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"Barack Obama's friend tried to kill my family."

By Stephen Dinan on Oct. 8, 2008 into Dinan

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The McCain campaign has released a statement from John M. Murtaugh, who as a child had his house firebombed by the Weather Underground and who links the group's founder, William Ayers, to Barack Obama.

In one of the starkest attacks we've seen this election, John M. Murtaugh, a lawyer and member of the city council in Yonkers, N.Y., recounts the attack on his father, who as a New York state judge presided over the trial of members of the Black Panther Party. In the early morning of Feb. 21, 1970, their house was targeted with two gasoline-filled firebombs at their front door and a third placed beneath the gas tank of their car.

He wrote a full account of the attack for City Journal in April, and says "there was never any doubt who was behind it" — the Weathermen, some of whom blew themselves up while trying to make bombs in a Greenwich Village townhouse a few weeks later.

"The question remains: what did Obama know, and when did he know it?" Murtaugh asks in the statement released by the McCain campaign.

When Murtaugh starts doing television interviews, we'll know this story isn't going away.

— Stephen Dinan, national political correspondent, The Washington Times

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jmp3213

This is B/S.........Mcain should know better!!!
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smokinfastxc

It's about time the facts come out. Time to take the gloves off and talk about things. Associations, the people we decide to spend our time with define who we are. No one forced Obama to spend time with Ayres or Wright. He chose to do so on his own. It's time to pay the piper.
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okie

What would Senator O do if elected with terrorists from the 1960-70s? Follow what Governor Brown Jr. did in California during/after Vietnam, he appointed them as judges and to other state departments. If you like the way "O" has associated with terrorists and America hating others, then you have a preview of who will be heading agencies which govern the nation.
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Pendamon

Obama has been lying to the American people for years. How long does he think he can pull the wool? Does a slick demeanor cover up a bad smell? Does a suave and debonaire delivery sweeten every lie? Does the charming and cool style hide the disease beneath? They say the devil works that way.
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Mainer1776

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2008/10/08/will-msm-report-obama-membership-socialist-new-party Obama and the New Party in Chicago... A communist party, truly. How come the mainstream media searched all over Alaska to find that Todd Palin was a member of the Alaska Independence Party and yet they NEVER acknowledge that Obama is/was a communist? President Obama and the Democrat nuts, Reid and Pelosi, who call the shots in the Congress will force our country into poverty and total dependence on "the State". Democrat Party Chairman Howard Dean, M.D., said that he "hate(s) the Republicans and everything they stand for." I hate the Democrats and everything they stand for! http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2008/10/08/will-msm-report-obama-membership-socialist-new-party
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RationalGeezer

Subject: Barack Hussein Obama's Ineligibility While we should keep O'Bama's associations and complicity with terrorist William Ayers, and his mentoring under communists and other anti-American hatriots, do not forget his associations with his probable birthplace -- Kenya. Putting the horse before the cart, O'Bama's Kenyan birth would render him a non-citizen and in addition Constitutionally inelligible to occupy the Office of President. Philip J. Berg, Esquire filed a lawsuit on O8/21/2008 in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Case 08-cv-4083. Count One - Violation of the United States Constitution, Article II, Section I. Barack Hussein Obama was born in Kenya because his mother's pregnancy was so advanced that the airline denied flight privileges and Barack Obama was born in a Kenya hospital. Art. II, Sec. 1, Constitution of the United States regarding eligibility to be President follows: "No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States." Count Two - Dual Citizenship. Barack Hussein Obama holds dual citizenship in Kenya and Indonesia, and is not a citizen of the United States of America. Obama's Kenyan citizenship derives from his Kenyan father and his birth in Kenya. Obama's Indonesian citizenship derives from his adoption by his step-father Lolo Soetoro, and Obama's use of an Indonesian passport to travel to Pakistan when he was twenty (20) years of age. His mother failed to execute a loyalty oath to regain her United States citizenship. Obama failed to execute a loyalty oath to gain United States citizenship. Count Three - Fraud. Obama committed fraud by running for the Office of President while knowing he was not eligible. Obama submitted false information on his Application to the State Bar of Illinois by stating that he never used any other names. Obama has in fact used the additional names Barry Soetoro, Barry Obama, Barack Dunham, and Barry Dunham. Obama used and displayed on his web site a forged Certificate of Live Birth. Obama, who claims to be a Constitutional lawyer, misrepresented himself as eligible to run for the Office of President when he knew, or should have known, that he was not eligible. The complaint asks that the Court declare Obama permanently ineligible to run for the Office of President. The complaint appears at www.obamacrimes.com. Additional information and updates appear at www.americasright.com.
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Polly2

Pendamon, answers: 4 more weeks, after that, who cares; yes; yes; yes. It's amazing the number of people I run into who are undecided and leaning toward Obama. I have found, so far, that none of them really follows politics. Yet, their votes count as much as yours or mine. Sad, isn't it.
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DonJay828

You people who thinks that that Obama is a Terroist or someone that hates caucasions is dead wrong. His own mother and grandparents who raised him is white people. Furthermore what Ayers have said or done happen way back when Obama was a very Young Kid. He did not no him then. So I guess your saying that no one can Change or is it just the fact he is a very intelligent black male just be honest and say what you really want to say. If you ask me I'm starting to wonder if McCain is a racist trying to divide America when i thought we were trying to come together as one Nation.
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xpress_yourself

It says something about who elitist illuminati choose to have around them. To be the head of a country, a country you vow to put first, should be those who agree with that motto. Evaluate your associates, because this is what happens when you don't.
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