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A new robocall from GOP presidential candidate John McCain and the Republican National Committee invokes the name of 1960s-era radical Bill Ayers and his connection to Democratic nominee Barack Obama.
According to Politico, the robocall is being sent out to voters in key battleground states. The ad claims that Obama “worked closely” with Ayers.
The two served on an education board in Chicago along with other citizens, Democrats and Republicans alike. Factcheck.org, a nonpartisan group that checks the veracity of politicians’ claims, wrote the following:
What we object to are the McCain-Palin campaign’s attempts to sway voters – in ads and on the stump – with false and misleading statements about the relationship, which was never very close. Obama never “lied” about this, just as he never bragged about it. The foundation they both worked with was hardly “radical.” And Ayers is more than a former “terrorist,” he’s also a well-known figure in the field of education.
It is pretty clear that with this robocall, the McCain campaign is continuing its strategy of making Obama sound dangerous and out of the mainstream.
It also seems that McCain himself is off-message with his own campaign. It was just hours before, in the final presidential debate, that McCain said, “Mr. Ayers, I don’t care about an old washed-up terrorist.” McCain then went on to discuss the ties between Obama and Ayers.
Talking Points Memo noted two other robocalls in battleground states. Those calls said that Obama would not keep America safe and that Obama put “Hollywood above America.”
The transcript of the call:
Hello. I’m calling for John McCain and the RNC because you need to know that Barack Obama has worked closely with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, whose organization bombed the U.S. 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. This call was paid for by McCain-Palin 2008 and the Republican National Committee at 202-863-8500.
The Guardian wrote on July 4, 2003, that the Weather Underground consisted of “urban terrorists who never killed anyone – except themselves.”
Two members of the Weather Underground accidentally killed themselves while attempting to plant a bomb.
The Guardian also said the Weather Underground “always struck at night, in empty offices, and gave detailed advance bomb-warnings.”
Of course, none of this excuses what the Weather Underground did, but it is also false to claim that Ayers’ organization “killed Americans.” Unless, of course, the McCain campaign means the two members of the Weather Underground.
