"If you can’t win on the merits, file a lawsuit"
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Sen. Barack Obama has launched an all-out effort to block a Republican billionaire’s efforts to tie him to domestic and foreign terrorists in a wave of negative television ads.
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Ads by a Republican billionaire. Is that George Soros? No, wait that's a Democrat billionaire financing ads.
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“This is a sad ploy to circumvent the First Amendment by a campaign who has no arguments with the merits of our ad. It’s the classic maneuver: If you can’t win on the merits, file a lawsuit,” said a spokesman for the American Issues Project, Christian Pinkston, who said his group's non-profit status allowed it to participate in elections as long as it does a majority of policy work, which it plans to do.
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That doesn't seem proper.
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Obama’s campaign has ( click here ) written the Department of Justice demanding a criminal investigation of the “American Issues Project,” the vehicle through which Dallas investor Harold Simmons is financing the advertisements. The Obama campaign — and tens of thousands of supporters — also is pressuring television networks and affiliates to reject the ads. The effort has met with some success: CNN and Fox News are not airing the attacks.
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"and tens of thousands of supporters". I can imagine. What, pray tell, might this ad be about?
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The ad focuses on Obama’s relationship with Bill Ayers, a Hyde Park acquaintance at whose home Obama attended a gathering early in his political career. Ayers is a complicated figure: professor and adviser to the mayor of Chicago despite not having repented his past as a domestic terrorist with the Weather Underground.
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Lemme see. hmmm. Name rings a bell.
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Obama has launched a response ad, which addresses McCain directly, and will air in Ohio, Tracey said.
"With all our problems, why is John McCain talking about the '60s, trying to link Barack Obama to radical Bill Ayers?" says Obama’s ad. "McCain knows Obama denounced Ayers' crimes, committed when Obama was just 8 years old."
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Even the ASSociated Press is reporting it:
The Associated Press: Obama seeks to silence ad tying him to 60s radical
Didn't BO launch his Senate campaign at ("radical") Ayer's house?
Better not let the voters read this:
debunking obamas-ayers fact sheet
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What about the 132 boxes, containing 947 file folders, a total of about 70 linear feet of material concerning the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (see earlier post).
If BO is trying to silence a political ad, then is a cover-up at the university likely?