Producer: Pinkston Group
Running Time: 1:00
Debut Date: 08/21/2008
Ad Buy: running in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia
Cost: $2.9 million
Summary: The ad links Obama to William Ayers, formerly of the radical group Weather Underground, which bombed the Capitol in 1971.
Script of "Know Enough?" (TV)
ANNOUNCER [v/o]: Beyond the speeches, how much do you know about Barack Obama? What does he really believe?
Consider this: United 93 never hit the Capitol on 9/11. But the Capitol was bombed 30 years before by an American terrorist group called Weather Underground that declared war on the U.S., targeting the Capitol, the Pentagon, police stations and more.
(Text on screen: "Bomb In Capitol Causes Wide Damage" -- New York Times, 3/2/71; Associated Press, 7/24/98; Wanted By Local And Federal Authorities -- Bill Ayers, Fugitive Days, 2001; Washington Post, 4/18/08)
One of the group's leaders, William Ayers, admits to the bombings, proudly saying later we "didn't do enough."
(Text on screen: New York Times, 9/11/01)
Some members of the group Ayers founded even went on to kill police.
(Text on screen: "'Weather' Fugitive Is Seized In Killings" -- Associated Press, 4/17/08; New York Times, 10/22/81)
But Barack Obama is friends with Ayers, defending him as "respectable" and "mainstream".
(Text on screen: Politico, 2/22/08; BarackObama.com, accessed 4/17/08)
Obama's political career was launched in Ayers' home. And the two served together on a left-wing board.
(Text on screen: Politico, 2/22/08)
Why would Barack Obama be friends with someone who bombed the Capitol -- and is proud of it? Do you know enough to elect Barack Obama?
(Text on screen: AmericanIssuesProject.org; Paid For By American Issues Project; Not Authorized By Any Candidate Or Candidate's Committee)
American Issues Project is responsible for the content of this ad.
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