McCain questions Obama's link to '60s radical

By PHILIP ELLIOTT, Associated Press Writer

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By Beth Boehne

Story Created: Oct 9, 2008 at 6:07 PM EST

Story Updated: Oct 9, 2008 at 6:07 PM EST

WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — John McCain is questioning Barack Obama's ties to a 1960s radical.

In his strongest criticism of his presidential rival, McCain told a Wisconsin town-hall crowd: "We need to know the full extent of the relationship."

Obama and Ayers, now a college professor, live in the same Chicago neighborhood and have served together on two nonprofit organization boards. The Illinois senator, who was a child when Ayers' group committed acts of domestic terrorism, has denounced Ayers' radical views and actions.

McCain's running mate, Sarah Palin, first accused Obama of "palling around with terrorists."

Obama told ABC News that the GOP ticket is highlighting the link to Ayers to "score cheap political points."

Friday, Oct 10 at 7:06 PM No Spin Jen wrote ...

I am disgusted that America has come to this. John McCain should be ashamed of himself and Sarah Palin has no shame. I believe inciting riots charges should be filed against them both if riots happen..

Friday, Oct 10 at 6:42 PM I was voting for McCain wrote ...

McCain's slezzy campaigne is to much hate and americans dont need that. so im voting for Obama now.They're making it personal, against the Democrat. Shouts of "traitor," "terrorist," "treason," "liar," and even "off with his head" have rung from the crowd at McCain and Sarah Palin rallies, and gone unchallenged by them.The Secret Service confirmed Friday that it had investigated an episode in which someone in Palin's crowd in Clearwater, Fla., shouted "kill him," we need hope not hate..Obama 08

Friday, Oct 10 at 4:46 PM Ex-Democrat wrote ...

I was strongly considering voting for Obama, but the current situation with ACORN and his associations with Rezko and Ayers have changed my mind.

Friday, Oct 10 at 9:26 AM Anon wrote ...

Anyone that votes for Obama is no less than an idiot!!!

Friday, Oct 10 at 6:57 AM Really? wrote ...

Are you kidding me, Joe? Why don't you look up the facts here and wake up. Every one of your statements is a direct consequence of people who manipulate us by telling half truths. ACORN is a problem. The writer in Kenya was there for violating Kenyan law, regardless of the truth of his fiction. The church leader was denounced. Patriotism is not about the flag. He states he was against the war, but he didn't have a chance to vote. Think before speaking (writing).

Friday, Oct 10 at 6:28 AM thereal joe wrote ...

Ahhhh, yeah

Thursday, Oct 9 at 11:12 PM Exrepublican wrote ...

I was voting for McCain till he started this campagne of hate and he is tearing the republican party apart lots of congress seats will be lost because of this bad leader...

Thursday, Oct 9 at 9:48 PM THE AYERS/OBAMA TIMELINE: part 3 wrote ...

2008 = Obama, in response to ABC News, tells a national TV audience he was “six years old” when Ayers bombed federal buildings, and that they are only casual neighborhood acquaintances.

Thursday, Oct 9 at 9:46 PM THE AYERS/OBAMA TIMELINE: part 2 wrote ...

1995=Ayers makes Obama Chairman of Annenberg Challenge 1995=Ayers hosts a coffee klatch for Obama’s political debut (Obama falsely claims this is when he met Ayers) 2007-2008=The structure of Obama’s presidential campaign increasingly comes to resemble an Ayers-designed national “community organizer matrix” straight out of Maoist theory.

Thursday, Oct 9 at 9:44 PM THE AYERS/OBAMA TIMELINE: part 1 wrote ...

1981-1983=William Ayers and Barack Obama meet at Columbia? 1987=William Ayers links up with Barack Obama in Chicago 1988=Ayers solicits Khalid Al-Mansour to raise money for Obama’s Harvard law School education 1989=Tom Ayers and William Ayers get Obama a summer job at Sidley & Austin (where he meets Michelle Obama); Ayers’ wife Bernadine Dohrn also worked at Sidley at about the same time as Barack and Michelle. 1993=Ayers places Obama on Woods Foundation

Thursday, Oct 9 at 8:17 PM joe wrote ...

hello? friends with a terrorist? what about acorn with its sug night scare tactics on banks? did anyone catch the story about the guy who was held in a kenyan prison for trying to expose this dangerous person running for the presidency? is everyone so scared to offend a black man that you can't talk about the white/jew hating church he attended? who wouldn't put an american flag lapel pin on because he hated the usa? thet guy who voted against iraq war b4 he was in the senate? wake up america!!!

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