GOP Senator Slams McCain Robo Call

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Source: ABC News

ABC News' Teddy Davis and Rigel Anderson report: Embattled Republican Sen. Susan Collins is calling on Sen. John McCain to stop paying for automated phone calls which describe Sen. Barack Obama as having "worked closely" with "domestic terrorist Bill Ayers."

"These kind of tactics have no place in Maine politics," said Collins spokesman Kevin Kelley. "Sen. Collins urges the McCain campaign to stop these calls immediately."

Contacted on Friday by ABC News, the McCain campaign would not say if it was going to heed the request of Collins who serves as his campaign's co-chair in Maine.

"Obviously, Sen. McCain has great respect for Sen. Collins. But beyond that," said McCain spokesman Brian Rogers, "we don't have any comment."



Read more: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/10/gop-senator-sla.html

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1. I hope this BS backfires right in...

..McCain's face!

[AllieB]

2. Even though she's probably doin this because she's up for re-election

she is a fairly sane Republican.

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[JoFerret]

36. Your foul language

is foul.
please cease and desist.

[MaineDem]

12. No she's not. It's all part of the act.

There have been none of Bush's key issues that she has disagreed with.

It's a sham. She needs to go.

[AllieB]

15. I agree-ALL New England Republicans need to go.

Lieberman too.

[roguevalley]

24. I bet she is doing it because she will go down with him.

[RBInMaine]

3. In Maine, I hope it haunts Collins BIGTIME ! SHE'S A PHONY !!

[progdonkey]

4. Was anybody killed in the Weatherman attacks?

"Barack Obama has worked closely with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, whose organization bombed the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, a judge's home and killed Americans."

Is that true? (I don't really care from a moral standpoint: it doesn't have any bearing on Obama, but I just want gauge how totally full of shit Republicans are. ;-) )

[demokatgurrl]

7. Obama has already clarified just how closely

you can probably read it on his web site.

[progdonkey]

21. oh, I was referring just to the second part... ;-)

I'd just never heard that there were any victims in the bombings, and since I had heard that Carter pardoned them, I'd think it strange that they'd be pardoned if people had died.

[dgibby]

20. only a couple of weathermen killed while making a bomb.

[wordpix]

25. yet the repukes are proclaiming "people died" right after stating Ayres bombed prominent targets

including the Pentagon. :puke:

The Reich Wing take their propaganda cues from the master.

[dgibby]

27. well, technically it's true, but it doesn't pass the smell test.

[ryanmuegge]

35. This is an illustration of the 24/7 corporate cable media. We've been hearing about this Ayres

thing since the primaries (off and on). Yet they don't take the time to provide those kind of basic facts along with it to put things into context. Not that the act of bombing the Pentagon is right, but I think knowing facts about the casualties of the Weather Underground bombings would influence public opinion (though certainly not in the direction desired by the corporate media). 24/7 coverage and they can't give basic facts? That is no accident or coincidence. The Republicans are strongly suggesting that the group bomb the Pentagon and actually killed people.

[wishlist]

31. One of networks this morning said there were no fatalities or no judge's home bombed

One of the mainstream networks debunked the robocall this morning, saying that Obama was only 8 during the activities and also that there were no lives lost or house bombing linked to Ayers.

[kskiska]

32. They bombed a toilet at the Pentagon

and always called in a warning to clear the buildings that were to be bombed.

[Judi Lynn]

5. Susan Collins, his Maine campaign co-chairperson. What a shame.

I used to hold out hope for her that she'd snap out of it, and distance from these criminals. Looks like she's in it for the duration. God knows she can't claim ignorance any longer. Her party has nearly destroyed the entire planet in the last 8 years.

Screw Susan Collins. Hope she'll go down with the ship.

[demokatgurrl]

8. they are SCUM, pure scum.

[Honeycombe8]

9. I think she HAS to say that. She got elected because she's a moderate, I think.

As Republicans go, I like Sen. Collins. And she IS a moderate. But a "this sort of thing has no place here" comment is pretty mild and is an expected comment from someone trying to show her constituents that she's not one of those mean ol' nasty far right Republicans. Her statement is better than nothing and does HER some good. Beyond that, it's worthless and doesn't stop the hate speech.

[RBInMaine]

13. The "moderate" who has voted Bush/Cheney 80+% of the time !

[Honeycombe8]

16. By McSame standards, that IS moderate! lol lol!!!! nt

[wordpix]

26. rofl

[MaineDem]

10. The Maine Democratic Party called for her to denounce these calls

She didn't do it on her own!

Maine residents across the state picked up their telephones yesterday, only to be greeted by automatic calls saying that Senator Barack Obama worked closely with a terrorist. The Obama campaign has condemned the ads.

Susan Collins should do the same, said Maine Democratic Party communications director Rebecca Pollard. "As John McCain's Maine campaign co-chair, Senator Collins should tell her candidate that false and offensive robocalls have no place in Maine and they should be stopped immediately."

"Susan Collins likes to decry any television ad questioning her votes and positions as automatically 'negative,' so let's see if she will apply the same standard when it comes to blatantly false phone calls personally attacking the Democratic Presidential candidate, Barack Obama," Pollard said.

[-Steph-]

11. How disgusting...

McCain can't run on his policies or the American people would find out he has about as much intelligence as his running mate and nothing but an even worse extension of the Bush years. So instead he has to resort to low blows, lies, and dishonorable tactics.

I need to take a closer look at Bill Maher's destinations to move to in case stubby and his devil in disguise actually get elected.

[crossroads]

14. Welcome to DU! k&r

[Laelth]

29. Welcome to DU!

:dem:

-Laelth

[clydefrand]

17. What a scumbag...McCain that is.

I happen to respect Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe. Why can't we take Susan Collins at her word?

[NWHarkness]

22. Because she's McCain's state chair

As far as I am concerned that makes her responsible for what the campaign does in the state.

She's no babe in the woods. She knew what kind of sleazeballs she was signing up with.

[Roland99]

18. McLameDick sure is obsessed over someone he said he doesn't care about.

[JBoy]

33. I love how he prefaces his Ayers remarks with that.

Then why the fuck are you talking about it, John!!

[FogerRox]

19. Have I told you how much I hate these people ?

[Kalifornia.Kid]

23. Fraudulent appearance of a Cleans Hands Campaign

She knows McCain will lose and is just trying to look noble for her own re-election.

[Laelth]

28. That's nauseating.

Those kinds of deceptive ads are only inappropriate in Maine? Collins could have done the right thing and denounced the ads, but, instead, she only complains because the ads are hurting her.

That's reprehensible and revolting.

:puke:

-Laelth

[machI]

30. Kick

[bedazzled]

34. mccain's got a revolting radio commercial on ayres in west palm beach

says obama was in a terrorist group with ayres

says obama said ayres "was just a guy"

says what is obama trying to hide

they have no shame.

on a positive note, though, obama's campaign has
come up with a great response commercial saying
that obama was only eight years old during that
time, that obama is vehemently opposed to his
tactics, and that ayres would have no place in
obama's administration.

obama's fighting back and it is quite satisfying
to watch!