Obama Campaign Seeks To Prosecute Man Behind Ayers Attack Ad

Chris Jones — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:51:42 +0000

It looks like ‘freedom of speech’ is not on Mr. Obama’s platform this year since he’s trying to imprison people for exercising it.

Obama’s target is an ad by the conservative American Issues Project, a nonprofit group that questions Obama’s ties to unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers.

His campaign is threatening stations which have aired the ad and is trying to get the Justice Department to intervene.

Obama not only aired a response ad to the spot linking him to William Ayers, but he sought to block stations the commercial by warning station managers and asking the Justice Department to intervene. The campaign also planned to compel advertisers to pressure stations that continue to air the anti-Obama commercial.

The lone financier of the anti-Obama ad, Texas billionaire Harold Simmons, was also one of the main funders of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth who targeted Kerry. Simmons, a McCain fundraiser, contributed nearly $2.9 million to the American Issues Project, according to documents filed by the group with the Federal Election Commission.

Obama has had incredibly thin skin since his campaign began, but trying to prosecute people is a little over-the-top.

Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor said Obama supporters have inundated stations that are airing the ad, many of them owned by Sinclair Communications, with 93,000 e-mails. He called the ad false, despicable and outrageous.

“Other stations that follow Sinclair’s lead should expect a similar response from people who don’t want the political discourse cheapened with these false, negative attacks,” Vietor said.

Even if the Obama campaign sends henchmen out to intimidate people who run the ad, it still doesn’t change the fact that Barack Obama is friends with a terrorist.

William Ayres and his whore wife are two of the most repugnant individuals currently residing in the United States. It would be unthinkable for most good Americans to even shakes hands with Ayres much less sit on a board with him and dine at his house.

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