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Greg Sargent - October 16, 2008, 1:57PM This McCain campaign robocall tying Obama to William Ayers may be the worst one yet. The McCain campaign and the Republican National Committee are pumping a robocall into multiple states that directly alleges that Obama has "worked closely" with "domestic terrorist Bill Ayers," whose organization has "killed Americans," according to multiple reader reports and an audio recording we listened to. The caller begins by announcing that he's calling on behalf of McCain and the RNC. the call continues: "You need to know that Barack Obama has worked closely with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, whose organization bombed the US Capitol, the Pentagon, a judge's home, and killed Americans. And Democrats will enact an extreme leftist agenda if they take control of Washington. Barack Obama and his democratic allies lack the judgment to lead our country." The call concludes by saying it was "paid for by McCain-Palin 2008 and the Republican National Committee." An Ohio reader played us the call over the phone, and we'll have audio for you soon. A second reader, Bruce Shortz, a self-identified entrepreneurial businessman in New Mexico, confirms to us that he received a call with the same script, as did a third reader in Minnesota. Indeed readers are reporting having received Ayers robocalls all over the country: In New Mexico, Colorado, Wisconsin, Ohio, North Carolina, and Missouri. Okay, to recap: We now have three McCain robocalls, at least two of which are being pumped into multiple battleground states. One questions Obama's patriotism, charging he put "Hollywood above America." The second says that Obama and Dems "aren't who you think they are" and says they merely "say" they want to keep us safe. And now we have a third one that says Obama "worked closely" with a "domestic terrorist" who bombed the US Capitol and the Pentagon and killed Americans.
user-pic McCain Still Receives Big $$$s from Keating S&L Figure Linked to BCCI and Organized Crime Posted by leveymg in General Discussion Thu Aug 21st 2008, 06:18 PM A lot of people are familiar with S&L crook Charles Keating's illegal contributions to John McCain in the 1980s. What most don't know, however, was that Keating was implicated in the BCCI takeover of a number of S&Ls, including his own. Carl Lindner, an Ohio billionaire with CIA and underworld connections who owned Chiquita Bananas, was Charles Keating's original partner, banker, and mentor. Lindner got Keating wrapped up with schemes involving the usual cast of BCCI characters, shady Saudi bankers, the Bush family, and Iran-Contra money laundering. Keating was always a sort of pass-through guy, without any real money of his own. But, a lot of money flowed through Keating to McCain and his wife, Cindy, in an Arizona real estate scam. Lindner who was recently convicted of financing Right-wing death squads in Colombia, is still giving big, dirty campaign checks to McCain. Now, that's a story that the American people need to hear. leveymg's Journal - THE CRIMES AND COVERUPS OF JOHN McCAIN, "REFORMER" Jun 3, 2008 ... Like the Bush Family, McCain had his Hand in the BCCI and S&L Scandals McCain claims that his involvement in the Keating S&L scandal wasn't ...
user-pic They receive the robocall and they STILL could give a rat's ass about Ayers. Seriously, this story, this fictional talking point, is DEAD. Or maybe the whole University of Chicago is a terrorist organization.
user-pic All the polls over the last week have shown that Ayres is *not working* for McCain. So why the hell is he going for these robocalls about Ayres and equally desperate topics?
user-pic It's going to only get worse from here on out because with the final debate last night, McCain can no longer be questioned about his campaign smears and gutter attacks. Wright being brought up though - they want to save that for the final week to make sure it's fresh in voters minds.
user-pic But then there would be a rebuttal of such ad with McCain saying he ran for no great cause in 2000, but pure ambition (even though when he announced his candidacy for that election he said it was not for ambition, but some great cause) - tapes of both remarks exist. Also there is a tape of McCain saying he's likely be retired by this time, saying he thought he'd be too old for the Senate.
user-pic It's not about McCain's age, it's about his readiness and motivation. If he thought he'd be too old for the Senate when asked about running again in 2000, well the President's job is much more vigorous an undertaking. And regarding his motivation, he lied about it before, is he lying again? Does he just want to be President to finally outrank Daddy and Grand Daddy?
user-pic And you should probably look at the polls that ask about McCain's age. A not insignificant chunk of the population is pretty uncomfortable with the notion of a 72 year old president.
user-pic I seriously doubt that the supposed numbers of "undecideds" is anywhere near accurate. It also seems rather obvious that at least some of those in the televised groups are faux-independents, attempts by both campaigns to drive a bandwagon effect towards their candidates.
user-pic I really think that McCain yearns for the good ole' days before the internets and Youtubes. These robocalls are a pretty sly way to sneak a dirty ad in, without it getting much Youtube and internet play. Nice to know that it takes an outside source to make McCain appear honest, he is unable to do it on his own.
user-pic This is all just a prelude to "El Robocall Ultimato" in which one picks up the phone and just hears, "No, no, no, not God Bless America - God DAMN America!
But there's little indication that McCain won't use every weapon at his disposal. And targeting voters his campaign thinks might be open to the Wright attack would seem a move they'd be willing to take.
user-pic I received this in PA as well -- you'll note that it has a wrong phone number tagged at the end. The number mentioned goes to a DC area obstetrics office.
user-pic Completely disgusting, and par for the course for the dishonorable John McCain. Please remember these last couple months of the campaign next time any of you feel the slightest urge to 'feel sorry for' either McCain or Sarah Palin.
user-pic Of course this is an absurd attack, but it would be a mistake to simply laugh it off. I recommend something along the lines of "the Republicans are so paranoid and delusional, they're seeing conspiracies in their morning grapenuts."
user-pic Maybe we should write a script and all of us Robo call his Arlington headquarters office over and over for a few days, 1/2 shifts each so we don't get too tired.
I could swear I heard several people yell "Kill Obama" during a lull in McCain's speech. But then McCain acknowledged them and just said "hold on let me tell you something."
user-pic Wasn't it a robocall campaign that was used against McCain in the 2000 SC Repub primary, when they spread the story that he had a black child from an extramarital affair?
user-pic I don't think we should make any distinction between the two of them or the entire GOP for that matter. Pardon my language, but goddamn I hate these fascist motherfuckers. When we win this - and we fucking will - we need to utilize the grassroots resources that Obama has built to revamp the electoral process so that it is beyond the ability of these evil goddamned bastards to ever cheat the electorate again.
user-pic What's annoying is that it takes 6 years for retribution, and that's still in the air. Any voter fraud or wrongful tossing of new voters off the roles won't be settled until WAY after this is over.
user-pic This may be wishful thinking but based on how these attacks have been playing in the polls so far, I think the reaction of a typical swing voter receiving this will be, "What the fuck does this have to do with the fact that I can't make my mortgage payment and my employer's about to do another round of layoffs?"
user-pic That's just where he ought to be living - Idaho. You got that just right - a big heavily armed compound in Idaho. All this fucking nonsense and it's all another big fat lie. ...
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