McCain and Palin have come out swinging, and it’s about time. Barack Obama is the most inexperienced and radical candidate to ever be nominated for President, and people need to know who he really is. McCain finally attempted to illustrate this today here and here. See Palin here.
The first thing I noticed in these rallies is that people are excited to hear McCain and Palin bring up Obama’s connections to Ayers, and his involvement in defending Fannie and Freddie while benefiting from them. People are livid. There are those who are buying the Democrats’ class warfare, blaming greed on Wall Street and the Republican administration. Anyone who spends 15 minutes looking into this issue, outside of the NYT and WaPo, can see the truth about this economic crisis. The people who are seeing the truth want to hear about it from McCain.
In the meantime, Obama’s campaign manager defended Obama today in front of their friends in the MSM. Listen to Axelrod’s response (and Robert Gibbs’) to Obama’s association with Ayers here. Axelrod claims that Obama didn’t know of Ayers’ radical past when Ayers helped launch Obama’s political career with a mid-90s fundraiser. I’m not surprised the MSM didn’t follow up with any of the obvious questions, like “What does it say about Obama that he didn’t know about Ayers when he lead the CAC with him, or when he endorsed Ayers’ book?” or “Do you really expect the American people to believe that?”
I pose these questions to all readers: when you interview for a job, do you not have a good idea about the business the employer does? If you are appointed to lead an organization, do you not have an idea of the ideology of that organization or its other leaders? Is Obama insulting our intelligence, knowing the MSM will cover for him, or is it possible that he really was so naive to not know who he was dealing with? Does the answer to either question say anything positive about this man running for President?
For a man who has written about his infatuation with the 60s, does Obama really expect us to believe he didn’t know about one of the most radical, anti-American figures of that time? Even if he didn’t, Obama still joined the CAC with Ayers. While the Democrat talking points, as we saw this weekend in the NYT, are that the CAC was a nice little educational reform organization, a closer look shows it was a radical anti-establishment organization that promoted the Ayers’ extreme agenda. Who decides to lead an organization whose principles and ideology are not aligned with their own?
Much of the problem making this point comes from people’s lack of understanding what the CAC is, and what Ayers’ ideology represents. It doesn’t do much good to say Obama shares views with the people of an organization when they don’t know the organization. The MSM is doing its best to avoid telling people, which is why McCain and Palin need to bring it up.
If McCain hits Obama at the debate tomorrow like he did today, Obama will be on defense all day long. His only counter-punch will be a weak charge of the Keating Five, which McCain can use to his advantage if he explains that the lessons he learned have lead him to the path of regulatory and campaign finance reform. The gloves are finally off. Will the American people see the real Obama in the next four weeks?
