Obama should raise McCain's Top Aide William Timmons Dealings On Behalf Of Saddam Hussein ....

Obama should raise this BEFORE Ayers is brought up by McCain or the moderator!

McCain will not expect that .... he'll be totally off guard because he expects Obama to play nice (and defense) while he hammers away on Ayers.

By Obama striking first on the associations and character issue, he tremendously weakens anything McCain has to say about Obama's alleged association with Ayers.

People will want to know more about McCain's transition team head.

McCain's transition team leader worked with two convicted criminals to help the Sadaam Hussein regime!

There is nothing alleged about this! It's a fact.

Now that's a scandal!

The voting public might be just a little bit interested in this well documented non-smear fact.

Don't ya think?

Let McCain twist in the wind trying to answer that hard fact until election day.

That's hardly engaging in a tit for tat "negative" campaign.

Voters will want to know:

Doesn't McCain do background checks on someone so high in his organization?

Is he really as incompetent and out of touch as his mentor, George W. Bush?

What was McCain thinking when he put Simmons on his payroll as a top advisor and organizer?

Having a collaborator of the "terrorist" Saddam Hussein regime on his payroll, in a top position, should raise some eyebrows, even among some McCain supporters.

I'd like to see one hard hitting and powerful TV commercial on this. That could bury McCain's campaign.

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belonging to an organization that received support from Iran

and can't be challenged.

It will have more impact.

tax evasion problems, AIP support, lying by McCain's running mate. Forget old college professors this is McCain's running mate that McCain believes would make a great president. A person that conducts government business on yahoo email. I think supporters will be a little unhappy with Obama if he doesn't bring up Palin's ethic violations if Ayers is brought up.

They have been coordinating their attacks throughout this campaign, so it is likely we'll hear it from Obama.

And he won't. Let it go at this point. The debate is no place to raise something like this that most haven't heard of.

I don't think the person (Saddam) is as significant as the greater issue of the illegal invasion of Iraq, which McSame supported and Obama was against.

That would be a diversion at best.

The fact of the matter is that Iraqi society as a whole was in better shape under Saddam than it is now. A million dead Iraqis and still counting! The blood is not on Obama's hands.

I don't think the issue of doing business with Saddam would be any more incriminating than someone doing business with any other Arab leader in the Middle East. To me, that's a non-issue. Saddam was executed after a sham trial, with the US pulling all the strings to kill him once and for all.

He remains a martyr to a significant portion of the Iraqi population, including the Iraqi resistance, and it would be a mistake to marginalize him after his legal lynching, which BTW only happened because the US occupied Iraq.