Former Congressman Les AuCoin (D-OR) and his wife, Susan, are barnstorming battleground Ohio for Obama and Biden in the last month of the campaign. This entry is from AuCoin's Ohio Political Journal blog, recounting their experiences on the stump.
Columbus, Ohio Well, all right! We be here, Ohio, and on Wednesday we start stumping. Our only mishap on the 2,000-mile plus trip: a flat tire in Richmond, Indiana, on the Ohio border--clearly one of the first acts of McSame's Negative Offensive ...
Like a marionette, Sarah Failin’ followed McCain's orders to start sliming by smilingly barking about Obama “paling around with terrorists.” Her reference is to Bill Ayers, a founder of the Weather Underground, a group that took credit of non-fatal bombings of the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol when Obama was a child.
(Ayers is--and was, when Obama met him--a Distinguished Professor of Education at The University of Illinois at Chicago, worked with Mayor Richard Daley to reform Chicago public schools, and was one of three authors of a successful $49.5 million private foundation proposal to finance those reforms.)
Smearing is what happens to a candidacy like McCain’s,when it has run out of things to talk about.
But, John Boy, if you want to talk about associations, be careful.
See, John, you were rapped by the Senate ethics committee (as an adult) for “paling around” with Charles Keating, the S&L swindler you tried to protect (as an adult), and you were complicit in the savings and loan debacle that cost Americans $160 billion in savings.
Having learned nothing from that experience, John, you joined Senator Phil Gramm (as an adult) in deregulating the banking, securities and insurance industries and –a move that made possible the risky Wall Street wheeling and dealing that has cost Americans more than $1 trillion in savings and investments and is worsening by the day.
Just checked with my schedulers. I told them I want to speak in as many union halls as possible. The blue collar vote here may make the difference. Ohio has lost 250 thousand manufacturing jobs during the Bush years, with McCain’s support (as adult).