Palin: "I still am concerned about that association with Bill Ayers"

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/11/palin_ready_to_1.html

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In the last weeks of the campaign, Palin called Obama a socialist for his tax plans and accused him of palling around with terrorists for his association with William Ayers, who led the Weather Underground, a radical group that bombed government buildings during the early 1970s.

Palin said it was not "off-base nor mean-spirited, nor negative campaigning to call someone out on their associations and on their record. And that's why I did it."

"I still am concerned about that association with Bill Ayers," she added. "And if anybody still wants to talk about it, I will, because this is an unrepentant domestic terrorist who had campaigned to blow up, to destroy our Pentagon and our US Capitol. That's an association that still bothers me.

"However the campaign is over," Palin said. "That chapter is closed. Now is the time to move on and to, again, make sure that all of us are doing all that we can to progress this nation."

She also said she is concerned about her teenage son Track, who is serving in Iraq.

"We've got make sure there too that Barack Obama surrounds himself with strong commanders who understand that our boys, our girls, with their boots on the ground -- their lives, my son's life, is in his hands. And I do have faith in this new administration that they are going to look out for America's finest, those in uniform, who are protecting us and our freedoms," she said.