Sarah did a good job of hitting the Obama campaign on his “recent” associations with unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers.
Yet, all the Obama camp and his adoring fans in the media could muster was “he was only 8 years old when the Weatherman bombings occurred.” Of course, that doesn’t begin to address the fact that Ayers is still strongly anti-American–his only regret of that time is that he didn’t set off more bombs. And then there is this symbolic 2001 photo…
The question raised by the Ayers exchange, put to Sarah by Bill Kristol in a phone call yesterday (Source), is…
Obama surely had a closer connection to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright than to Ayers — and so…if Ayers is a legitimate issue, what about Reverend Wright?
She didn’t hesitate:
“To tell you the truth, Bill, I don’t know why that association isn’t discussed more, because those were appalling things that that pastor had said about our great country, and to have sat in the pews for 20 years and listened to that — with, I don’t know, a sense of condoning it, I guess, because he didn’t get up and leave — to me, that does say something about character. But, you know, I guess that would be a John McCain call on whether he wants to bring that up.”
I guess so. And I guess we’ll soon know McCain’s call on whether he wants to bring Wright up — perhaps at his debate with Obama Tuesday night.