Mr. McCain, Remember that Plumbers Didn't Work Very Well for Nixon. John McCain was David Letterman's first guest tonite. He stuck by his attack upon Barack Obama for 'palling around with terrorists', and Letterman asked about McCain's relationship with G. Gordon Liddy. What Letterman did not say is that Liddy was one of the "Plumbers", a Nixon Administration secret unit assigned to plug "leaks"of Administration secrets. Liddy is a convicted felon who worked to subvert democracy in breaking into the Democratic Party's headquarters in 1972's Watergate scandal. McCain said tonite that he is fine with knowing (not, of course, "palling around with") G. Gordon Liddy, because Liddy went to prison and 'paid his debt to society'. William Ayers was never convicted of anything, so never HAD to go to prison. Thus, in McCain's twisted worldview, Ayers hasn't paid his debt to society. Living as a decent, responsible member of society and becoming a distinguished college professor and educational reformer somehow is not as honorable as serving time in prison, to John InSain.
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McCain bitched about Ayers's having said "on September 11th" that he did not regret having set bombs (during the Vietnam era) and wished he had done more. I know that McCain seems almost proud of being computer illiterate, but somebody should have printed out for him the Wikipedia discussion of Ayers's statements in September 2001. To begin with, Ayers was interviewed BEFORE 9/11, and it is quotes from before that incident that appeared in The New York Times afterward. He tried to clarify his actual views in a letter published in the Times on September 15th, in which he asserted that the quotes had been used to misrepresent what he meant, and he has subsequently said:

"We weren't terrorists," Ayers told an interviewer for the Chicago Tribune in 2001. "The reason we weren't terrorists is because we did not commit random acts of terror against people. Terrorism was what was being practiced in the countryside of Vietnam by the United States."

So perhaps, by Ayers's standard, McCain was a terrorist. Ayers also said, in a letter published by the Chicago Tribune on September 23, 2001:

"I condemn all forms of terrorism — individual, group and official". He also condemned the September 11 terrorist attacks in that letter. "Today we are witnessing crimes against humanity on our own shores on an unthinkable scale, and I fear that we may soon see more innocent people in other parts of the world dying in response."

Indeed, hundreds of thousands of people in Iraq have died as part of John McCain's "response". John McCain has never apologized for his role in producing the U.S. invasion of Iraq, a country that never attacked us. He has never apologized for, but actually bragged about, destroying a government that kept Iraqis safe from Al-Qaeda and held sectarian violence in check. Removal of Saddam Hussein's government at once opened Iraq to Al-Qaeda, whom Saddam had extremely efficiently kept out of Iraq, and unleashed sectarian violence that Saddam had also suppressed. Even Donald Trump, billionnaire supporter of John McCain, recently said that the destruction of Saddam Hussein's government was a grave mistake that destabilized a country that was stable under Saddam. John McCain owes the people of Iraq more apologies than he could ever utter if he apologized 100 times a day every day for the rest of his life, which we can hope won't be long. Indeed, it would be wonderful for the world if he died before November 4th, so the people could choose if they really want Sarah Palin to become President, something they now are only thinking might happen, rather than would definitely happen if they vote for the McCain-Palin ticket. I trust the people have better judgment than John McCain has.
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G. Gordon Liddy, a man McCain is content to pal around with, has never apologized nor shown the slitest repentance for his acts to undermine democracy. Watergate brought down a President, a Republican President at that. Gordon The Plumber was supposed to be helping Nixon, as McCain intends that Joe The Plumber help him become President. It didn't work out that way. Indeed, that Plumber's actions, and the efforts to hide them, brought down the President who surrendered in Vietnam. Is that why Senator McCain is glad to know Liddy? And what of Liddy's advocacy of violence against the United States Government? Here's a sample, from Wikipedia:

on one occasion in 1994, after the federal raid on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, Liddy advised his listeners: "Now if the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms comes to disarm you and they are bearing arms, resist them with arms. Go for a head shot; they're going to be wearing bulletproof vests. ... Kill the sons of bitches."

Isn't that advocating violent insurrection against the Government? Isn't shooting law-enforcement officers an act of extraordinary criminality? When black militants advocate that ghetto residents shoot cops, they are condemned by the likes of John McCain, but McCain is happy to know G. Gordon Liddy, who advocates that people kill ATF agents.
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In his 1980 autobiography, Liddy says "he once made plans with [another Plumber] to kill journalist Jack Anderson, based on a literal interpretation of a Nixon White House statement 'we need to get rid of this Anderson guy'". This is a man about whom John McCain has no reservations.
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David Letterman asked, on behalf of all Americans, and foreigners, for that matter, if McCain was confident that Sarah Palin was the right person to be in charge of the Government thru the next 8 years, in the event of a major international or domestic crisis, like another 9/11 attack. John McCain's response? "Absolutely"!
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I have said here at various times that John McCain is insane. Is any more proof needed than that assertion? If he really believes that, and is not just a very good liar, then John McCain is certifiably insane.
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Conversely, if he is not insane, then he cannot possibly believe that Sarah Palin is qualified to handle a huge international or national crisis, which means he is an inexcusably monstrous liar, lying about a matter of huge national and international importance, so has no decency, no ethics, no morality. He is unfit to draw breath, much less serve in the Senate of the United States, much less be President of the United States. He is a terrible, horrible, evil man who is perfectly content to leave us to suffer the incompetence of a tiny-brained, viciously tribalist, negative character assassin from Alaska if he should die or become permanently incapacitated. And you know why the thought of Palin as President after his death doesn't worry him? Because he doesn't care what happens to us or the planet after he is dead. Everything is all about HIM. And if he is dead, why on Earth would he care about US? As far as he's concerned, once he's dead, we can all die, in agony, and it's no (cancerous) skin off his nose.
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John McCain says endlessly that he has served this country his entire life. That's one way to see it. Another is that he has been a parasite upon the taxpayers his entire life. He never paid for healthcare, but let us pay for it all. He never paid for college, but let us pay for it all. He never held a job in the private economy, but let us pay essentially every cent he ever "earned".
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And what about the "service" he did render? Of what quality was it? He wants us to think he was shot down as a matter of bad luck. Maybe. But maybe he was a lousy pilot, or a cowboy who took unreasonable risks, and that's why he was shot down. Why didn't he make admiral? What did the Navy see that made them decide he was not good enuf to be an admiral? And why isn't anybody asking?
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Senate Choices in Two States: Jew A or Jew B. In at least two states this November, voters for a U.S. Senate seat have no one but Jews to vote for. In my state, New Jersey, we can vote for the incumbent Democrat, Frank Lautenberg, or the Republican, Dick Zimmer — both Jews, in a state that is only 5.7% Jewish. In Minnesota, hardly a center of Jewish population, people can vote for Democrat Al Franken or Republican Norm Coleman, both Jews. Minnesota is 0.9% Jewish. California, which is only 2.9% Jewish, has long had TWO Jewish WOMEN as their only representation in the U.S. Senate.
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The huge overrepresentation of Jews in Congress, and especially the Senate, is a scandal of major proportions. Is it any wonder that both candidates for President pledge fealty to their Israeli overlord? The United States is a slave to Israel, and the completely broken political process of this country accounts for it. The tiny, 2% minority that is Jewish controls the United States Government — owns it lock, stock, and barrel. Because of that, the 294 million of us who are not Jewish are targeted for death by a billion Moslems. Makes a lot of sense.
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(The current U.S. military death toll in Iraq, according to the website "Iraq Coalition Casualties", is 4,185 — for Israel.)

- posted by L. Craig Schoonmaker @ 11:59 PM