The following occured during a rally with Palin when she was attempting to link Ayers with Obama:
"And, according to the New York Times, he was a domestic terrorist and part of a group that, quote, 'launched a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and our U.S. Capitol,'" she continued.
"Boooo!" the crowd repeated.
"Kill him!" proposed one man in the audience.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/...
I have edited the title of this diary because some commenters have noted that the man who shouted "Kill him!" may, in fact, have been referring to Ayers and not Obama. Nevertheless, I still think this needs to be seen.
I have also added some information concerning Ayers from his own blog.
As Palin presses forward with the claims that Obama is linked to William Ayers, her simple-minded, black and white ‘thinkers’ are quick to be whipped up into a frenzy of hatred. This is evidenced in the following WaPo article, where an audience member yells, "Kill him!" and the audience boos incessantly while Palin claims Obama ‘pals around with’ William Ayers, whom she defines as a domestic terrorist.
"Kill him!" proposed one man in the audience. - WASHINGTON POST
In Fla., Palin Goes for the Rough Stuff as Audience Boos Obama
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/...
By Dana Milbank
CLEARWATER, Fla. -- "Okay, so Florida, you know that you're going to have to hang onto your hats," Sarah Palin told a rally of a few thousand here this morning, "because from now until election day it may get kind of rough."
You betcha. And the person dishing out the roughest stuff at the moment is Sarah Palin.
"I was reading my copy of the New York Times the other day," she said.
"Booooo!" replied the crowd.
"I knew you guys would react that way, okay," she continued. "So I was reading the New York Times and I was really interested to read about Barack's friends from Chicago."
It was time to revive the allegation, made over the weekend, that Obama "pals around" with terrorists, in this case Bill Ayers, late of the Weather Underground. Many independent observers say Palin's allegations are a stretch; Obama served on a Chicago charitable board with Ayers, now an education professor, and has condemned his past activities.
"Now it turns out, one of his earliest supporters is a man named Bill Ayers," Palin said.
"Boooo!" said the crowd.
"And, according to the New York Times, he was a domestic terrorist and part of a group that, quote, 'launched a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and our U.S. Capitol,'" she continued.
"Boooo!" the crowd repeated.
"Kill him!" proposed one man in the audience.
WaPo article cont'd at link above
Ayers is a thinking, complicated man with a complicated history and story that does not fit into the simple 'black-white' thinking of the right wing. Unfortunately, his explanation also does not fit into a 6-second sound bite. But for those who are interested in learning more about what his own response is to claims that he is an 'unrepentant domestic terrorist,' he has written at his own blog:
I’M SORRY!!!! i think....
The episodic notoriety is upon us again. And always the same demand: Say you’re sorry! Of course there is much to regret in any lived life, much to rethink and redo. But opposing the War in Viet Nam with every fiber is not one of them.
Here was the situation: thousands of people a week were being slaughtered by the US military in a sickening and catastrophic imperial adventure. Those of us who opposed the war had worked to convince people of the wrongness of the war, and soon most agreed. But we could not stop the war. It dragged on for a decade and the human and material costs were incalculable. What to do? Whatever one did in opposition, it wasn’t enough, because we did not stop the war. We didn’t do enough, we weren’t smart enough, brave enough, focused enough, or just enough.
"We did the right thing" was taken again and again to be evidence of an obtuse refusal to apologize, proof that my various wrong-doings had not been adequately recognized. I’ve failed to fess up, I’m told, and my transgressions, then, are enduring, on-going. Without a full-throated confession, whole-hearted and complete, uncomplicated by fact or detail or even by my own interpretations, and then, without the crucial detail, saying the words, "I’m sorry," something vital is missing.
I feel like I’m in a bit of a trough here, because I hear the demand for a general apology in the context of the media chorus as a howling mob with an impossibly broad demand, and on top of that I’m not sure what exactly I’m expected to apologize for. ...
~snip~
Cont'd:
http://billayers.wordpress.com/... /
Lastly, I would like to edit this diary once more to add a recent comment from a spokesman for the Obama-Biden campaign, concerning Palin's several recent attempts to link Obama with Ayers:
The Obama campaign responded forcefully. "Governor Palin's comments, while offensive, are not surprising, given the McCain campaign's statement this morning that they would be launching Swift Boat-like attacks in hopes of deflecting attention from the nation's economic ills," Obama-Biden spokesman Hari Sevugan said.
"In fact, the very newspaper story Governor Palin cited in hurling her shameless attack made clear that Senator Obama is not close to Bill Ayers, much less 'pals,' and that he has strongly condemned the despicable acts Ayers committed 40 years ago, when Obama was 8. What's clear is that John McCain and Sarah Palin would rather spend their time tearing down Barack Obama than laying out a plan to build up our economy."
http://www.mercurynews.com/...