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McCain Had a '60s Radical Friend of His Own

OPINION

Oct 18, 2008 1:48 PM CDT

McCain Had a '60s Radical Friend of His Own

Made friends with ex-Vietnam protestor

(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...

GOP Senator Blasts McCain Robo Calls

Oct 18, 2008 12:59 PM CDT

GOP Senator Blasts McCain Robo Calls

Collins criticizes the campaign for linking Obama to Ayers

(Newser) - 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...

Bill Ayers Is
a Nice Guy

OPINION

Oct 15, 2008 9:37 AM CDT

Bill Ayers Is a Nice Guy

Republicans are waving the bloody shirt at a model citizen

(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...

Out-of-Touch Dems Distort
Myth of Crazed Mobs

OPINION

Oct 14, 2008 10:34 PM CDT

Out-of-Touch Dems Distort Myth of Crazed Mobs

(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...

Fear-Mongering Palin Scares Mac Straighter

Analysis

Oct 14, 2008 2:42 PM CDT

Fear-Mongering Palin Scares Mac Straighter

GOP nominee tries for calm with running mate out of control

(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,...

Va. GOP Chair
Links Obama
to Osama

Oct 13, 2008 10:34 AM CDT

Va. GOP Chair Links Obama to Osama

Says both 'have friends that bombed the Pentagon'

(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 campaign...

Mac's Messy Message Worries GOP

Oct 12, 2008 11:27 AM CDT

Mac's Messy Message Worries GOP

Party leaders worry about inconsistent messages on Obama, economy

(Newser) - Republican leaders are beginning to worry that John McCain will lose the election unless he can be more consistent about both the financial crisis and Barack Obama, reports the New York Times. Strategists are also voicing renewed concerns about Sarah Palin, after the Alaska Legislature released a report last week...

Forget Sticks, Stones; Her Words Are Bullets

OPINION

Oct 12, 2008 9:12 AM CDT

Forget Sticks, Stones; Her Words Are Bullets

Palin's Obama rhetoric fans racist flames

(Newser) - The McCain campaign has crossed the line from negative campaigning to “inciting vigilantism” with racist tactics that should raise alarms about Barack Obama’s safety, writes Frank Rich in the New York Times. Particularly troubling is Sarah Palin’s repeated linking of Obama to “terrorists” and her refusal...

The Maverick Will Rise Again

OPINION

Oct 10, 2008 2:01 PM CDT

The Maverick Will Rise Again

Conservatives may have turned against him, but the National Review hasn't

(Newser) - Wall Street is reeling, but the real depression has set in among Republicans who seem resigned to losing the White House. "Yet for all the gloom, there are several reasons why this race is by no means over," Victor David Hanson writes for the National Review. The neocon...

Krauthammer:
Why Ayers, Rezko Matter

OPINION

Oct 10, 2008 12:56 PM CDT

Krauthammer: Why Ayers, Rezko Matter

Obama's links reveal his character, despite what media say

(Newser) - Raising the specter of Barack Obama’s ties with the likes of Bill Ayers is perfectly legitimate, and John McCain's only fault is that he didn't start sooner, writes Charles Krauthammer in the Washington Post. These associations “provide a significant insight into character” and “are particularly relevant” for...

McCain Drops Ayers Bomb
for First Time

Oct 10, 2008 4:10 AM CDT

McCain Drops Ayers Bomb for First Time

Candidate rips Obama's 'truthfulness' at angry rally

(Newser) - John McCain has attacked Barack Obama for his links to political radical Bill Ayers for the first time, Politico reports. McCain, who had previously left the assault to Sarah Palin, told a raucous Wisconsin rally that booed every mention of Obama's name that the issue went to the heart of...

We All Have Some Guilty Associations

COMMENTARY

Oct 9, 2008 12:37 PM CDT

We All Have Some Guilty Associations

Gail Collins has been palling around with terrorists, too

(Newser) - So William Ayers once threw a house party for Barack Obama, and now Obama’s responsible for all Ayers’ misdeeds? By that standard, writes Gail Collins—who might have attended a college party with Ayers' wife, Bernardine Dohrn—"I believe I may now be held partly responsible for all...

McCain Is a Cub in Bear Market

OPINION

Oct 9, 2008 8:06 AM CDT

McCain Is a Cub in Bear Market

Republican getting desperate as the economy buries campaign

(Newser) - With Barack Obama making a strong showing in so many red states, wild proposals are all that’s left for John McCain to try, writes George Will in the Washington Post, because this election seems over. McCain's proposal to pad the bailout with several hundred billion more for a mortgage-buying...

Hey, GOP:
Let's Emulate Obama's Cool

OPINION

Oct 9, 2008 7:57 AM CDT

Hey, GOP: Let's Emulate Obama's Cool

Attack ads worked in 2004. That's not where we're at: Frum

(Newser) - David Frum plans to vote for John McCain, but with the economy in ruin, anyone who thinks the GOP can win “by banging on about William Ayers and Jeremiah Wright is...to put it mildly...severely under-estimating the electoral importance of pocketbook issues.” These desperate attacks “are...

Rambling Palin Opens Up to Press Pack

Oct 8, 2008 5:15 AM CDT

Rambling Palin Opens Up to Press Pack

Sarah rips Obama's 'forthrightedness' on 'No-Talk Express'

(Newser) - Sarah Palin surprised reporters yesterday by coming to the back of her campaign plane to take questions from the press corps for the first time ever, Fox News reports. The candidate spoke in her trademark rambling style for nearly 15 minutes aboard what reporters had dubbed the "No-Talk Express....

McCain Linked to Group
That Aided Contras

Oct 7, 2008 11:59 AM CDT

McCain Linked to Group That Aided Contras

Ariz. senator joined board when he came to Washington

(Newser) - John McCain has past connections to a group that supplied aid to guerrillas seeking to overthrow the leftist government of Nicaragua in the Iran-Contra affair. The US Council for World Freedom was part of an international organization linked to former Nazi collaborators and ultra-right-wing death squads in Central America. Its...

Candidates Stock Up on Tough Talk

Oct 6, 2008 5:43 PM CDT

Candidates Stock Up on Tough Talk

As promised, rhetoric takes turn for the worse ahead of debate No. 2

(Newser) - The presidential race got uglier today, with both campaigns delivering on promises to crank up the pressure. John McCain worked to slow Barack Obama's momentum and Obama fought to hang on to his lead, Reuters reports. McCain asked a New Mexico audience, "Who is the real Barack Obama?" "...

Remember Keating 5? Obama Would Like to Remind You

Oct 6, 2008 7:49 AM CDT

Remember Keating 5? Obama Would Like to Remind You

Video shows Mac's ties to scandal 'similar' to current financial crisis

(Newser) - Barack Obama’s campaign is releasing a video attack on John McCain’s role in the “Keating Five” scandal in the savings-and-loan crisis of the late ’80s and early ’90s, Politico reports. The video will appear online today amid what the Obama camp calls “guilt-by-association” tactics...

Obama Camp: Palin Terror Slam 'Offensive'

Oct 5, 2008 3:09 PM CDT

Obama Camp: Palin Terror Slam 'Offensive'

VP nom accuses candidate of 'palling around with terrorists'

(Newser) - The Obama campaign is striking back at Sarah Palin after she accused their candidate of “palling around with terrorists who targeted their own country." The comments are “offensive” and “not surprising,” said Obama’s campaign spokesman, given the McCain campaign’s vow to launch “...

How Obama Crossed Paths With a Radical '60s Bomber

Oct 4, 2008 10:04 AM CDT

How Obama Crossed Paths With a Radical '60s Bomber

Candidate's links with ex-Weatherman probed

(Newser) - Bill Ayers' past as a bomb-planting '60s radical has been largely forgiven in Chicago—even the mayor says, “He’s done a lot of good in this city and nationally”—but it keeps popping up to haunt Barack Obama, the New York Times reports. The pair live in...