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“Republican plot to malign Obama”

LONDON: An Oxford University academic has claimed supporters of Mr. McCain tried to “enlist” his services to prove a “scandalous” allegation against Mr. Obama to damage his prospects in Tuesday’s elections.

Dr. Peter Millican, who teaches philosophy at Oxford, said that a man “close” to a Republican Congressman called him last Sunday and sought his help in establishing a link between Mr. Obama and Bill Ayers, a Vietnam-era radical, by proving that Mr. Obama’s 1995 biography, “Dreams from My Father,” was actually ghost-written by Mr. Ayers. This was to be done by drawing on supposed similarities between Mr. Obama’s book and Mr. Ayers’s own memoirs, “Fugitive Days.”

“The new scandal held the promise not only of proving that Obama was a pal of Ayers, but even that he was, in a sense, Ayers’ creation, groomed for high office by his mentor’s ghost-writing hand,” wrote Dr. Millican in The Sunday Times.

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