Invoking 9/11 Attacks, Conservative Group Links Obama to 70s Radical

[AlphaCentauri]

ABC News' Tahman Bradley Reports: A conservative group called the American Issues Project will tonight begin running a TV ad in Ohio and Michigan highlighting Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., ties to Bill Ayres, a member of the 1970s radical group, Weather Underground.

Using images of the U.S. Capitol on 9/11, and then rewinding to images of it 30 years ago, the ad reminds viewers of Weather Underground's effort to strike the Capitol, Pentagon and police stations. A narrator then notes the Obama/Ayers friendship and that Obama is on the record defending Ayers as "mainstream."

"Why would Barack Obama be friends with someone who bombed the Capitol and is proud of it? Do you know enough to elect Barack Obama," a narrators says.

American Issues Project spokesman Christian Pinkston says the initial ad buy is $2.8 million, and that this is the first of what will be a series of things the group will do to target Obama during the election. Pinkston would not disclose what issues American Issues Project will be focusing on as it targets Obama, but did indicate that the group has other provocative material that was not included in the ad.

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