Censorship Obamastyle

"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?"

-- "Attack ad" by American Issues Project highlighting the ties between liberal Democrat nominee-in-waiting Barack Obama and unrepentant domestic terrorist William Ayers.

That was then: Obamabuddy William Ayers, The "Respectable"

This is NOW!

"I don't regret setting bombs. I feel we didn't do enough."

-- William Ayers, "mainstream" Obamapatron, shortly before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, on bombing the Pentagon, the U.S. Capitol and other government buildings in the 1970s as a member of the domestic terrorist group "Weather Underground."

"The fact that Barack Obama chose to launch his political career at the home of an unrepentant terrorist raises more questions about Senator Obama's judgment than any TV ad ever could."

-- John McCain's spokesman Brian Rogers.



Obama seeks to silence ad tying him to 60s radical
Aug 25 08:47 PM US/Eastern

By JIM KUHNHENNAssociated Press Writer

DENVER (AP) - Barack Obama is striking back fiercely and swiftly to stamp out an ad that links him to a 1960s radical, eager to demonstrate a far more aggressive response to attacks than John Kerry did when faced with the 2004 "Swift Boat" campaign.

Obama not only aired a response ad to the spot linking him to William Ayers, but he sought to block stations the commercial by warning station managers and asking the Justice Department to intervene. The campaign also planned to compel advertisers to pressure stations that continue to air the anti-Obama commercial.

It's the type of going-for-the-jugular approach to politics many Democrats complain that Kerry lacked and that Republicans exploit.

Obama's target is an ad by the conservative American Issues Project, a nonprofit group that questions Obama's ties to Ayers, a founder of the Weather Underground organization that took credit for a series of bombings, including nonfatal explosions at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol four decades ago.

The lone financier of the anti-Obama ad, Texas billionaire Harold Simmons, was also one of the main funders of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth who targeted Kerry. Simmons, a McCain fundraiser, contributed nearly $2.9 million to the American Issues Project, according to documents filed by the group with the Federal Election Commission.

Fox News and CNN have declined to air the anti-Obama ad. But by Monday afternoon, the ad had run about 150 times in local markets in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia and Michigan, according to Evan Tracey, head of TNS Media Intelligence/Campaign Media Analysis Group, an ad tracking firm.

Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor said Obama supporters have inundated stations that are airing the ad, many of them owned by Sinclair Communications, with 93,000 e-mails. He called the ad false, despicable and outrageous. "Other stations that follow Sinclair's lead should expect a similar response from people who don't want the political discourse cheapened with these false, negative attacks," Vietor said. Sinclair offices were closed late Monday and officials there could not be immediately contacted.

"It seems they protest a bit too much," American Issues Project spokesman Christian Pinkston said. "They're going all of these routes—through threats, intimation—to try to thwart the First Amendment here because they don't have an argument on merit."[More]

The fact that the Obama people are reacting so rabidly against the ad tells me that the issue is poison for Obama.

Unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers hosted a fundraiser for Obama when the then "community organizer" first ran for the Illinois senate and served together on the board of the Woods Fund, a left-wing group who hinds behind the legitimate needs of poor people.

Intimidation, shaming and detraction cannot erase Ayers' shameless acts or Obama's disgraceful record of poor judgment.