If there is no truth to the Obama / Ayers issue, why is he fighting to keep the lid on?

Question

Seems to me that if a story is false, then you do not need to defend against it. But on this issue, Obama's campaign is not only fighting it, they are threatening a Chicago stations broadcast license.

"Obama campaign lawyer Robert Bauer has warned station managers suggesting their broadcast license might be at risk: "Your station is committed to operating in the public interest, an objective that cannot be satisfied by accepting for compensation material of such malicious falsity."

Bauer has also written twice to the Justice Department demanding "prompt action to investigate and to prosecute" Simmons and AIP for violation of campaign laws and individual contribution limits. The problem is that, as the Annenberg papers show, the ad is breathtakingly true and accurate.

The only thing needing investigating is why Obama is trying so hard to hide his past. Full disclosure is change we can believe in."

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Answer 1

It's not false.  Obama aids are already trying to spin it into something postive.  "Ayers is a great American who gives money to local schools".  

A terrorist is always a terrorist.

Answer 2

Because lies can be very damaging.  

Why do Neocons like to play dumb?

Answer 3

The audacity of truth!!!!

Answer 4

Because it is defamatory. Republican swift boaters '08.  

Answer 5

Sorry Obama and Ayers DO/DID/STILL HAVE associations.  The fact that Obama is covering this up is because he is guilty as charged.  Plain and simple.  Obama seems NOT to like free discussion, freedom of speech, etc., etc.  Just today I saw some reporters being BOOTED from outside the DNC for filming Obama's contributors.  And this being in OUR AMERICA???

WAKE UP PEOPLE

Answer 6

Obama is using the same tactics as quoted by former president Bill Clinton. He said about Obama, “His real accomplishments is learning the art of Chicago thug politics”. Which leads to the following:

Within the last few days a an ABC News producer and his camera crew were arrested for trying to take pictures from a public sidewalk of democrat senators and some big wig donors. ABC was trying to get the scoop on money trails of the DNC.

These same thug policies, as Clinton said have now connected with Ayers. Stanley Kurtz of the National Review is being threatened by the Obama people for researching the papers in the Richard Daily library in Chicago that detail the business dealings of Obama and William Ayers. Kurtz was on one of the Chicago radio station when thousands of callers made complaints about him which completely shut down the conversation and destroy his career.

These tactics were used by the radicals in the 60, and there purpose was to shut down all opposition. Obama does not want anyone in the way and will use the local police force to shut up anyone who opposes him.

Obama launched his campaign from Ayers house, who in 2001 was unrepentant for his actions in the 60’s. Not only were they friends but Ayers was his mentor.

Answer 7

exactly

why is Obama Afraid?????

Answer 8

They were both professors at University of Illinois at Chicago.  What is the controversy?  I just don't understand this.  Obama was what?  9years old when Ayers pulled his whole controversial 'terror prank'.  Ayers turned himself into the police decades ago, they charged him with nothing, released him.  Do you think this guy is so dangerous they'd release him and let him TEACH?  Seriously now.

Edit in response:  I've read the article and it's based on some presumption that what?  Ayers is some radical terrorist that fundraised for Obama?  If he was a threat he would be in jail.  Have you read anything about the guy, about how he stands on what he did 40years ago?  Jeez man, this is dumb.

And regarding McCain's associations, shall we talk about his lobbyists?  These guys have worked with and for the worst dictators and most corrupt corporations in the world and they are writing McCain's policies?  Seriously man, get some perspective.

Answer 9

What the Obama camp is doing to Stanley Kurtz,is appalling and goes to show that Obama is hiding something.Since Obamas political career started with Ayers,I believe there is an ulterior motive in there somewhere..The very fact that a list of topics to Obaminites to question the facts gathered by Kurtz and sent to the koolaid drinkers to call WGN radio(where Kurtz first opened his fact finding discoveries to the public,along with the ad explaining the relationship btween Ayers and Obama)) to try to smear the truth and the messenger sends up red flags and tells me what kind of tactics Obama and his followers use.If you cant argue against the truth,try to shut it up and censor it by all means possible.Is this what we Americans really want?I dont think so!

Answer 10

It is true.  Ayers is a terrorist, and Obama associated with him.

Threatening the press is not a good way to make friends with the press.  They should have just let it drop.  Fighting it just gives it legs.

The reason Obama's campaign is petrified by this is because older folks that vote remember the Weathermen, Black Panthers, H. Rap Brown, Jane Fonda, etc.

And Ayers is "unrepetent".  He would do it again.

Answer 11

Wow.  A former violent protestor (what we used to call them before we were trying to frighten everyone) and a kid who was 8 at that time, joined forces years later for reform of public education, as they both taught at the same school and were working on the same project.

Stiop the presses, this must be a huge scandale (yawn)