Sweet: Obama links McCain to Abramoff, McCain links Obama to Ayers
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Via the Standard, here’s The Lamb taking his new tough-guy approach aimed at reassuring the base that he won’t let the GOP push him around the way they did Kerry. But since he is, after all, the Lamb, it’ll air only in Georgia lest wider exposure upset the balance in public perception of who’s running the more negative campaign. The insinuation, obviously, is that McCain gave Reed a pass during his Senate committee’s investigation of Abramoff and now he’s getting a quid pro quo in the form of fundraisers organized by Reed. Read Politifact to see how much of a “pass” Reed actually got. It’s true that he wasn’t charged with anything, but he was named in the committee’s report 197 times, was tied to “numerous unseemly Abramoff efforts,” and was “plagued by scandal as a result.” So much for the quid pro quo. Even TNR concedes that it’s — “maybe” — unfair.
But now that the door is opened on guilt by association, Team McCain barges through...
Via the Standard, here’s The Lamb taking his new tough-guy approach aimed at reassuring the base that he won’t let the GOP push him around the way they did Kerry. But since he is, after all, the Lamb, it’ll air only in Georgia lest wider exposure upset the balance in public perception of who’s running the more negative campaign. The insinuation, obviously, is that McCain gave Reed a pass during his Senate committee’s investigation of Abramoff and now he’s getting a quid pro quo in the form of fundraisers organized by Reed. Read Politifact to see how much of a “pass” Reed actually got. It’s true that he wasn’t charged with anything, but he was named in the committee’s report 197 times, was tied to “numerous unseemly Abramoff efforts,” and was “plagued by scandal as a result.” So much for the quid pro quo. Even TNR concedes that it’s — “maybe” — unfair.
But now that the door is opened on guilt by association, Team McCain barges through...
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