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http://www.reason.com/news/show/126320.html

"McCain has criticized Obama for his ties to Bill Ayers, who in 2001 gave Obama a $200 contribution. What McCain didn't mention is McCain's friend G. Gordon Liddy. Liddy spent more than 4 years in prison for his role in Watergate. Far from repudiating him, McCain has embraced him.

Liddy's home was the site of a McCain fundraiser. Over the years, he has made at least 4 contributions totaling $5,000 to the senator's campaignsâ€"including $1,000 this year.

Liddy has said he has no regrets about what he did, insisting that he went to jail as 'a prisoner of war.' Liddy was involved in the DNC break-in to plant bugs and photograph documents. Liddy proposed kidnapping antiwar activists so they couldn't disrupt the 1972 Republican convention. Liddy even planned the murder (never carried out) of an unfriendly newspaper columnist.

McCain thinks Obama should apologize for associating with a criminal extremist. To which Obama might reply: After you."

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http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idU... 06-May-2008 PRN20080506

"Michigan Fundraiser Highlights McCain's Radical Friends

1) Rakolta and Liggett helped finance an ad that compared Democrats to Adolf Hitler in 2006.

2) Gordon Liddy proposed kidnapping anti-war activists, planned the murder (never carried out) of an unfriendly newspaper columnist, and served a 4-year prison term for his role in the Watergate break in.

3) John McCain also spent 1 year courting John Hagee's endorsement, despite Hagee's history of anti-Catholic, anti-women, anti-LGBT, and anti-African American rhetoric.

4) Terry Nelson, was responsible for a racist ad against Harold Ford in 2006.

5) Richard Quinn, McCain's South Carolina Spokesman, praised KKK leader David Duke, saying 'What better way to reject politics-as-usual than to elect a maverick like David Duke?'

6) McCain visited 3 Alabama cities to endorse George Wallace Jr., an apologist for racist groups."

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http://www.newsweek.com/id/136321

"McCain, who has portrayed himself as a crusader against special interests, is surrounded by lobbyists. Doug Goodyear, McCain's selection for GOP Convention Chair, is CEO of DCI Group, a consulting firm that earned $3 million last year lobbying for ExxonMobil and GM.

Goodyear's firm was paid $348,000 to represent Burma's military junta, which had been strongly condemned by the State Department for its human-rights record and remains in power today. His firm created a PR campaign to burnish the junta's image, denouncing 'falsehoods' by the Bush administration that the regime engaged in rape and other abuses.

Goodyear's firm also pioneered so-called 527 groups, precisely the kind of operations that McCain, in his battle for campaign-finance reform, has denounced.

Ironically, Goodyear was chosen for the post after the McCain campaign nixed another candidate, Paul Manafort, who runs a lobbying firm with McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis."

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...

"Longtime uber-lobbyist Charles R. Black Jr. is John McCain's man in Washington. Black was Jonas Savimbi's man in the capital city. His lobbying firm received millions from the brutal Angolan guerrilla leader and took advantage of Black's contacts in Congress and the White House. Black and his partners were at times registered foreign agents for a remarkable collection of U.S.-backed foreign leaders whose human rights records were sometimes harshly criticized.

What the firm achieved was quickly dubbed 'Savimbi chic.' Foreign-agent records document hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on behalf of UNITA, including $76,491 for limousines, $13,675 for photography and $216,186 for lodging at the Grand Hotel and the Waldorf-Astoria.

McCain 'portrays himself as Mr. Clean, and then he has all these lobbyists around him who are connected to a lot of not-so-clean people.'"

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Those are astonishing figures, libRfunny, thank you for sharing them with us.

I am amazed that retirees, segment of the population which is frequently presented as impecunious--having to choose between buying food and buying medicine--have dug deeply to contribute nearly $l6 million. Perhaps they believe in that "hope" malarkey--or perhaps they are simply desperate. Do you think that elderly Americans, after giving so much to Barack Obama, will turn around and vote for another four years of Republican mismanagement and inattention?

I see that educators are among the groups giving a great deal to the Obama campaign. Educators are, of course, notoriously underpaid. Do you think that they are digging deep because that "hope" bushwah, or do you think that they are simply tired of administration by a party which vows to leave no child behind, but then fails to provide even minimal resources to our schools?

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/201671...

"John McCain's campaign asked prominent Republican consultant, Craig Shirley, to leave. Shirley doubled as a consultant to McCain and the group Stop Her Now, a 527 group barred from coordinating its activities with presidential campaigns.

Shirley's firm, Shirley & Bannister Associates, was paid more than $22,000 by McCain for work to win conservative support. Stop Her Now has paid the firm more than $155,000 since 2007 for public relations work.

Shirley's background is in some of the hardest hitting Republican attacks on Democratic politicians. He was a member of the team that tarred Michael Dukakis with the "Willie Horton" ads in 1988, and he helped organize the press conference with Paula Jones. In 2004, his company did public relations work for a movie attacking John Kerry called, 'Stolen Honor.'"

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2...

"Sen. John McCain secured millions in federal funds for a land acquisition program that provided a windfall for an Arizona developer whose executives were major campaign donors.

McCain, who has made fighting special-interest projects a centerpiece of his presidential campaign, inserted $14.3 million in a 2003 defense bill to buy land around Luke AFB in a provision sought by SunCor Development.

The Air Force later paid SunCor $3 million for 122 acres near the base. It was the highest single land transaction of the private lots purchased by the government - THREE TIMES the county's assessed value and twice the military's estimated value.

McCain's campaigns have received $224,000 since 1998 from donors connected to Pinnacle West, including $104,100 for his current presidential run."

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http://news.propeller.com/story/2008/04/26/mcca...

"McCain's help for Keating came after Keating had donated $112,000 to McCain from 1982 to 1987, had taken McCain and his family on nine trips, including three to the Bahamas, and had gone in on a business deal with McCain's wife and father-in-law.

In 1982, Keating held a fund-raiser for him, collecting more than $11,000 from 40 employees of American Continental Corp. In 1983, as McCain contemplated his House re-election, Keating hosted a $1,000-a-plate dinner for him, even though McCain had no serious competition. When McCain pushed for the Senate in 1986, Keating was there with more than $50,000. By 1987, McCain had received about $112,000 from Keating and his associates.

The Arizona Republic revealed that McCain's wife and her father had invested $359,100 in a Keating shopping center."

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http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB217/i...

"Carl Lindner co-hosted a $25,000-per-person fundraiser for McCain. The event raised about $2 million; Lindner also serves on McCain's Ohio Victory Team.

A report by the Organization of American States states that Lindner's firm also engaged in arms trafficking, helping to deliver 3,000 Nicaraguan AK-47 rifles and millions of rounds of ammunition to the AUC in 2001. According to federal prosecutors, when company officials realized the arrangement was illegal, they switched to making the payments in cash.

McCain has described FARC as 'one of the worst' terrorist groups."

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/0...

"Two of McCain's top advisers were recently lobbyists for a notorious lender in the mortgage meltdown. John Green, the senator's chief liaison to Congress, and Wayne Berman, his national finance co-chairman, billed more than $720,000 in lobbying fees from 2005 through last year to Ameriquest Mortgage through their lobbying firm.

Ameriquest, which since has been bought out, was forced to settle suits with 49 states for $325 million. More than 13,680 New York homeowners got taken for a ride by the company, records show. 'They would be defined as the most blatant and aggressive predatory lenders out of everybody,' said Bruce Marks, head of the nonprofit Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America."

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One of the worst things that could happen to the Obama campaign would be the disclosure of the Arab and Chinese contributions.

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You're still trying to push this line of bullsh*t even though I've already busted you on it, big time.

TRUTH IS...

Goldman Sachs Inc DID NOT write a check out to Obama. The number you're falsely trying to push is the amount of donatins given to Obama by individual Goldman Sachs. So it has nothing to do with Goldman Sachs Inc.

AND...It says this on the open secrets web site you've linked to.

READ IT. LEARN IT. KNOW IT.

then quit with the bullsh*t.

we all know you're lying.

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