ayers


 Palin: 'It Would 
 Be My Honor' 
 to Help Obama 

Alaska governor says Ayers ties still concern her

Nov 12, 08 4:37 PM CST
(Newser) - Sarah Palin said it would be her "honor" to help the Obama administration, though she's “still concerned” about his ties to “an unrepentant domestic terrorist,” CNN reports. Palin said that while it was fair to continue discussing William Ayers, it's “time to move on.”... More »

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Barack Obama • energy • Alaska • Republican • president • bipartisanship • Sarah Palin • Bill Ayers

Bill Ayers Gives First Interview

Speaks of 'distant' relationship with Obama, calls Palin's charges 'absurd'

Nov 4, 08 9:20 PM CST
(Newser) - Sarah Palin's infamous terrorist Bill Ayers was busy palling around with his first interviewer yesterday, having his first say since his name became a campaign hot button, reports the Washington Post. Although Ayers says he does not "feel very victimized," but thinks that "they made me into... More »

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Barack Obama • Sarah Palin • Bill Ayers

 GOP Offered $10K to Prove Ayers Authored Obama Book

Goal was to prove Ayers penned 'Dreams From My Father'

Nov 2, 08 1:12 PM CST
(Newser) - A Republican congressman and his brother-in-law approached an Oxford philosophy don in an attempt to prove that Barack Obama's autobiography had been ghostwritten by William Ayers, the Times of London reports. Peter Millican says he was offered $10,000 to analyze Obama's Dreams From My Father and Ayers' Fugitive Days... More »

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Barack Obama • Oxford • memoir • ghostwrite • Dreams From My Father • Election 2008 • Bill Ayers

OPINION

 Mac Hypocritically Mum 
 on Felonious Pal Liddy 

Republican won't cough up details despite hammering Obama on Ayers

Oct 23, 08 2:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bad enough for a presidential candidate to pal around with a “lawless radical,” Steve Chapman writes in the Chicago Tribune, but worse to clam up about it even as you blast your opponent for the same thing. That’s exactly where John McCain is over dealings with G.... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Watergate • extremists • McCain 2008 • Election 2008 • Bill Ayers • G. Gordon Liddy

OPINION

 Is Obama a Radical 
 or Reconciler? 

Or Niebuhrian waffler?

Oct 22, 08 1:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama may be on the brink of the presidency, but many still wonder whether he’s a closet radical, Michael Gerson writes in the Washington Post. He carries a liberal Illinois legislature record, associations with Ayers, Alinsky, Wright, and ACORN, and an “elitist disdain for bitter, God-clinging conservatives,... More »

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Barack Obama • radical • Obama 2008 • Jeremiah Wright • Election 2008 • moderate • Bill Ayers

ANALYSIS

GOP Ticket's Disagreements May Be His Idea ... Or Hers

Palin could be shoring up support for her political future

Oct 21, 08 4:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin has publicly disagreed with John McCain on several issues, from giving up in Michigan, to the gay marriage ban, to attacking Barack Obama’s connection to Rev. Wright. A VP hopeful’s job main job is to agree with the ticket, notes John Dickerson for Slate, so why... More »

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John McCain • McCain 2008 • Republican strategy • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • Bill Ayers

Planned Ayers Talk a No-Go at U. Nebraska

School rescinds
Nov. 15 invite under
fire from donors, pols

Oct 20, 08 9:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Though the invitation went out months ago, recent protests from politicians, donors and the online community led the University of Nebraska to pull a speaking invitation to William Ayers, the former radical agitator and current Chicago academic who’s become a talking point in John McCain’s criticisms of Barack... More »

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Election 2008 • Bill Ayers • University of Nebraska

OPINION

McCain Had a '60s Radical Friend of His Own

Made friends with ex-Vietnam protestor

Oct 18, 08 1:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain has been busily exploiting and distorting Barack Obama’s passing relationship with '60s radical Bill Ayers, but McCain himself had a much closer relationship with another '60s radical, David Ifshin, writes Joe Klein of Time. Ifshin was an anti-Vietnam radical whom many people accused of treason after he... More »

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John McCain • Vietnam • radical • negative campaigning • Election 2008 • Bill Ayers

GOP Senator Blasts McCain Robo Calls

Collins criticizes the campaign for linking Obama to Ayers

Oct 18, 08 12:59 PM CDT
(AP) - GOP Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, facing a tough re-election fight, urged John McCain yesterday to stop making automated calls into her state that link Democratic nominee Barack Obama to one-time Weather Underground leader Bill Ayers. "These kind of tactics have no place in Maine politics," said Collins... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Maine • Susan Collins • robo-calls • campaign advertising • Election 2008 • Bill Ayers

OPINION

 Bill Ayers Is 
 a Nice Guy 

Republicans are waving the bloody shirt at a model citizen

Oct 15, 08 9:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - In a desperate attempt to link Barack Obama to a 1960s culture war he’s too young to remember, John McCain has spent his last shred of political capital attacking Bill Ayers, Obama’s supposed terrorist pal. “I can personally attest to the idiocy of it all,” writes... More »

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Barack Obama • terrorism • negative campaigning • Election 2008 • Bill Ayers

OPINION

Out-of-Touch Dems Distort
Myth of Crazed Mobs


Oct 14, 08 10:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - It's been hard to miss the spate of reports about ugly anti-Obama incidents at McCain/Palin events—a crowd member calling him a “terrorist,” for instance. The media is now playing a game of "find a freak" at GOP rallies and grossly distorting the notion of genuine harm... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • GOP • violence • Republican candidate • Election 2008 • campaign rally • Sarah Palin • Bill Ayers

Analysis

Fear-Mongering Palin Scares Mac Straighter

GOP nominee tries for calm with running mate out of control

Oct 14, 08 2:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - These days, John McCain is more concerned with calming down his crowds than riling them up, writes Roger Simon in Politico, which “may not be a winning thing to do. But it is honorable.” The problem is that Sarah Palin “is running a separate—and scary—campaign,... More »

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John McCain • McCain 2008 • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • Bill Ayers

Va. GOP Chair
Links Obama
to Osama

Says both 'have
friends that bombed
the Pentagon'

Oct 13, 08 10:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - In the latest volley in the battle for Virginia, the state's GOP chief compared Barack Obama to Osama bin Laden, reports the Washington Post, and Democrats and even Republicans are reacting angrily. Jeffrey Frederick slammed Obama's links to radical political activist Bill Ayers in a recent meeting with McCain... More »

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Barack Obama • Virginia • Republican Party • Election 2008 • Bill Ayers • Jeffrey Frederick

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