McCain Says Ayers to Come Up at Debate

Republican presidential hopeful John McCain said Tuesday that Democrat Brack Obama’s association with a 1960s radical will come up in their debate Wednesday.

Politico reports McCain said Obama is "probably ensured" that his association with former Weather Underground leader William Ayers will come up when they meet in New York for their third and final presidential debate.

"I was astonished to hear him say that he was surprised that I didn’t have the guts" to bring up Ayers, McCain said on St. Louis radio station KMOX.

After their debate last week, Obama said he was surprised that McCain did not levy the same attacks at their debate that his campaign says on the campaign trail.

"I am surprised that, you know, we’ve been seeing some pretty over-the-top attacks coming out of the McCain campaign over the last several days, that he wasn’t willing to say it to my face," Obama said. "But I guess we’ve got one last debate. So presumably, if he ends up feeling that he needs to, he will raise it during the debate."

McCain has said while he does not care about Ayers, whom he called the "old washed-up terrorist" he has said Obama is not "being truthful" about the relationship.