While McCain and co. are busy attacking Obama for being "anti-American" because of his various associations (whose extreme views Obama has repudiated), McCain skates by untouched despite his close relation to Nixon-era felon G. Gordon Liddy. From the Chicago Tribune:
In 1998, Liddy's home was the site of a McCain fundraiser. Over the years, he has made at least four contributions totaling $5,000 to the senator's campaigns -- including $1,000 this year.
Last November, McCain went on his radio show. Liddy greeted him as "an old friend," and McCain sounded like one. "I'm proud of you, I'm proud of your family," he gushed. "It's always a pleasure for me to come on your program, Gordon, and congratulations on your continued success and adherence to the principles and philosophies that keep our nation great."
During the Nixon era, Liddy broke into the DNC office at the Watergate, planned to kidnap leftists in 1972 to keep them from disrupting the GOP convention, and planned (but never executed) the murder of a columnist critical of Nixon. More recently, Liddy gave instructions to right-wing extremists that they should shoot federal agents in the head, saying:
"Now if the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms comes to disarm you and they are bearing arms, resist them with arms. Go for a head shot; they're going to be wearing bulletproof vests. ... Kill the sons of bitches."
These of course are obviously pro-American "principles and philosophies that keep our nation great," right?
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