Bill Ayers

Final Debate: McCain Brings Up Ayers, ACORN

The Huffington Post | Sam Stein | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics

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McCain goes where he hasn't before in a debate: Bill Ayers. "We need to know the full extent of that relationship," he declares. Then he accuses the c...

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Bill Ayers, Blackberries and John McCain

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics

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Lincoln Mitchell

The Bill Ayers issue underscores just how out of touch John McCain is with the country he seeks to lead. It is also, for many Americans, just another way for John McCain to tell us he is old.

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Rush Limbaugh: Blacks Training Children As Militants (LISTEN)

Crooks And Liars | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics

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As we are witnessing, the conservative movement is in shambles now and the only thing they can do is spew racist hatred out into the world and hope i...

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Lynn Sweet: McCain Misleading Public On Obama And Ayers

Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics

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Barack Obama continues to be attacked by John McCain and other Republicans for his relationship with Bill Ayers, the former terrorist turned respected...

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Days of Rage

Thomas Frank | Posted 11.15.2008 | Home

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Thomas Frank

On the first night of the Republican convention, back in September, the theme was "Service." Speaker after speaker mounted the rostrum to tell about t...

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Bill Ayers Speaks: 'Life Happens'

Chicago Tribune | James Janega | Posted 11.15.2008 | Chicago

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As his name was tossed back and forth Tuesday in the fury of the presidential campaign, 1960s radical William Ayers spent the day as he often does, w...

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In Iraq And At Home, We Are A Nation At War

Rachel Farris | Posted 11.15.2008 | Home

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Rachel Farris

Our nation has been conditioned to become a firing squad of hate, absolving ourselves of our crimes overseas by conformity here at home. John McCain and his spotter Sarah Palin have set their sights on the bullseye, Barack Obama, and are blatantly firing-at-will.

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McCain Campaign Manager In '04: "Nothing Is More Discomforting Than a Smear Campaign"

Bill Scher | Posted 11.14.2008 | Politics

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Bill Scher

Rick Davis went on to urge the 2004 presidential nominees "to publicly order their supporters not to go there," as that was "[t]he only way to stop the expected mud-slinging."

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Penguin vs. Batman Debate: Is John McCain The Penguin?

Cenk Uygur | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics

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Cenk Uygur

Look at how prescient the creators of the television series Batman wound up being this many years later.

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Who Else 'Worked With' Bill Ayers?

Posted 11.13.2008 | Chicago

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"Behind in the polls and running out of time to change the subject from the sinking economy, the McCain/Palin campaign has gone hyper trying to morph...

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I'm Afraid...

Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics

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Charles Karel Bouley

How many of you have gotten a credible death threat? I have. In fact, I get them all the time, via email, text message, telephone. As one of the very...

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John McCain's Big Problem

Brad Mirman | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics

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Brad Mirman

The issue the McCain campaign feels is giving them the most traction is an ugly one, and not worthy of someone who wants to lead the most powerful nation on earth.

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McCain Changes Desktop Wallpaper

Eric Schmeltzer | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics

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Eric Schmeltzer

Like a computer that froze, the spin goes, McCain is rebooting everything, starting today.

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Clinging To Religion And Our Hotmail Accounts

Tracy Lea Carnes | Posted 11.13.2008 | Home

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Tracy Lea Carnes

How can this email be wrong we ask ourselves? After all, it did come from Edna and she's president of the Lady's Church Guild for crying out loud.

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Ayers and the McCain-G. Gordon Liddy Symbiosis

Carl Bernstein | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics

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Carl Bernstein

There has been virtually nothing on the Liddy-McCain relationship in the major newspapers and broadcast networks -- is Liddy any less a domestic terrorist than Bill Ayers?

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The Ugly Implications of McCain and Palin's Questions

Cenk Uygur | Posted 11.12.2008 | Politics

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Cenk Uygur

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?"

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Ad Wars: McCain ACORN Assault - Obama Must Fill In The Blanks

Michael Hughes | Posted 11.12.2008 | Home

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Michael Hughes

Political communications consultant Mike Hughes, special to OffTheBus, deconstructs the latest campaign ads, frame by frame. McCain launched a creati...

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Dinner With Bill Ayers

The New Republic | Richard Stern | Posted 11.11.2008 | Chicago

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The political word today is that the Republicans will return to personal attacks on Obama and Biden to draw attention away from McCain's erratic perfo...

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Abuse of Power, Anger and Abortion Politics: Extremism Exposed

Scott Swenson | Posted 11.11.2008 | Politics

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Scott Swenson

Maybe McCain's last act of patriotism for the country he loves is exposing extremist elements by picking Palin and making Americans more aware of how this Culture of Lies has taken root.

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McCain: Stop the "Hate Talk Express"

Karen Russell | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics

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Karen Russell

We just don't have time and energy for the low road. There is just too much at stake.

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McCain Now Tying Michelle Obama To Ayers

Talking Points Memo | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics

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The McCain campaign is now broadening their attack on Obama's past association with William Ayers to include Michelle Obama -- even though McCain has ...

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The Bill Ayers Distraction

Dennis Perrin | Posted 11.10.2008 | Media

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Dennis Perrin

I carry my share of misery, but a fair number of reactionaries must have ceaseless raging fear in their heads. Isn't real life awful enough? Why the need for even worse alternate realities?

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Guilt By Associations

Mike Lux | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics

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Mike Lux

I decided to put together a list of people with frightening beliefs and/or criminal backgrounds that McCain and Palin are tied to. We should all push to make the traditional media really dig into these relationships.

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Chicago Annenberg Challenge Explained

Education Week | Dakarai I. Aarons | Posted 11.10.2008 | Chicago

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The Chicago Annenberg Challenge, chaired from 1995 to 1999 by Barack Obama, is being portrayed by some critics of the Democratic presidential nominee ...

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I Did the Research: Billy Ayers Is an Irrelevant Show-Off

Susan Braudy | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics

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Susan Braudy

Why am I not surprised that Ayers, master of publicity is once more making front page headlines. I'm betting he's thrilled.

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