Kaine calls ads linking Obama to Ayers ‘slimy’
Media General News Service
Va. Gov. Tim Kaine stands at the podium while he speaks to Va. Democratic delegates during their morning breakfast in Denver on Aug. 27, 2008. The poster behind Kaine features the logo that is one of the hottest and most requested lapel pins for the delegation.
Advertisement
Text size: small | medium | large
By Ray Reed
Published: August 27, 2008
Gov. Timothy M. Kaine went on the offensive Wednesday on behalf of Barack Obama, using words including “slimy” and “bogus” to describe TV ads that have aired in Virginia linking Obama to William Ayers, who has been associated with bombings in the U.S. in the 1970s.
“I continue to be surprised that Senator McCain is squandering his reputation for public service by associating with these kinds of slimy operators,” the Virginia governor said during a conference call from the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
The tone of Kaine’s remarks was notable because he will speak at the convention tonight just ahead of Obama’s acceptance speech for the Democratic Party’s nomination to run for president.
While another Virginian, Senate candidate Mark Warner, mentioned McCain only twice during his keynote address to the convention Tuesday night, Kaine cited Obama’s Republican opponent six times in a three-minute criticism of the tactics in the ad that has appeared on TV stations in Richmond, Norfolk and Roanoke.
“This is an advertisement done by groups with close ties to the McCain campaign that has put out clearly bogus
information” that many stations have refused to run because it is untruthful, the governor said.
Ayers, now a professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago, acknowledges he was a member of the Weather Underground group that claimed responsibility for more than 10 bombings from 1970 through 1974. The bombs’ targets included the Pentagon, U.S. Capitol, and other government buildings. No one was injured by the blasts.
Ayers was a fugitive for 10 years and, after arrest in 1980, avoided prosecution.
In the 1990s, Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, introduced Obama to people in the Chicago neighborhood they shared. Obama and Ayers also were members of a board for a nonprofit educational foundation in Chicago from 1999-2002, and Ayers donated $200 to Obama’s campaign for the Illinois state Senate.
Obama campaign officials linked the TV ads to an organization called the American Issues Project, which they said is funded by Texas billionaire Harold Simmons, who is a financial supporter and adviser for McCain. The AIP backed the Swift Boat ads against John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election.
Kaine said the ads “are designed to divide Americans against each other.”
Post a Comment
The commenting period has ended or commenting has been deactivated for this article.
Reader Reactions
Posted by ( Freedom ) on August 31, 2008 at 8:04 pm
,,CHIC-A-BOOM-BOOM,,appology excepted !!now get your 4 yr old ,,to go to WIKIPEDIA,,and you will find all that i said is in fact,,a fact,,and truthful,,and for the record,,i have found that people like/u use my lack off english/grammer/spelllin,,as an excuse for their dumbness!!blabbb
Report Inappropriate Comment
Posted by ( chikagobnd ) on August 30, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Thanks for the correction on all that Freedom. You set me straight. I am highly embarrassed and will be forever afraid to post here again for I know I will be proven wrong by you. I am basing that on the assumption that whenever what you said is translated into English, that you proved me wrong. Again, I think I’ll just give you the benefit of the doubt on that, but I’ll get my friend’s four year old to check out what you wrote to see if he can figure out what you said. Then I’ll really know if I disagree with anything you attempted to write.
Report Inappropriate Comment
Posted by ( Punto di vista di paradigma ) on August 30, 2008 at 9:44 am
nookly23 to Freedom: “People should really do their research before calling someone names.“ That statement by nookly23 comes, of course, after nookly23’s own statement: “... the real person that Obama is. A racist, anti-America [sic] who only wants to push his militant agenda.“
Report Inappropriate Comment
Posted by ( Freedom ) on August 29, 2008 at 10:43 pm
chica-boom boom,,first read my post to nookly23::: i beleive mccain flew 26 sorties(bombing runs),,whatever,,the last one he got shot down,,and after 2 years the VC released him,,said go home your admiral father wants you,,but by then he was so brainwashed by the commies,,he said no ,,NO ,, i wanna stay !!so he chose to stay ,,and filled up with more commie mindcontrol..and like i said above !!never decontroled his mind!!and now maybe the prez,,not if i can help it !!our enemies of the world have petitions the un and world court for crimes against humanity and an illegal invasion of a sovern nation,,go to un and find it yourself,,the day we bombed,,we did not have un authorazation,,it is well documented,,same w/ world court,,and if this helps it went over about just as much as the congress and its impeachments,,congress just tried to impeach him again 4 weeks ago !!EXXON,,15 billion was to explore and get oil,,nothing done except pay stockholders,,plus they rip us off ,,for every well they do pump thats federal own,,that means you and i own it,,well well the lobbist/special interest our elected officals who vote aginst us and for them because of the pocket money ,lear jets trips to tah i te,,drunken parties etc etc,,and the judges get in on it and reduce money owe to fishermen who still cant fish the waters from valdez,, and we get only 1.00 $$ per barel of oil,,while they get to keep the other 129.00$,,REFERANCE::ASK the new vp for mccain,,she,s killing them all in alaska and has renegeogate,,msp,,the contract,,and that why they pay no state taxes,,and at the end of the year get 1,200.00 rebate,,this is what OBAMA purposes,,plus she got a couple crooks locked up !! and how dare you tell me to look stuff up for you and acuse me of lies,,when its your responsibility to look stuff up ,,and after you do then you say hey the world and news report ,,said he never flew !! so he must have had the guards let him out !!who is the fool now !! u r and ill never answer or explain my post to again,,do your own darn reseach and work and counter chanledge then with your counter facts !!sign ignorance my butt !!
Report Inappropriate Comment
Posted by ( Freedom ) on August 29, 2008 at 10:02 pm
# 23,,P/S,,no they are not HATING american terrorist,,they are REDRESSING OUR GOVERNMENT as the consitution says is our right and duty!!and the opposite is true ,,they LOVE this country !and if they were wrong then tell me why our government didnt,,give them life or hang them for treason,,and you now tell me why you didnt see that red flag !!did it ever occur to you that this man who bombed just about every fed symbol of our government,,is out on the streets and in mccain,s anti - OBAMA ad,,now thats communist mind control,,which mccain had 5 yrs of ,,and was nevered decontroled by our government,,yet he is just an election away!!and NO to the twin towers,,that girl was 100 % external,,thats why SHEHAN,S anti-war movement never got anywhere or support,,afterall another benefit to come from bombing our own gov,,was a FREE VOLUNTEER ARMY,,JUST LIKE GEORGE WASHINGTON !now to even the score ,,you and your group needs to sit down and pay attention to HISTORY!!thats a lot more important tan my darn phonics!!
Report Inappropriate Comment
Posted by ( Freedom ) on August 29, 2008 at 9:48 pm
nookly23-dsylexic-where is the surplus that bush was left with ,,now we are 10 trillion in red,,thus the federal gov.who use to give us money has cut funds ( gives 66 % to globialization)to the states,,yet require va.to resupply its military,,next- 14 states are operating in the red,,va is one of them,,downturn in eco,,cuts sales taxes,,lay-offs cut state payroll taxes,,down eco leads to more paid unemployment checks,,more social services for laid off families,,thus more going out ,than comming in,,globialization,,outsoursing jobs,illegals workers,,all add to this mix,,OBAMA-and the church,,again media hoop-la,,to turn us into their LEMMINGS,,a REASPONSIBLE person will investagate and research and draw their own concludesion,,like this,,funny all that negative preaching,,not once was a picture taken or a camera shot that show the OBAMA,S present when all that preaching took place,,and it eluded to us that this was for 20 yrs,,ahh that should have been your red flag!!the only consitant thing i have heard in church for 20 years,,is open your wallet !!and frankly i look up most of the stuff he said,,and killing all the indians on this continent ,,was true,everything was except the aids,,that turned out to be from beastealogy,, human sex with ape,,is how that got into the human population,,like human with sheep gave us syphillus,,ok now to weather underground,,i,m guessing you r 23 yrs old,,so again a LEMMING of the press,,on my 18 th birthday,,1)i could not vote for the president that could send me to war 2) the gov set up a DRAFT,,if you were privilage,,polotician,,or could go to college,,you could avoid the draft,,if you were poor , or black,or a criminal you were drafted or the judge would have you inducted ,,just look at the films of vietnam and keep this in mind,,blacks make up 12 % of population,,in vietnam they made up as much as 40 % of the fighting force,,and a not yet to be allowed equality,,by law the races were seperated ,,blacks schools,,back of the bus,,college was unheard of but for maybe 1%,,no defermant for u!!KKK RULED !no eating or drinking or dating WHITES,,moving on,,3)i could not enter into a contract,,think about that one,,no credit cards,,no loans,,no house,,no car,,couldnt even get married,,in short the only thing i could was drive lic.,,everything elce was legal guardian,,or parents,co-sign,,4)VIETNAM was never declared a war,,read consitution,,war is legal only if it is declared by the CONGRESS,,so the only GRANTED rights we had was to be drafted by the USA/uncle sam to carry a gun 16,000 miles away,,this is what was ment by MISCHELE,,and we ,,not you ,,can id w/it !GENERATIONAL GAP!!the gov controls education and of course SKIPS all this in your history classes!!again LEMMENS!!so i forgive you !!but see how it is controlling your mind and outlook of this nation !!now please take a monment ,,close your eyes,,and put yourself in each shoes,,think white,,then think black,,then think what would you have done,,now lets go to the BOMBINGS,,POLICE,,LONG HAIR,,long hair was you badge of courage,,it said to everyone,,i am at war with my country,,and the police beat us down !!then we grew stronger more in numbers and we filled the streats and we shut down college and we bombed ROTC,,and the last straw was KENT STATE,,when our own military shot and kill us ,,thats when the bombings began,,and thats when we really went NUTS,,and that when our government obeyed the consitution,,,WE THE PEOPLE!!WE RULE not you!!now funny we are right there now as i speak,,and if this election fails,,we will be in the streets,,to hell with your illegal homeland security,,your illegal survalence and expansion of the patroit act,,and cuba dosent scare us !and girl if it were not for them,,you would still have the same rights i had when i was 18,,now i am sorry if i am an insult to you!!but scarlet frankly i dont give a darn!,,sign ,,SDS,,and yes i,m on file w/FBI..
Report Inappropriate Comment
Posted by ( nookly23 ) on August 29, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Freedom: find a grammar/dictionary and use it. I guess you did not get out of the second grade. No I am not a republican, I am someone who votes for the best person. I am not lead by a party like a lemming. Where is the surplus Kaine was left when he arrived in office? I guess he is not able to create and live within a budget. Next, Obama sat in a church for 20 years that preaches hate against this country and white people. That is a great spiritual advisor and mentor. Just as bad as the KKK. I am really glad that his wife is finally proud of her country. The same country that has given her the opportunity be where she is. I guess friends who blow up government buildings and says years later they wish they did more are not American hating terrorists in your mind. No wonder you support Obama. Bet you think the our government blew up the twin towers also.You and your “group” should sit down and pay attention to Hooked on Phonics. If you can’t spell or use the english language, I do not wish to carry this any further because it is an insult to the other readers intelligence and mine.
Report Inappropriate Comment
Posted by ( chikagobnd ) on August 29, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Alright Freedom, if you have dyslexia, I’m not sure that means that you can’t complete a sentence or put together anything coherent, but I’ll give it to you. So lets go back to your original post…let’s see if you have anything to back up the bombs you dropped. McCain bombed innocent villagers in Vietnam? Pretty good for someone who was a POW for 5 1/2 years…he must have had the Vietnamese guards who kept him prisoner let him out during the day to go bomb those people, huh? Your second thing…Bush is wanted by the UN for Crimes Against Humanity? Really? Please show me your source on that nonsense! How about what you said regarding Exxon. You claim they stole 15 billion dollars from the American people…did they hold you at gunpoint while you pumped their gas? If you’re so concerned about gas prices, get a bike or a horse. And by the way, you failed to mention that the government “stole” half of that 15 billion in taxes! Who’s the real crook, the private company who offers a service/product for a fee, or the government who does NOTHING but take the money and flush it down the toilet. You spout dribble and nonsense and I’m saying that as somebody who isn’t a big Bush fan. So when you get the evidence to back up your accusations, bring them on back here and we’ll talk about it. Other than that, you are doing your cause no good by representing yourself and your ideas with complete ignorance.
Report Inappropriate Comment
Posted by ( Freedom ) on August 29, 2008 at 1:52 pm
nookly23,,i can tell you are a republican,,you all speak that way,,just babble ,,through stuff out there,,mix it with fear,,thus your definition of TERRORIST TRUTH,,oxymoron,,if you give me something like KAINE,,i,ll blow you away with facts as i did,,and shut you up..!!as i did,!!but hey girl until you stop your babble and present points,,well i,m not gonna waste my time w/u,,second guessing,,sujest you learn DEBATING ,,then get back w/me ,,because i do have the answers,,just try me !!cause girl me and my team ,,we arent affraid of anything !!bring it on !!like just who is around OBAMA that hates the country?thats the only work i want you to do for me!!ok,,except read the consitution,,especially the part that say,s REDRESS your government??and if i dont hear from you i will consider this debate a win !!like chicabomb,,hiding behind my disability,,bring it on this is election season,,and i am on a mission,,TO SAVE THIS NATION !!
Report Inappropriate Comment
Posted by ( nookly23 ) on August 29, 2008 at 1:16 pm
People should really do their research before calling someone names. “Terrorist of the truth”? Not sure that is possible. I am not going to spoon feed information to people who are either too stupid or too lazy to seek information on their own. It is always easier to resort to name calling then look for answers. If someone wishes to find the truth, it is easy to do, but those who do not let facts get into they way of how they think are hopeless. That is a serious problem with this country, people want the work done for them.
Report Inappropriate Comment