"There's been a lot of interest in what I read lately. Well, I was reading my copy of today’s New York Times and I was really interested to read about Barack’s friends from Chicago. Turns out, one of his earliest supporters is a man who, according to The New York Times was a domestic terrorist and part of a group that, quote, ‘launched a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol,'" Palin said today, according to a transcript distributed by the campaign. "These are the same guys who think patriotism is paying higher taxes. This is not a man who sees America as you and I do - as the greatest force for good in the world."This is someone who sees America as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists who targeted their own country," Palin concluded, in the hardest shot of the statement. (Italics mine)
This level of attack is to be expected from a campaign running out of places to turn. And Palin's set-up is clever enough, but what's striking about her statement is that it belies the fact that she clearly didn't read the article, which concluded that there wasn't much of a connection between Obama and Ayers.
Hunch: This shit won't play. Americans are looking for solutions to the myriad problems they face, not swift-boat level attacks. There is something unseemly about all this and it's a far cry from change.
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