Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Obama: McCain camp brings up Ayers to score points

Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama said Wednesday that Republicans are highlighting his association with a former 1960s radical in an effort to "score cheap political points" in the final weeks before the election.

During campaign stops last weekend, Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin criticized Obama's ties to William Ayers, a founder of the violent Weather Underground group blamed for several acts of domestic terrorism during the Vietnam War era, when Obama was a child.

Palin first accused Obama of "palling around with terrorists," then recalibrated her criticism to say the lack of clarity about the Ayers-Obama …

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