New McCain Ad Slams Obama on Ayers, Economy
By Jim Rutenberg
NYT
In his increasingly slashing campaign against Senator Barack Obama, Senator John McCain this morning released a paint-peeling advertisement that highlights Mr. Obama’s relationship to Bill Ayers, one of the Weather Underground founders.
The spot calls Mr. Obama a liar, blames liberal Democrats for the sub-prime mortgage crisis, and, in giving them a traditionally Republican label, blames them for pushing “deregulation.” The campaign says the commercial will air nationally. So far this morning, using the television monitoring service ShadowTV, we have found that it has only been shown by news programs — once on MSNBC and once on WINK-TV in Florida – and has not run yet as a paid commercial.
Mr. Obama and Mr. Ayers had worked together on two non-profit boards in Chicago, including that of the Annenberg Challenge, an education project that was funded with a huge grant from the former Nixon administration official Walter Annenberg and which also had on its board a Republican donor and former Nixon aide Arnold Weber. Mr. Weber has donated $1,500 to Mr. McCain this election cycle, according to federal giving records.
The “liar” line of attack by the McCain campaign has developed over the past couple of days. Mr. Obama has indeed at times sought to play down his association with Mr. Ayers, whose group bombed domestic targets in the 1970’s. But as evidence that “he lied,’’ Mr. McCain’s campaign highlighted only Mr. Obama’s April statement that, “This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who’s a professor of English in Chicago, who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He’s not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.”
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NYT
In his increasingly slashing campaign against Senator Barack Obama, Senator John McCain this morning released a paint-peeling advertisement that highlights Mr. Obama’s relationship to Bill Ayers, one of the Weather Underground founders.
The spot calls Mr. Obama a liar, blames liberal Democrats for the sub-prime mortgage crisis, and, in giving them a traditionally Republican label, blames them for pushing “deregulation.” The campaign says the commercial will air nationally. So far this morning, using the television monitoring service ShadowTV, we have found that it has only been shown by news programs — once on MSNBC and once on WINK-TV in Florida – and has not run yet as a paid commercial.
Mr. Obama and Mr. Ayers had worked together on two non-profit boards in Chicago, including that of the Annenberg Challenge, an education project that was funded with a huge grant from the former Nixon administration official Walter Annenberg and which also had on its board a Republican donor and former Nixon aide Arnold Weber. Mr. Weber has donated $1,500 to Mr. McCain this election cycle, according to federal giving records.
The “liar” line of attack by the McCain campaign has developed over the past couple of days. Mr. Obama has indeed at times sought to play down his association with Mr. Ayers, whose group bombed domestic targets in the 1970’s. But as evidence that “he lied,’’ Mr. McCain’s campaign highlighted only Mr. Obama’s April statement that, “This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who’s a professor of English in Chicago, who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He’s not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.”
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