Mentally Ill
It was time to revive the allegation, made over the weekend, that Obama “pals around” with terrorists, in this case Bill Ayers, late of the Weather Underground. Many independent observers say Palin’s allegations are a stretch; Obama served on a Chicago charitable board with Ayers, now an education professor, and has condemned his past activities.
“Now it turns out, one of his earliest supporters is a man named Bill Ayers,” Palin said.
“Boooo!” said the crowd.
“And, according to the New York Times, he was a domestic terrorist and part of a group that, quote, ‘launched a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and our U.S. Capitol,’” she continued.
“Boooo!” the crowd repeated.
“Kill him!” proposed one man in the audience.
Palin went on to say that “Obama held one of the first meetings of his political career in Bill Ayers’s living room, and they’ve worked together on various projects in Chicago.” Here, Palin began to connect the dots. “These are the same guys who think that patriotism is paying higher taxes — remember that’s what Joe Biden had said. “And” — she paused and sighed — “I am just so fearful that this is not a man who sees America the way you and I see America, as the greatest force for good in the world. I’m afraid this is someone who sees America as ‘imperfect enough’ to work with a former domestic terrorist who had targeted his own country.”
This is simply deranged. The McCain campaign is spiraling quickly into cuckoo-bananas territory. So are their supporters. It’s a toxic mix: these people are mentally ill, riled-up paranoids with a persecution complex and authoritarian tendencies. ,a href=”http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/222324.php”>Dangerous and sick people. Marshall sees it too.
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October 7th, 2008 at 10:31 am
The thing that gets me about this whole Bill Ayers thing is that Obama was about SEVEN YEARS OLD when Ayers was active in the Weather Underground. It reminds me of how some tried to blame the “Reagan Revolution” on the gen-Xers - even though we were mostly prepubescent in 1980.