Mccain/Palin's associations with terrorists & hate groups - Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann comment

As a freshman congressman in the early 1980s, John McCain did not disclose his connections to a controversial group that was implicated in a secretive plot to supply arms to Nicaraguan militia groups during the Iran-Contra affair.

McCain did not list his service on the board of the U.S. Council for World Freedom on mandatory congressional disclosure forms asking about positions he held outside government.

McCains aides said he wasnt required to report the affiliation.

Democrats in the past several days have seized on McCains ties to the U.S. Council and its founder John Singlaub to push back against the McCain campaigns increasing focus on ties of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) to Bill Ayers, a founder of the 1960s radical group Weather Underground.

McCain joined the board of the U.S. Council soon after Singlaub founded it in McCains adopted hometown of Phoenix in November 1981 as the U.S. branch of the World Anti-Communist League. The league billed itself as a supporter of pro-Democratic resistance movements fighting communist totalitarianism, but it had also been branded by critics as a haven for extremists, racists and anti-Semites.

McCain aides now say he felt comfortable affiliating with the group because Singlaub had taken steps to purge those elements. Singlaub, while a controversial figure, also boasted a storied career as a decorated veteran in World War II and the U.S. conflicts in Korea and Vietnam. He retired from the Army as a major general.

But McCain campaign spokesman Brian Rogers told Politico that McCain notified the group of his intent to leave the board in September 1984 because questions were raised about its activities.

A review of the personal financial disclosure forms McCain filed after his election to the U.S. House in 1982 show that he did not list the group in the section of his 1982, 1983 and 1984 reports in which he was required to disclose all positions he held outside of government.

The instructions on the form require filers to report the identity of all positions held on or before the date of the filing during the current calendar year as an officer, director, trustee, partner, proprietor, representative, employee, or consultant of any corporation, firm, partnership, or other business enterprise, any nonprofit organization, any labor organization, or any educational or other institution.

But Rogers told Politico those directions have never been understood to include advisory boards or other positions which exercise no control over the organization and no fiduciary responsibilities for the organization. And he said our understanding is that his involvement did not involve any fiduciary responsibility for the organization and no control over the organization.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14436.html
In 1993 William Ayers, Anne Hallett, and Warren Chapman decided to apply for a grant from the Annenberg Foundation for $49.2 Million to improve and reform Chicago's public schools.

In 1994 Ayers, Hallett and Chapman gathered a 73-member Chicago School Reform Collaborative Working Group from organizations involved in school reform to help them draft a proposal which was submitted to Vartan Gregorian, president of Brown University, for review and approval. Adele Smith Simmons, Deborah Leff, and Patricia Albjerg Graham helped negotiate its approval by Gregorian.

In 1995, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge was awarded the $49.2 millon grant by the Annenberg Foundation.

Who are these scary people that showed such poor judgement that they were willing to fund and work with a known domestic terrorist? The following is a list of people who found William Ayers acceptable to work with. Some are Republicans, some are Democrats, some have endorsed John McCain in 2008 and some even currently work on John McCain's 2008 campaign. Most are well respected people but apparently they all loves them some terrorists.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/9/8831/72947/178/624254

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[Hereticbooks]

If Barack Obama were white, this election would be a landslide in his favour....no doubt about it....

[Hereticbooks]

WE WON!!

I sobbed for a half hour...with a combination of joy, relief, and inspiration....

YES WE CAN!!!

[utopiandesign]

@NUTCASE71733 Each of your opinions is the antithesis of every wholesome moral that has preserved mankind to this day. If your heart wasn't seared with such a fierce hatred of God, blaming Him for man's continual abuse of heaven's gift of a freewill (and this deep hatred of God is the only reason you despise what I say), you could be a great man and leave a legacy where all would say they were blessed to be with you.

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@utopiandesign

1: There are people with different beleifs than yours, deal with it. The first ammendment of the US constitution also overrules the archaic first commandment. 2: Look above. 3: the god you worship is a genocidal maniac as stated in Deuteronomy, Exodus, and Genesis. He also allows rape, child abuse, sexism, and sacrifice. Sound smore like Satan to me. 4: This can be done entirely by the will of man, but the will of your god preffers to see the destruction man for no reason.

[utopiandesign]

@NUTCASE71733 The first four commandments (not five) call our attention to the Creator: 1. Your supreme joy is found in GOD'S existence and love 2. Don't worship anything that played no role in your existence 3. To deny love is to embrace hatred 4. Universal peace will one day be restored. The last six commandments deal with our personal safety with one another: US Constitution. Adultery is using your dick outside of wedlock. You'd sell yourself as a slave for your mother's survival wouldn't you

[NUTCASE71733]

@utopiandesign

The ten commandments are hardly viable. The first five are all about how to worship God. this implies he's an insecure jackass. He doesn't even tell people in these commandments not to rape anybody. Adultry doesn't count since that applies to cheating on one's spouse. Rape is a forced, violent act that's almost as bad as murder. Yet it isn't listed in your so-called perfect law. Same with slavery. The remaining laws were originally made long before in the mesopotamian culture.

[utopiandesign]

@NUTCASE71733 There's a simple litmus test that determines who's a hypocrite and who is not. If I keep the Ten simple laws of benevolence you are safe with me. Your wife, family and friends are safe with me. Even your dog. And if you keep those laws I and those I love are safe with you. Jesus dealt with men who claimed obedience but were hypocrites. And so it is in the religious world today. Many justifiably say, If this is Christianity I don't want it because the leaders have refused those laws

[NUTCASE71733]

@utopiandesign

And what makes you think you AREN'T a hypocrit? You sure sound like the people Jesus disliked teaching god's word.

[utopiandesign]

@NUTCASE71733 I didn't think you believed in hell. Just what is the correct future according to you? The Bible says that fire will descend from the sky, destroying life and property. Man will then fear for his extinction. The religious hypocrites will then come forward and take the throne of human government. The Fed legislates the nationwide law of religious tyranny. This leads to the 7 plagues of Revelation 16. I tell you this for your benefit that when these things come you may remember them.

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@utopiandesign

Typical fundie fucktard; ignores the common sense spoken by rational people, athiest or not, and then responds with veiled threats. You are a false prophet and thus YOU are going to hell.

[utopiandesign]

@NUTCASE71733 Regardless of the abuse of the Love demonstrated by Jesus Christ, and your determination to also reject that Love of which you stand with the religious imbeciles while claiming a conceited superiority, it is obvious you have never experienced anything outside of your own NUTCASE71733 spiritually sheltered life. The devil will do his best to keep it that way. In the testimonies of the supernatural (tangible evidence of powers outside of our ability to control our destiny) take heed!