McCain Rips Obama For Coburn Remark

Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Sunday criticized Barack Obama for comparing former Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers to Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., during Wednesday’s ABC News democratic presidential debate.

Obama said he did not agree with the views held by many of his associates, including Coburn, who once proposed the death penalty for those who perform abortions. He made the statement in defending his links to Ayers, now a Chicago professor who a few years ago refused to apologize for bombs the Weather Underground planned to detonate in New York, saying that if anything, they didn't detonate enough bombs.

“Worst thing of all, that, I think, really indicates Senator Obama’s attitude, is he had the incredible statement that he compared Mr. Ayers, an unrepentant terrorist, with Senator Tom Coburn, Senator Coburn, a physician who goes to Oklahoma on the weekends and brings babies into life,” McCain said.

“Comparing those two — I mean, that’s not — that’s an attitude, frankly, that certainly isn’t in keeping with the overall attitude,” he said.

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