Last updated: 10:21 am
October 13, 2008
Posted: 4:09 am
October 13, 2008
Who exactly is Barack Obama? So asks the GOP's Sarah Palin - whom most Americans had never even heard of six weeks ago.
Since Palin began maligning the Democrat as an America-hating terrorist sympathizer, her stump attacks have unleashed a disturbing hatred toward Obama from McCain supporters. A recent YouTube video captured people entering a Palin rally in Ohio, many suggesting that Obama himself is a terrorist.
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A McCain-Palin ad ties Obama to domestic terrorist Bill Ayers and accuses Obama of "bad judgment" for knowing him. It's an interesting charge: "Bad judgment" is exactly what the Senate Ethics Committee found John McCain guilty of, two decades ago, for his friendship with S&L miscreant Charles Keating.
Last week, Palin told a crowd that Obama is someone who is "palling around with terrorists." Note the plural - though Ayers is one person.
It's time for a little perspective.
I served for a few years on two Democratic groups' boards, which met monthly. I saw some of my fellow board members socially; I'd even occasionally grab lunch or coffee with one of them, or attend a political event in his or her home. Based on reports, I saw them with much more frequency than Obama saw Ayers - yet it it would be grossly inaccurate to say I "palled" around with them.
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