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Obama asks DOJ to censor political ad

Posted 26 Aug 2008 in 2008 election, Barack Obama, intolerance, terrorism, William Ayers


Sounds like Barack Obama is following the stellar traditions of Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, Leon Trotsky, Nicolae Ceauşescu, Mao Zedong, Kim Jong-Il, Vladimir Lenin, and Joseph Stalin; all of whom used the power of the government to silence any criticism of their “cult of personality”.

william_ayers_2001DENVER (AP) – Barack Obama is striking back fiercely and swiftly to stamp out an ad that links him to a 1960s radical, eager to demonstrate a far more aggressive response to attacks than John Kerry did when faced with the 2004 “Swift Boat” campaign.

Obama not only aired a response ad to the spot linking him to William Ayers, but he sought to block stations [airing] the commercial by warning station managers and asking the Justice Department to intervene. The campaign also planned to compel advertisers to pressure stations that continue to air the anti-Obama commercial.

It’s the type of going-for-the-jugular approach to politics many Democrats complain that Kerry lacked and that Republicans exploit.

Obama’s target is an ad by the conservative American Issues Project, a nonprofit group that questions Obama’s ties to Ayers, a founder of the Weather Underground organization that took credit for a series of bombings, including nonfatal explosions at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol four decades ago…

…Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor said Obama supporters have inundated stations that are airing the ad, many of them owned by Sinclair Communications, with 93,000 e-mails. He called the ad false, despicable and outrageous.

I’d like to hear just what is false about Obama’s admitted friendship with unrepentant terrorist William “I don’t regret setting bombs…I feel we didn’t do enough” Ayers?

Obama launched his political career at an event at Ayers’ home in 1995, long after Ayers’ participation in the bombings of the New York City Police Headquarters in 1970, the Capitol building in 1971, and the Pentagon in 1972. And he continued to work with Ayers, appearing with him on the Woods Fund of Chicago panel until 2002.

That is despicable and outrageous, but hardly false. It’s just not the hope and change we thought we knew.
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UPDATE: Michelle Malkin calls it “Bullying You Can Believe In” and details Obama’s intimidation and legal threats against his critics.

UPDATE: Jim Geraghty absolutely destroys Obama’s lame “Ayers did that when I was 8 years old so it doesn’t matter” excuse:

Why is McCain talking about the sixties? He isn’t. He’s talking about Obama’s relationship with Ayers over the past two decades or so, and Obama’s comfort working closely with a man who built bombs to kill American soldiers and cops.

UPDATE: Others blogging Obama’s radical roots;
JustOneMinute, Jonah Goldberg, Hugh Hewitt, Allahpundit, Rhymes With Right, American Daughter, Atlas Shrugs, In One Ear, Real Clear Politics

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