Are Lieberman and Graham Violating McCain's Campaign Ethics Rules?
By Nicole Belle Friday May 23, 2008 11:00am
Two of Sen. John McCain's top campaign chairmen are serving on the board of an independent organization that is behind a new attack ad against Sen. Barack Obama, an apparent violation of the Arizona Republican's new conflict of interest policy.
Sens. Joseph Lieberman and Lindsey Graham both hold chairs for the McCain camp as well as positions on the board of advisers of Vets for Freedom, an advocacy group that supports the Iraq war.
A week ago these titles may not have been a political issue. But under McCain's newly-implemented ethics policy, Lieberman and Graham's role with Vets for Freedom is now proving problematic.
According to the policy: "No person with a McCain Campaign title or position may participate in a 527 or other independent entity that makes public communications that support or oppose any presidential candidate."
On Friday, Vets for Freedom, an independent group, did just that. In a commercial released on its website, the organization directly took on Obama over his willingness to negotiate with Iranian leadership.
Will the corporate media hold McCain to task for this violation? Will McCain be forced to disavow their support as he did with Parsley and Hagee? Or will the media be too busy talking about other things and give McCain a pass yet again?
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Will the corporate media hold McCain to task for this violation?
No.
Will McCain be forced to disavow their support as he did with Parsley and Hagee?
Doubt they even care at this point.
Or will the media be too busy talking about other things and give McCain a pass yet again?
Yep and with an extended guarantee.
Kind of a no-brainer. Lieberman and Graham are Republicans. They have no ethics.
McCain has NO CHANCE of being president.
of course they are! but it's always OK if you're repugnicant.
The Knack @ 3:
tell that to cnn, msnbc and fux
The Knack @ 3:
You better get some nitro glycerin pills from your doc just in case.
CoIntelPro for Democratic Party Victory @ 5:
Were in real deep sh*t.
"...McCain's Campaign Ethics Rules" ??
Who knew there were any?
The Knack @ 3:
As long as there are a majority of anti-democratic conservative activist judges on the supreme court, McBush will have a chance.
1) Will the corporate media hold McCain to task for this violation?
2) Will McCain be forced to disavow their support as he did with Parsley and Hagee?
3) Will the media be too busy talking about other things and give McCain a pass yet again? Bingo!
The media took months to catch up to the Hagee/Parsley story. They'll latch onto this right about the end of October.
By the way...Did you see the leaked McCain Xray?
Our ballot box has been taken over by repugnicant electronic voting machines.
Our jury box has been taken over by repugnicant ideological fascists.
All that is left is the ammo box.
And the 150,000 soldiers trapped in a repugnicant war in Iraq have PLENTY of those!
I can't believe that in the so-called "land of the free", I am actually considering a semi-military coup (populous uprising by pissed off soldiers, rather than by generals) to be the GOOD alternative :(
Lieberman is pathetic...
Ruthless People @ 2:
Yeah, SOP for the GOP.
Did you notice that the Vets For Freedom page that lists their Board of Advisors has Lieberman listed as a Democrat?!?
There's you bipartisanship.
caption: "eh? whaaa? wha's at? where am i???"
those med reports were so bogus... that photo is proof...
"Are Lieberman and Graham Violating McCain’s Campaign Ethics Rules?"
What rules? We are a nation of laws only when it comes to illegal immigration and holding anti-war activists accountable. For everything else, the end justifies the means - or haven't you been paying attention?
Don't annoy the fartful codger. He may ban you from the bus. Not to mention the precious invite to the next BBQ.
"Will the corporate media hold McCain to task for this violation?"
http://home.mindspring.com/~samrc/sounds/rofl.wav
If so, Nancy Pelosi and John Conyers need to write a strongly worded letter to them.
That will take care of it.
Change we can believe in.
[Deleted. Off topic. Please take it to an open thread. AndyZ, the MSM is running with that story, so I guess C&L is very unlike the MSM in this case. Thank you. Site Monitor]
Asking whether a conservative is violating ethics or not is like asking if water is wet or not.
With the conservatives, it's all about personal responsibility, unless a lie can get you out of it or its a member of an opposing philosophy.
Vets for Freedom? Lieberman was never in the military, how can he be in the "Vets for Freedom"? Shouldn't he be in Draft Dodgers for Freedom. I guess in McCain's eyes this makes Lieberman unfit to give advice on military affairs.
I would think that this is going to be another awkward moment for McShame. How is he going to square this. Is he a liar or a flip flopper?
Captain Bitter Elitist Husein Kangaroo @ 23:
Nope, will not be "an ackward moment for McCain". He is accustomed to both lying
and flip flopping.
http://www.vetsforfreedom.org/about/advisors2.aspx
Lieberman and Graham are listed as Honorary Members.
That may be McCain's excuse to keep them on Staff.
I'm sure that by now someone has pointed out that ethics and Republicans go together like turds in punch bowls.
Lieberman and graham are just vile.
Lieberman holds a position in the Senate as a Democrat (I). He blatantly campaigns with McCain. Why does the DNC let him keep his prominent seat in the Senate? Why does Reid continue to stick up for Lieberman? We don't need Lieberman. He is not supporting the Democrats. He is making a mockery and laughing stock of the DNC. Clinton and Lieberman are tearing the Democratic Party apart. And the heads of the party, Reid, Pelosi, and Dean, are too weak to stand up to Lieberman. What a joke we have become.
La confid @6 Is that the kind of nitro that explodes? What a great movie poster that photo would make, Larry, Moe and Curly search for an intelligent design. "It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralize the long-range effects of our national stupidity." The late, but great, Frank Zappa.---CEO
They are both slimey pigs. Expect no less.
Stupid question, ok graham is a reservist but what about lieberman what branch of the military does/did he servr in being on a board of advisors for vets you'd at least think he'd know something about it. Not voting or not voting for the new gi bill shows you how these guys really feel about vets
Mark @ News Corpse @ 14:
Lieberman R- Ct
Lindsay's just trying to divert attention from the fact that he's gay.
http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A32974
fuck the media, will the COURT SYSTEM do its fuckin job and hold these assholes accountable for breaking their own laws??
ps: doubt it.
Mark @ News Corpse @ 10:
Wrong. that's an xray of the bush keester.
Now reporting from Sen. McCain's luxury home in Fountain Hills, Arizona.
CNN: Pass some of that sauce down here Sen Graham.
MSNBC:Holy Joe I see you got your trunks on.
FOX:Last one in the pool gets a show on Fox.
MSM:
"story, no story here.
We're just too busy eating the Mav Man's awesome BBQ.
Back to you guys."
WTN @ 33:
Don't ask, don't tell...more on Lindsay "Iraq vet" Graham
from his senate website:
I see a whole lot of brass and not a lot of ass on the line for Senator Graham.
why is Lieberman on Vets for Freedom when he isn't even a VET?
by the way,, just because it has been awhile since I slagged someone and it sometimes feels good. Michael O'Hanlon is a fucking douche bag.
A bit on talking with Iran, and the horrible threat to world peace they are,
are you aware that those warmongers, with 70 million citizens, have the audacity to spend about as much, or maybe 5% more on their military, as Norway with its 4,7 million inhabitants does? (somewhere between 6-6,6 billion USD, compared to 6,2-6,3billion) So Norway, pr citizen, spends about 13,5 times as much on military, as Iran does, which is only right and proper.
How the hell are the conservatives even able to make them the big bogey man here?
Ethics and ethics rules ? Lieberman and Graham ? Good one C & L ! you crack me up ! My gut hurts from laughing so hard !
Ray @ 41:
AGREED.....
I can't believe that ANYONE in their right mind can believe that Lieberman, Graham, or any of these republicans are even aware of ethics.....
The Rule of Law does NOT apply to Republicans. The Democratic Leadership announced to the world back in 1974 that any Republican politician can get away with violating the US Constitution at will. The only stipulation was that it had to be egregious. The worse the offense, the easier the Dems are on the GOP.
The 1980 election was rigged to make Reagan the Acting-President by using Oliver North to make sure the Iranian Hostages were kept in captivity until after election day. For the next several years the Democratic Leadership pretended to be concerned when Oliver North sold top-secret US-made anti-tank missiles to the Iranian Ayatollahs (dear, dear friends of the GOP), and then used the money to fund an illegal and UNCONSTITUTIONAL war in Central America. The Democratic Leadership's official response was 'We will NOT investigate, if this goes to the desk of the President'.
So the Dems encouraged Reagan and Bush to brazenly flaunt the bedrock principles of this once-great nation. The Dems applauded as Reagan destroyed hundreds of thousands of human lives, both in the US and abroad. Saddam Hussein was Our Man in Iraq, Rumsfeld is on video from 1983 shaking Saddam's hand, after we had sold him the same WMD's we used as an excuse to invade in 2003.
There is no reason to think that the Democratic Leadership will ever enforce the Law on any Republican ever. There is plenty of evidence that the Dems have made sure to run awful candidates to make sure they lose every election they can. And now they desperately want Senator Clinton to get elected so that they can re-energize the GOP's crazy base, having been so demoralized by the over-the-top anti-American activities of the Executive Branch for the last 8 years.
The Democratic Leadership has been a wholly-owned subsidiary of the GOP since as long as I can remember politics (1978). At every turn the cave in, no matter how strong their position.
So obviously, no, the Dems will never hold any Republican accountable, no wonder Clinton was impeached over nothing while Bush gets away with mass murder and clearly ordering war crimes on a daily basis with NO accountability ever.
The USA is done, our economy has tanked, the dollar is still dropping like a rock, and America is becoming a third-world dictatorship, just as the ruling class has planned.
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