McCain camp: Obama gets pass on ads on Yahoo! News

"You have to wonder what his version of America is going to look like when people who disagree with him get attacked over and over again,” Davis said."

Ironic that it doesn't bother him that America is like that NOW under his mentor, Bush.

Is the McCain campaign trying to equate Obama ads linking McCain to Bush with McCain ads linking Obama to terrorists? Seriously? Bush is THAT bad?

Hey Turbo.. Nice spin.. Read this: IRS docs to prove McCain gave $$ to same person he is complaining about with Obama http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/IRIForm9901998.pdf

In regards to Khalidi, however, the guilt-by-association game burns John McCain as well.

During the 1990s, while he served as chairman of the International Republican Institute (IRI), McCain distributed several grants to the Palestinian research center co-founded by Khalidi, including one worth half a million dollars.

A 1998 tax filing for the McCain-led group shows a $448,873 grant to Khalidi's Center for Palestine Research and Studies for work in the West Bank. (See grant number 5180, "West Bank: CPRS" on page 14

The relationship extends back as far as 1993, when John McCain joined IRI as chairman in January. Foreign Affairs noted in September of that year that IRI had helped fund several extensive studies in Palestine run by Khalidi's group, including over 30 public opinion polls and a study of "sociopolitical attitudes."

Of course, there's seemingly nothing objectionable with McCain's organization helping a Palestinian group conduct research in the West Bank or Gaza. But it does suggest that McCain could have some of his own explaining to do as he tries to make hay out of Khalidi's ties to Obama.

So McCain see's things this way, Its OK for me to have ties to these people like Khalidi long before Obama did. McCain calls G. Gordon Liddy "A great, personal friend"

ow close are McCain and Liddy? At least as close as Obama and Ayers appear to be. In 1998, Liddy's home was the site of a McCain fundraiser. Over the years, he has made at least four contributions totaling $5,000 to the senator's campaigns--including $1,000 this year.

Last November, McCain went on his radio show. Liddy greeted him as "an old friend," and McCain sounded like one. "I'm proud of you, I'm proud of your family," he gushed. "It's always a pleasure for me to come on your program, Gordon, and congratulations on your continued success and adherence to the principles and philosophies that keep our nation great."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/05/g-gordon-liddy-john-mccai_n_100134.html

Liddy's quests: 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. (The murder, firebombing, and kidnapping plots were never carried out; the break-ins were.)

During the 1990s, Liddy reportedly instructed his radio audience on multiple occasions on how to shoot Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms agents and also reportedly said he had named his shooting targets after Bill and Hillary Clinton.

Thus far, we've been served up Rev. Wright, Rashid Khalidi, William Ayers, and Tony Renzo.

Who's getting a free pass here?  Why haven't we heard about John Hagee, Rod Parsley, G. Gordon Liddy, and Rick Renzi?