Obama to McCain: "Your attacks say more about your campaign

Barack Obama sure didn't shy away from the William Ayers/ACORN issue last night. He confronted McCain's smears head on, explaining the ridiculous guilt-by-association "connection" and denouncing them as petty, meaningless distractions.

In fact, Mr. Ayers has become the centerpiece of Sen. McCain's campaign over the last two or three weeks. This has been their primary focus. So let's get the record straight. [...]

Let me tell you who I associate with. On economic policy, I associate with Warren Buffett and former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker. If I'm interested in figuring out my foreign policy, I associate myself with my running mate, Joe Biden or with Dick Lugar, the Republican ranking member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, or General Jim Jones, the former supreme allied commander of NATO.


Those are the people, Democrats and Republicans, who have shaped my ideas and who will be surrounding me in the White House. And I think the fact that this has become such an important part of your campaign, Sen. McCain, says more about your campaign than it says about me.

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Damn, McCain is giving W a run for his money on the smirking front. Guess when you got nothing, what else can you do.