SARAH PALIN has sunk to new lows in claiming that Barack Obama 'pals with terrorists' because a former member of the Vietnam War-era US Weather Underground supported Obama's first run for public office 13 years ago.
Leaving aside the fact that you can't stop people from supporting you, Sarah Plain conveniently overlooks the fact that her party leader, George W Bush, renewed diplomatic relations with Libya only two years ago. Only last month, Condi Rice visited the 'pariah state' and met Moammar Gaddafi, whom former President Reagan once labelled "this mad dog of the Middle East".
Does Sarah Palin think Dubya and Condi now 'pal with (former) terrorists'?
I think we should be told.
Story from RTÉ News:
http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/1005/uselection.html
Palin says Obama pals with terrorists - Sunday, 5 October 2008 09:37
The US Republican vice-presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, has accused Democratic candidate Barack Obama of being pals with terrorists.
With the Republicans trailing in the polls a month before the Presidential election, Ms Palin said the time had come to take the gloves off.
Speaking yesterday at a fundraiser in Colorado, Ms Palin told supporters Senator Obama 'is someone who sees America it seems as being so imperfect that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country.'
Her comment referred to William Ayers, who supported Barack Obama's first run for public office in 1995.
The relationship between Senator Obama and William Ayers, a member of the radical 1960s group the Weathermen that committed bombings on the Pentagon and the Capitol, was highlighted in The New York Times yesterday.
Governor Palin's sharp jab is in step with recent Republican campaign statements that the McCain camp plans to launch a fierce assault on Barack Obama with the presidential election only 30 days away.
The Obama campaign described the attack as 'desperate and false.'
'Governor Palin's comments, while offensive, are not surprising, given the McCain campaign's statement this morning that they would be launching Swiftboat-like attacks in hopes of deflecting attention from the nation's economic ills,' said Obama-Biden spokesman Hari Sevugan.
'What's clear is that John McCain and Sarah Palin would rather spend their time tearing down Barack Obama than laying out a plan to build up our economy,' he said.
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