The GOP has been going on about Barack Obama's connection to Bill Ayers, a former obnoxious hippie who is now a respected philanthropist and upstanding member of the community. They also love reiterating that his middle name is Hussein, in an attempt to pin him to deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
And now, we have news of William Timmons, who John McCain not only has a casual association with, but has asked to join his campaign as head of his presidential transition team (which oversees the process of turning his campaign into an actual presidency that flows smoothly from the previous one). Timmons (a lobbyist, who McCain professes not to consort with) was involved in an effort during the 1990's to ease economic sanctions on Iraq, on behalf of Saddam Hussein. The two men with whom he worked on this project were convicted of acting as unregistered agents of a foreign regime (not to mention a hostile one).
In what universe is this okay?
- McCain professes to hate lobbyists, yet surrounds himself with them.
- McCain is playing guilt by association by trying to pin Obama to Ayers and Hussein, one of whom has spent decades working to better the community and one of whom Obama has no legitimate ties to, but apparently McCain's people do.
- If Iraq was as much of a threat as the GOP would have us believe, Timmons was in fact working actively in opposition to the national security of the United States of America.
- We are currently involved in a war in Iraq, in many cases against the people Timmons was working for. How many people have died in Iraq in the last six years, and how many people have died in conflicts related to the Weather Underground in the last six years?
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