Bill Kristol: To Help Economy, McCain Should Talk About Ayers

The economy is in tatters and shambles, and it's tattering and shambling its way along no matter what bailouts and rescues and Jim Cramer rant choruses are thrown at it. Now's the time for our presidential candidates to show leadership and vision, right? Not according to Bill Kristol, who thinks America needs to find out if our market woes weren't actually caused by a secret plan, hatched during a meeting of the Annenberg Challenge, in which Barack Obama and William Ayers agreed to use Weather Underground mind control techniques to convince Henry Paulson to stand back and do nothing while Ayers terror-bombed Lehman Brothers with his radical liberal derivatives. That's the basic gist of what Kristol was spitting at Fox News Channel this afternoon, as he stoically made the case for McCain going negative, forever. Why can't America understand that everyone got deep into bad mortgages and crazy credit default swaps because Barack Obama attended a Chicago Machine Church?

[WATCH.]

KRISTOL: The economy will be center stage but I disagree with some of the advice that McCain is giving. Saying you have to talk endlessly about the economy. These attacks on Obama on Bill Ayers and Reverend Wright don't matter. I don't agree. It is a severe economic crisis and McCain and Obama don't know what they would do. They both supported the bailout. It's not clear except on taxes that there are huge divisions about what to do with the credit markets. McCain has to show is he concerned about it and willing to be a strong leader and say look, when you're in a crisis you have to judge the character, the judgment, the background of the person you are putting in charge, that's more important than trying to evaluate the details of Obama's plans on credit swaps. I don't think we will be able to judge what the best way to handle bad debt. So McCain has to tie the economic crisis to Obama's character and judgment and say who you want in charge in difficult years, who is up to the job, liberal democrats who has hung out with characters, do you want him to run the country. That's got to be the core of McCain's message.

Comments

[anthead]

President Obama should sign an executive order and make these right wing talking heads disappear.

[trollsbwild]

Kristol is a very sick man. Why hasn't the times fired him yet?

[patianneb]

Holy crap. I just judged the alleged character of this Krist0l guy.... OK ... I WOULD have....bu­t couldn't find evidence of one.

[kymlosang]

what????? this guy speaks about as clearly and insightfully as palin does. i now see why they are soul mates in ignorance. birds of a feather.

[Mike4Obama]

Bill Cristal is everything that is wrong with this country. He needs to move to the South Pole after this election and never show his ugly face again.

[ekwbowen]

Hang on a sec.... Billy Crystal is a fine comedian, helper of the homeless and the greatest Oscars host since Carson.

Bill Kristol is a seriously misguided conservative pundit who is currently leading Sarah Palin down the road to destruction. He'd like to lead John McCain down the same bad road. Go BillK!

[newshawk14]

I would suggest the North Pole instead, where he might help out a starving polar bear.

[abigail1]

Then should Democrats talk about the fact that McCain sat on the board of the US Council for World Freedom? Or his friendship with G. Gordon Liddy, or Charles Keating, or Rod Parsley? Or Rev Hagee's endorsement, or Rick Davis's lobbying for Freddie Mac, or Sarah Palin's witch hunting pastor Thomas Muthee, or the secessionist AIP or Sarah Palin's $25,000 in back taxes?
Just wondering.

[ChrisCann]

Ya thats real smart. the voters want to know about their 401k so lets tell them about Ayers. the voter wants to know if they will be able to get loans so lets talk about wright. the american people will see right through this. I HOPE. if 2004 taught us anything there are some real stupid people out there. its almost comical that they expect people to believe this when they came right out and said that their plan was to distract. They make me sick.

You see palin white suites the last two days. all she was missing was the hood to complete it. they are going to insite violence with these rallys. you see yesterday that a camera man was racially insulted after the rally because he was black. thats real change right?

[progressivelady]

Yes, it only make's sense with what's going on in our country and the world that we talk about ayer's and wright, but then I want to hear about Keating 5, and hagee and gambling problem's and Rick davis taking money from freddie and fannie. make's perfect sense, let's talk about the non issue's facing our world

[judyc]

This a$$ thinks that Palin is qualified to be president.

Is there something he knows that I don't know?

[Grunty1]

He thinks he is always right, when the reverse is the truth.

[LehiBoy]

Given Bill's accuracy in previous predictions and advice, I hope McCain listens to him. Bill is a perfect prognosticator for what not to do, but don't tell John McCain that.

Obama has already gotten ahead of these attacks by pointing out that McCain is avoiding substantive debate, so any mention of Ayers, etc., will only backfire on McCain. We've seen it all already, and have chosen to ignore it.

[zzjeff]

What is really sad is that Palin and her ilk basically hate Jews, regardless of what they say about Israel. Where is Kristol when Sean Hannity uses a confirmed anti-Semite as the main source of his show on Obama?

[catinca]

HMMM
Mc Cain is an adulterer & Palin has an AIP connection. What does that say about their character?

[justobserve]

To help the economy, Obama should not answer what Brokaw and McCain want to hear but talks about the economy straight to the audience! McCAIN-2008: FIGHTING AGAINST McCAIN-2000. PALIN: EMPTY-HEADED FRAUD, PROMISED OPENNESS BUT SECRETIVE IN GOVERNMENT. GAMBLE OUR COUNTRY WITH TWO DIVISIVE, RECKLESS MAVERICKS IN THE WHITE HOUSE?

[Kindheart]

And how is Ayers connected to the economy? And while we speak about that, let's chat about Sarah's association with the AIP. Enough of this garbage, talk about the economy because it sure does look that it is going down the tubes, rather quickly, I might add.

[edwcorey]

Kristol is the result of affirmative action. Like Bush and McCain, he's "reared his head" by riding the shoulders of his father. None of these guys would be anywhere near the level they've occupied without that connection. In their world, scum rises to the top. In a head.