Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

McCain linked to private group in Iran-Contra case
AP ^ | 10.07.2008 | Pete Yost

Posted on 10/07/2008 4:19:34 AM PDT by TexasNative2000

WASHINGTON - GOP presidential nominee John McCain has past connections to a private group that supplied aid to guerrillas seeking to overthrow the leftist government of Nicaragua in the Iran-Contra affair.

McCain's ties are facing renewed scrutiny after his campaign criticized Barack Obama for his link to a former radical who engaged in violent acts 40 years ago.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: election; mccain
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-65 next last
Once again, Obama and the media step in it.

By bringing up the Keating Five and now this charge, Obama is simply legitimizing the Ayers story. In addition, Obama is using all of this up now - what happens when they start to hammer him on Rezco?

Finally, who do you want to elect? The guy who associates with a domestic terrorist, or a guy who tried to rid the western hemisphere of communism?

1 posted on 10/07/2008 4:19:34 AM PDT by TexasNative2000
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: TexasNative2000

McCain is tied to a group that tried to BOMB communists while Obama is tied to a group that tried to BOMB the US...


2 posted on 10/07/2008 4:21:29 AM PDT by AmericaUnited
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: TexasNative2000

So...
What they’re trying to say is...
John McCain is connected to...

RONALD REAGAN!?

I’m voting for that!


3 posted on 10/07/2008 4:22:03 AM PDT by Samurai_Jack (ride out and confront the evil!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: TexasNative2000

Are they trying to tell me that McCain is against Communism? How dare he! That’s unpatriotic!


4 posted on 10/07/2008 4:22:26 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If Barack Hussein Obama is the answer, it must have been a pretty dumb question.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

Iran-Contra

So, essentially, they haven't found any recent dirt on McCain or any dirt on Palin... so they're having to dig up crap from decades ago. Got it.

5 posted on 10/07/2008 4:22:53 AM PDT by CE2949BB (McCain/Palin 08)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: TexasNative2000
These IDIOTS on the left just don't get it that the majority of Americans think it is THE RIGHT THING TO DO to overthrow commie dictators. They sit around in their circle jerks and forget what the real world is really like.
6 posted on 10/07/2008 4:23:05 AM PDT by AmericaUnited
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: FlingWingFlyer

Amazing how the media is so in the tank....I must say, this election has changed my viewing and listening habits forever.


7 posted on 10/07/2008 4:23:27 AM PDT by Blue Turtle (I)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: TexasNative2000

Badge of Honor, to me.


8 posted on 10/07/2008 4:23:43 AM PDT by papasmurf (I ain't your Daddy's Conservative, OK?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: AmericaUnited
No, no, no.... They view this as moral equivalency.

Obama supported a guy who did bombings / McCain supported a group who did bombings.

9 posted on 10/07/2008 4:25:04 AM PDT by TexasNative2000 (Obviously, liberals can't handle a strong, independent woman.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: TexasNative2000
McCain's ties are facing renewed scrutiny after his campaign criticized Barack Obama for his link to a former radical who engaged in violent acts 40 years ago.

And the former radical in question is quite proud of his violent acts.
10 posted on 10/07/2008 4:25:07 AM PDT by kb2614 (Hell hath no fury than a bureaucrat scorned)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: TexasNative2000
a private group that supplied aid to guerrillas seeking to overthrow the leftist government of Nicaragua

Excellent. Sounds like a worthy cause to me.

11 posted on 10/07/2008 4:25:08 AM PDT by ovrtaxt ( One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a Congress. --John Adams)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: AmericaUnited

Stupid is as stupid does. This is a Forrest Gump media.


12 posted on 10/07/2008 4:25:40 AM PDT by TexasNative2000 (Obviously, liberals can't handle a strong, independent woman.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: AmericaUnited

And that sums it up nicely.


13 posted on 10/07/2008 4:25:40 AM PDT by SueRae
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Blue Turtle

That makes two of us.


14 posted on 10/07/2008 4:25:51 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If Barack Hussein Obama is the answer, it must have been a pretty dumb question.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: All


Video: "DANGEROUS" (Added October 5, 2008)

CBS NEWS.com: "MORE BOGUS OBAMA DONORS SURFACE" (October 6, 2008)

ONE NEWS NOW.com: "PRO-OBAMA, MUSLIM-LED VOTER REGISTRATION IN MOSQUES" by Chad Groening (October 6, 2008)

DANIEL PIPES.org - blog: "Bibliography - My Writings on Barack Obama's Early Years as a Muslim" by Daniel Pipes

AMERICAN THINKER.com - blog (FOX NEWS.com): "TEACHER SUSPENDED IN OBAMA VIDEO SCANDAL" by Thomas Lifson (October 6, 2008)

AMERICAN THINKER.com - blog: "UTTERLY CHILLING VIDEO OF OBAMA FREIKORPS" by Thomas Lifson (October 5, 2008)

CNS NEWS.com: "WILL JOURNALISTS FINALLY GET THE RECESSION THEY CRAVE?" -Commentary by Dan Gainor (October 6, 2008)

stepping back in time...GovTrac.US: "Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005" May 25, 2006)

Video: "Barack Obama & Friends - Sean Hannity Special" (Added October 5, 2008)

Video: "Barack Obama & Friends - Sean Hannity Special - Part 2" (Added October 5, 2008)

Video: "Barack Obama & Friends - Sean Hannity Special - Part 3" (Added October 5, 2008)

Video: "Barack Obama & Friends - Sean Hannity Special - Part 4" (Added October 5, 2008)

Video: "Barack Obama & Friends - Sean Hannity Special - Part 5" (Added October 5, 2008)

Video: "Barack Obama & Friends - Sean Hannity Special - Part 6" (Added October 5, 2008)



[Post no. 7] - ARCHIVES - Topic: BIDEN & OBAMA (aka B & O) (October 6, 2008 -- Click Here.)

15 posted on 10/07/2008 4:26:16 AM PDT by Cindy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: TexasNative2000

LOL, McCains been fighting commies his entire life and now he’s fighting another commie bastard in Barack Hussein Obama. I’ll be happy to continue to fight commies with McCain and much happier to fight them with the young Governor Palin.


16 posted on 10/07/2008 4:26:40 AM PDT by jwalsh07 (MSM Lied, Journalism Died. RIP 2008)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: TexasNative2000

Sounds like McCain has even MORE foreign policy experience than we knew!


17 posted on 10/07/2008 4:27:03 AM PDT by ikka
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: TexasNative2000
John McCain has fought communists his whole life, and he continues to this day. While Barak Obama was snorting cocaine, McCain was organizing opposition to the communist sandinistas.

Barak Obama takes a different approach to communists, he becomes their friend. Obama held his first political rally in the home of this communist, Bill Ayers:



Obama: friend to communists
18 posted on 10/07/2008 4:27:05 AM PDT by advance_copy (Stand for life or nothing at all)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Blue Turtle
Amazing how the media is so in the tank....I must say, this election has changed my viewing and listening habits forever.

Mrs. 2000, who is not into all this political stuff, came to the same conclusion last week.

Her favorite phrase now is "How can they say that?"

19 posted on 10/07/2008 4:27:12 AM PDT by TexasNative2000 (Obviously, liberals can't handle a strong, independent woman.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: FlingWingFlyer

Somehow, I don’t think this leads the evening news....


20 posted on 10/07/2008 4:29:57 AM PDT by TexasNative2000 (Obviously, liberals can't handle a strong, independent woman.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-65 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson