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...Hello, I'm calling for John McCain and the RNC because you need to know that Barack Obama has worked closely with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, whose organization bombed the US Capitol, the Pentagon, a judge's home, and killed Americans...
...This call was paid for by McCain-Palin 2008 and the Republican National Committee...
Cole insists that her decision about the call wasn't about politics. "I was uncomfortable reading it," she says. "I didn't know if it was true. I wouldn't have done it if it was anti-McCain either. Everything about it was wrong." She told the Charleston newspaper that she was also worried about the fact that she didn't know who might be answering the phone when she called, and was especially concerned that she might be delivering her message to a child or an elderly person. Her bosses gave her a choice, she said: Read...
Cole isn't the only telemarketer who refused to deliver the attack call, which has been made in several battleground states. Ted Zoromski of Middleton, Wisconsin, quit his job at a Madison firm rather than make the call. And some leading members of McCain's own party up for reelection, including Senators Susan Collins of Maine and Gordon Smith of Oregon, have called on McCain and the RNC to stop the robocalls...
Such negative telephone campaigns - often in the guise of automated "robocalls" - are a time-honored campaign tactic, especially in the closing days of a campaign, because they can often go under the radar. However, the Obama campaign has increasingly been crying foul on the McCain calls, and this week, launched a new website, radar.barackobama.com that actually aims to draw attention to, and thereby discredit, them...