"Boo Hoo!" cries BARACK: "John & SARAH are calling me NAMES!" - CNN video

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(CNN) - Sen. Barack Obama on Sunday charged that Sen. John McCain's campaign is launching "Swift boat-style attacks" on him instead of addressing the country's problems.

Sen. McCain and his operatives are gambling that they can distract you with smears rather than talk to you about substance. They'd rather try to tear our campaign down than lift this country up," Obama said at an event in Asheville, North Carolina.

"That's what you do when you're out of touch, out of ideas, and running out of time," he said.

The comments come a day after Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, McCain's running mate, claimed that Obama associated "with terrorists who targeted our own country."

The McCain campaign shot back on Sunday, saying its accusations are "true facts," and not "smears."

"The last four weeks of this election will be about whether the American people are willing to turn our economy and national security over to Barack Obama, a man with little record, questionable judgment, and ties to radical figures like unrepentant domestic terrorist William Ayers," McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds said in a statement.

"Americans need to ask themselves if they've ever befriended an unrepentant terrorist, or had a convicted felon help them buy their house -- because those aren't smears, those are true facts about Barack Obama."

Obama also continued his heightened attack on McCain's health care plan, calling it "radical" and "out of line with our basic values," reiterating criticisms he made Saturday in Virginia.

The McCain campaign called Obama's attack on McCain's health plan "cynical and deceitful."

"He will say anything to distract the American people away from his basic intention to force millions of Americans to accept government-run health care," the campaign said in a statement.

[ OCTOBER 5, 2008 ]

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ENGLEWOOD, Colorado (AP) - Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on Saturday accused Democrat Barack Obama of "palling around with terrorists" because of his association with a former 1960s radical, stepping up the campaign's effort to portray Obama as unacceptable to American voters.

Palin's reference was to Bill Ayers, one of the founders of the group the Weather Underground. Its members took credit for bombings, including nonfatal explosions at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol, during the tumultuous Vietnam War era four decades ago. Obama, who was a child when the group was active, served on a charity board with Ayers several years ago and has denounced his radical views and activities.

The Republican campaign, falling behind Obama in polls, plans to make attacks on Obama's character a centerpiece of presidential candidate John McCain's message with a month remaining before Election Day.

Palin told a group of donors at a private airport, "Our opponent ... is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough, that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country." She also said, "This is not a man who sees America as you see America and as I see America."

Palin, Alaska's governor, said that donors on a greeting line had encouraged her and McCain to get tougher on Obama. She said an aide then advised her, "Sarah, the gloves are off, the heels are on, go get to them."

The escalated effort to attack Obama's character dovetails with TV ads by outside groups questioning Obama's ties to Ayers, convicted former Obama fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko and Obama's former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

Ayers is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He and Obama live in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood and served together on the board of the Woods Fund, a Chicago-based charity that develops community groups to help the poor. Obama left the board in December 2002.

Obama was the first chairman of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a school-reform group of which Ayers was a founder. Ayers also held a meet-the-candidate event at his home for Obama when Obama first ran for office in the mid-1990s.

Palin cited a New York Times story published Saturday that detailed Obama's relationship with Ayers. In an interview with CBS News earlier in the week, Palin didn't name any newspapers or magazines that had shaped her view of the world.

Summing up its findings, the Times wrote: "A review of records of the schools project and interviews with a dozen people who know both men, suggest that Mr. Obama, 47, has played down his contacts with Mr. Ayers, 63. But the two men do not appear to have been close. Nor has Mr. Obama ever expressed sympathy for the radical views and actions of Mr. Ayers, whom he has called 'somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8.'"

[ OCTOBER 4, 2008 ]

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[TheRepublicanDude]

How do the oBAMA SUPPORTERS FEEL NOW? Like shit most likely

[pleiades357]

No, we are not going to let John McCain and his "operatives" distract you with the issues... our issue is that John McCain is distracting you. Did you notice how his accent changes while he talks? Slick.

It worked too.

You bought it hook... line... and sinker.....

[PatriotInChief]

Asking Obama about his relationship with Bill Ayers is neither a smear nor a distraction. That tells me he's got something to hide.

[sweetspeed21]

Such an idiot

[MyGrassroots]

Obama works for the banks. The banks own the corporations.

[METALisRELIGION]

@manyFords yeah i don't understand why people hate George Bush because the war, after 9/11 what are you suppose to do? ahh the terrorist attacked but they won't do it again....

some people are just stupid

[320iguy]

video title FAIL

[AriAri092]

Pansy. So basically you voted for him because he doesn't support the Constitution? For someone who took Constitutional law, he sure doesn't know jack shit about the Constitution. Congratulations on being a moron!

[DonDahab]

im going to end the war...liar

[ZombieBlaster]

You Fucking Dumb ass

[IamTheBeginning]

Dear president Obama, the reasons I voted for you: =Gun Control =National Health Care =Government support of worker unions =End the Death Penalty =No more Foreign nation building =No more wars, at ANY cost =Drastic reduction in defense spending =Increase spending on education/welfare =Gun Control =Repeal 2nd Amendment Thanks, YU-DA-MAN