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Sanity -> RE: More Change to Believe In (8/28/2008 6:27:13 PM)
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In other words, what the hell are those protesters doing outside of their free speech zone.
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ORIGINAL: gina0055
Could it be because the ad may be illegal????? That would be my thought. Oh, and I don't have links at the moment but somewhere was a news story about a tie between a prominent Republican and Ayers.
"The spot, released by the America Issues Project (an incorporated 501c(4) committee, according to a report by Politico's Ben Smith), intersperses images of Obama and Ayers, and features a narrator asking, "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?"
"This negative campaign ad is clearly express advocacy, and under a federal law passed in 2003, the Bi-Partisan Campaign Reform Act (known colloquially as McCain-Feingold), it cannot legally be paid for with corporate money, including those of a non-profit," said Laura MacCleery, deputy director of the democracy program at the Brennan Center for Justice. "The ad indisputably concerns an election, takes a position on the character and fitness for office of a candidate, and raises no legislative issue. Even this highly skeptical Supreme Court would turn up its noses at the foul odor emitted by this clear abuse of federal election law."
For its part, a Fox News representative told the Associated Press that the network had rejected the spot.
The zone of jurisprudence occupied by the ad is undoubtedly a complex one -- intersecting "
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