Media pressure forces Lieberman and Graham to leave anti-Obama 527
When Nicole blogged about this last week, she asked whether Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham were violating McCain's new conflict-of-interest policy by serving on the board of Vets for Freedom, an anti-Obama attack group. She also wondered whether the media would pay attention and call McCain to task. Well, they did, and now they're gone.
NYT:
"Senators Joseph I. Lieberman and Lindsey Graham, prominent surrogates for Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign, stepped down Wednesday from their positions with an independent group that released a pair of Internet advertisements attacking Senator Barack Obama on Iraq.
After inquiries from reporters, the senators released a joint letter to Vets for Freedom on Wednesday saying they had requested a leave from their positions to come into compliance with the new policy."
I appreciate McCain's attempt to purge his campaign of these associations, but how sincere is his effort when he keeps having to backtrack only after media pressure?
It doesn't matter what McCain says or does. He is the chosen one for the military industrial complex!
Since when do Politicians buckle to media pressure? thats not like them at all.
JJ
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Like any "good" Republicans they are sorry...that they got caught.
LIEberman should be thrown out of the senate and
horse whipped to his last breath. what a b@stard.
this is expected of lindsey, he has been a
horse's ass for years.
This is bullshit. They should have stepped away from the McShame campaign. Just because they took a leave (of absence) from a right wing neocon hate 527 (or is it 534 or 524 or 569?????) doesn’t mean shit to me. These guys are losers. Scum. STUPID! What they say does not make sense. I mean about anything. Do I sound bitter?
Curley ,Larry and Moe
Maybe not the 527 Group that Lieberman/Graham were in, but what does it say about all these lobbying conflicts of interest that went on for years? Does McCain suddenly severing a few relationships make up for all this? How real and permanent are these severences?
So when is jewish Joe Lieberman going to renounce and condemn the anti semite xtian nutjob racist Hagee !?
ummm....why is holy joe serving on a board for a veteran's group anyway?
that chickenhawk has never served
if he remains in the leadership come november, the entire blogosphere needs to demand an immediate regime change in washington
Was Sean Hannity arrested at the Hotel Economico in historic downtown Brownsville late Sunday night with a prostitute?
This is a story from Sunday, November 25, 2007, did we miss this?
Col Kilgore @ 6:
just needs 'nyuck nyuck slap slap tickle' sound track added to it
lieberman seems like the kind of jew who would have sold out his own neighbors to the nazis.
a lap puppy perpetually slobbering, perpetually in awe of his masters' power.
That story about Hannity has got to be a joke, it would be too perfect.
Should have called it, Chicken Hawks for Freedom Fries
Thats the blogspot of Johnny Canales former Tejano musician and looks like a typical Texas 'good ol boy' website, nothing Liberal or DP about it.
They have no reason to lie about the story, unless Sean Hannity is hated down there for reasons unknown, and I have never heard anything like that.
It really is a shame that Lieberman would participate in attack ads aimed at Obama.
After all, Obama went out of his way to compaign for Joe's re-election to the Senate.
It's just not fair.
Nice to see McCain et al being exposed for the hypocrites that they are. Campaign reform is one of McCain's biggest claims to fame. Nice to see he's following his own philosophy so rigidly. Man are they stupid. Nearly as stupid as any Dem who would vote for him because their candidate didn't get the nomination.
ferrofluid (Obama 08) @ 15:
He insisted that just his penis be in the mugshot.
How does a pair of douchebags in Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham , who have never served for 1 minute in the military , become board members ?
What the hell kind of an organization is this Vets for Freedom group ?
What a bunch of dummies...............
The issue is bigger than this. It's not just a matter of consistency with John McCain's stated campaign policy. The McCain campaign has been unlawfully coordinating efforts with Vets For Freedom - and these two jokers are at the center of it. Any reasonable person (and any judge) would conclude the efforts are 'coordinated' based on the timing and content of messages coming from each during the past week.
Also, two more people on the Vets For Freedom 'Board of Advisors' - Max Boot and Wade Zirkle - are still affiliated with both efforts.
And for whatever it's worth, Michael O'Hanlon was listed on the 'Policy Board of Advisors' yesterday but his name has been removed in the last 24 hours. I'm not sure what that's about -- but I'm guessing that's something worth investigating too.
Legal eagle named in the Hannity case in this incident February, gets weirder.
Feb. 13--Brownsville Municipal Judge Ben Neece was stabbed
ferrofluid (Obama 08) @ 21:
that was the second time, this seems to be the first !
OT but very funny and ties in with Brownsville, from Sean Hannitys dating service on his website.
Calling all desperate Christian singles...
MCMetal @ 19:
ever witnessed graham on the same panel as jim webb? it's like watching the howdy doody puppet swinging his arms on sgt. slaughter...
I thought that a 527 had to be completely independent from a campaign. If either Zell Lieberman or Graham were even semi-officially part of the McCain campaign it would seem that the 527 was blatantly violating the law and that resignations not withstanding they should be prosecuted.
Since Graham and Lieberman blatantly violated a campaign reform law authored by McCain, it would seem that McCain ought to ask them to leave his campaign unless he really believes that the campaign laws don't apply to him—it is fast becoming apparent that McCain will let neither principle nor law stand between him and the presidency he wants so obsessively. That puts him squarely in the corrupt wing of the GOP—also known as the GOP mainstream! Maverick, indeed.
Why is that scumbag Lieberman on that board anyhow? He is no vet! He's just another god damned chickenhawk!
In this pic, McCain looks like an actor who has been aged by prosthetic face devices for a movie.
wvguy @ 28:
He Might Be a Giant
"If I were a carpenter, I'd hammer on my piglet. I'd collect the $7 and I'd buy a big prosthetic forehead and wear it on my real head. Everybody wants prosthetic foreheads on their real heads"
Does anyone really think these guys are just going to walk away? The only thing that's happened is that they've pulled the curtain closed and moved into the shadows.
Bison @ 10:
lol....that was some funny shit
call my penis....the great american
What kind of name is Lindsey for a guy anyway? Some guy named Lindsey can tell us something anout war. He can't even take a punch to the mouth. What does and pussy name like Lindsey say about a guy? A little harsh I know, but think about it for a minute.
jay bunyon @ 32:
Jay - You're an idiot.
Maybe now Joe will have some more time to do his job. Isn't he a chairman of some obscure oversight committee or something? Not that they would have anything to investigate or anything, but he sure seems to have a lot of time do do everything except his day job.
big news, McCain doesn't know that he is an "Autumn".
I am a vet of rhe Korean war and I wonder how and member of a veteran orginazition be a non vet? Or has some one made Lieberman an honorary vet?
Just questions
Ryoko @ 30:
My thought exactly.
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