David’s Blog of Common Sense

Throughout the last months of the campaign John McCain tried to peg Senator Obama with his ties to Bill Ayers, a known and unrepentant terrorist.  Time after time, Obama denied these claims saying he merely served on a board with Ayers and lived in the same neighborhood.  However, in a Chicago Sun-Times article, Bill Ayers paints a much different picture.

“We had served together on the board of a foundation, knew one another as neighbors and family friends, held an initial fund-raiser at my house, where I’d made a small donation to his earliest political campaign,” he writes.

But right-wing commentators tried to use those connections to smear Obama, he says.

“Obama’s political rivals and enemies apparently saw an opportunity to deepen a dishonest narrative about him, that he is somehow un-American, alien, linked to radical ideas, a closet terrorist, a sympathizer with extremism,” Ayers wrote.

Ayers was the purported “terrorist” Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin was referring to when she claimed that Obama was “palling around with terrorists.”

This seems a little more than “just a guy in the neighborhood,” as Obama stated in one of the debates.

If Senator Obama cannot be truthful with us about his relationships with terrorists in the campaign, what will he be dishonest about in the Presidency?  Looks like stooped to any level, including deceiving the American people, to win this election.