poster by Sam BrownThe audacity of Bubble Girl is hard to believe. Her recent doozy: Obama is palling around with terrorists.
When you don't have the goods, you should keep your mouth shut. But she obviously believes in herself a little too much and doesn't know any better. She makes up for her incompetence by babbling, a sleight of hand trick. McCain's entire campaign has been a trick -- distract to try and create an illusion of caring about the poor and middle class. Sorry Palin. You don't even come close to being worthy to serve as vice president. Why is it the people who claim to be Christian are the ones with the worst behavior? But she's gotta do what she's gotta do because she's being egged on by the conservative base, who simply hate Obama for irrational reasons. Someone put those words about Obama palling around with terrorists in Palin's mouth. Don't expect her to be "speaking" her own words any time soon. She'll be given her lines. Her mission now is to shore up the racist vote.
When you don't have the goods, you should keep your mouth shut. But she obviously believes in herself a little too much and doesn't know any better. She makes up for her incompetence by babbling, a sleight of hand trick. McCain's entire campaign has been a trick -- distract to try and create an illusion of caring about the poor and middle class. Sorry Palin. You don't even come close to being worthy to serve as vice president. Why is it the people who claim to be Christian are the ones with the worst behavior? But she's gotta do what she's gotta do because she's being egged on by the conservative base, who simply hate Obama for irrational reasons. Someone put those words about Obama palling around with terrorists in Palin's mouth. Don't expect her to be "speaking" her own words any time soon. She'll be given her lines. Her mission now is to shore up the racist vote.
CNN Fact Check: Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt told CNN that after meeting Obama through the Annenberg project, Ayers hosted a campaign event for him that same year when then-Illinois state Sen. Alice Palmer, who planned to run for Congress, introduced the young community organizer as her chosen successor. LaBolt also said the two have not spoken by phone or exchanged e-mail messages since Obama came to the U.S. Senate in 2005 and last met more than a year ago when they encountered each other on the street in their Hyde Park neighborhood.
The extent of Obama's relationship with Ayers came up during the Democratic presidential primaries earlier this year, and Obama explained it by saying, "This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood … the notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago — when I was 8 years old — somehow reflects on me and my values doesn't make much sense."
The New York Times article cited by Palin concluded that "the two men do not appear to have been close. Nor has Mr. Obama ever expressed sympathy for the radical views and actions of Mr. Ayers." Other publications, including the Washington Post, Time magazine, the Chicago Sun-Times, The New Yorker and The New Republic, have said that their reporting doesn't support the idea that Obama and Ayers had a close relationship.
The McCain campaign did not respond Saturday to a request for elaboration on Palin's use of the plural "terrorists."
Verdict: False. There is no indication that Ayers and Obama are now "palling around," or that they have had an ongoing relationship in the past three years. Also, there is nothing to suggest that Ayers is now involved in terrorist activity or that other Obama associates are.
