Dirty Sleazy politics, robo calling engages people in a phoney conversations then blasts a cursing obama sound clip
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zeitgeist
Oct 17 '08, 23:41
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he's surprised at "scummy" tactics employed by Republican John McCain's presidential campaign and "can't believe John McCain knows what's going on."
Reid held a news conference Friday to call on McCain to stop sending automated phone calls attempting to link Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama with one-time radical William Ayers.
The robo-calls, sent Thursday in several states, said Obama "worked closely with domestic terrorist" Ayers. Obama, a child when Ayers was active in the Weather Underground in the late 1960s and early 1970s, has denounced Ayers' radical views and activities.
The robo-call message was repeated in a campaign flier mailed this week by the Nevada Republican Party. The four-page mailer calls Ayers a "terrorist, radical, friend of Obama" and contains several images of both men.
"I can't believe that (McCain) knows that they're doing this," Reid told The Associated Press, suggesting the Arizona senator had made a promise not "engage in something like this."
"If he knows and he's done this, it sure isn't right for John McCain, a person that millions of Americans look to for leadership. This is not leadership, when you do this scummy stuff," Reid said.
The McCain campaign says the calls are warranted because Obama's connection to Ayers raises questions about the Democrat's judgment and record.
"This an association that is highly questionable and not out of bounds," McCain spokesman Rick Gorka said.
Obama has said Ayers, now a University of Illionois professor, hasn't been involved with his campaign. While he lives in Obama's neighborhood in Chicago, there's no evidence he and Obama ever were close friends or that Ayers advised Obama on policy.
Ayers co-founded the Weather Underground in 1969. The group claimed responsibility for bombing several government buildings, including nonfatal explosions at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol. A fugitive for years, he surrendered in 1980. Charges against him were dropped because of prosecutorial misconduct.
In 1995, Ayers held a meet-the-candidate session at his home for Obama as he prepared to run for the Illinois Senate. The two also served on the boards of two nonprofit charitable organizations in Chicago.
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