Air time for Ayers time

What John McCain refused/was scared (in Barack Obama's words) to say at two debates, his campaign is now allegedly* saying in a new TV commercial: Obama's connections to 60s terrorist Bill Ayers is a sign of bad judgment.

Obama has repeatedly dismissed the attack as a sign of desperation, pointed out Ayers sat on a Republican-funded board with him and that his connections aren't deep.

The McCain camp, pointing out the two had political connections and are neighbors as well, dispenses with much of the details and uses Ayers as a segway to question how Obama would handle the economy. The ad also bridges the divide between the two camps of Republican thought: That McCain should be all Ayers all the time, or that he should be all about the economy.

Consider: At a rally yesterday a citizen demanded McCain talk more about it. But one Republican presidential strategist said the Ayers attack misses the mark, saying it's akin to attacking George Bush after 9/11 for his ties to Enron's Ken Lay (it's just not what people really care about). What's more: Some people might like one Weather Underground/Ayers bombing target: The New York Stock Exchange.

*allegedly because precious few McCain ads have appeared on Florida TV, though that's likely to change in the closing weeks.

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[Concerned]

Charlene Davis, co-director of the election board in Jackson County, where Kansas City is, said the fraudulent registration forms came from the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN. She said they were bogging down work Wednesday, the final day Missourians could register to vote.

"I don't even know the entire scope of it because registrations are coming in so heavy," Davis said. "We have identified about 100 duplicates, and probably 280 addresses that don't exist, people who have driver's license numbers that won't verify or Social Security numbers that won't verify. Some have no address at all."

[Kylie]

This is crazy! I am no longer just looking at this as politics. These rally remind me of hate speech and crazed supremicist. And African American camera just doing his job was targetted by those in the crowd.

No one stopped it. No one said anything.
No spoke up.