Here are all of the salient points in regards to the renewed (yet still pathetic) attempt to connect Obama to the Weather Underground (the most pressing and recent terrorist group that McCain can remember offhand, apparently):

Independent Group With Links to McCain Campaign Assails Obama on Ayers

“Beyond the speeches, how much do you know about Barack Obama?” asks the new TV ad from a non-profit conservative group called the Americans Issues Project. “What does he really believe?”

The ad then tries to tie 9/11 to the Weather Underground and William Ayers, and Ayers to Obama.
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Asked by ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos about his relationship with Ayers, Obama said,”This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who’s a professor of English in Chicago who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He’s not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis. And the notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values doesn’t make much sense…”
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Obama said the Ayers argument is a “kind of game in which anybody who I know, regardless of how flimsy the relationship is, that somehow their ideas could be attributed to me, I think the American people are smarter than that. They’re not going to suggest somehow that that is reflective of my views, because it obviously isn’t.”

Ed Failor, Jr. sits on the board of American Issues Project. The executive vice president of Iowans for Tax Relief, Failor was a senior adviser to the campaign of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz, as this cached press release shows.

The press release was only taken down from the McCain website in the last few weeks — the Google cached version shows it being on the McCain website as recently as June 29, 2008 — though the McCain campaign says Failor hasn’t had anything to do with their campaign in months.

The spokesman for the American Issues Project, which says it intends to spend $2.8 million on the initial ad buy, is Christian Pinkston, who also worked for the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.

Isn’t it odd how being partisan scum is a big industry these days? And isn’t it odd, all the funny connections between these various dummy groups and the GOP? McCain’s campaign finance reform is a bit of a joke, isn’t it?