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Bill Ayers stories: 37 news summaries

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Mac's Messy Message Worries GOP

Party leaders worry about inconsistent messages on Obama, economy

Oct 12, 08 11:27 AM CDT
(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... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Election 2008 • Rev. Jeremiah Wright • Bill Ayers • financial crisis

OPINION

Forget Sticks, Stones; Her Words Are Bullets

Palin's Obama rhetoric fans racist flames

Oct 12, 08 9:12 AM CDT
(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... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Secret Service • racism • terrorist • negative campaigning • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • Bill Ayers • the race card

OPINION

 The Maverick Will Rise Again 

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

Oct 10, 08 2:01 PM CDT
(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... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Election 2008 • Iraq war • credit market chaos • Bill Ayers • Wall Street bailout

OPINION

 Krauthammer: 
 Why Ayers, Rezko Matter 

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

Oct 10, 08 12:56 PM CDT
(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... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Jeremiah Wright • Tony Rezko • Election 2008 • campaign tactics • Bill Ayers

McCain Drops Ayers Bomb
for First Time

Candidate rips
Obama's 'truthfulness' at angry rally

Oct 10, 08 4:10 AM CDT
(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... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • negative campaigning • Election 2008 • Bill Ayers

COMMENTARY

We All Have Some Guilty Associations

Gail Collins has been palling around with terrorists, too

Oct 9, 08 12:37 PM CDT
(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... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • terrorist • Gail Collins • Keating Five • Bill Ayers

OPINION

 McCain Is a Cub in Bear Market 

Republican getting desperate as the economy buries campaign

Oct 9, 08 8:06 AM CDT
(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... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Election 2008 • Bill Ayers • financial crisis

OPINION

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

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

Oct 9, 08 7:57 AM CDT
(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... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • negative campaigning • attack ad • Jeremiah Wright • McCain 2008 • Election 2008 • economy • Bill Ayers

Rambling Palin Opens Up to Press Pack 

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

Oct 8, 08 5:15 AM CDT
(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.... More »

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Tina Fey • press conference • Election 2008 • Troopergate • Sarah Palin • Bill Ayers • reporters

McCain Linked to Group
That Aided Contras 

Ariz. senator joined board when he came to Washington

Oct 7, 08 11:59 AM CDT
(AP) - 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... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Iran Contra • Nicaragua • Election 2008 • anti-Communism • Bill Ayers

Candidates Stock Up on Tough Talk

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

Oct 6, 08 5:43 PM CDT
(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?" "... More »

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presidential debate • Obama 2008 • McCain 2008 • Election 2008 • Keating Five • Bill Ayers

Remember Keating 5? Obama Would Like to Remind You

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

Oct 6, 08 7:49 AM CDT
(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... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Tony Rezko • Election 2008 • scandal • Keating Five • Bill Ayers

Obama Camp: Palin Terror Slam 'Offensive'

VP nom accuses candidate of 'palling around with terrorists'

Oct 5, 08 3:09 PM CDT
(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 “... More »

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

How Obama Crossed Paths With a Radical '60s Bomber

Candidate's links with ex-Weatherman probed

Oct 4, 08 10:04 AM CDT
(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... More »

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Barack Obama • radical • anti war movement • Election 2008 • Bill Ayers

Obama Out to Stop Ad Linking Him to Radical

Calls TV stations, DOJ to silence spot funded by 'Swift Boat' backer

Aug 25, 08 8:56 PM CDT
(AP) - Barack Obama is striking back to stamp out an ad that links him to a 1960s radical, eager to demonstrate a far more aggressive response to attacks than John Kerry did when faced with the 2004 "Swift Boat" campaign. Obama not only aired a response ad to the spot... More »

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Barack Obama • Election 2008 • Bill Ayers • Swift Boat Veterans for Truth

opinion

 What Hyde Park
 Tells Us About Obama 

Lefty enclave is racially mixed, but lofty

Jun 9, 08 7:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - "It is the most racially integrated neighborhood in the nation's most racially segregated city," Andrew Ferguson writes in the Weekly Standard of the area in south Chicago Barack Obama calls home. It's a college town, a lefty enclave where the moneyed mix with boho bookworms, and "NPR... More »

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Barack Obama • Chicago • University of Chicago • elitism • Bill Ayers • Hyde Park

OPINION

  Get Back to the
 'One Nation,'
 Barack 

Candidate lost message of patriotism, unity in wooing white working class

May 21, 08 1:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Give us our “one nation” Obama back, the New Republic editors demand: Barack has been "sapping the charisma from his campaign” to chase down the white working class, and now that Clinton is (all but) gone, it’s time to pivot back to pure patriotism. Trumpeting national unity... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Hamas • unity • patriotism • Bill Ayers

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