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"Does he condemn them? Would he condemn someone who that says they're unrepentant and wished that they had bombed more?"

By Ann Althouse

McCain asks.

"[Obama] became friends with [William Ayers] and spent time with him while the guy was unrepentant over his activities as a member of a terrorist organization, the Weathermen."

And here's the response from the Obama campaign:

"Unable to sell his out-of-touch ideas on the economy and Iraq, John McCain has stooped to the same smear politics and low road that he denounced in 2000. The American people can?t afford a third term of President Bush?s failed policies and divisive tactics."

Wow, they are on autopilot. Any criticism is met with bland disqualification: It's negative. Don't say anything negative. If you don't have anything nice to say don't say anything.

I know Obama said when he was in kindergarten that he wanted to be President. But he isn't still in kindergarten.

ADDED: Here's a great, pithy clip show of the Sunday morning shows that includes McCain's remarks ? and an amazing amount of talk about the "negativity":

Full post as published by Althouse on April 21, 2008 (boomark / email).