McCain stonewalls on radical friend »
Posted By bruhaha 1 year, 2 months ago in Political NewsThere are three things in the world that you should recognize will not happen in this lifetime. You will not become a billionaire. The Cubs will not win the World Series. And John McCain will not explain his warm association with a notorious political criminal.
McCain has attacked Barack Obama for his connection to former Weather Underground member William Ayers, who in McCain's words "was unrepentant over his activities as a member of a terrorist organization." In the final debate, McCain said that "we need to know the full extent of that relationship."
But though he thinks it's terrible for Obama to associate with dangerous militants, he thinks it's fine for him to do the same thing. And he'd rather go back to the Hanoi Hilton than disclose "the full extent of that relationship."
The extremist McCain has befriended is G. Gordon Liddy, who got a 20-year prison sentence for multiple felonies in the Watergate scandal— including burglary, conspiracy and illegal wiretapping. Finally forced to acknowledge the connection in an interview last week by David Letterman , McCain ducked and dodged before replying, "He went to prison, he paid his debt, as people do. I'm not in any way embarrassed to know Gordon Liddy."
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jordan111 year, 2 months ago
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He's probably right. Liddy is not someone most of us would want to see visiting the Oval Office. Working for President Richard Nixon, he committed a raft of crimes to secure Nixon's re-election and punish his perceived enemies. He proposed to do still more—bomb the liberal Brookings Institution, kidnap anti-war activists and murder a couple of inconvenient people. But cooler heads prevailed.>>>>>
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Liddy is a domestic terrtoist. I won't say 'was', because of his recent instruction on where to shoot federal agents should they come knocking. Liddy didn't pay for his crimes. He was pardoned! He served a mere 20% of his sentence. He 'paid' for nothing.
Why Carter pardoned him is baffling to me, and on that issue, I have no respect for carter.-
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bruhaha1 year, 2 months ago
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Would be nice if McCains "associations" would get half as much scrutiny as Obamas. Many of their misdeeds are at best equal to the misdeeds of Obama's so called associates.
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And this article leaves out one of McCain's fundraisers, the former head of Chiquita who made payments to a right wing terrorist group in Columbia responsible for some of the worst civilian massacres in that country.
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