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1geneg
I really don't like initiating threads, and I'm sure I could have found somewhere else for this, but couldn't in the short time my attention allowed to the search, so here. . ..
2theoria
McCain associated Obama with Bill Ayers. Obama associated McCain with G. W. Bush. It turns out that the latter association was the more damaging one.
3BGP
>1 geneg: Eh. Nothing really new there, unfortunately. In fact, the paragraph which caught my interest hinged on a fact which most of us (from the center to the left) were compelled to lay to rest:
"Sen. Hillary Clinton’s (D-N.Y.) campaign provided the script, which included guilt by association, demonization of people Obama knew (or might have known), creepy questions about his background and dark hints about hidden secrets yet to be uncovered" (emphasis my own).
The "radical" narrative and this foolish obsession with Ayers did not originate with McCain/Palin. Neither the Clinton team nor the former candidate herself should be given a free pass in any discussion regarding the politics of fear.
"Sen. Hillary Clinton’s (D-N.Y.) campaign provided the script, which included guilt by association, demonization of people Obama knew (or might have known), creepy questions about his background and dark hints about hidden secrets yet to be uncovered" (emphasis my own).
The "radical" narrative and this foolish obsession with Ayers did not originate with McCain/Palin. Neither the Clinton team nor the former candidate herself should be given a free pass in any discussion regarding the politics of fear.
4oregonobsessionz
Terry Gross interviewed Ayers on Fresh Air: Which Way The Wind Blows: Bill Ayers On Obama.
