Update w/ Video: Obama Goes Up with Ayers Response in Ohio

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Monday August 25, 2008 · 11:49 AM PDT

2008/08/25 · 11:49

This is some good news... here is the transcript of the ad, video coming soon, which rebuffs the anti-Obama Smear ad linking him to 9/11 and William Ayers

Barack Obama: I’m Barack Obama and I approved this message.

ANNCR: With all our problems, why is John McCain talking about the sixties, trying to link Barack Obama to radical Bill Ayers?

McCain knows Obama denounced Ayers crimes, committed when Obama was just eight years old.

Let’s talk about standing up for America today.

John McCain wants to spend $20 Billion a month in Iraq, tax breaks for corporations that ship jobs overseas, selling out American workers.

John McCain, just more of the same.

As noted via Talking Points Memo, the anti-Obama Ayers ad is up in heavy rotation in places like Columbus, Ohio.

Just a quick note to tell you that the "American Issues Project" ad featuring William Ayers is being shown constantly on several channels here in Columbus, including during prime-time on the local Fox affiliate.

I won't post the American Issues Project ad in this diary, for interest of sanity and not spreading their message, though it's worth noting that their sole funder is a McCain bundler who owns a Nuclear Waste Disposal company... Conflict of Interest much there???

The donor, spokesman Christian Pinkston said, is Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons, who made his first fortune in chain pharmacies and is now listed as the 73rd richest person in the world, with a net worth estimated by Forbes at $2.1 billion.

He's listed as a bundler for the McCain campaign on McCain's website, which says he's raised between $50,000 and $100,000 for the Republican candidate.

Simmons was reportedly a major donor to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth in 2004.

He's also a backer of a controversial plan to store nuclear waste in West Texas, which his waste management company would administer.

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