mccain and gordon liddy?

why does mccain pal around with felons who plan to kidnap people?

"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."
"ast November, McCain went on his radio show. Liddy greeted him as "an old friend," and McCain sounded like one. "I'm proud of you, I'm proud of your family," he gushed. "It's always a pleasure for me to come on your program, Gordon, and congratulations on your continued success and adherence to the principles and philosophies that keep our nation great.""
"Which principles would those be? The ones that told Liddy it was fine to break into the office of the Democratic National Committee to plant bugs and photograph documents? The ones that made him propose to kidnap anti-war activists so they couldn't disrupt the 1972 Republican National Convention? The ones that inspired him to plan the murder (never carried out) of an unfriendly newspaper columnist?"

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-oped0504chapmanmay04,0,6238795.column

2008-10-31T08:08:24Z

i'm glad that jug didn't even bother to read my entire question. quality!

2008-10-31T08:11:09Z

cheb, if you had any familiarity with the weather underground you would know that they explicitly did not target people in their campaigns. the only people who have EVER been hurt by the weather underground were 3 of their own members who accidentally exploded a bomb in their building.

2008-10-31T08:14:38Z

lol@tiesthatbind: the quotes are from the chicago tribune...i guess it's more of that "reality having a liberal bias" again!

Anonymous2008-10-31T08:11:27Z

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I have often wondered that myself. Why does he hang out in bars and play golf with these people after they told him point blank that he was not repentant of the Watergate affair?

Right after Liddy told him this, he invited him over for dinner. Then they had a wife swapping party.

Simon B2008-11-01T06:29:13Z

Truth is that neither McCain nor Obama is a terrorist nor they would like to hurt America. They both want America to be stronger and better, so that they be the leader of a stronger and better America. Let us not question their patriotism. What we should question though is how one campaign and one candidate treat the other, how low will they or go just to win the election. McCain already knows first hand how low the likes of Carl Rove will go in spreading lies. We can not and should not allow this to stand by not voting for the person who employ es these kinds of tactics.

Mind you these tactics do linger on and hinder the winner from leading the country effectively. To that effect how can you call such a person a patriot? Who resorts to such negativity. I am for Obama not because of Liddy, rather because McCain sold his sole, and wants to get in there at any price. That price is too high, It is time so send likes of Carl Rove home and then hopefully to prison so that they can pay their debt to the society like Liddy.

ken2008-10-31T08:15:11Z

Well Liddy served time and has repented. Somehow this is not the moral equivalent of Obama palling around with Ayres who is not repentant and wants to do more damage to the US.

It seems that liberals would allow Lucifer himself to be associated with Obama and call anyone a racist and a bigot who questioned the association. Questions like this are trying to drive moral equivalences however they show even more that Liberals have no clue what a moral equivalence is because they are completely devoid of morals in the first place. That is why Obama like Clinton is such a great liar.

chukki2008-10-31T08:09:48Z

If you are comparing Liddy to Ayers:

Liddy is "all talk". Ayers committed atrocities against innocent women and children. Much like TImothy McVeigh in Oklahoma City. Just because Ayers committed bombing before you were born doesn't mean it didn't happen. SHould my children not care what Tim McVeigh did?

EDIT: WRONG Montclam: I think that sitting in my office, going about my work, when suddenly my windows shatter from the explosion from a bombing of a monument in the quadrangle from Bill Ayers is considered "getting hurt". Just because I am not physically maimed, feeling fear and unsafe is terrorism and should never be tolerated. PS Ayers accomplished this bombing of the same monument in CHicago three times. Go ahead, kiss his a**.

Raja2008-10-31T08:11:16Z

Someone called Obama Hypocrite......look who is talking.

thanks for sharing this......there was another terrorist McCain was pals with. I forget the name. But still Obama did not engage in negative ads.

What Ayers did or did not do is up to him. Just because someone later changes the mind does not make him a worthy friend.

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