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August 25, 2008 - 3:59 pm - by Richard Fernandez
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2008-08-25 21:16:33

The Obama campaign’s counter-advertisement — “With all our problems, why is John McCain talking about the ’60s, trying to link Barack Obama to radical Bill Ayers?” — will get a lot of agreement from the voters who still are undecided.

He tried shrugging his shoulders to deflect a controversy once already. I think his handling of the Rev Wright issue takes a lot of the wind out of that approach.