Forget Ayers. McCain Served On Advisory Board Of Whacked Out Council For World Freedom

[jefferson_dem]

Forget Ayers. McCain Served On Advisory Board Of Whacked Out Council For World Freedom
By Greg Sargent and Eric Kleefeld - October 7, 2008, 5:46PM

In a much discussed story, the Associated Press reported today that John McCain served in the mid-1980s on the advisory board of a right-wing group called the Council for World Freedom, which has been controversial because of the group's aid to the Nicaraguan Contras and the presence of anti-Semites in its ranks.

Now we've gotten a hold of another fun little nugget that shows how whacked out this group really is: A newsletter from the group from July 1985 that lashed out at people who criticized Ronald Reagan for visiting the Bitburg cemetery in Germany, which includes the graves of members of the SS.

The Reagan visit was widely controversial among Jews, but the Council newsletter -- which you can view right here -- was less than charitable towards Reagan's Jewish critics.

"Those misguided souls who accused President Reagan of insensitivity for visiting the German cemetery at Bitburg are wallowing in tears of pity over the past crimes of the Nazi regime which collapsed over 40 years ago," the newsletter said. "They claim they want to keep the memory of the holocaust alive so that it can never happen again."

"Crocodile tears! It is happening again," the newsletter continues, "and again, and again, right now, in the modern world; only the crimes of today are not being perpetrated by the Nazis but by their philosophical and demoniacal soulmates, the communists."

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[redstate_democrat]

1. McCain is unfit to be senator let alone president,

this man is dangerous, crazy, erratic, PTSD'd out, drunk on power, and out of touch and out to lunch. His pick in his running mate, his "soul mate", demonstrates that.

[NewJeffCT]

2. It's okay, though, he's a Republican

of course, if he were a Democrat, it could have been his great-grandfather associating with them and it would still be important.