’)The message:
“The old John McCain wouldn’t have allowed one of Jack Abramoff’s top cronies to raise money for him. But this time around, it’s clear that Senator McCain is willing to do whatever it takes to win–even if that means embracing President Bush’s policies, his tactics, and now his disgraced fundraisers. The American people want a real change, not the same old Washington politics that Jack Abramoff and Ralph Reed perfected,” said Obama campaign spokesman Tommy Vietor.
Of course, the old John McCain was one of the Keating Five so that may be a bit generous.
Reed lost his 2006 campaign for Georgia lieutenant governor in large part because of details about his relationship with Abramoff — much of the information uncovered by McCain’s Indian Affairs Committee investigation into the wide-ranging lobbying corruption scandal.
The Senate probe discovered $4 million in payments Reed accepted to run a bogus anti-casino campaign aimed at reducing gambling competition. An Indian tribe with a competing casino made payments to Reed, which according to the Senate investigation’s final report, were “passed through” Abramoff’s firm, Preston, Gates, Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds, and another organization, Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform.
On the campaign trail, McCain often touts his work tackling Abramoff’s corrupt lobbying practices as evidence of his commitment to cleaning up Washington and a straight-shooting style that transcends politics.
Is Obama going to release even ONE press release this election that doesn’t refer to McCain as “old”?
PS: Does Obama REALLY want to have a national discussion on financial backers?
Um, is Obama holding fundraisers with Rezko post-conviction? Apple, meet orange.
Is Obama going to release even ONE press release this election that doesn’t refer to McCain as “old”?
No. Stop whining.
Just so I got this straight; it was a Senate probe launched by McCain that uncovered Reed’s connections, and he went ahead and fundraised with him anyway.
Dayum.
SaveFarris,
You’ve really overplayed the old card.
How about the Pravda card….has that been overplayed?
Really, the “Corrupt” Reed? Why not just refer to him as the “Running Dog Capitalist Pig”?
OW, the House Organ of Information for the Obama Secretariat….
The Senate probe discovered $4 million in payments Reed accepted to run a bogus anti-casino campaign aimed at reducing gambling competition.
Do you not consider this “corrupt”? In your parlance, is this merely “enterprising”?
I’m not the one that set the “higher ethical bar” on this issue.
I’m not the one that set the “higher ethical bar” on this issue.
So what you’re saying is that building a political platform off the idea that “young people are stupid” is fine, but old people aren’t fair game?
SaveFarris, Aug 18th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Is Obama going to release even ONE press release this election that doesn’t refer to McCain as “old”?
Is Johnathon Sidney McCain the Third going to release even ONE press release this election that doesn’t refer to Obama as “a traitor”?
Also: nice of you to whine about one campaign going negative on the other campaign’s candidate. While your own candidate is doing the exact same thing, except, like, more of it more consistently. Apparently Republican’t goggles alter perception more than beer goggles. Who knew?
A Google Search of McCain’s website brings back 96 results.
* One of them is a blog commenter calling Obama & Pelosi traitors.
* One of them is a blog commenter calling Ted Kennedy a traitor.
* The other 94 are blog commenters calling McCain the traitor.
Any more “reality-based” accusations you’d like to throw out?
So, a bunch of blog commenters are now equivalent to press releases from campaigns?
You made a vague, generalized, unsources, and unproven remark about the Obama campaign. I made a similar one to point out how ridiculous your was. By the way, you’ve checked each and every press release ever generated by the Obama campaign, and verified that all of them have specifically mentioned how old Johnathon Sidney McCain the Third is?
A similar Google search on Obama’s site turned up over 1300 results. Funny how you haven’t noted that in your eagerness to catapult propaganda for the Republican’ts…