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1 posted on 05/10/2008 7:09:28 PM PDT by LJayne
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To: LJayne

Here’s the link to the article:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0508/McCain_convention_chief_quits_after_past_ties_to_Burma_revealed.html


2 posted on 05/10/2008 7:11:31 PM PDT by LJayne (If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because of us, not outsiders.)
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To: LJayne

See also:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014264/posts


3 posted on 05/10/2008 7:15:06 PM PDT by SIDEWALKING
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To: LJayne

‘I’ve already left, Elaine. I’m in Burma.”

“Burma?”

“You most likely know it as Myanmar, but it will always be Burma to me. Bonne chance, Elaine. You there on the motorbike! Sell me one of your melons!”


6 posted on 05/10/2008 7:35:12 PM PDT by Hugin (Mecca delenda est!)
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To: LJayne

What a typically vague headline and body.

So some guy who used to work with McCain somehow once represented the Burmese government (per some blog most of us have never heard of)?

You’re new around here, but mighty prolific posting-wise.


7 posted on 05/10/2008 7:35:17 PM PDT by KJC1
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The PR executive John McCain just tapped to help run the GOP convention quit today after a report that his firm once represented the Burmese junta that is now doing little to relieve its people from the devastation incurred by this week’s cyclone. Doug Goodyear, CEO of the DCI Group, said in a statement issued by the convention committee that he was resigning “so as not to become a distraction in this campaign.”

In other words, McCain has NOTHING to do with any of this gobbedlygook.

8 posted on 05/10/2008 7:39:34 PM PDT by KJC1
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To: LJayne
"Goodyear accepted the post just this past week. "

That didn't take long.
9 posted on 05/10/2008 7:52:11 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life)
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To: LJayne

I would defend McCain’s right to keep this guy on. It might hurt him though.

It bothers me that people can be so easily trashed. The left can deal with any seditious, treasonous or terroristic person on the planet and it’s okay.

Some guy on the right six years ago had a remote connection to a regime where there’s problems today, and now he’s unable to work to put a convention on.

I defend McCain’s right to keep this guy on, and to hell with what the Democrats think.

McCain probably did the right thing here, as much as I don’t like the outcome. It does say the guy withdrew on his own too, so I guess I shouldn’t attribute the proper course of action to McCain out of fairness.


10 posted on 05/10/2008 7:55:12 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Who opposes John McCain's leftist agenda? The RNC, Rep Congress members, the Democrats? Good luck!)
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To: LJayne

Well, I guess he has that blimp thing to fall back on.


11 posted on 05/10/2008 8:07:45 PM PDT by fhayek
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