Sarah Palin on Saturday accused Democrat Barack Obama of 'palling around with terrorists'
I can not help but wonder what she would call these connections?
Palin, Gothard, and dog-whistles to dominionists
Sarah Palin used AK tax dollars to fund dominionist churches
Palin's Christianity
Cult of Character
WHY would Palin refuse to fund rape kits? and her connection to Bill Gothard?
I would like her to come out and address the connection to a group that would like to see Alaska not be part of the U.S.
The Alaska Independence Party, which sees as its ultimate goal seceding from the union. Todd [Palin, Sarah's husband] was a member, with a brief exception, from 1995 until 2002, according to the Division of Elections in Alaska.
And though Sarah Palin herself was apparently not a member of this group, there’s no doubt that she repeatedly courted this secessionist organization over the years. In 1994, Palin attended the group’s annual convention, according to witnesses who spoke to ABC News’ Jake Tapper. The McCain campaign has confirmed she visited the group’s 2000 convention, and she addressed its convention this year, as an incumbent governor whose oath of office includes upholding the Constitution of the United States.
Palin herself has a very personal association with the America-hating Alaska Secessionist Party (AIP)…a group whose founder damned America and cursed the flag, and was later murdered in a “plastic explosives sale gone bad.
In thinking about this development McCain himself having a whole rogue's gallery of crooks that he's associated with here in Fl. alone. Not to mention the questions with like money bundlers.
The whole attack line seems to be more of an effort to distract voters from the financial crisis and the Republican's support for President George W. Bush's economic policies.
And the lack of explanation of how one can fight the good old boy big spending do nothing Bush administration while taking money raised from it for his campaign.
The GOP plans to file a fund-raising complaint against Barack Obama, as the Democratic White House contender’s campaign branded rival John McCain “erratic” in a new TV ad.The Republican National Committee yesterday said it would file the complaint against Obama’s presidential campaign today, alleging it has accepted donations that exceed federal limits as well as illegal contributions from foreigners. While they are doing that maybe they would like to take a look at McCain's money bundlers .
While they our at it investigate McCain's from foreigner money bundlers.
FEC Examines McCain’s Excessive Donors
Why McCain's Time With Council Of World Freedom Matters
Red Flag Surrender of Our Economy
Democrats: Call off Feeney fundraiser
Here are some of the most prominent ones. Not to mention the out come of the investigation on Saraha Palin has yet to come out yet and his connections to groups like those above.
Joseph “Joe Bananas” Bonano:In 1995, McCain sent birthday regards, and regrets for not attending, to Joseph "Joe Bananas" Bonano, the head of the New York Bonano crime family, who had retired to Arizona. Another politician to send regrets was Governor Fife Symington, who has since been kicked out of office and convicted of 7 felonies relating to fraud and extortion.
Donald R. Diamond:
McCain has done political favors for real estate developer Donald R. Diamond. McCain stepped in to use his official clout to facilitate a sale of land that Diamond had wanted to obtain. Diamond got help through red tape in dealing with the Department of the Army because Mr. Diamond “had been very active with Senator McCain,” a partner said in a deposition.
For McCain, who has staked two presidential campaigns on pledges to avoid even the appearance of corruption, this is another instance, like the Keating 5 Scandal in which McCain dispensed official favors for Mr. Diamond, a longtime political campaign donor of McCain’s and one of an elite group of donors called “Innovators,” because he raised more than $250,000 for McCain’s campaign. Mr. Diamond invites public officials aboard his flotilla of yachts and specializes in deals with the members of government in exchange for campaign donations.
His wife, Cindy McCain, along with her father who made a $359,000 investment in retail property owned by Charles Keating in 1986, a year before John McCain first met with federal regulators on behalf of Keating. Keating was later convicted on 73 counts of fraud, conspiracy, and other crimes. Years later, Cindy McCain sold her investment for $15,000,000also shows a connection.
Rep. Rick Renzi (R-AZ) indicted for extortion, wire fraud, money laundering and other charges related to a land deal in Arizona, according to the Associated Press. Renzi and two former business partners were accused of conspiring to promote the sale of land that buyers could swap for property owned by the federal government.”
Rep. Rick Renzi (R-AZ) was co-chair of McCain’s Arizona campaign (i.e., a member of Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) “National Leadership Team” and a co-chair of his Arizona Leadership Team). Renzi has been in the past a "good friend" of John McCain and they were seen together often.
Charles Keating. Then there is the Keating 5 Scandal and Charles Keating’s notorious friendship and association with John McCain back in the 1980’s. During the Keating Five affair Keating had made contributions of about $1.3 million to various U.S. Senators involved, including John McCain, and Keating had called on those Senators to help him resist regulators in exchange for the money. McCain and the other Senators got the regulators to back off, to later trigger the Savings and Loan Scandal which cost the taxpayer BILLIONS. Cindy’s dad the Budweiser Brewery kingpin also has special dealings with Keating.
Lobbyists on his campaign staff. By one count, McCain has at least 159 lobbyists, on leave from their firms, running his campaign operation. It’s why McCain has defended lobbyists and the lobbying industry over and over again.
Vicki Iseman and her association with Paxon Telecom. McCain denied that he'd ever had an affair, much less a meeting with comely lobbyist Vicki Iseman and her client Lowell Paxon, even though he had been warned by his staff to back off for the sake of his risking public exposure of his being seen too often with Ms. Iseman. McCain denied he had any frequent association with Ms Iseman, even though he had admitted it in a legal deposition.
Richard Quinn. In the 2000 presidential primary, all the time he was blasting George W. Bush for campaigning at Bob Jones University, McCain himself was paying $20,000 a month to South Carolina political consultant Richard Quinn, a neo-Confederate revanchist who was one of the leaders of the state's pro-flag faction.
Quinn was editor in chief of Southern Partisan, a magazine that published apologias for slavery and sold paraphernalia celebrating the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Quinn himself once advocated voting for David Duke.
The day after the South Carolina 2000 primary, McCain didn't distance himself from Quinn. Instead, he professed ignorance about Quinn's writings, just as Bush did about Bob Jones' policies, and argued, as Bush also did about Bob Jones, that Ronald Reagan had done the same thing he was doing.
But where Bush later criticized Bob Jones in stringent terms after the fact, McCain continued to describe Quinn as "a man of integrity" who wasn't responsible for what appeared in his own magazine.
Though McCain's Richard Quinn connection was worse than Bush's Bob Jones faux pas, it never turned into a big deal for one simple reason:
The press let McCain get away with it, even as it held Bush's feet to the fire about Bob Jones anti-Catholic stance..
McCain Didn't Think Osama Bin Laden Was A BAD Guy in 1998!!!
Charles Black Jr.: Senior McCain campaign adviser Charlie Black has friends in low places. Black served as chair of BKSH & Associates, a lobbying firm associated with Burson-Marsteller. He had ties to the tobacco industry as well. In March 2008, Black left his BKSH position to work full time for the presidential campaign of Senator John McCain. When Senator McCain's relationship with telecom lobbyist Vicki Iseman was questioned in early 2008, Black "made the rounds of television networks to defend McCain.Black's lobbying clients at one time included
General Motors, United Technologies, JPMorgan and AT&T.
Black's relationship with McCain goes back more than twenty years, from the time McCain first came to Washington.
They got to know each other well during (former Senator Phil) Gramm's 1996 presidential run. Gramm, the architect of deregulation which led to Enron and the subprime mortgage meltdown in later years, and now an investment banker, who has lately stepped down as official adviser to McCain because under fire in the press, but Mr. Gramm continues on in an unofficial capacity as a supporter of the Bush presidential campaign..
Black drew fire recently when he suggested that a terror attack would help John McCain, but maybe we shouldn’t have been surprised. Black’s past is littered with questionable associations with comrades from a 1970s young-conservatives group that has chalked up quite a questionable record in the years since.
Black went on to co-found the National Conservative Political Action Committee, the group that put slime-slinging “independent” groups on the map. His lobbying firm became embroiled in scandal, accused of using political favors to waste taxpayer money. What binds Black’s motley array of pals is a persistent derision for the notion that government might someday be conducted on the level.
McCain has officially distanced himself from Hagee, but only after he was severely criticized for his association and had pointed a finger at Barack Obama over Obama’s association with “Pastor” Jeremiah Wright.
Jack Abramoff:Since August 2008, John McCain has stayed busy trying to escape his ties to criminal lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his shady lobbyist colleagues, including Randy Scheunemann and Ralph Reed. formerly of the Christian Coalition and involved with Karl Rove and Grover Norquist in shady influence peddling schemes to shake down clients to donate money to government officials...
The McCain campaign has been trying to gloss over the details of Scheunemann's swings between lobbying and advising McCain, often on issues of interest to recent clients, and attempting to excuse McCain's enlistment of Abramoff crony Reed to raise money. But the McCain campaign can't spin away Scheunemann's shady ties, or his influence on McCain, and they're not having any more success trying to escape the fallout over McCain's refusal to cancel his Monday fundraiser with Reed.
http://www.democrats.org/a/2008/01/on_jack_abramof.php
Randy Scheunemann served as McCain's campaign foreign policy advisor in 2000 and is back in 2008, despite lobbying in the interim. Until May, Scheunemann was lobbying for the Republic of Georgia - earning more than $800,000 in the process - yet now in August, he's advising McCain on the conflict between Georgia and Russia.
Scheunemann's other notable lobbying stints include putting his McCain ties to use in 2006 advising Greenberg Traurig, Jack Abramoff's former firm, as McCain served as chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, charged with investigating Abramoff.
Ralph Reed: McCain has also enlisted Abramoff crony Ralph Reed to raise money for his campaign. Abramoff directed at least $4.2 million to Reed as he defrauded his clients, yet as chair, McCain never called Reed to testify before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs during the Abramoff investigation. Lately,Reed's helping McCain fundraise, sending emails with the subject line "special invitation from Ralph Reed" to recruit donors to join him at McCain's fundraiser in Atlanta - and McCain is ignoring calls from nonpartisan watchdog groups to cancel the fundraiser.
Scheunemann and Reed are only two of the cast of McCain advisors and fundraisers who prove how deeply McCain embedded is in the Republican culture of corruption - and just how clear it is that McCain means more of the same old politics.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20080815/pl_usnw/dnc__mccain_watch__scheunemann__abramoff__and_reed
John McCain's 2008 Presidential campaign has paid over 180,000 dollars to a political consulting firm called "Richard Quinn and Associates."They are a firm located in South Carolina. The firm is named after Richard Quinn, who in 2000 was all over the news for sunning the racist tinged "Southern Partisan" magazine.Although McCain's 2008 FEC reports only indcate he paid the firm around $52,000, he also disbursed at least $90,000 to Mail Marketing Strategies, a firm run by Quinn's son. Who Is Richard Quinn?
The New York Times, Newsday, and The New Republic have raised serious questions about deeply disturbing views expressed by Mr. Quinn and others in the Southern Partisan, a magazine over which Mr. Quinn has presided as Executive Editor or Editor-in-Chief since 1981.The material we found in the past 48 hours is, if anything, even more appalling than that reported by the news media.
Mr. Quinn used his editorial platform at the Southern Partisan to personally espouse views that place him far outside the political mainstream. He has repeatedly used his column to attack heroes of the struggle for equality including Martin Luther King, Jr. and Nelson Mandela. At the same time, he has discounted the evils of slavery by suggesting that it was not as bad as it has been portrayed and that slaves were better off in slavery than out of it.
(Copies of all articles referenced in this letter and other similar ones are attached.)As recently as 1996, a Southern Partisan reviewer wrote of a book on slavery, "The greatest contribution of this work is that it exonerates slave owners by stating that they did not have a practice of breaking up slave families. If anything, they encouraged strong slave families to further the slaves' peace and happiness in order to promote efficient work."
In 1983, in a column arguing against the recognition of Martin Luther King Day, Mr. Quinn wrote:"King Day should have been rejected because its purpose is vitriolic and profane."More Information: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/2/15/85831/2516/354/457290 Carl Linder .
Carl H Linder Jr., the co-host of a recent top-dollar fundraiser for Sen. McCain oversaw the payment of roughly $1.7 million to a Colombian paramilitary group that is today designated a terrorist organization by the United States. The Cincinnati billionaire businessman, was CEO of Chiquita Brands International from 1984 to 2001, and remained on the company’s board of directors until May 2002.
Beginning under his tenure, Chiquita executives paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (known by the Spanish acronym AUC), which is described by George Washington University’s National Security Archive as an "illegal right-wing anti-guerrilla group tied to many of the country’s most notorious civilian massacres."
More Information: http://www.thelangreport.com/featured/carl-linder-funds-terrorist-group-and-john-mccain/ George Wallace Jr.
McCain Campaigns for George Wallace Jr.Birmingham - U.S. Sen. John McCain promised Monday to continue to push for passage of an anti-torture amendment during a visit to Alabama to campaign for Public Service Commissioner George Wallace Jr., a candidate for lieutenant governor."
The image of the United States is suffering terribly throughout the world, terribly," the Arizona senator and former Vietnam prisoner of war said during a reception he attended on behalf of Wallace. "And if you don't believe me, ask any person in any foreign country."
McCain also made appearances Monday for Wallace in Mobile and Huntsville.
The $250-per person Birmingham reception was at The Club, where people could pay an additional $1,000 to have themselves photographed with McCain, Wallace and Wallace's wife, Elizabeth.More Information: http://www.truthout.org/article/mccain-campaigns-george-wallace-jr
George Wallace Jr. Gives Major Speech to Hate GroupMONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Alabama Public Service Commissioner George C. Wallace Jr., whose father famously vowed to defend racial segregation "forever" in a 1963 speech from the steps of the state Capitol, gave the welcoming speech to the national delegates of a white supremacist hate group meeting here on Friday.
The younger Wallace, whose résumé boasts of an NAACP Freedom Award, opened up the first day of the annual national convention of the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), a group whose website has referred to blacks as "a retrograde species of humanity."
More Information:
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/news/item.jsp?site_area=1&aid=109
Rick Davis
McCain Aide’s Firm Was Paid by Freddie MacWASHINGTON — One of the giant mortgage companies at the heart of the credit crisis paid $15,000 a month from the end of 2005 through last month to a firm owned by Senator John McCain’s campaign manager, according to two people with direct knowledge of the arrangement.
The disclosure undercuts a remark by Mr. McCain on Sunday night that the campaign manager, Rick Davis, had had no involvement with the company for the last several years.Mr. Davis’s firm received the payments from the company, Freddie Mac, until it was taken over by the government this month along with Fannie Mae, the other big mortgage lender whose deteriorating finances helped precipitate the cascading problems on Wall Street, the two people said.
More Information: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/us/politics/24davis.html
In 1981 John McCain sat on the board of the US Council for World Freedom, an ultra right wing group founded by Arizona Congressman and Iran Contra figure Maj. General John K. Singlaub...
Begala: It was affiliated with the World Anti-Communist league, the parent organization, which ADL [Anti-Defamation League] said has increasingly become a gathering place, the forum, the point of contact for extremist racists and anti-Semites.
John McCain was raised in an atmosphere of privilege, of wealth and of power and influence. This ultra-right wing group, IMO, is just the kind of organization his jokes would play over well with.
From The Coors Connection by Russ Bellant:When the Reagan Administration began organizing the Nicaraguan Contras in 1981, allied bu nominally private groups were formed to build support for the Contra plans.One of those groups, formed shortly after the frst Reagan inauguration, was the US Council for World Freedom, headed by Mjor General John Singlaub.
The USCWF quickly became the US branch of the World Anti-Communist League. The USCWF began building support for the Reagan policy of aiding not only the Ncaraguan Contras but RENAMO and UNITA in southern Africa and rightist Islamic fundamentalists in Afghanistan.
Singlaub informed CIA director William Casey and NSC staff of his actions and operated with ther consent if not under their direct influence.
One of the early USCWF financial backers was Joe Coors, according to two former USCWF treasurers. Coors shared Reagan's enthusiasm for the Contras despite early indications of the unsavory background of certain COntra leaders and reliable reports of COntra acts of brutality.
The Contras were originally known as the 15th of September Legion. Their earliest training came fmor Argentinian military intelligence, which ran death squads in that country and sponsored a Latin American conference of death squad leaders in 1980.
That death squad network was also the Latin American branch on WACL. In 1982, Argentinian intelligence worked with Moon's Unification Church and fugitive Nazi Klaus Barbie to establish a Nazi-style state in Bolivia.
“Pastor” John Hagee: John McCain has accepted the blessing of “Pastor” John Hagee, who believes the Pope is the Anti-Christ, who believes Jews are responsible for their own suffering in history due to their failure to believe correctly, and who advocates starting a war with Iran in the Middle East to ‘hasten Armageddon’; and who calls Washington “the City of Satan”. Hagee also has said “God may already have sent hurricane Katrina to punish the U.S. for its role in helping Israel remove Jewish settlers from the Gaza strip” I guess it is acceptable to advocate mass murder and be a religious bigot.
Sen. John McCain picked up the support of Texas pastor John Hagee, an evangelical Christian who has made support for the state of Israel a centerpiece of his ministry.Hagee endorsed McCain today, saying he did so because McCain is a pro-life, pro-Israel politician who has pledged to secure the country's borders.
"John McCain is a man of principle," Hagee, a televangelist and the pastor of Cornerstone Church, told reporters. "He does not stand boldly on both sides of any issue."
Hagee on Hurricane Katrina"All hurricanes are acts of God because God controls the heavens. I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God and they were recipients of the judgment of God for that." [NPR Fresh Air, 9/18/06]Hagee on Islamic BeliefsFresh Air host Terry Gross asked if Hagee believed that "all Muslims have a mandate to kill Christians and Jews," to which Hagee replied, "Well, the Quran teaches that. Yes, it teaches that very clearly." [NPR Fresh Air, 9/18/06]Hagee on African-AmericansThe San Antonio Express-News reported that Hagee was going to "meet with black religious leaders privately at an unspecified future date to discuss comments he made in his newsletter about a 'slave sale,' an East Side minister said Wednesday."
The Express-News reported:"
Hagee, pastor of the 16,000-member Cornerstone Church, last week had announced a 'slave sale' to raise funds for high school seniors in his church bulletin, 'The Cluster.' "The item was introduced with the sentence 'Slavery in America is returning to Cornerstone" and ended with "Make plans to come and go home with a slave.
" [San Antonio Express-News 3/7/96]Hagee on Catholicism"Most readers will be shocked by the clear record of history linking Adolf Hitler and the Roman Catholic Church in a conspiracy to exterminate the Jews." [Jerusalem Countdown by John Hagee]
Hagee on Women"Do you know the difference between a woman with PMS and a snarling Doberman pinscher? The answer is lipstick.
Do you know the difference between a terrorist and a woman with PMS? You can negotiate with a terrorist."
[God's Profits: Faith, Fraud and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters, Sarah Posner]"[T]he feminist movement today is throwing off authority in rebellion against God's pattern for the family." ["Bible Positions on Political Issues," John Hagee]Hagee on LGBT Americans"
The newspaper carried the story in our local area that was not carried nationally that there was to be a homosexual parade there on the Monday that the Katrina came. And the promise of that parade was that it was going to reach a level of sexuality never demonstrated before in any of the other Gay Pride parades. So I believe that the judgment of God is a very real thing. I know that there are people who demur from that, but I believe that the Bible teaches that when you violate the law of God, that God brings punishment sometimes before the day of judgment."
[NPR Fresh Air, 9/18/06]Hagee on Iran"The coming nuclear showdown with Iran is a certainty," Hagee wrote [in 2006] in the Pentecostal magazine Charisma. "Israel and America must confront Iran's nuclear ability and willingness to destroy Israel with nuclear weapons. For Israel to wait is to risk committing national suicide." [The Nation, 8/8/2006,
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060814/new_christian_zionism]
Now of course the right wingers will have some excuse for the ties but these are only a few that I thought I would mention. There are many many more that have not listed, be educated do your research. McCain has just as many questionable ties as Obama does.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. -Martin Luther King, Jr."I think the deregulation was probably helpful to the growth of our economy." -Sen. John McCain 09/22/2008
G. Gordon Liddy
In 1971, after serving in several positions in the Nixon administration, Liddy was moved to Nixon's 1972 campaign, the Committee to Re-elect the President (officially known as "CRP" but to opponents known as CREEP), in order to extend the scope and reach of the White House "Plumbers" unit, which had been created in response to various damaging leaks of information to the press.
For his role in Watergate, which he coordinated with Hunt, Liddy was convicted of conspiracy, burglary and illegal wiretapping, and received a 20-year sentence. He served a total of five and half years in prison, including over 100 days in solitary confinement, before his sentence was commuted by President Jimmy Carter and he was released on September 7, 1977.
Liddy was made to salute the Stars and Stripes Nazi-style by the nuns at his school; even now, he admits, "at assemblies where the national anthem is played, I must suppress the urge to snap out my right arm." His beloved German nanny taught him that Hitler had -- through sheer will-power -- "dragged Germany from weakness to strength."
When he listened to Hitler on the radio, it "made me feel a strength inside I had never known before," he explains. "Hitler's sheer animal confidence and power of will [entranced me]. He sent an electric current through my body."
The smear associating Barack to Ayers is phony, tenuous, and exaggerated, if not outright false. Here’s what’s really scary:
Liddy has acknowledged preparing to kill someone during the Ellsberg break-in "if necessary"; plotting to murder journalist Jack Anderson; plotting with a "gangland figure" to murder Howard Hunt to stop him from cooperating with investigators; plotting to firebomb the Brookings Institution; and plotting to kidnap "leftist guerillas" at the 1972 Republican National Convention -- a plan he outlined to the Nixon administration using terminology borrowed from the Nazis.Liddy has donated $5,000 to McCain's campaigns since 1998, including $1,000 in February 2008.
In addition, McCain has appeared on Liddy's radio show during the presidential campaign, including as recently as May. An online video labeled "John McCain On
The G. Gordon Liddy Show 11/8/07" includes a discussion between Liddy and McCain, whom Liddy described as an "old friend."
During the segment, McCain praised Liddy's "adherence to the principles and philosophies that keep our nation great," said he was "proud" of Liddy, and said that "it's always a pleasure for me to come on your program."
Google Liddy and take a look at the Watergate scandal. This is one of McCain's friends?
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