McCain and Ayers, Oops I mean Liddy

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Registered: 08-20-2008
McCain and Ayers, Oops I mean Liddy
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Fri, 10-17-2008 - 11:41pm

Here is the big white elephant in the room that our cowed media was ignoring, until now:

"Liddy's connections to John McCain
In 1998 Liddy hosted a fundraiser at his house for John McCain's re-election campaign at which guests could have their pictures taken with McCain and Liddy. Over the years, Liddy, who has referred to McCain as "an old friend," has made at least four contributions totaling $5,000 to the senator's campaigns -- including $1,000 in 2008."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._Gordon_Liddy

Funny that Obama is not the one who brought this up. It wasn't even John Stewart. Or Keith Olbermann. Just that guy McCain stood up a few weeks ago so McCain could do an interview with Couric instead. Yup, you got it. David Letterman. Watch McCain stammer in this clip:

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Letterman_nails_McCain_over_Gordon_Liddy_1017.html

So now, who was this guy Liddy?

"In 1971, after serving in several positions in the Nixon administration, Liddy was moved to Nixon's 1972 campaign, the Committee to Re-elect the President (officially known as "CRP" but to opponents known as CREEP), in order to extend the scope and reach of the White House "Plumbers" unit, which had been created in response to various damaging leaks of information to the press. At CRP, Liddy concocted several plots, some far-fetched, intended to embarrass the Democratic opposition. These included firebombing the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. (where classified documents leaked by Daniel Ellsberg were being stored), kidnapping anti-war protest organizers and transporting them to Mexico during the Republican National Convention (which at the time was planned for San Diego), and luring mid-level Democratic campaign officials to a house boat in Baltimore where they would be secretly photographed in compromising positions with call girls. Most of Liddy's ideas were rejected, but a few were given the go ahead by Nixon Administration officials, including the break-in at Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office. Ellsberg had leaked the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times. At some point, Liddy was instructed to break into the Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate Hotel.
Controversies

Watergate burglaries
For his role in Watergate, which he coordinated with Hunt, Liddy was convicted of conspiracy, burglary and illegal wiretapping, and received a 20-year sentence. He served a total of five and half years in prison, including over 100 days in solitary confinement, before his sentence was commuted by President Jimmy Carter and he was released on September 7, 1977."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._Gordon_Liddy

So, while McCain can't even connect Obama to Ayers, McCain is caught taking money from Liddy. Just like McCain took money from Keating, as in no less than one third of his campaign contributions alone in one election in the 1980s.

Liddy, Keating. Who is the guy directly connected with slime? The guy throwing the slime. What a surprise.

Enough games. Want to help yourself and your fellow Americans get out of this economic crisis? Then vote for a level-headed President who wasn't part of the gang that deregulated us into this economic crisis. Vote for Senator Obama.

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Registered: 03-25-2007
Sat, 10-18-2008 - 12:27am
What is it with McCain and "plumbers"?

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Registered: 10-12-2008
Sat, 10-18-2008 - 1:00am
LOL - I don't think most will get that reference but I did. Guess that ages me - maybe if they google Watergate they will get the joke too.

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Registered: 01-02-2005
Sat, 10-18-2008 - 1:02am

I'm interested in hearing what repubs have to say about this.


and this tidbit.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/27093100#27093100


 

Greatly Missed, Never Ever Forgotten

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Registered: 09-26-2008
Sat, 10-18-2008 - 1:10am
the sound of crickets most likely....
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Registered: 03-25-2007
Sat, 10-18-2008 - 1:31am
LOL!

Sopal

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Registered: 08-20-2008
Sat, 10-18-2008 - 10:27am

The roar of Republican silence is deafening. If they really cared about our politicians' connection to shady folks from the 70s, then they would be all over this.

Double standard again.

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Registered: 08-20-2008
Sat, 10-18-2008 - 8:55pm

"The roar of Republican silence is deafening. If they really cared about our politicians' connection to shady folks from the 70s, then they would be all over this.

Double standard again."

Funny how the Republicans expect people to care when they make accusations about Obama and Ayers, but don't seem to care at all about far closer associations between their candidate and another very shady felon from the 70s.

We deserve more. But then again what's right is not what the right cares about these days.

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Registered: 10-18-2008
Sat, 10-18-2008 - 9:00pm
Republicans don't think Liddy is a known terrorist regardless that Liddy
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Registered: 08-20-2008
Sat, 10-18-2008 - 9:04pm

"IOKIYAR"

You are spot on. Americans deserve more than a double standard. They deserve real values. Not just self-centered crooks in Nixon tradition.

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Registered: 10-25-2006
Sat, 10-18-2008 - 9:05pm

That Letterman clip is a good one, and so is the "plumber" connection, LOL.

Here's a bit more McCain hypocrisy. (I apologize if you saw this in other threads--I feel it's important enough to post in a few relevant threads.)

Watch minutes 13:00-17:30 to hear McCain's 2000 views on negative ads ad robocalls:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFPddnQOhME

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http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/october/meet_the_new_health_.php

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQTBYQlQ7yM

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