Comments on: Everything old is new again: The McCain camp revives the Bill Ayers non-story

By: John K

John K — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:22:48 +0000

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003870402
‘NYT’ Raises Obama/Ayers Link — But In Chicago, No Big Deal,

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=77075
N.Y. Times whitewashes Obama-Ayers connection
Fails to report key connections, ignores incriminating documents given to paper
Posted: October 04, 2008
By Aaron Klein

By: Eric Ferguson

Eric Ferguson — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:38:11 +0000

Kev, you act like this story hasn’t gotten any attention. It’s been scrutinized pretty thoroughly. Face it, there isn’t much of a connection.

justwonderin, Obama doesn’t own or control those records. He gets nothing to say about their release: http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/08/barack_obama_records_sealed_at.html

Besides, McCain has his own tawdry connections which have received little attention. I haven’t heard anything about Donald Diamond since this story came out: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/22/us/politics/22diamond.html?_r=1&ex=1209528000&en=ec5e90047b6169b9&ei=5070&emc=eta1&oref=login

By: justwonderin

justwonderin — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:59:11 +0000

if this story is nothing why won’t Obama be a bit more forthcoming and just answer the questions and release the sealed records about the non-profit and Obama’s association. Obama hadn’t been a model of openness and expect the public to take him at his word. But it’s alway the other way around for McCain.

By: David Noon

David Noon — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:26:53 +0000

What on earth about the Ayers connection is worth more scrutiny than it’s already received? There’s nothing scandalous in the least about it; indeed, what’s striking about your generic and usefully idiotic insinuations is that they universally fail to specify precisely what these “radical, militant ideas” are supposed to have been. The Kurtz piece in the WSJ was completely vacant as far as specifics are concerned — it contained nothing regarding the curricula that ABC was implementing, so it’s hard to take his ominous phrasing seriously.

But hey, don’t let me stop you. I happen to think that Iraq’s WMD were non-existent and that the Clintons didn’t actually murder Vince Foster, so I’m hardly a credible source in what I assume is your world.

By: Kev

Kev — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 05:55:17 +0000

You really think his connection with Bill Ayers isn’t worthy of scrutiny? What bothers me more than anything is Ayers desire to teach his radical, militant ideas to children in the public school system and Obama’s willingness to help make that happen.

It’s only a non-story to you because you’ve already decided who you’re going to follow and no amount of reality will now change your mind. Keep it up with your mindless hope and desire for “change.” That’s exactly what you’re supposed to do. They don’t need your pro-action, necessarily; they just need you to be a useful idiot.