Team Obama Pushes Back at McCain’s Call for Ayers Apology

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Team Obama has pushed back after John McCain during a Blogger’s Conference call called on Obama to apologize for his association and comment comparing Weather Underground bomber William “Billy” Ayers and Senator Tom Coburn.

First, McCain’s statement:

• “I think not only a repudiation, but an apology for ever having anything to do with an unrepentant terrorist is due the American people….”

• “I’m a bit surprised there hasn’t been more discussion about the comparison Sen. Obama made about an unrepentant terrorist, and that’s what Mr. Ayers is, and a great American citizen who goes back to Oklahoma on the weekends to deliver babies,” McCain said. “I’m offended by a comparison to a man like Tom Coburn.”

• While “Tom Coburn may be many things to people who are on the liberal side of the ledger,” McCain said, he isn’t the same as somebody who an unrepentant member of an organization that was responsible for bombings and killings.

Now, Team Obama’s push back:

• Spokesman Hari Sevugan: “We want to take Senator McCain at his word that he wants to run a respectful campaign, but that is becoming increasingly difficult when he continually tries to use the politics of association and makes claims he knows not to be true to advance his campaign.”

The Barack Obama campaign has reacted to EVERY criticism with “Everything That Hurts Us Is a Distraction.” Now, when John McCain suggests that Obama should repudiate an “unrepentant” terrorist, it is McCain that is running a disrespectul campaign.

BS…….