McCain Defends His Own Association With Unrepentant Criminal (Liddy): It's Ok, He Went To Jail

[jefferson_dem]

McCain Defends His Own Association With Unrepentant Criminal: It's Ok, He Went To Jail

After weeks of hammering Barack Obama for having an association with a former Weather Undergound member, John McCain was asked Thursday afternoon about his own connections to a past felon: G. Gordon Liddy.

The question came, of all places, from late night comedian David Letterman, who pressed the Senator to explain why he was friendly with the man who was convicted in the Watergate scandal of conspiracy, burglary, and illegal wiretapping. McCain - according to an advanced report of the show - initially said that he "met" Liddy before adding, "He paid his debt, he went to prison, he paid his debt."

And yet, important to note in all of this, is that Liddy has been publicly unrepentant for his actions, much like Ayers. In an interview with the UK Independent Liddy said he didn't regret burglarizing the offices of the Democratic National Committee.

In addition to the burglary - for which he served a four-and-a-half year sentence - Liddy broke into the office of Daniel Ellsberg, the military analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers. He also admitted to plotting both the murder of journalist Jack Anderson - a harsh Nixon critic - and the firebombing of the Brookings Institute.

The parallels between Ayers in Liddy are stretched in the regard that Ayers was part of a group that did undertake bombings (though all of them were designed to avoid casualties). But McCain seems to be suggesting that an association is legitimate if the individual served a jail sentence, something Ayers, too, would have done had the FBI not mangled its investigation.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/16/mccain-defends-his-own-as_n_135427.html

[Lautremont]

1. There's so many, many, many other things Liddy has done, I am very sure.

Everything from being creepy at parties to handchopping the bridge of someone's nose into their brain.

[Hope And Change]

2. K & R!

[nosillies]

3. I went to hear John Dean lecture last night.

Way funny. One of his best lines:

Liddy thought he was James Bond, but in reality, he wasn't even as good as Maxwell Smart.

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