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[6 Dec 2008 | 2 Comments | ]

He really wants you to like him.
“IN the recently concluded presidential race, I was unwillingly thrust upon the stage and asked to play a role in a profoundly dishonest drama. I refused, and here’s why.
Unable to challenge the content of Barack Obama’s campaign, his opponents invented a narrative about a young politician who emerged from nowhere, a man of charm, intelligence and skill, but with an exotic background and a strange name. The refrain was a question: “What do we really know about this man?”
Secondary characters in the narrative included …

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[14 Nov 2008 | One Comment | ]

Celebrity Criminal:

ABC needs to get a clue. Ayers is not just a “Campaign Boogeyman, he’s America’s boogeyman.
“Breaking his silence, Ayers told Chris Cuomo on “Good Morning America” today that the GOP attack was a “dishonest narrative…to demonize me.”
He added, “I don’t buy the idea that guilt by association should have any part of our politics,” he said.
Ayers scoffed at the Republican effort to make his ties to Obama appear suspicious.
“This idea that we need to know more, like there’s some dark, hidden secret, some secret link,” …

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[13 Nov 2008 | 6 Comments | ]

Bill Ayers …Guess what he had to say about his relationship with Obama?
“In a new afterword to his memoir, 1960s radical William Ayers describes himself as a “family friend” of President-elect Barack Obama and writes that the campaign controversy over their relationship was an effort by Obama’s political enemies to “deepen a dishonest narrative” about the candidate.
Ayers describes phone threats and hate e-mail he received during the campaign, and he bemoans Obama’s guilt by association.
During the campaign, Ayers’ friendship with Obama was a favorite subject of conservative bloggers and talk …