Saturday, May 31, 2008
No collusion whatsoever!
Just don't look too closely because then you might not believe them. The Old Fart's Hanoi prison buddy, who works as the veterans liaison for the campaign just happens to be on the board of the Old Fart's captive taxpayer advocacy 501(c)3, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW), when the 501(c)3's 501(c)4,Council for Citizens Against Government Waste, a lobbying arm and PAC, comes up with an ad campaign to help deflect criticism of the Old Fart at a time when the Old Fart didn't have the money to do it himself.
Swindle is a friend of McCain who shared a cell with him as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. He did not respond to requests for comment.It is unfair to hold a persons name against them, but the fact that CCAGW also did some lobbying for Jack Abramoff can be and should be looked at more closely.
As the campaign's veterans liaison, Swindle helped the candidate fend off attacks in South Carolina from a group called Vietnam Veterans Against John McCain, which said that while in captivity, McCain gave information to the North Vietnamese. Swindle countered the group's charges in a statement put out by the campaign: "Nothing could be further from the truth. I know because I was there."
He defended the senator's war record this spring after it was questioned by Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.). Swindle also has appeared in several McCain campaign ads online.
But CAGW spokeswoman Leslie Paige said that in Swindle's role as a director, "there are absolutely no discussions related to the McCain campaign."
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