When Does John Mccain Run Again
McCain Said He Is Proud of G. Gordon Liddy – the Watergate Burglar and Domestic Terrorist
past Carl Bernstein / The Huffington Post / October 13, 2008
Certainly McCain's continuing "association" and relationship with the convicted Watergate infiltrator and domestic terrorist 1000. Gordon Liddy might suggest that is the case, if we are to apply the standards drawn past the McCain campaign.
In 1998, Liddy gave a fundraiser in his Scottsdale, Arizona habitation for McCain's senatorial re-ballot campaign — the ii posed for photographs together; and as recently every bit May, 2007, equally a presidential candidate, McCain was a guest on Liddy's syndicated radio show. Inexplicably, McCain heaped praise on his host's values. During the segment, McCain said he was "proud" of Liddy, and praised Liddy'south "adherence to the principles and philosophies that go on our nation smashing." From the plan:
LIDDY: Your feel in the Hanoi Hilton is remarkable. I mean, I put in five years in a prison house [for masterminding the Watergate burglary, and associated crimes], but it was here in the United States, and they didn't torture – the but torture that I had was being forced to mind to rap music from time to time.
McCAIN: Well, you know, I'm proud of you. I'm proud of your family unit. I'one thousand proud to know your son, Tom, who'southward a peachy and wonderful guy. And it's always a pleasance 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 of Liddy'south "principles and philosophies" was McCain referring to? Liddy'southward advancement of break-ins? Firebombings? Assassinations? Kidnappings? Taking target practice with figures nicknamed Neb and Hillary?
During the same menses that Bill Ayers was a member of the Weather Hugger-mugger, Gordon Liddy was making plans to firebomb a Washington think tank, electrocute a prominent announcer, undertake the Watergate burglary, intermission into the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist, and kidnap anti-war protesters at the 1972 Republican convention.
Re: Liddy's "continued success and adherence to the principles and philosophies that go on our nation great:" Did McCain hateful to include Liddy's instructions to listeners of his radio show in 1994 (around the fourth dimension Ayres and Obama were on a board together discussing didactics programs and other plots) on how to shoot Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms agents (aim for the head)?
If ATF agents attempt to curtail a denizen's gun buying, Liddy counseled, "Well, if the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms comes to disarm you lot and they are bearing arms, resist them with arms. Go for a head shot; they're going to be wearing bulletproof vests."
More recently, Liddy explained making the Clintons objects of shooting practice: "I did relate that on the quaternary of July of terminal yr, when I and my family and some friends were out firing abroad at a properly-synthetic rifle range and we ran out of targets, and so we – I drew some stick figure targets and I thought nosotros ought to give them names. And then I named them Nib and Hillary, thought information technology might meliorate my aim. Information technology didn't. My aim is good anyway. At present, having said that, I have no responsibility for somebody shooting up the White House."
The Liddy-McCain symbiosis has been mentioned in a number of posts on the Internet – more often than not by bloggers and sites identified with The Left. Only the documentation of their interaction (Liddy has as well contributed financially to McCain's presidential campaign) is not a matter of Left or Correct: It is astonishing that, given the prominence of the Ayers matter accorded by nearly every "mainstream" news outlet in America, at that place has been virtually cipher on the discipline in the major newspapers and broadcast networks. This is a real journalistic failure and abrogation of responsibleness.
Is Liddy whatever less a domestic terrorist than Bill Ayers? It is a naught-sum argument, for certain. I do not believe, incidentally, that John McCain shares the most abhorrent of Liddy'due south values, every bit expressed in Liddy's actions during the aforementioned period that Ayers was a Weatherman – and which Liddy continues to express, unapologetically, to this mean solar day.
Just McCain has now become so unmoored from the principles he once consort, and then shameless in his courtship not just of the Republican "base" just in his eagerness to unleash a poisonous armory of character bump-off and guilt-past-association – and plain-and-uncomplicated incitement of people'south fears and prejudices – that, now, inevitably his and Sara Palin's rallies and campaign events take taken on the aura of mobs at times.
"Kill him," a homo in the crowd responded last week, when Palin declared -yet again – "He'southward palling effectually with terrorists who would target their ain land." In Virginia, the State Republican chairman appear a ready of talking points to campaign volunteers – stressing the incendiary connectedness, reported Time magazine, betwixt Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden: "Both have friends that bombed the Pentagon. That is scary," the Republican chairman said.
The most recent McCain advertising on the subject shouts, "Obama worked with terrorist William Ayers when it was convenient" – perhaps suggesting, indeed, even that the candidate was there planting bombs.
The intended message of the McCain campaign is, of course, that Obama is less than patriotic – enunciated even by the candidate's wife, Cindy: "The twenty-four hours that Senator Obama decided to cast a vote to not fund my son when he was serving sent a common cold chill through my body," she recently told a crowd of several g, which also heard her husband and Palin sound like notes. (The chairman of the Lehigh, Pa., County Republican Party, William Platt, "implored the crowd to work hard to elect McCain or wake upward Nov 5 to see 'Barack Obama, Barack Hussein Obama,' as the president," reported The Washington Post.)
Like Cindy McCain, the campaign's "Ad Facts" also trumpet – misleadingly – the but troop-funding neb that Obama voted confronting, in 2007 – without noting that Obama starting time voted for the bill, in a version that included a timetable for withdrawal. Nor did Cindy McCain mention that her hubby, besides, voted against the troop-funding bill – in the version that independent withdrawal language.
Thus has John McCain embarked on a scorched-earth decease struggle for the presidency – cultural warfare that knows no bounds, exceeding perhaps fifty-fifty the mendacity and ferocity of the campaign waged against him past George Bush in 2000, and of which McCain in one case said in that location was "a special place in hell" for the Bush operatives who smeared him. (McCain as well said of the Swift-gunkhole attacks confronting John Kerry by Republicans in 2004: "I deplore this kind of politics. I recollect the advertising is quack and dishonorable.")
The lethal weapon of the McCain campaign'south dreams is the explosive allegation that, in Palin'south words – Obama "pals around with terrorists." McCain, wisely, did non raise the matter himself in the terminal presidential debate. Why?
At the time, much of the commentariat attributed the omission to McCain's purported concerns that Obama would respond by reciting the history of McCain'due south "association" with the South&50 swindler Charles Keating, for which McCain was cited past the Senate Ethics Committee early in his career, for exercising "poor judgment" for intervening improperly with federal regulators on behalf of Keating, every bit part of the infamous Keating V scandal.
But the more than likely caption of why McCain avoided a debate confrontation about "palling around with terrorists" is McCain'southward very real – and recent – symbiotic association and praise for another (non Ayers) domestic terrorist emblematic of the Vietnam era: G. Gordon Liddy. [Go here for the original article at The Huffington Post.]
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