The Ugly Implications of McCain and Palin's Questions

Sarah Palin keeps asking people to ask more questions about Barack Obama. Now McCain has joined in on this refrain. But I don't get it. What more do they need to know? They keep saying he has to answer more questions about Bill Ayers, for example. But he has answered every ridiculous question on this topic a hundred times over. So, what are they really looking for?

It's not the McCain and Palin really think there is some deep and pertinent question that the media just has not gotten to yet about Obama's so-called relationship with Ayers. Otherwise, why don't they ask it themselves? Why doesn't John McCain take the next debate as an opportunity to ask Senator Obama about any profound question he has about Bill Ayers or any other disturbing connection Obama has?

The reason they don't do this is because there are no real questions there. This is a ploy to raise doubts in people's minds about Obama. They have nothing, but it's easy to say, "What else is Obama hiding?" The implication is that Barack Hussein Obama has more terrorist connections he is not telling us about. But since that is patently ridiculous and shameful, they can't say it out in the open. So, they hide behind the implications of questions like, "What else is he not telling us?"

What I want a reporter to ask Sarah Palin and John McCain is, "What is that you think Senator Obama is hiding? You keep asking the question, so you must think there is an answer. What is it? What is Senator Obama not telling us about Bill Ayers or anyone else?"

They don't have answer to that. Because they're real objective is to smear Obama as "the other." Palin has said several times in her rallies that Barack Obama is not like the Americans she knows. Someone should also ask her what she means by that. Then she brings up Ayers and "palling around with terrorists." It's not hard to see the picture she's drawing. Obama is not one of us. Look at his name; be careful, he is one of them.

They don't have the nerve to say it out aloud, so they hide behind their questions and implications. It is a despicable strategy and it has turned this into the ugliest presidential campaign I have seen in my lifetime.

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Comments

[daniel4261]

McCain and Palin ... based on the way they are acting now ... would probably demonstrate their Christianity by saying that Jesus, by his teaching about "let he who is without sin cast the first stone", said it was not only OK to stone people but that they should hurl stones by the truck load.

Fortunately a lot of hot air passing over their larynxs is still just hot air ... and it only has as much power as WE give it.

[BryantG]

Hey Cenk, keep up the good work.

The McCain campaign is one big distraction. It fills up air time with with those rediculous questions to keep people from paying attention to real issues and questions.

The sad thing about it all is that it's creating a climate of unjustified hatred directed against Obama.

[prcleburne]

Sarah Palin addresses the Alaskan Independence Party's national convention as governor and tells it to " Keep up the good work." This is a seccessionist organization. Would she tell the Confederate states national convention, as candidate for VP, and tell them to " Keep up the good work " ?

[Michale32086]

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Sarah Palin addresses the Alaskan Independence Party's national convention as governor

Would she tell the Confederate states national convention, as candidate for VP, and tell them to " Keep up the good work "
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You are asking two different questions here, laying out two COMPLETELY different scenarios.

You are also over-emphasizing the AIP issue. Practically every state in the country has a "secessionist movement".. It's really not that big of a deal..

Michale.....

[DJ23]

"Practically every state in the country has a "secessionist movement".. It's really not that big of a deal."

Is Bill Ayers a big deal to you?

Specifically Obama's thin association with Bill Ayers. Is that a big deal to you?

Also, as you asked earlier, can YOU allow for the possibility that someone might feel that the AIP question IS a real issue of today?

[sfinneganus]

I was born in the early 70s and as long as I can remember this election has polarized our country far beyond anything I remember in my lifetime. I clearly have added to the mud-slinging on the left with around 100 posts if you include my personal blog, TYT, kos, and Hpost. Maybe I am overly optimistic but I hope to not experience an election like this again. Do I think the country will be less polarized after the election if Obama wins? I think under the best of scenarios with a great economy the partisan politics will be just as ugly if not more. The only thing I think will cause a reduction in many of the long-standing resentments is when this Vietnam era generation starts to die off. Unfortunately we still have at least a decade for that to happen. I have had enough of politics driven by the ancient history of swift boats and Bill Ayers. I am interested in real issues of today.

[Michale32086]

Let me ask you a question. Sincerely and honestly..

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Can you allow for the possibility that someone might feel that the Ayers' question IS a real issue of today?

Can you accept that, as passionately and as morally correct as you feel opposing the "Ayers' question" that there is someone who is equally passionate and equally morally "correct" in thinking that the "Ayers's question" is an important one?

Can you accept such a premise?

Michale.....

[bkovitz]

Before the "Ayers question" was asked and answered many times over, I could accept that premise. Not anymore.

If you really want to know the facts about this long-debunked smear, please take a look at factcheck.org:

"McCain says in an Internet ad that the two 'ran a radical "education" foundation' in Chicago. But the supposedly 'radical' group was supported by a Republican governor and included on its board prominent local civic leaders, including one former Nixon administration official who has given $1,500 to McCain's campaign this year. Education Week says the group's work 'reflected mainstream thinking' among school reformers. The group was the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, started by a $49 million grant from the Annenberg Foundation, which was established by the publisher Walter Annenberg, a prominent Republican whose widow, Leonore, is a contributor to the McCain campaign."

http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/he_lied_about_bill_ayers.html