Obama should confront McCain about Ayers on October 15 debate

[AzNick]

And give him an "At long last..." moment. Looking straight at McCain. Asking him to dare call him a terrorist and saying that the Keating 5 was a true act of terrorism against the American Dream.

That will be the coup de grace.

Sport analogy, if you consider bullfighting a sport: Obama is the torero, McCain is the bull. Fuming at the mouth, laughing desperate attacks, and Obama is dodging.

See, in French and Spanish politics, this analogy comes often. The banderillas: 3 sets of sharp sticks supposed to make the beast lose blood, until the final stab.

Right now the beast is bleeding badly and is desperate, ready for one last charge...

Stay tune: October 15.

[Johonny]

1. I think he called McCain out on this already

Basically saying McCain didn't have guts to say these things to his face. TDS even made fun of McCain.

[AzNick]

2. The coup de grace needs to be delivered

October 15!

[still_one]

3. Not unless it is brought up, then fire both barrels

Obama has not only addressed the issu during the primaries and in the debates with George Stephanopolis

but has also clearly answered the ridiculous charge in the campaign

It appears that most people see right through the fraud they call mccain

[AzNick]

6. That's what the "say it to my face" thing is for...

If McCain does not bring it up, he will pass for a coward.

If he brings it up, Obama will give a probably already well-rehearsed reply which will be the highlight of the debate and soundbite #1.

[Overseas]

4. I hope the fake controversy has died out by then. The people of Illinois

wouldn't have elected a terrorist sympathizer to the US Senate.

THe people of Illinois wouldn't have elected a terrorist sympathizer to the state legislature.

I'm hoping their fellow Americans will realize that.

But yes it would certainly be helpful if the corporate media would call them out on their lies. Each time Impalin' brings it up she should be called on it. "Sarah Palin has repeated her baseless charges about Obama's association with Professor Ayers, with whom many Illinois republicans have also associated." Or something.

[wileedog]

5. To take that a step further

Ayers won Citizen of the Year in Chicago in 1997.

Is McCain seriously insinuating that the people of Chicago selected a terrorist for Citizen of the Year? Or that Republicans gave him a vicious America-hating killer $49M to reform the Chicago education system?

McCain would look even more like a complete asswipe when Independents in particular hear what his campaign is trying to shovel.

[Overseas]

11. I didn't know about the Citizen of the Year award. Those Chicago folks

must be just horribly awful.

That radical Lenore Annenberg supported him too.

[kevinds13]

7. Frankly,

If Ayers is still around by next week, its all because of media play. This is not a winning issue with independents.

[AzNick]

8. It may become if Obama does not refute it.

And do more than this: turn it around and stuff it in McCain's face.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

9. ONLY if McCain brings it up TO HIS FACE

Obama has already "thrown down the gauntlet" in regards to McCain's charges and has emphatically stated that he is going to continue focusing on the issues instead of getting dragged down into the mud with McCain and his pretty little "pitbull", which IMHO is exactly the right thing to do. His surrogates can and should aggressively attack McCain/Palin on their smears whenever possible but Obama shouldn't join the fray unless he is directly confronted face-to-face with McCain/Palin like, say, in the next debate IF McCain has the balls to bring it up and if he dares to go there, may God have mercy on his soul.

[hogwyld]

10. McCain is the prototypical school yard bully

Once you stand up to the bully, they wither back into the weeds. He's all hat and no cattle, with no honor, and definitely no courage. It's so nice to see this fraud tarnishing everything he's worked for all these years, and that carefully crafted image being exposed.

[dajoki]

12. No...

Right now Obama is cool, calm and Presidential, above the fray and out of the mud, by appearing to let on that these attacks are bothering him would only lower himself to McCain's tactics. If McCain brings it up first, then I agree, Obama should let him have it with both barrels.