October 4th, 2008 2:44 PM Eastern
Palin Hits Obama on Ayers
by Fin Gomez
ENGLEWOOD, CO-
At a Colorado fundraiser that concluded just minutes ago, Gov. Sarah Palin took” off the gloves” and hit Senator Obama on his past association with 60’s militant Bill Ayers.
“Our opponent though is someone who sees America it seems as being so imperfect, imperfect enough that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country. Americans need to know this.Talk about taking the gloves off, I too being that outsider and only being a part of this for 5 weeks now, I think ok we gotta get the word out.This is in fairness to the electorate we gotta start telling people what the other side represents.”

It is a shame McCain won’t bring this up and Palin has to carry the water on this.
Way to go Sarah!
Go Sarah Go!
Keep talking about Ayres, about Wright, about Talbott, about Dohrn.
Go Go Go
[...] UPDATE: Fox has the full quote and it is a thing of beauty: [...]
Great! It’s time to get the entire Obama/Ayers story out that the press has been trying to avoid.
I’m old enough to remember when the ‘weather underground’ started. They turned off a lot of people who were seriously interested in the welfare of this nation by advocating violence and bombing. Ayers is unrepentant and says he wished he could have done more. He and Obama wasted millions of dollars on a failed ‘education program’ in Chicago. It was not just a ‘casual acquaintance’ as the NYT would have us believe. Go get him, Sarah - and please do not apologize for telling the truth!
Finally! The McCain campaign needs to drill this home every chance it gets. Obama is just too far-left to govern. Make his past known, the media isn’t going to help.
[...] Well, Barracuda, you’re definitely doing what I said you needed to do in the last post. [...]
Awesome, Sarah! God bless you! Hit him often and HARD!!
ABOUT TIME! Thank God for Sarah Palin and SOMEONE having a grip on reality in this campaign!
Ayers is a terrorist, and Obama got his start in politics from him.
Don’t forget Syrian Tony Rezko, Jeremiah Wright, Frank Raines, Jim Johnson, and all the Marxists that Obama depends on…
If the election weren’t soo serious. McCain and Palin would be totally comical…Desperate times call for Desperate measures. Can you say swiftboat? Oh, when your down do anything to change the tide.
Its about time someone starts questioning his connections!
It’s about time!! Go get um Baracuda!!
go sarah!
Someone needs to expose Obama-and it needs to the McCain Campaign-this nice stuff is not working in Mccains favor-take off the gloves
About #### time the republican ticket gets a backbone to attack back at the Dem’s and the media cover-up. Conservatives are tired of being slammed for all the problems of our country and the world. If John wants to act respectful and presidential and not appear to be offensive, then u Go Get ‘em Sarah !!
Maybe she should tell us about the group that her husband of which her is a member. What about the issues?
GO GET UM SARAH !! Continue with Wright, Pleger and Farachan? And then let’s get rid of some of the “SENATORS GOLDEN PARACHUTES,” starting with whoever put ACORN and wooden arrows in a piece of emergency legislation while our Country is going down the tubes !!! How pitiful was that?? YOU HAVE MY VOTE, and all of my adult children and their spouses….GOD BLESS YOU AND JOHN. PS. My son is a Major in the Army and he is also in Iran.
The country and our younger children should know about this terroist Ayers - this country wasn’t good enough for him - so he bombed us. Palin tell your story and what we all know about this man
and his wife.
What took you guys so long before you took the gloves off and expose Obama ?
I wish we could really go after Palin. She knows nothing and if we could stop tip toeing around her for being a women and really go after her I think america would be shocked.
About time. I don’t know why McCain, an American hero hasn’t done this before. He’ll get my vote just to keep Obama out of there, but can’t he act at least a little like he’s mildly interested in winning?
It’s about time!! Next round: Franklin Marshal Davis, Saul Alinsky, Public Allies, ACORN, Brzezinski, and Soros
Good for you GOV Palin - obama is a Radical Fraud - with very questionable “friends”
Thank God some of the media is reporting these Facts - before it’s too late!
Too bad some of the media will ignore thes facts - then wonder what happened when he “Changes” our country.
McCain/Palin - BEST Team for our country.
This woman is nuts. I’m ashamed to have her in my Republican Party, far less representing it in any capacity
Anyone who uses and abuses their power against their hard working state employees can also be considered a terrorist. This smells of desperation.
Thank you Sarah. About time someone got the word out on Noboma. We must let everyone know what he is all about. A very dangerous person he is. As far as not playing fair…it’s about time McCain started to tell it like it is. He didn’t want to, but with Noboma lashing out at him with untruths, he had no choice. But as usual, Noboma is cry foul. It’s ok if he does it, but as I say what goes around comes around. So all you cry baby democrats get used to it. This is only the beginning. So you now have a little over a month to be your usual cry babies.
Well, it’s about time….wonder if the MSM will report this, they comment about her every word…will they about this , absolute relevant information?
BASICALLY,I THINK WHAT GOV.SARAH PALIN DOING IS PLAYING THE GAME OF THE MIND.SHE HAS EMPLOYED THIS TACTICS SEVERAL TIMES SINCE HER NOMINATION AS VP.MY ADVICE FOR HER IS LET HER COME UP WITH CONCRETE AND FRESH IDEAS ON HOW SHE WILL TANKLE THE CANCEROUS ECONOMIC CRISES FACING THE AMERICANS RATHER THAN LASHING OUT ON BARACK OBAMA AND TERRORIST RELATION.
Give it up. That was 40 years ago. Don’t you people have anything else to do. I am a registered INDEPENDENT but you just help me make up my mind who I will vote for and it is BARRACK OBAMA. People no longer believe you folks and your inudendoes and Sarah Palin only knows what she is being fed. Send her back to Alaska. It is so sad to see people having to stoop so low.
It is about time. The Dems and MSM sure haven’t done it.
It’s about time for the Republicans to start fighting back, I’m so tired of seeing them taking it sitting down. If they want to win this election they are going to have to fight back. If they call themselves “MAVERICKS” they better start walking the talk, he is a war hero he cant let the LIBERALS win. Obama is going to destroy our country!!!!!!!!
It’s about time the candidates started talking about Obama’s connection to terrorists. The last thing our country needs is a terrorist’s friend in the White House!
Thank you Gov. Palin!
Sadly Sarah has more testicular fortitude, heart and brains than the Presidential candidate himself, who seems hell bent on losing the election any way he can.
She is of course correct and hopefully we’ll here more truth to perversion as Sarah tells it.
Obama is perverting America, our goals and ideals.
GO SARAH. Tell the people who are yet undecided what that leftist Obama has really been up to. What his TRUE beliefs are. He will go the way of Jimmy Carter, playing the fool on foreign affairs and placing American lives at risk. And that really doesn’t matter to him. He went to Iraq (only after hitting the campaign trail and getting hit for it in the press) and did NOT meet with our troops. He simply met with generals and leaders of Iraq. This man doesn’t care about the young lives of our brave men and women, and doesn’t have the wisdom it takes to command them.
Go for it, he deserves every bit of it, everyone handles him with cotton gloves
go for it, time to hit hard
It’s about time she hit him with that, even if it was at a fundraiser.
Go McPalin!
You go “Sarah” this is what i was waiting!!! Finally someone is bring out the dirty truth that the leftist in this counrty is trying to pullover our heads! And O’bama is more than willing to sell this country off to them, to achieve his goal to play GOD!
About time this issue is brought up now lets explore other issues that main street media is ignoring. Go Soccer Mom
Absolutely correct. Get the word out. Most people have no idea about what Obama stands for and his real values.Most people are so hungry for a change in our economy and this country that they cant see the truth for the smoke and mirrors. Seems the new generation America has forgotten what made this country great. We need real hereos again like John McCain.
we need to get rid of barny franks and pualson and put a woman in charge they can run a household a a state females always hold people accountable for there actions and where the money gets spent
She cannot even put together a well spoken sentence! Where is her proof that he is “palling around” ? She has ghosts in her closet from her younger years but if we mention those, people scream.
Perhaps someone should let Governor Palin know, since she’s only been at this for 5 weeks and apparently didn’t read it in all the newspapers and magazines that they put in front of her, that this smear has been out for over a year now. If no one has been able to find a sinister connection between Obama and Ayers by this point, it’s time to let it go.
When you did yourself into a hole, the first rule is stop digging.
But I do have a question: If Bill Ayers is a terrorist, then why is he teaching at a University? Why hasn’t the government arrested him?
FINALLY!!!! Thank You Dear Gov. Sarah Palin for exposing what the mainstream media won’t!!!!!! This is absolutely frightening! The people (voters) have EVERY right to know this information!! Obama needs to do some explaining! The media cannot keep sweeping this affiliation with Wm. Ayers under the rug! Do. Gov. Palin, Go!!! We give you our full support to start exposing the TRUTH! Next…ACORN and his affiliation with Saul Alinsky! Yikes!!!
Jane
FINALLY
I agree with Governor Palin regarding her remarks concerning Obama and the terrorist/militant Bill Ayers. Mr. Obama has reportedly rejected Mr Ayers activities but has reportedly become his friend and visits him in his home. Mr. Ayers has been reported as stating recently that he was “proud” of the anti-american violence he participated in. Mr. Obama is not bothered by this. Apparently Mr. Obama is not bothered by anti-american violence or the very anti-civilization Mr. Amendinajad.
Fox should get a life and lay off the lies and scare tactics.
screw yo Fox
In as far as candidate Obama’s circle of associations who have made the most serious ‘influence’ on who he is, I remain extremely concerned about his former pastor. That man had a direct influence into the soul of Obama. Listen very close to some of the things Obama has said during his campaign. Occasionally, it sounds as though he is but an eloquent reflection of the ranting of the pastor.
In as far as Sarah Palin is concerned… from what we can all see, she has nothing to hide, nothing. Her lack of experience will not be an issue. She has a short, yet solid past of conservative value determined to reform, and I would trust her to make the correct decisions when faced with critical issues. At no time has she attempted to be anything other than who she is, as a mom, and a governor. That is the real question here. Who will make the best choices, decisions for America, the most liberal candidate in 100 years and quite likely the most liberal ticket in the history of elections; or, or more centered approach that has a valid history of working as a bi-partisan, all to get things accomplished. John McCain may have had a respect for the current administration, but by no means will he emulate the same approach to the Presidency. We need answers from both sides and a socialist government is just not the solution. Conservative values are exactly what we need at this critical juncture. Values that can be adhered to, through the rule of better and more precise law, not by crippling regulations that inhibit or mandate growth. Such as the mandate to make loans to those who should have never received them.
May we choose wisely!
It’s about time someone from the Republican Party spoke up.
Even Fox News is in the tank for Obama. Look at your webpages…..
I know the media will win this election, not Obama. McCain will lose to the Media.
I guess you are trying to appease Obama so when he becomes President
he will come on your network (yes, we know what you are doing).
The very newspaper story Governor Palin cited in hurling her shameless attack made clear that Senator Obama is not close to Bill Ayers, much less ‘pals,’ and that he has strongly condemned the despicable acts Ayers committed 40 years ago, when Obama was eight. What’s clear is that John McCain and Sarah Palin would rather spend their time tearing down Barack Obama than laying out a plan to build up our economy,” This is outrageous. McCain and Palin should FOCUS ON THE ISSUES THAT ARE AFFECTING OUR LIVES: HEALTH CARE, ECONOMY, IMMIGRATION, FOREIGN POLICY, AND SO ON.
1. Are these attacks from the same Sarah Palin who is “currently” undergoing an ethics investigation in the great state of Alaska. The same Sarah Palin that agreed to cooperate in the investigation fully and then decides…because she has something to hide…to go back on her word and not cooperate in the investigation. She and the McCain camp did not think it would be enough that she did not participate, but convince everyone on her staff and her husband not to testify, even after they were subpoenaed.
2. In case you haven’t been around for the past two years, Obama has answered questions extensively about Ayers, Rezco, and his former crazy pastor. Several of the early debates during the democratic primary brought these questions to light. Obama has taken questions on these issues during several news conferences within the past two years. These stories has been written about and covered in all the media outlets within the past two years. I remember Obama complaining that in one of the debates they spent 40 minutes questioning Obama about his so called “questionable” ties. And “NOTHING” has come of it. And do you know why…Because just like the “bridge to nowhere” this story is “POINTLESS.”
3. Is Obama responsible for what someone on a community board did 30 years ago? Let me answer that or you-NOOOOOO! If you answer yes, that means that everyone you know, casually knows, lives in your neighborhood, attends you church, works with you, etc. would be considered a liability once you decide to run for public office. I think not. In that case, lets check out all those hockey moms that Mrs. Palin frequently mentions.
4. Maybe they should try to attack something Obama himself “actually” did.
5. You want to talk about character and judgement…Mrs. Palin is “CURRENTLY” under an ethics investigation, John McCain “CHEATED” on his wife, Mr. Palin has a “DWI.” and was part of a “radical” group that wanted Alaska to succeed from the USA, and the Palin’s have a pregnant teen daughter.
6. Just like Jesus told the accusers of the woman at the well who was caught in the act of adultery, Let he who has not sinned cast the first stone…I think I hear some stones dropping.
YOU GO GIRL…. I believe that he might be part of the MoB to.
I think its a legitmate question to ask. OReilly asked it and Obama did not have a good legitmate answer. Obamas associations with Rev Wright to Ayers and Rezko are questions he has not answered very well. Now the questions with ACORN and voter fraud and ACORNS close association
with Baracks Campaign leave us all with much doubt.
ABOUT TIME! …and it’s NOT too late, just as an athlete in training needs to pace their training to peak RIGHT before the meet…now MCCAIN
people who lives in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
u go girl. Get him then go after our “Dear Leaders” in Washington. Let us now who was responsible for all that pork on the rescue bill . They should have tried to help the american people. Not put us deeper in debt
the device she is using sucks. what we want to know is policy and things that matter.whoever his friends are, where ever he has been dint stop Obama from getting this far. too doggone late Palin.
I just looked up information on Bill Ayers, All of this happened years ago Obama was 8 years old . He is a collage teacher in Chicago now. I am a registered Republican , maybe not for long.
YES, it is about time that the GOP starts to hit on these facts! I live in Western Michigan and will be voting for the McCain/Palin ticket, have been seriously disappointed that Senator McCain hasn’t hit on these issues with Obama. Thank God, that Gov. Sarah Palin is going there. Do people not see what Barak is all about, he touts change but what exactly is it going to cost America if he is elected. I pray that Tuesday’s debate is more so like the Vice Presidential debate was this past week. The Liberial media has such a free hand at attacking the conservative Christian view point it is appalling. We cannot be afraid to go there on Obama, it must be factual…how about PARITIAL BIRTH ABORTION. 30 days to go, lets draw that deep line in what defines the parties.
I am praying for our candidates GOP and more so that what needs to surface on Obama would review the man he truly is, the hollywood polish does not impress me. The more hollywood, Barbara Walters and her liberial gal pals talk the better it is for the majority of America to be decisive, go ahead late night keep it up, ABC news Charlie Gibson what has happened to your ratings, the majority of America cannot relate to these liberial viewpoints. All these actors who think their viewpoint matters do they not realize what they are; actors reading from a script is this suppose to impress me to vote for their liberial candidate. Do I think they relate to how I live, what matters to me….give me a break and go read your scripts!!!
GO McCain/Palin and please don’t give up on Michigan!!!
I am so glad Palin is bringing this important connection to the surface, because the media has all but ignored it. William Ayers participated in bombing the NYC police station, the United State Capital, and The Pentagon. There is no question he was closely tied to Obama. Ayers hosted a “meet and greet” in his home for Obama. They served on two boards together for over 8 years, one of which Ayers was instrumental in starting. Ayers has said “I don’t regret setting bombs” and “I feel we didn’t do enough”, and, when asked if he would “do it all again” as saying “I don’t want to discount the possibility. This close connection with Ayers should definitely disqualify Obama. As Palin said, we could be one generation away from a dictatorship, especially if we elect someone that obviously is OK with terrorism. I wouldn’t serve on a board with or let someone host a party for me that proudly bombed three government agencies, and I certainly wouldn’t vote for someone who would.
Obama is an educated man and he certainly should have know Ayres was a terrorist before he chose to associate with him, so he has no right to complain now that he is linked to him- or any of the other undesirables he has made a history of hanging out with.
Dear Sarah,
Those that live in glass houses, should not throw stones.
I lived in a communist country and came over as a refugee years ago. Obama smells like communism. If you were born in the US and lived here all your life, you do not have your senses developed in that regard. TRUST ME! Communism comes upon you unexpectedly, then like leprosy, refuses to go away. Just like acid it slowly eats at the fiber of a nation until it makes everyone poor and destitute. It starts with great talkers who have hidden agendas. These people did not accomplish much in life, but elbowed themselves from nothing to power. People that love themselves and manipulate the masses to the detriment of the country. Their greatest, dangerous deficiency is a hidden, selfish, and non-patriotic character. With a charismatic, buddy like attitude, they’ll use the crowds by making the poor hate the rich while in themselves look down on the masses of people despising them as a bunch of fools,.. a mere vehicle of getting to power. If Obama gets there he’ll feed us sorrow and pain. Do not dismiss my warning. Do not be naïve. If the dam bursts, it will bring holocaust and will be impossible to stop. You will wrinkle your hands feeling like an accomplice. There is a real choice available??????????. Choose the real patriot, who has a demonstrated record and wisdom shaped by adversity and experience.
Weak….people are already leary of the Republican Party, do you think we swallow everything you say now?
We do our own research now….We live in the age of the Internet….we can google everything that comes out of your mouths…
Wake up RNC….
We are not stupid
I lived in a communist country and came over as a refugee years ago. Obama smells like communism. If you were born in the US and lived here all your life, you do not have your senses developed in that regard. TRUST ME! Communism comes upon you unexpectedly, then like leprosy, refuses to go away. Just like acid it slowly eats at the fiber of a nation until it makes everyone poor and destitute. It starts with great talkers who have hidden agendas. These people did not accomplish much in life, but elbowed themselves from nothing to power. People that love themselves and manipulate the masses to the detriment of the country. Their greatest, dangerous deficiency is a hidden, selfish, and non-patriotic character. With a charismatic, buddy like attitude, they’ll use the crowds by making the poor hate the rich while in themselves look down on the masses of people despising them as a bunch of fools,.. a mere vehicle of getting to power. If Obama gets there he’ll feed us sorrow and pain. Do not dismiss my warning. Do not be naïve. If the dam bursts, it will bring holocaust and will be impossible to stop. You will wrinkle your hands feeling like an accomplice. There is a real choice available??????????. Choose the real patriot, who has a demonstrated record and wisdom shaped by adversity and experience. Benjamin C.
It’s about time that they start shedding more light on these associations! I can’t believe that our media has not covered the COMPLETE LACK OF JUDGMENT that Obama has shown with his association over the years.
I have to say, I can’t understand how anyone can feel comfortable with Obama’s desicions knowing his associations with people (Wright, Ayers, etc.) that dislike America so much.
Good, now she needs to use the “M” word, Marxist and mention Saul Alinsky and the radical notions of “Community Organizers” and what that really means.
About time!
Palins comments are despicable and untrue. It’s apparent that McCain’s campaign is desperate and stooping to new lows. Predictably the next 30 days will be an onsaught of trash throwing by McCain’s campaign to defile Obama’s character. Any doubts I may have had about voting for Obama have evaporated by the careless, ruthless and offensive nature of this campaign.
Wow! About time someone actually said it out loud, or is the bia media muffler been taken off?
Any way you add this up, the terrorists want Obama to win because they know he plans to cut the military and intelligence services … AND, THEY ALSO KNOW THAT OBAMA WILL PROBABLY NOT RETALIATE AFFTER AN ATTACK.
It’s about time! how on earth a man with Obama’s past is a heartbeat away from the most important job in the land is a miricle of biblical porportions!
It’s too bad McCain won’t stand up for his own campain. He has to rely on his VP choice.
You go, girl!
VOTE McCAIN/PALIN! Of course those who criticize Palin point out that the NYT article’s theme was actually that Obama’s relations to Ayers were not close. But that’s a preemptive spin, because they know part of the truth is going to come out soon, and want to mitigate the reaction in Obama’s favor.
That’s the Obama campaign’s basic tactic. If you are aware of something damaging that is bound to be discovered, take control by spinning it first. Hence the Fight the Smears website, especially designed to put out fires by putting benign interpretations on whatever tidbits leak out.
I agree with Gov. Sarah Palin. I think Senator Obama’s past should be front and center issues.
SORRY TO HEAR ABOUT THE ILLINESS IN JOE BIDEN FAMILY HOOWEVER IS HE NOW GOING TO STEP DOWN AND GIVE A SHOT TO HILARY AS HAS BEEN REPORT ALL AROUNG THE INTERENT THAT HE WOULD MAKE HIS ANOUNCEMENT AROUND OCTOBER 5TH AFTER HIS DEBATE THIS LOOKS LIKE THIS RUMOR MAY BE TRUE
Of course NYT will downplay Obamas association with Ayers. Obama funded Ayers with money from Annenberg. But the NYT happens to omit this. Stan Kurtz has been reviewing the Annenberg papers. Here is the link for an article about his UNBIASED findings…
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MTViMGRmMmYxZTgwZTFjYmFjODU5YzM4Y2MwM2ViMjY=
shocking.. Palin says something outrageous and uninformed. come on.. it’s going to take more than that to get my vote back.
How come this woman tie a then 8-years-old Obama to a war protestor 40 years ago. I expect this from Sara Failin but not from John McCain (I’m sure he approved it). What happened to the old McCain. The last tiny drop of integrity that he had is gone. I just can’t believe that.
Let Sarah be Sarah. She tells it like it is. Obama was wrong to pal around with a known terrorist.
Oh give it a rest Palin. I believe the only thing of substance you said at the debate was ’stop talking about the past.’ Straight talk my foot…
we are getting desperate aren’t we? the guilt-by-association ploy would have kept the current dodo out of the white house!!!
Duh Squared!
I can’t believe that the media has ignored the extremist radicals this guy has been closely associated with but yet yap endlessly about far milder stuff about Palin.
Tell’m Sarah. This issue has been out there for months and no one would touch it.
obama has terrorist friends and he should not get a security clearance.
obama should not be president, he is a fraud.
It’s about time this charlatan was exposed for what he really is, a fraud.
Good for Sarah! His past associations keep rearing their ugly heads and then sinking back into the mire. The McCain camps need to keep this out in the open lest the voters forget that Obama’s very murky background and the sleezy company he keeps.
Wow, really looking for the dirt even if it’s fictional. Instead, let’s talk about McCain and his association with he Keaton Five. From a California savings & loan, Keaton was illegally using the bank’s customers money to give loans to himself and friends that they didn’t have to repay, and to speculate on risky real estate investments.
Keating wined, dined, and lavished with hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign donations and personal gifts for years to five U.S. Senators. McCain was one, and the S&L went under.
Next let’s talk about McCain’s association with . . .
hate her
Gov. Palin ought to be carefuly who she accuses of “palling around” with terrorists. Ayers was indeed a member of the Weather underground, some 40 years ago. But it was McCain, along with Rick Davis who much more recently, “palled around” with noted Russian aluminum baron/gangster-terrorist Oleg Deripaska. Deripaska, a crony of Putin and a member of the Kremlin in-crowd, is not even currently allowed in the U.S. due to his alleged criminal undertakings. And the last time he was, he was questioned at length by the FBI. Ayers is an old radical, but this relationship is far more worrisome.
I heard that Ayer’s nickname for Barack is Obomber. Their own little inside joke on America