There are rumors that Obama will bring this bombshell up in response to the Ayres issue.
William Timmons, the Washington lobbyist who John McCain has named to head his presidential transition team, aided an influence effort on behalf of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to ease international sanctions against his regime.
The two lobbyists who Timmons worked closely with over a five year period on the lobbying campaign later either pleaded guilty to or were convicted of federal criminal charges that they had acted as unregistered agents of Saddam Hussein’s government.
During the same period beginning in 1992, Timmons worked closely with the two lobbyists, Samir Vincent and Tongsun Park, on a previously unreported prospective deal with the Iraqis in which they hoped to be awarded a contract to purchase and resell Iraqi oil. Timmons, Vincent, and Park stood to share at least $45 million if the business deal went through.
Timmons’ activities occurred in the years following the first Gulf War, when Washington considered Iraq to be a rogue enemy state and a sponsor of terrorism. His dealings on behalf of the deceased Iraqi leader stand in stark contrast to the views his current employer held at the time.
Wow…just…wow.
It is hard for me to believe that McCain had any idea of this when he put Timmons on his team. He couldn’t be that stupid.
“I’ll take your 1960s radical domestic terrorist and raise you a genocidal, corrupt middle east dictator!” — John McCain to Obama in tonight’s “debate.”
No comparison at all unless McCain knew about the issue, as Obama knew about Ayers and Jeremiah Wright.
Not only that Obama gave a speech in 2002 supporting keeping Saddam in power, so he really can’t complain about someone else lobbying for the same.
#3 MikeN, so what you are assuming (you seem to do that a lot…) is that McCain would be stupid enough to take on Timmons without a background check? That would be REALLY scary…
Also, arguing a political point and lobbying for a person are two very different views even if they have the same goal. Wanting to remove someone from power and assassinating them are not the same, but accomplish the same goal… Some would argue that having Saddam in power brought stability to the region much as the cold war did for the world for so many years.
#4, Yeah, it means Obama lobbied for free!
McCain has surrounded himself with unsavory characters, many of them close advisers, and most of them intimately tied to the Bush administration. Yet McCain proudly and loudly chants that he is separate and different from the current administration. On the economy, national security, energy, education, transportation, infrastructure, foreign policy… McCain is just promoting the people that have ‘advised’ Bush into the people that will ‘govern’ under McCain if elected. And we all know just how well Bush and his circle of advisers worked out for the country.
I demand to know why McCain has hired treasonous people in his campaign. This is very very frightening and demands immediate investigation.
#5 MikeN. Quasi-Touché. I still think there is a good distinction to be made.
Hmmm, Saddam never attacked or bombed the US (unlike Ayres).
I thought that’s why liberals, rightfully, opposed attacking Iraq.
So, I should forget about Ayres why?
And we should consider the Iraq war as correct?
Those who read my posts will recall I mentioned this lobbyist, Timmons a few weeks ago. This guy represents everything that’s wrong with US politics. The only criteria this man uses is the dollar sign. If you got the cash he’ll lobby for you. Big oil, Fannie Mae and Fannie Mac, Saddam, etc.. This guy wields alot of infuluence and it’s for sale. Just like our politicians.
Saddam never attacked or bombed the US
Yea.. but did attacked a lot of our friends, and on a vastly larger scale.
#12 “Yea.. but did attacked a lot of our friends, and on a vastly larger scale.”
Really? Kuwait is a “friend” or, a spot of land with lots of Oil. Iran is a friend? Please list more of these “friends” that he attacked.
Where can I go to see your stand up routine?
A distraction:
http://www.palinaspresident.com/
Click on stuff…open and close the door several times…
You know what is really frightening are all of the people who (and I believe, rightfully so) are fed up with the way Washington politicians have been handling things the past number of years, but when someone new comes along they jump on the bandwagon to denigrate or humiliate them.
Do I know how Palin would do? No. But, Obama’s short track record and the longer records for McCain and Biden suggest that they can talk until the election (which they all do), but nothing fundamental will change next year.
Money talks and BS walks in DC! And that is they way it is. Want change? Get new people, throw out the old.
Darn near all of those politicians are wannabe lobbyists, anyway!
# 14Olo Baggins
Oh! that link is Funny!!!!
Way to go Dvorak.org leftist bloggers!! Keep trashing McPain and we’ll wind up with Obumma. People will be aching for the sunny days of the Jimmy Carter economy.
But seriously, this is yet another reason to vote Libertarian. Google Bob Barr.
Cow Paddy,
Are you really defending Saddam Hussein? Bush’s Public Enemy #1? Geeze, you’ll say anything to defend your boy.
Did you forget he was the guy that was going to unleash WMDs on America? The same guy that murdered thousands or Iranians, Kurds, and fellow Iraqis with his American supplied WMDs.
And your boy McCain has hired a buddy of his? Jesus H. Christ, I don’t believe your audacity.
#18 “Are you really defending Saddam Hussein? Bush’s Public Enemy #1? Geeze, you’ll say anything to defend your boy.”
What? I was questioning a lib who all of a sudden said that the Iraq war was justified.
Do you think Saddam attacked America? Do you think the US should have attacked Iraq?
What do you expect when K-Street Lobbyists Control and Drive the “Straigh Talk Express” ???
Self-Proclaimed “Maverick”, but in NAME ONLY !!!
Sayonara John, See You Later Alligator, Sarah !!!
I thought Saddam was the USA’s friend during the Iran-Iraq war. Clearly the guy needed to chose his friends more wisely. Nothing worse than friends that pretends to be friends then turn around and invade your country and steal all your shit. Twice.
Lobbyists are like Lawers, thery’re both bottom feeders. They work for anyone who will pay them. Just because this guy represented Saddam, dosen’t mean he shared Saddam’s views. Just that Saddam payed him a good chunk of cash.
What is really bothering me, is that both campaigns seem to have all sorts of “no-good-nicks” working for them.
#18 Confusion,
Do you think Saddam attacked America? Do you think the US should have attacked Iraq?
I’m still waiting…
That we have a couple of total incompetents running for President and one of them is going to get elected.
#9 – O’Pinocchio
>>So, I should forget about Ayres why?
Don’t forget about him. Think about him 24/7 for the rest of your life! You’re already obsessed with him.
Just don’t try and link him with Obama, as Obama’s relationship with him is so vanishingly small as to be negligible. Obama probably has more of a relationship with his local librarian or postman than he does with Ayres.
And that’s HILARIOUS that you are repudiating your hero’s (i.e. Dumbya’s) trophy war.
LOL! ROTFLMAO! LOL!
>Just don’t try and link him with Obama
Just deny, deny, deny, all evidence to the contrary.
Saddam’s trial was funny. It amounted to his lawyers having Saddam admit he was guilty, but saying that Bush’s war was illegal, therefore the court had no jurisdiction, and Saddam is the rightful ruler of Iraq.
>Obama’s relationship with him is so vanishingly small as to be negligible. Obama probably has more of a relationship with his local librarian or postman than he does with Ayres.
Did Obama serve on the library’s book purchasing committee?
Did his mailman hold a fundraiser for him?
Somebody, please slam the “patio door”.
What a worthless contributor.
What is he 12, 13 maybe?
john mccain was only 80 years old when saddam did those despicable acts
#26 – Lyin’ Mike
>>Just deny, deny, deny, all evidence to
>>the contrary.
I’d be pleased to deny it, if YOU WOULD PRESENT SOME.
So far, the most compelling evidence of a meaningful link between Obama and Ayres is Palin’s blathering about Obama “palling around with terrorists”.
If that’s the best you can come up with, you should look for a different axe to grind.
Other than being in more or less the same place at more or less the same time, THERE IS NO EVIDENCE that Obama has (or even had) anything to do with Ayers. And he CERTAINLY HAD NOTHING AT ALL TO DO with his terrorism.
I suppose, using your same logic, everyone who went to the University of Illinois was “trained by terrorists”.
Lame-O.