 In her first trip to the Bay Area as the GOP's vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin today charged that Americans don't know "the real Barack Obama," suggesting that the John McCain campaign will sharpen its attacks in the final month of the campaign on Obama's biography as well as his platform.
Palin, on the second day of her two-day California swing, spoke to a crowd of 1,500 supporters at a private Burlingame fundraiser, which raised $2.5 million for state and federal GOP party operations. The Alaska governor repeated a claim she made Saturday at a Los Angeles County rally, charging that Obama has been "less than truthful'' about his relationship with Bill Ayres, a founder of the 1960s radical group, the Weather Underground, whose members were blamed for several bombings when Obama was a child.
| The Mercury reporter dismisses it thusly: |
Obama has denounced Ayer's radical views and activities. Obama and Ayers, now a Chicago university professor, have met several times since 1995, when both raised funds for Chicago charities. Media reports have concluded the two men do not have a close relationship.
| That would be the NYT, etc. If Manhattan sez so it must be that way ... |
"I'm afraid that he is someone who sees America as imperfect enough that he would pal around with, and work with, a former domestic terrorist,'' she said Sunday. |