What Obama should say if/when Ayers comes up tonight

[Chichiri]

John, your campaign has already said it intends to spend the last four weeks of this campaign mostly attacking me. And with the William Ayers thing, we have some idea of what kind of attacks to expect. But you folks at home, if you go to CNN's website -- and this is a bit of free advertising, I guess -- they have a thing called Campaign Fact Check. If you go there, and look up William Ayers, you'll see that they've called that attack FALSE, and you'll see exactly WHY it's false. And that's not my campaign saying that -- that's CNN! They're saying it's false.

That's why if it were just the two of us, if it were just Barack Obama and John McCain involved, and if there were nothing else at stake, I'd have no problem at all turning this election into a mudslinging battle. I've got plenty of mud for you, believe me.

But it's not just the two of us. The American people are also part of this, and if you drag this election down to that level, they're the ones who are gonna lose.

So for their sake, John, I'm asking you to join me in a pledge -- and I don't have any paper to sign, we'll just do it on a handshake if you agree. I'm asking you to join me in a pledge, for the last four weeks of this election, to get rid of the character assassinations, to get rid of the smears, and to run honorable campaigns that talk about the issues -- the economy, health care, Iraq, education, jobs, gas prices -- that the American people actually care about. That's the kind of campaign they deserve.

So John, will you come over here and shake my hand?

[FuzzyDicePHL]

1. Perfect!!

I would LOVE to see that happen.

[C_U_L8R]

2. Obama should bring it up

and make McCain eat his own lies.

[Essene]

11. up front, as a passing statement about the "months of smears while the economy melts."

[108]

3. That would be brilliant...if only one could forward it straight to the Obama camp

[dchill]

4. You really do have Obama's syntax down.

And the message is excellent, too. Maybe we will hear something very much like this tonight.

[Chichiri]

6. Oh to be an Obama speechwriter.

;)

[donco6]

21. Yes, I could hear him in my head. n/t

[JBoy]

5. That would cut McCain off at the knees. I like it.

[grantcart]

7. it works

[uponit7771]

8. McImpulsive doesn't like being pinned down or confronted in public, he doesn't handle it well

[Chichiri]

9. Precisely.

[iceman66]

10. That would be great!

How would McCain respond to this without digging himself into a deeper hole?

[leeno]

12. I could actually hear Obama's voice reading that

[Rosa Luxemburg]

13. McCain and Palin look ridiculous when this photo is shown

Obama on his bike when he was supposed to be connected to Ayers

[Chichiri]

17. Surely he's not 8 in that picture, is he?

[Barrymores Ghost]

14. Wishing I could recommend this more than once. EXCELLENT! k&r

:applause:

[cmcdonald08]

15. not to hijack this thread

but i do not have enough comments to post a new thread yet (i had to change my du login because i no longer have the email i originally signed up with, so when i forgot my password i couldn't retrieve it!) - anyways, this letter has been brought to my attention and i was hoping someone else would post it here. Its being circulated around Virgina, particularly to those who have Obama lawn signs.

http://community.livejournal.com/ontd_political/1007110.html

[dchill]

16. K & R.

:kick:

[Chichiri]

18. Ego-kick

[spanone]

19. i hope it does, cause barack will have a huge audience to explain it away

[donco6]

20. I like it, but McCain would never agree. Too proud. n/t

[TurningColoradoBlue]

22. John would agree .....

and than John's 527s would open the floodgates
and drown Barrack in an ocean of shit ...
Never trust a Repig ... NEVER !!!

[dansolo]

23. That is all wrong

Obama shouldn't tie his hands by making a deal that McCain won't honor. Obama needs to shame McCain. McCain has said repeatedly that he wanted to run an honorable campaign, and that certain topics were off limits. Obama needs to throw that back in his face. Obama can't be accused of attacking McCain with his own words.