McCain aide: Campaign tired of 'catching the spears' from Obama RAW STORY

Published: Tuesday September 23, 2008





Print This Email This The McCain campaign is preparing to resurrect attacks on Senator Obama for his past associations with controversial figures such as Rev. Jeremiah Wright and college professor and Weather Underground co-founder William Ayers, sources say.



"Our position is we are no longer constrained to avoid his very real associations in contrast to the very fictional associations he has imputed to John McCain in this campaign," one aide told the New York Sun. Mark Salter, a top McCain aide, told the Wall Street Journal last Friday that the campaign was tired of "catching the spears."



"They played it one way," he said, "we played it another way. Now we're both going to play it the same way."



"We've seen all throughout the [Democratic] primary this guy has a lot of associations that are very problematic," added campaign spokesman Michael Goldfarb.



"Of course the McCain campaign is going to run these ridiculous, gutter ads," countered Obama campaign spokesman Tommy Vietor. "Their strategy is to change the subject from the fact that John McCain put seven top Washington lobbyists in charge of his campaign and is so out of touch that he said that the fundamentals of the economy are strong on the day of a financial crisis."



In April, Senator Obama expressed "outrage" at comments made by his former pastor Wright, and said that Wright was "not the person that I met 20 years ago."



