McCain attacks Obama for supposed ties to '60s radical

McCain attacks Obama for supposed ties to '60s radical Senator John McCain has joined in the attacks on Senator Barack Obama for his supposed ties to the 1960s radical William Ayers, releasing a harsh new advertisement on Friday that accused Obama of lying about that relationship. The spot also blames liberal Democrats for the subprime mortgage crisis, and, in giving them a traditionally Republican label, blames them for pushing "deregulation." The McCain campaign said the commercial would be broadcast nationally. But as of Friday morning, the television monitoring service ShadowTV found that it had been shown only by news programs and had not run yet as a paid commercial. The day before, McCain told an angry crowd in Wisconsin that "we need to know the full extent of the relationship" to judge whether Obama "is telling the... [read full story]