anyone ever notice here that a lot of the McCain threads are deflections of something Obama did?
I don't know who Ayers really is or what he did... I've heard he did some terrorist type things a while back and that he and Obama are friends... if that's true, it hardly equates to one man at a dinner making a donation. Every campaign season candidates end up giving money back, but not every campaign season is a candidate friends with an actual terrorist... if he really is... like I said, I didn't pay much attention to the Ayers story.
Posted by Rob_The_A_Hole at 2008-07-02 11:32 AM
anyone here smell something funny?
Like someone is full of shit?
Wobbie the Pooper Scooper tries to scoop some poop on something he supposedly "didn't pay much attention" to...
yet says "it hardly equates to one man at a dinner making a donation..." like this is what the story was about!
The story was about and I repeat for the more slow among us...The co-host of a recent top-dollar fundraiser for Sen. John 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.
and
Following a Justice Department indictment last year, Chiquita admitted to illegally funding the paramilitaries and agreed to pay a $25 million fine. Chiquita's payments to the AUC began in 1997 and lasted seven years; roughly half of the funds came after the group was designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the U.S. State Department in 2001.
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Chiquita's funding of violent paramilitaries does not end with the right-wing AUC. The fruit giant "had been making similar payments to the leftist FARC and ELN guerrillas" since 1989, also on Lindner's watch. Those payments ended in 1997 as "control of the company's banana-growing area shifted" to the AUC, according to the Associated Press.
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Moreover, McCain's chief political adviser, Charlie Black, lobbied for Chiquita on two separate occasions in 2001. According to records, Black was paid $80,000 to work on foreign trade issues.
NOW... consider if Obama had such ties to a TERRORIST ORGANIZATION and how loudly you'd be screaming for his head...