Current Event Week #3

This article is about the two presidential campaigns advertisement battle against each other. This is only natural, because it is the final month of campaigning…and its usually the most intense. John McCain bashed Barack Obama over his past association with a 1960s radical leader, and Obama struck back by highlighting McCain’s connection to a corruption scandal surrounding the 1989 failure of a savings loan. Because of this recent wave off attacks by the McCain campaign, Obama claims that their campaign is getting desperate, and their tactics have fallen to a level of “character assassination.” Obama also took the heat from Sarah Palin, who also attacked him about his association with William Ayers, who she said was a domestic terrorist who targeted his own country. Ayers was the founder of Weather Underground, a radical Marxist militant group which targeted the pentagon, U.S Capitol and claimed responsibility for other bombings. Obama claims that Ayers is “a guy who lives in my neighborhood, whos a professor of English in Chicago who I know, but not a close associate or someone I regularly exchange ideas with.” Obama described Ayers’s actions in the 60’s as “detestable”.
I believe this banter between the two candidates is ridiculous. They should stop focusing on each other’s past affiliations, and focus on what is happening right now. The candidates really need to get back to the real issues which affect us the most, not some failed loan in the 80’s or a run in with a former domestic terrorist. Although the terrorist thing is kinda creepy…Obama should definitely not be chilling with that dude.