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John McCain

Oct 9, 2008

Olbermann Applies the Character Test to McCain, and Finds He Comes Up Short

While Sarah Palin continues (in her folksy way) to contend that Barack Obama palled around with terrorists (when in fact, said "terrorist" was in the Weather Underground when Obama was 8), Keith Olbermann decided to take a closer look at John McCain Wednesday night.

He wanted to apply the "character litmus test" to McCain. And here is what he found.

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“Conservative Constitutionist”

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Yeah - it's not like Olbermann isn't heavily liberal in his view points, and getting stroked by the Obama campaign constantly.

Naw - he wouldn't be "biased" at all......
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"He reminded viewers of August 30th, 1993. On that day, McCain attended a fund-raiser for the Oregon Citizens' Alliance, an anti-gay group. As Olbermann said, an Arizona newspaper column previewed the speech with this headline: "Hate Group Finds Friend in McCain.""

I'm from Oregon. These people are full of hate. Border line Fred Phelps.
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oh...the cat's out of the bag now....what are you racists gonna say now about barack....mccain pallS (present tense) with terrorists.....ms palin pack your bags and move back to alaska to take care of your trashy's daughter illegitimate child please!
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This guy is a total dumba**. I don't care what this idiot says. Stupidest guy on television.
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GAPatriot65 wrote:
Yeah - it's not like Olbermann isn't heavily liberal in his view points, and getting stroked by the Obama campaign constantly.
Naw - he wouldn't be "biased" at all......
yes olbermann is biased,
...but he always make great points, and presents information we may not otherwies know about.

...his commentary on Bush are spot-on

I wish we had more reporters on both sides of the political fence like this

...it would cut through a lot of BS

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Way to distort the truth.

The OCA was a Christian organization that fought against the liberals attempt to get special protections for gays in the workplace that no one else had.

Just because they don't agree with your lifestyle "christians", doesn't make them a hate group. If you are going to apply that type of logic, then every group in opposition to something, be it liberal based or conservative based, would be a hate group.

So ignorant man.

I lived in Crescent City CA and Brookings Harbor, OR area from early 1993 to late 1995. They aren't the ogres you paint - in fact the liberal crowd and LGBT based groups were a lot more hateful in their attacks on OCA people than vice versa.

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With sponsorship from the Islamic Republic of Iran, Palin's hero, Joe Vogler was scheduled to present his case for Alaskan secession before the United Nations General Assembly in the late spring of 1993. But before he could, Old Joe’s long, strange political career ended tragically that May when he was murdered by a fellow secessionist.

Palin backed Alaska Independence Party Chairman Mark Chryson as he successfully advanced a host of anti-tax, pro-gun initiatives, including one that altered the state Constitution’s language to better facilitate the formation of anti-government militias. She joined in their vendetta against several local officials they disliked, and listened to their advice about hiring. She attempted to name Stoll, a John Birch Society activist known in the Mat-Su Valley as “Black Helicopter Steve,” to an empty Wasilla City Council seat.“Every time I showed up her door was open,” said Chryson.“And that policy continued when she became governor.”

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In the 1980s, McCain served on the advisory board to the U.S. chapter of an international group linked to ultra-right-wing death squads in Central America.

The U.S. Council for World Freedom aided rebels trying to overthrow the leftist government of Nicaragua. That landed the group in the middle of the Iran-Contra affair and in legal trouble with the IRS, which revoked the charitable organization's tax exemption.

The council created by retired Army Maj. Gen. John Singlaub was the U.S. chapter of the World Anti-Communist League, an international organization linked to former Nazi collaborators and ultra-right-wing death squads in Central America.

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One association, which seems to have gone unreported until now, involves a delegate who represented McCain at this year's Republican convention and previously expressed sympathy for an activist accused of shooting a doctor who performed abortions.

Applying the same logic as Sarah Palin, one could argue that the members of the GOP ticket are "palling around" with abortion clinic attack sympathizers, supporters of right-wing militants, perpetrators of political espionage and revolutionaries seeking to secede from the United States.

McCain's opposition to a 1994 law that made it a federal crime to bomb or blockade abortion clinics or to attack abortion doctors. McCain's vote against the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act put him in league with the Senate's most radical anti-abortion advocates, who split with more than two dozen anti-abortion senators who voted to crack down on clinic bombers as a matter of preserving law & order.

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Earlier this year, when Obama's past connection to Ayers first crept into national headlines, some observers began to remember McCain's "own Bill Ayers -- in the form of G. Gordon Liddy." The Watergate break-in mastermind, who spent more than four years in prison for his crimes, has called McCain an "old friend" and hosted the candidate on his conservative talk radio show.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/McCain_connecti...
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GAPatriot65 wrote:
Way to distort the truth.
The OCA was a Christian organization that fought against the liberals attempt to get special protections for gays in the workplace that no one else had.
Just because they don't agree with your lifestyle "christians", doesn't make them a hate group. If you are going to apply that type of logic, then every group in opposition to something, be it liberal based or conservative based, would be a hate group.
So ignorant man.
I lived in Crescent City CA and Brookings Harbor, OR area from early 1993 to late 1995. They aren't the ogres you paint - in fact the liberal crowd and LGBT based groups were a lot more hateful in their attacks on OCA people than vice versa.
Please, they are a christian right wing anti gay anti abortion hate mongers. They're so huge and hated, I bet they even have a wiki entry.

I take it you didn't read the article that pertains to this thread....

"McCain's own staffers called it "The invitation from hell," the Oregonian newspaper reported."

And at the event, a woman speaker praised the "work" of Rachelle Shannon, the Grants Pass woman who shot the abortion Doctor in Kansas, calling her "a fine lady".

Remember Her? OCA was very vocal in their praise for this woman.

'Ogres' is too kind a term for that group.
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Mr Reality wrote:
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yes olbermann is biased,
...but he always make great points, and presents information we may not otherwies know about.
...his commentary on Bush are spot-on
I wish we had more reporters on both sides of the political fence like this
...it would cut through a lot of BS
He's fun for Democrats and liberals who have a more lively and intelligent sense of humor than the right-wing crowd does. They think naty stuff is funny. Colbert Report has its archives on the net now under colbertnation, I think. And the current shows are very pointed, also. So is the Daily Show, I like KO's information, and Rachel M's, but I realize he is to liberal to recommend to folks who disagree with him. They don't deserve to enjoy themselves as much as we do!
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SongBookz wrote:
Earlier this year, when Obama's past connection to Ayers first crept into national headlines, some observers began to remember McCain's "own Bill Ayers -- in the form of G. Gordon Liddy." The Watergate break-in mastermind, who spent more than four years in prison for his crimes, has called McCain an "old friend" and hosted the candidate on his conservative talk radio show.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/McCain_connecti...
Thank you for the reference. There are several important points that are clearly made and documented in the article in rawstory.
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GAPatriot's profile says he belongs to the John Birch Society. Enough said!

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GAPatriot65 wrote:
Way to distort the truth.
The OCA was a Christian organization that fought against the liberals attempt to get special protections for gays in the workplace that no one else had.
Just because they don't agree with your lifestyle "christians", doesn't make them a hate group. If you are going to apply that type of logic, then every group in opposition to something, be it liberal based or conservative based, would be a hate group.
So ignorant man.
I lived in Crescent City CA and Brookings Harbor, OR area from early 1993 to late 1995. They aren't the ogres you paint - in fact the liberal crowd and LGBT based groups were a lot more hateful in their attacks on OCA people than vice versa.
Excuse me! these are the people who tried to pass the Nuemburg Laws in Oregon, subsituting the word "jews" with "homosexuals." Even their web page was filled with hate filled dribble which went word for word the same as Goerbels' speaches, just changing the word "jew" with "homosexual" of course. those people have perverted christianity for their hatefull purity crusade. They have done great harm to the christian community.
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lynnette wrote:
GAPatriot's profile says he belongs to the John Birch Society. Enough said!
Oh good god, thank you for the head's up! Wow - lunatic fringe that bunch, repeal civil rights?

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php...

Yikes....

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Oberman is just a liberal Rush.
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aileen wrote:
oh...the cat's out of the bag now....what are you racists gonna say now about barack....mccain pallS (present tense) with terrorists.....ms palin pack your bags and move back to alaska to take care of your trashy's daughter illegitimate child please!
So let me get this straight(that's a word you have a problem with I'm sure). People who disagree with Obama are racists. People who disagree with your attempts to force us to agree with your lifestyle are homophobes,( which for the record, I don't have a problem with your right to have said lifestyle) and here's the kicker:

I'll just take a wild guess that you are " pro choice ". So, Sara Palin's daughter, who made a " CHOICE", not to abort her child, is now "TRASHY".

You would be applauding her if she had murdered her unborn.

You guys,( and I'm sure it's not every gay/lesbian person) want equality, as long as it doesn't involve an opinion other than yours!
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PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE!
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GO BEYOND MCCAIN- PALIN THE HATE AND WORK TO SAVE THE ECONOMY!
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Michelle Obama should be ashamed.
"GLORK" Michelle Obama should be ashamed of her separatist-racist connection to Farrakhan and Chicago's Trinity United Church trumpeting Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama as the second coming of the messiah. Beneath that Darth-Vader-Mace-Windu-Jedi-Me ssiah Helmet Hairdo of Michelle Obama lurks a Wildabeast. If Michelle Obama new what her husband -- the Hope-A-Dope, Fonster Monster -- Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama did in Harlem, she would wash her wide-open, Hus-suey loving MUSILM mouth out, with twenty-four (24) mule-team double-cross X-boX-BorraX. The Lexis-Nexis-Albatross-Abacus-C omplex of Barack and Michelle's relationship with MUSLIM "PATWANG-FWEEE" Rev. Wright, Louis Farrakhan, and black demagoguery of Obama's Stump Lines Echo Malcolm X; is about as much of a Hoax as Oxfam volunteers believe in HIV-- AIDS Witch Doctors in Africa they feed.
"God damn America" - eXiled Jeremiah Wright and Barack Obama.
"God bless America" - Pope Benedict XVI and Hillary Clinton --
Michelle Obama AKA Wildabeast -- failed the Illinois Bar Exam. If Barack Obama had married Shaniqua instead of the leftist-separatist-racist-beas t-'ist Michelle, his jackanapes' excitedly-fixed-elitism, Nemet-Oure-Saxas Our Father Our King -- black rage, and "GLORK" black demagoguery of Obama's Stump Lines Echo Malcolm X; would be taken a lot more expeditiously. Its expected that Obam will manage his explosive MUSLIM JIHADI -- FATIMA EXTREMISM obsession bitter. He is a MUSLIM "Glork" It’s time to introduce this false, fake "GLORK" Xerox - X box Obama and invite the self-indicting thief plagiarizing pipsqueke Xerox - X box to meet the Buffalo "GAZOWNT-GAZIKKA" Police Department Buffalo Creek. He's MAD!!!
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