And this one, from Fox nonetheless (emphasis supplied) :
Palin Invokes Jeremiah Wright, Continues Hit on Obama-Ayers Relationship
CLEARWATER, Fla.:
Sarah Palin isn't backing down on questioning Barack Obama's relationships -- telling voters in Florida Monday that she is curious how the Democratic presidential candidate couldn't know that William Ayers was a co-founder of the Weather Underground terrorist group.
Embodying her role as the Republican campaign's pit bull with lipstick, the vice presidential contender said one of her favorite newspapers -- The New York Times -- reported that Ayers was part of a group that launched a bombing campaign against the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol.
"And then there's even more to the story," Palin told voters in Clearwater, Fla. "Barack Obama says that Ayers was just someone in the neighborhood, but that's less than truthful. His own advisers said they were quote certainly friendly. In fact Obama held one of his first meetings of his political career in Bill Ayers' living room and they worked together on various projects in Chicago."
Palin did not say the claim that Obama "pals around" with a terrorist, but did repeat a line she used over the weekend that Obama "sees America as imperfect enough to work with a domestic terrorist who had targeted his own country."
Ayers and Obama live in the same Chicago neighborhood and served on a charity board together. Ayers hosted a fundraiser for Obama when he first ran for state office in the mid-1990s.
As Palin continues to attend rallies and fund-raise in Florida, the McCain campaign is not relenting on its argument that Obama's ties to certain individuals raise legitimate questions about his capacity to lead..
"Does Barack Obama truly expect the American people to believe that he had no idea about his friends past as the infamous founder of the domestic terror group The Weather Underground or is he just lying?" asked McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds. "If Obama didn't know in 1995 about the bombings Ayers was responsible for, when did he find out -- because Obama was promoting Ayers' book in 1997, serving on boards with him until 2002, and trading e-mails and phone calls with him as recently as 2005."
The Obama campaign has responded that Obama was eight years old when Ayers was planting bombs and therefore can't be linked to his past activities. Ayers has said he never regretted his Weather Underground activities, which led to the deaths of three of his cohorts in a bomb-making accident.
On Monday, Obama said the tactic used by the McCain team signifies a losing campaign.
"I was a little surprised over the last couple of days to hear . . . Sen. McCain's campaign say that we want to turn the page on discussions about the economy and campaign, a member of Sen. McCain's campaign saying today that if we talk about the economic crisis we lose," Obama said.
"I have got news for the McCain campaign - the American people are losing right now. They are losing their jobs - they are losing their health care. They are losing their homes and their savings. I cannot imagine anything more important to talk about than the economic crisis. And the notion that we would want to brush that aside and engage in the usual political shenanigans and smear tactics that have come to characterize too many campaigns," he continued.
Ayers isn't the only character tied to Obama that Palin is reminding voters about. She also told FOX News contributor William Kristol, a columnist for The New York Times, that she doesn't know why Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. is off limits for discussion.
Wright is a retired pastor who preached at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago and is credited by Obama as bringing him back to his Christian roots. After 20 years in his church, Obama denounced Wright and severed ties with Trinity United last spring after videotapes surfaced showing Wright making anti-American and anti-Semitic comments from the pulpit.
In April, McCain said he would not attack Obama for the linkage, and condemned the North Carolina Republican Party for an ad that called Obama "too extreme" because Wright was his pastor.
"Unfortunately, all I can do is, in as visible a way as possible, disassociate myself from that kind of campaigning," McCain said at the time.
But pressed in an interview by Kristol, Palin said she didn't know "why that association isn't discussed more, because those were appalling things that that pastor had said about our great country."
She continued, "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."
Kristol told FOX News that Palin "seems to be enjoying" her role of taking the attack to Obama's camp.
"She's a good natural politician and she doesn't think Barack Obama should be the president," Kristol said. He added that he thinks it could be useful to discuss Obama's relationships, even though "the conventional wisdom, which is as long as the Dow is going down 450 points, it's pointless to talk about Bill Ayers or Reverend Jeremiah Wright" is incorrect.
"I don't really agree with that. I think character and judgment for a presidential choice in a time of crisis remains awfully important," he said.
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10...remiah-wright/