In light of the McCain campaign’s focus on William Ayers, Steve Benan takes a look at some of John McCain’s friends:
[A]s long as we’re on the subject, McCain’s associations continue to be increasingly interesting as well. We’ve known for a while that McCain has befriended a convicted felon who advised his supporters on how best to shoot federal officials, used the money of a convicted criminal to help buy a house, befriended a radical anti-Catholic televangelist, befriended a radical anti-American televangelist, was a long-time associate of Charles Keating, and hired for his campaign the publisher of a Confederate nostalgia magazine who has described Nelson Mandela as a “terrorist.” This week, we also learned about McCain serving on the board of the extremist U.S. Council for World Freedom, where he worked alongside Iran-Contra figures, and a eugenics researcher studying “white superiority.”
As someone might ask, who is the real John McCain ?
Of course, we could take another route. Ignore all the nonsense about people the respective candidates may have known in the past and talk about actual issues.
How about it ?
