Could McCain's real problem with Ayers be

[Sydnie]

that Ayers was protesting the very war that McCain considers his finest moment in history?

Could it really be that McCain thinks that anyone that disagreed with that war in any way shape or form is totally wrong and should not be granted any platform no matter what they have done with their resources since then. Does McCain see it as demeaning to his sacrifice during that most unpopular war and by pointing out Ayers behavior hope that someone somewhere makes the connection to that war and attitude to the current war and the attitude about it that exists in the country now?

Could it be as simple as that? A coded way to send a message to his military buddies that he's not going to let some kid and his "pals" revisit this attitude and make us "lose" another war?


Just thinking out loud here ... What do you think?

[FSogol]

1. Yup, McBush wants to keep fighting the Vietnam war

That's why he doesn't want the Iraqi War to end. He wants a victory parade.

[Window]

2. I believe he's using Ayers because he has NOTHING else to use against Obama.

[BrklynLiberal]

3. That could be a reason that McSame is taking it so personally...

[Sydnie]

4. That's what I was thinking

He can't say one minute that the doesn't care about some washed up terrorist (is THAT also code for Osama??) and then keep pushing the meme so hard. It's more than "that's all he's got", because he knows it's only moving the fringe and he admits that.

Why else would he hold on to it like a dog with a bone when it clearly is shown not to be working?

[BrklynLiberal]

5. You may have hit upon something.

[LynnTheDem]

6. nah...it's just a useful ploy to dupe con trick their base. Ronald Reagan

remained close lifelong friends with Walter Annenberg, the man he awared the Presidential Medal of Freedom to. The man who bankrolled Bill Ayers to the tune of $50,000,000.

And John mcCain knows this fact.


In John's own words: “But I could tell from the desperate looks of my staff that we had an enormous problem. And that it could come down to lying or losing. I chose lying.”

[BumRushDaShow]

7. Poppy Bush, "won" the Gulf War of 1991 with 500,000 troops.

IMHO, after Raygun's romps in Panama and Grenada in an attempt to say "we won" with "big wars" in itsy bitsy countries, the Gulf War, with all its might, should have closed the book on that "victory".

IMHO, the Ayers thing was basically a way to drag some infamous "Chicago politics" into the election and tie Obama to it somehow, despite it being his adopted city.

[demokatgurrl]

8. I think that is an excellent point- yes!

I can't believe it never occurred to me but that's surely it! It's such a deep-seated thing that he probably just fumes inside when he thinks of Ayers.


Or... he's just a cold calculating bastard, remembered about Ayers from the VietNam war era, and thought it would be a good way to trask Obama.

[WinkyDink]

9. And coupled with "I know how to win wars", it's an excellent analysis!