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John McCain’s campaign is criticizing Barack Obama for his ties to a former radical who engaged in violent acts four decades ago, but McCain himself was closely connected to a private group that supplied aid to rebels trying to overthrow the leftist government of Nicaragua during the Iran-Contra affair.
The U.S. Council for World Freedom was part of an international organization linked to former Nazi collaborators and ultra-right-wing death squads in Central America. The group was dedicated to stamping out communism around the globe.
The council’s founder, retired Army Maj. Gen. John Singlaub, said McCain became associated with the organization in the early 1980s as McCain was launching his political career in Arizona. Singlaub said McCain was a supporter but not an active member in the group.
Geese, gander, etc.
It’s funny how the right will nit pick the freaking hell out of their opponent in terms of association.
Yet at the same time the family of their Fuhrer has a past of bankrolling Hitler and the Nazi’s. At the time in the United States their assets were frozen for patronizing with the enemy.
http://www.modernhistoryproject.org/mhp/ArticleDisplay.php?Article=BushCh02
Interesting isn’t it? Barack Obama is nothing compared to what has been truly wrong for this country, and that is republicans in general.
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“The group was dedicated to stamping out communism around the globe.”
As opposed to Ayers and Obama who PROMOTED communism at home and abroad.
What’s happened to AP? They’ve shocked me by jumping off the tire swing and doing a lot of actual reporting lately. Did they force Ron Fournier to go on leave, or something?
I think undecideds aren’t really undecided – they just don’t want to give their answer. Which makes them coy morons.
[...] And as Oliver Willis points out, the group was also affiliated with, “former Nazi collaborators and ultra-right-wing death squads in Central America.” [...]
“The group was dedicated to stamping out communism around the globe.”
Even if that meant providing support for extralegal, paramilitary death squads trained by American military personnel. Hooray! Freedom is on the march!
Freedom for the CIA installed dictators, sure!
Obama promoted communism? Where? When? With Ayers? When he was eight?
Put up some proof or shut up, jackass.
Barack Obama is by all standards a fairly conservative fellow. Anyone suggesting he is a “Communist” must be so way out on the right-wing fringe, it’s amazing they are still on this planet.
There was a very good reason for Communism and there stil is a very good reason for a social market economy, or social democracy.
I’d like to add this brief text that was written by a former National Review publisher and a Goldwater guy. It is interesting because he comes from a conservative corner: It was published in the Big D magazine, Forth Worth/Dallas: Here an exerpt:
“Barack Obama is not my ideal candidate for president. (In fact, I made the maximum donation to John McCain during the primaries, when there was still hope he might come to his senses.) But I now see that Obama is almost the ideal candidate for this moment in American history. I disagree with him on many issues. But those don’t matter as much as what Obama offers, which is a deeply conservative view of the world. Nobody can read Obama’s books (which, it is worth noting, he wrote himself) or listen to him speak without realizing that this is a thoughtful, pragmatic, and prudent man. It gives me comfort just to think that after eight years of George W. Bush we will have a president who has actually read the Federalist Papers.”
I’d add: read and understood the Federalist Papers.
GLAD SOMEONE BROUGHT UP THIS SKELETON FROM MCCAIN’S CLOSET
Anyone suggesting he is a “Communist” must be so way out on the right-wing fringe, it’s amazing they are still on this planet.
It should be noted that the most vocal of these morans (sic) have most likely never been out of their home state, let alone to another country for any significant length of time.