As Campaigns Go On The Attack, Obama and McCain Keep Quiet

By: Maria Gavrilovic
Topics: Campaign '08

(CBS)

From CBS News' Maria Gavrilovic:

(ASHEVILLE, N.C.) - While Barack Obama and John McCain rarely utter the words "William Ayers" or "Keating Five", their campaigns have spent a lot of time talking about their opponents' associations in recent days.

Months ago, both candidates vowed to run a "respectable campaign" but they now appear to believe that if they are not directly involved in the attacks that they are exonerated from blame of running a negative campaign.

Take John McCain for example. He spent the entire weekend in Sedona, Ariz., behind closed doors – not a peep out of him – while his running mate, Sarah Palin, went from event to event arguing that Barack Obama is "palling around" with terrorists. Palin was referring to a New York Times article about Obama's ties to Weather Underground founder, William Ayers. Both newspapers and the networks ran sound bites of Palin's charges against Obama, but there were no quotes from John McCain himself.

The Obama campaign, meantime, is striking back a 13-minute web "documentary" highlighting John McCain's role in the Keating Five scandal. There is plenty of video of John McCain in the documentary that the campaign hopes will be broadcast on television and viewed by millions on the internet.

This comes on a day when Obama will be spending the majority of his day behind closed doors preparing for Tuesday's presidential debate. He briefly appeared in public this afternoon to make a statement on the economy, but he refused to take questions from reporters who asked him why his campaign brought up the Keating Five scandal.

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by nina281 October 7, 2008 3:53 PM EDT: McCain and Palins hypocrisy and transparent attempt at smearing will focus back onto them. Obama was 8 years old when Ayers and his wife where charged but never convicted. His anti-war philosophy, although very radical at the time was unpopular but he was not involved in blowing up toilets in federal buildings himself. Ayers was voted as Chicago%u2019s citizen of the year for his work on teaching school children peace and funding raising for impoverish communities in need of school supplies. I think it%u2019s safe to say if he is a terrorist in this day and age, he%u2019d be in Guantanamo right now.

However, the Palins have no excuse. I%u2019m sure they wouldn%u2019t like voters seeing video of Todd Palin%u2019s mentor and peer member Joe Vogler founder of AIP and Governor Palin%u2019s warm welcome to the AIP into her Governorship in her own words captured on news archives along with Vogler in his own words here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmYqRfp6-x8

"The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government," Vogler said in the interview, in which he talked extensively about his desire for Alaskan secession, the key goal of the AIP.

"And I won''t be buried under their *** flag," Vogler continued in the interview, which also touched on his disappointment with the American judicial system. "I''ll be buried in Dawson. And when Alaska is an independent nation they can bring my bones home."-Joe Vogler.; Reply to this comment


by diggyzazz October 6, 2008 7:42 PM EDT: McCain%u2019s tenuous grip on the facts is here:

www.brasschecktv.com/page/325.html

His dark past is here:

www.keatingeconomics.com; Reply to this comment


by newslink October 6, 2008 6:45 PM EDT: Does MCcain know the definition of fairness? He was holded up this weekend. To dig in the Past. So he does not have to deal with the Future . He is an Old Relic of the Past. These people don''t change. These type of attacks, shows the mind-set of these People. God, Help them!; Reply to this comment