Smile when you say that - again
Look, folks - this is a trap. McCain can't win by bringing Ayers up.
Obama/Biden have already won this battle twice: first, because McCain/Palin's use of the Ayers connection to attack Obama has been perceived as negative and beside the point; second, because Obama/Biden have been able to make McCain look squirrely for not saying it to Obama's face.
Obama and Biden have been goading McCain into making an issue of Ayers in the debate. McCain, with his prickly sense of "honor", seems to be taking the bait.
If McCain mentions Ayers tonight, Obama will have a ready answer - Ayers was recruited to advise the organization whose board Obama headed not by Obama himself, but by its benefactor, Walter Annenberg, a Republican friend of Ronald Reagan, a former ambassador under Nixon, whose wife has donated $1500 to McCain's campaign this year.
Obama will point out that the board was filled with civic and business leaders, many Republican, and that the focus of his own participation was to improve education for Chicago's children in the present, not to fight obscure ideological battles in the past. Obama, along with his Republican colleagues on the board, were trying to do some actual good in the here and now.
McCain will not "score any points". He will look like a fool.
Obama/Biden have already won this battle twice: first, because McCain/Palin's use of the Ayers connection to attack Obama has been perceived as negative and beside the point; second, because Obama/Biden have been able to make McCain look squirrely for not saying it to Obama's face.
Obama and Biden have been goading McCain into making an issue of Ayers in the debate. McCain, with his prickly sense of "honor", seems to be taking the bait.
If McCain mentions Ayers tonight, Obama will have a ready answer - Ayers was recruited to advise the organization whose board Obama headed not by Obama himself, but by its benefactor, Walter Annenberg, a Republican friend of Ronald Reagan, a former ambassador under Nixon, whose wife has donated $1500 to McCain's campaign this year.
Obama will point out that the board was filled with civic and business leaders, many Republican, and that the focus of his own participation was to improve education for Chicago's children in the present, not to fight obscure ideological battles in the past. Obama, along with his Republican colleagues on the board, were trying to do some actual good in the here and now.
McCain will not "score any points". He will look like a fool.