The very low Sarah Palin came out screeching yesterday about Barack Obama's relation to William Ayers. Aside from the fact that Obama was 8 years old during Ayers' radical years, the right wing hate machine will attempt to tie Obama to him.
Well, hang this anchor around their neck:
In 1981 John McCain sat on the board of the US Council for World Freedom, an ultra right wing group founded chaired by Iran Contra figure Maj. General John K. Singlaub.
Begala: It was affiliated with the World Anti-Communist league, the parent organization, which ADL [Anti-Defamation League] said has increasingly become a gathering place, the forum, the point of contact for extremist racists and anti-Semites.
[EDIT CORRECTION: I incorrectly attributed Singlaub as founder. He was not. I incorrectly stated he was a Congressman from Arizona. He was not.]
Now Begala says he "knows this isn't John McCain" but I differ with the Paul. I have no doubt McCain's an elite racist little punk. I used to go to school with people like him. I know where his mother lives, because I am from the same part of the country. I know the houses McCain would have frequented in his childhood, the views of the society he was raised in, the servants in the homes.
John McCain was raised in an atmosphere of privilege, of wealth and of power and influence. This ultra-right wing group, IMO, is just the kind of organization his jokes would play over well with.
From The Coors Connection by Russ Bellant
When the Reagan Administration began organizing the Nicaraguan Contras in 1981, allied but nominally private groups were formed to build support for the Contra plans.
One of those groups, formed shortly after the first Reagan inauguration, was the US Council for World Freedom, headed by Major General John Singlaub. The USCWF quickly became the US branch of the World Anti-Communist League. The USCWF began building support for the Reagan policy of aiding not only the Nicaraguan Contras but RENAMO and UNITA in southern Africa and rightist Islamic fundamentalists in Afghanistan. Singlaub informed CIA director William Casey and NSC staff of his actions and operated with their consent if not under their direct influence.
One of the early USCWF financial backers was Joe Coors, according to two former USCWF treasurers. Coors shared Reagan's enthusiasm for the Contras despite early indications of the unsavory background of certain Contra leaders and reliable reports of Contra acts of brutality. The Contras were originally known as the 15th of September Legion. Their earliest training came from Argentinean military intelligence, which ran death squads in that country and sponsored a Latin American conference of death squad leaders in 1980. That death squad network was also the Latin American branch on WACL. In 1982, Argentinean intelligence worked with Moon's Unification Church and fugitive Nazi Klaus Barbie to establish a Nazi-style state in Bolivia.
Honestly, if they try to hang Ayers around Obama, McCain, true or not, has a history of associating with ultra-right wing racists and paranoid fascist freaks.
UPDATE: Some have raised a point, one eloquently, on my comments regarding knowing McCain is racist, knowing the same part of the country etc. I just want to emphasize I know the type. I am not implicating everyone. I just know the type who would not be appalled by any of the following, (courtesy of FeastOr)
"I hate the gooks, I will hate them as long as I live."
"At least I don’t plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you cunt."
"Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because Janet Reno is her father."
"As long as it’s inevitable, you might as well lie back and enjoy it."
"..... Now, tell me, where's that fantastic gorilla?"
If you find any of these statements acceptable, you are the type I am talking about, if you are specifically from areas I am familiar with, you are specifically that type. If you find these statements disgusting, I am not talking about you or inferring anything about your regional history, education, economic class or your mother.