McCain Prepares Rezko Ad; Wright “Now Fair Game”; GOP 527 Attacks

The American Issues Project today announced the debut of a new television advertising campaign examining the relationship between Sen. Barack Obama and unrepentant 1960’s domestic terrorist, William Ayers. The ad — entitled “Know Enough?” — begins with a simple, yet pointed question: “Beyond the speeches, how much do you really know about Barack Obama?”
Supported by over one hundred pages of back-up documentation and historical accounts, the American Issues Project is using this ad to shed light on Obama’s friendship with Ayers, the former leader of an American terrorist group known as Weather Underground.

McCain Prepares Rezko Ad; Wright “Now Fair Game”; GOP 527 Attacks
The Atlantic
Sen. John McCain’s campaign is finishing a hard-hitting television ad highlighting Barack Obama ‘s ties to shady Chicago land dealer Tony Rezko, the one-time Obama patron who was convicted earlier this summer of fraud.
A campaign official said that the decision to Go Rezko was Obama’s. “He’s opened the door to this,” the official said.
The ad will be released to network news divisions in time for their broadcasts tonight.
Though McCain is widely perceived to to drawn first blood by attacking Obama’s character, the official said that the difference between Obama’s mocking McCain for his wealth and his shaky answer on the number of homes he owns was that McCain’s charge “reflects an existential reality,” where Obama’s charges “attack Cindy. She owns the homes. I thought he said the wives were off-limits.”
McCain strategists hope that Obama’s brass knuckles punch doesn’t work. “Americans don’t like this class warfare stuff,” the official said. They aspire to be rich, the official said. They don’t aspire to eat arugala or hang out with celebrities.
Earlier in the news cycle, McCain’s press team invoked Obama’s friendship with a former member of the Weatherman, William Ayres, and an official said that even Obama’s former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, “is now fair game.” The official declined to say whether the campaign was contemplating running an advertisement linking Obama to Wright.
McCain also released a second web video mocking Obama as “The One.”
A group called the American Issues Project said it launched a 2.8 million television ad buy highlighting Obama’s ties to Ayres. The group calls itself “an organization representing a coalition of activists committed to raising conservative issues both during and after the election.”
It includes longtime Republican activists like Ed Failor, Jr. of Iowa. Failor was a McCain adviser in the state. The ad will air in Ohio and Michigan.
Here’s the script:

Narrator:
“Beyond the speeches, how much do you know about Barack Obama?
What does he really believe?
Consider this:
United 93 never hit the Capitol on 9/11.
But the Capitol was bombed thirty years before –
By an American terrorist group called Weather Underground that declared ‘war’ on the U.S. –
Targeting the Capitol, the Pentagon, police stations and more.
One of the group’s leaders, William Ayers, admits to the bombings, proudly saying later:
‘We didn’t do enough.’
Some members of the group Ayers founded even went on to kill police.
But Barack Obama is friends with Ayers, defending him as, quote,
‘Respectable’ and ‘Mainstream.’
Obama’s political career was launched in Ayers’ home.
And the two served together on a left-wing board.
Why would Barack Obama be friends with someone who bombed the Capitol…and is proud of it?
Do you know enough to elect Barack Obama?
American Issues Project is responsible for the content of this ad.”

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Wild Thing’s comment…………
John and Cindy McCain could own 1000 homes, so what? I could care less. There’s no showing he got any of them illegally or as a result of shady political deals.
McCain’s people aren’t playing softball. He clearly has an expert team. I hope that 527 really hits Obama with Wright again. He spent 20 years in that church and you better believe if McCain was caught dead being a member of a church pushing White supremacy he’d be dead meat. Black Liberation theology is racism pure and simple.
Obama has been going ballistic because HE got caught in a lie when he said he didn’t vote for killing innocent babies after they had been aborted and might still be alive. He brought up the houses the McCain’s own to try and get the press off his butt so Obama by doing that he is the one that opened the gate.
So a question for Obama, since you attacked Cindy McCain, does this mean that “Michelle Angry Mabelle” is now fair game too??? Just curious.
It’s the mid 1970s and the Weather Underground Organization (WUO), a radical (and violent) offshoot of the Students for a Democratic Society.
Underground
Documentary/interviews with the Weatherman Underground while they were on the run for bombings and deaths.
UPDATE on information: For the Democrats that lurk and read this blog. ……..
According to this John McCain himself dows not own any of the properties.
Politico
McCain family owns 8 properties
John McCain’s family owns at least eight properties — not the seven Democrats are alleging.
Sen. McCain himself does not own any of the properties. They’re all owned by Cindy McCain, her dependent children and the trusts and companies they control.
Brian Rogers, a McCain spokesman, did not question Politico’s analysis, but said his boss’s bungling of the how-many-homes question is a nonissue.
“Voters care a lot more about candidates’ personal ethics than about how many houses or residences or doghouses that John and Cindy McCain own,” he said. He questioned efforts by McCain’s Democratic rival, Barack Obama, to exploit the issue, given that Obama benefited from a 2005 land deal with the wife of convicted Chicago businessman — and former Obama fundraiser — Tony Rezko that expanded the Obama family’s newly purchased $1.65 million homestead.
“The reality is that Barack Obama purchased his million-dollar mansion in a shady deal involving a convicted felon, and it raises questions about his ethics and judgment,” said Rogers.