The argument remains on its face ridiculous–are we REALLY supposed to think Obama is some sort of terrorist? If not…then what? Somebody sympathetic to terrorists? Huh?

Whatever–it’s a silly argument and a sign of desperation. I’m not really happy about the fact that Obama’s going to win, but I can’t say I’m all that surprised if this is the best the Rove squad can come up with.

What’s amusing in all this is that in the rush to smear Obama, you are in the process smearing a lot of Republicans. Annenberg gave $50 million to Ayers, following the logic this would suggest that Annenberg gave $50 million to a terrorist and thus Reagan was palling around with someone who gave $50 million to a terrorist.

As manish has pointed out, neither Annenburg nor Kissinger are running for president.

However, to metulj’s point I certainly would (and do) hold Annenburg’s judgement to be piss poor. Ayers should have been tried and convicted of treason, receiving the death penalty. Ayers should be persona non grata. I would also argue that one could reasonably suspect Reagan’s judgement in associating with Annenburg over this issue, though I would say that the more “degrees of seperation” you have, the less culpability you have. Thus Reagan’s culpability is less than Obama’s since Reagan has one degree of seperation whereas Obama has direct association.

As for Kissinger, while it may have been politically expediant to help people like OBL fight a much worse enemy, any American who would even think of working along side OBL now, or in the future, for any reason, should be held in nothing but contempt and scorn.

So you see my point. Furthermore, Ronald Reagan and Walter Annenburg were close friends. Walter Annenburg gave $50 million to Ayers. Does this mean that Ronald Reagan, by associating with Walter Annenburg, a man who gives aid to Ayers, is complicit in giving Ayers aid because Reagan also gave Annenburg money along the line too? I needn’t remind folks that all of the those pictures of that bastard Rumsfeld shaking hands with various mass murdering fuckers and the liberal attack that the neocons are all in cahoots and should head to the Hague, because of those associations gets more and more credence with every word trying to link Obama to a lefty college professor who blew some shit up during a time when A LOT of shit was getting blown up.

It is race to the bottom horseshit and I mean ‘race’ in the sense of there are people getting there a lot faster than others.

I guess I don’t understand the appeal of this sort of hitman politics–what, I’m supposed to believe Obama is secretly a terrorist? Yawn…

I have all the reason in the world not to vote for him, this sort of thing just makes the rightwing swiftboat team seem daft. Maybe if they hadn’t blown their wads early on with other dumb shit, like the “he’s not really a citizen” nonsense or the “he’s a Muslim” (like that’s a crime) malarkey.

He didn’t just sit on a board, he sat in the dudes home to announce his run for State office. Ok, he probably stood to announce that.

McCain WAS one of the Keating 5.