McCain now tying Michelle Obama to Ayers

[darius15]

The McCain campaign is now broadening their attack on Obama's past association with William Ayers to include Michelle Obama -- even though McCain has repeatedly said spouses should be off limits during the campaign.

The attack? Bernardine Dohrn, Ayers' wife and fellow former Weatherman, went to work in 1984 for the major Chicago-based national law firm of Sidley & Austin, and three years later, Michelle joined the mega-firm as well.

That's the entire attack. We wish we were joking. But we aren't.

In launching this latest, McCain is ditching yet another formerly-claimed principle as he faces the growing likelihood of defeat. In a statement back in June, the McCain campaign said: "Senator McCain agrees with Senator Obama that spouses should not be an issue in this campaign, and he has stated that position frequently."

The attack on Michelle came on a McCain conference call with reporters this afternoon featuring John Murtagh, who has been hitting Obama over the Weather Underground's attack on his family's home back in 1970. Murtagh noted that Dohrn and Michelle Obama had both worked at the firm starting in the late 1980s.

The firm's Chicago office currently employs more than 500 lawyers.

Murtagh didn't even bother alleging that the two even knew each other, instead suggesting that they might have. If so, he said, the Obamas have known the two longer than suspected.

"If it is true" that the two women knew each other, Murtagh said, "the relationship is almost a decade older than Senator Obama has acknowledged. And that can very easily be resolved by Senator Obama, by Mrs. Obama, by Mr. Ayers and by Ms. Dohrn."

"And incidentally, I would emphasize that we've all been focusing on Senator Obama," said Murtagh. "I think we need to speak to his wife."

Keep in mind that this wasn't any surrogate speaking off the cuff. He was on a call organized by the McCain campaign, and he was apparently reading from a prepared statement, which would of course have been vetted by McCain aides. And so another once-cherished McCain principle gets junked in the service of self-parody.

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/mccain_campaign_goes_after_mic.php

[Starry Messenger]

1. I once talked on the phone with Patty Hearst.

I'll turn myself in now.

[bluethruandthru]

2. What's next for McCain? Will he start attacking the children?

He's a disgusting, dishonorable man whose ambition knows no bounds.

[maxsolomon]

3. then it's on, old man

it all goes on the table as legitimate:

cindy/mccain adultery
cindy/keating investments
cindy/perscription drugs/fraud
cindy/cindy's half sisters
sarah or bristol is the mommy?
trig's reason for joining the army
sarah/todd or brad?

[rufus dog]

10. Someone last night made a good point

Don Bolles and Kemper Marley should be on the table.

[spanone]

4. he's one sick bastid

[1corona4u]

5. I think he's trying to get Obama pissed...he knows how much he loves

Michelle....

Mccrap is so last month.....he might as well pack his shit and go home. He does this, and he won't get 20% of the vote, from any state on election night.

[4lbs]

6. Gee. I once had a girlfriend who had an ex-boyfriend that turned out to be a drug dealer.

I guess I need the DEA crawling all over my home then... :eyes:

[featherman]

7. "Back in the day" Bernadine Dohrn was better known than Professor Ayers

This sure is getting weird

[EFerrari]

8. So, what does McTroll say about Abramoff these days?

Two ships passing in the night? No sleezebag left behind, hey John?

[sellitman]

9. You just can't make this crap up.

Holy mole!

[Union Thug]

11. Their desperation is exhilarating. I LOVE watching them squirm...

Ducks... Check
Cows... Check
Kitchen Sink.... Check.

Next, McLame will scream, "Obama, I fart in your general direction!"

[progressivebydesign]

12. Hope everyone who has been waxing all soft about the new McCain today reads that!!

He and his campaign are still the same ruthless scumbags they always were.. the only diff is that they've decided to try and keep McCain above the fray by having him defending Obama today. Same cesspool, different messenger.

They are the scum of the earth.. and no amount of trying to remove McCain from the cesspool is going to change anything. THey're still pigs.