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: 09-08-2008
Sat, 10-18-2008 - 9:54pm

((((McCain took money from Keating, as in no less than one third of his campaign contributions alone in one election in the 1980s.))))


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Registered: 08-20-2008
Sat, 10-18-2008 - 10:05pm

Very interesting clip thanks.

I wish they spent more time on the smear campaign Bush used against McCain, and how McCain blew up when confronted with it, including at a key debate they didn't mention.

I thought the part about McCain's charge Bush would waste all our money on tax cuts that would destabilize Social Security and the safety and soundness of our government was interesting too. That was before McCain flip flopped on everything, of course.

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Registered: 10-18-2008
Sat, 10-18-2008 - 10:22pm
Oh yeah, McCain is a complete hypocrite. He's totally
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Registered: 08-20-2008
Mon, 10-20-2008 - 1:09am
I can't think of one thing Bush and McCain would do differently.
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Registered: 10-18-2008
Mon, 10-20-2008 - 2:23am

I can't think of one thing Bush and McCain would do differently.


There really isn't much difference between them, but I actually think McCain would be more of a warhawk than W and that terrifies me. It's hard to believe, but I truly think McCain would be

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Registered: 10-14-2008
Mon, 10-20-2008 - 7:03am
Bingo - IOKIYAR. I think it's about time to resurrect that old gem.

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