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"Ayers and Dohrn were responsible for bombings of the US State Department, US Capitol, the Pentagon, the National Guard Headquarters and nineteen other sites. Two other Weathermen, the parents of Ayers and Dohrn's adopted son, Chelsa, were convicted of murdering two policemen and a security guard during a Brinks truck robbery," he says.
Sloan says Rove and Republicans would "eviscerate" Obama if he were the Democratic presidential candidate. He recalls links that have been reported in the press between Obama and Ayers and brings up other leftist leaders and ideologues.
"Rove's frame for the fall campaign will be filled with revolutionary figures -- Marx, Lenin, Mao, Ho Chi Minh and Che Guevara. His audio tapes of Ayers, Dohrn and other Weathermen will provide the screams of revolution. The bombing of the US Capitol, the Pentagon and the US State Department will serve as b-roll for his television ads that will have one final visual as the announcer gravely intones 'Their Change -- Not What You Had In Mind?'" he predicts.
Asked about Sloan's memo, Clinton campaign communications director Howard Wolfson said he took no responsibility for Sloan's language.
"Rick is a supporter," Wolfson said. "He is acting on his own in this instance. It is not something we endorse."
Wolfson did say, however, that Obama's answer to a question about his connections to Ayers in a televised debate last week "was not as forthcoming as it should have been."
A spokesman for Sen. Obama dismissed the Sloan document as nothing more than negative campaigning.
"Hillary Clinton has set the gold standard for negative campaigning, and these sorts of tactics have been rejected repeatedly, all over the country," said Bill Burton, spokesman for Obama.