TPM: G. Gordon Liddy is McCain's own radical friend...

G. Gordon Liddy is McCain's own radical friend...
By Jonze - May 4, 2008, 4:19PM
Chicago Tribune's Steve Chapman article can be located here - http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-oped0504chapmanmay04,0,6061828.column





Can
a presidential candidate justify a long and friendly relationship with
someone who, back in the 1970s, extolled violence and committed crimes
in the name of a radical ideology—and who has never shown remorse or
admitted error? When the candidate in question is Barack Obama, John McCain says no. But when the candidate in question is John McCain, he's not so sure.


Obama has been justly criticized for his ties to former Weather
Underground member Bill Ayers, who in 1995 hosted a campaign event for
Obama and in 2001 gave him a $200 contribution. The two have also
served together on the board of a foundation. When their connection
became known, McCain minced no words: "I think not only a repudiation
but an apology for ever having anything to do with an unrepentant
terrorist is due the American people."

What McCain didn't
mention is that he has his own Bill Ayers—in the form of G. Gordon
Liddy. Now a conservative radio talk-show host, Liddy spent more than 4
years in prison for his role in the 1972 Watergate burglary. That was
just one element of what Liddy did, and proposed to do, in a secret White House effort to subvert the Constitution. Far from repudiating him, McCain has embraced him.


How close are McCain and Liddy? At least as close as Obama and Ayers
appear to be. In 1998, Liddy's home was the site of a McCain
fundraiser. Over the years, he has made at least four contributions
totaling $5,000 to the senator's campaigns—including $1,000 this year.




more:http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/05/g-gordon-liddy-is-mccains-own.php

(a bit dated, but no less valid today than in February)

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/02/12/mccain_camp_touts_ollie_north.html

They want to talk 'associations,' buddy, we got your associations, right HERE!

I apologize, but it's a rule.

Damn -- it took me weeks to get rid of the nightmares after the last time I saw that...

:o

That's enough to make you hurl.

N/T

than wrapping your nuts in the American flag :puke:

Do these people think about what they start?

Republican criminals are heroes.

....looking mighty tired these days. Liddy's is just a shell of the guy I listened to at a university event about 25 years ago. It's time for them both to go home and take a nap.

Besides the G.Gordon Liddy friendship that mediamatters.org publicized,
there's:
I picked up on Paul Begala's lead on Meet the Press and compiled a brief expose of McCain & U.S. Council for World Freedom (USCWF -far right organization that destabilized governments since 1981) & Contra point-man John Singlaub:
http://bluesunited.blogspot.com/2008/10/nyts-silence-on...

THIS IS THE OTHER STORY THE MEDIA NEED TO COVER!