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McCain and Al Qaeda: You Telling Me Y’all Believed That?
attackerman.firedoglake.com - 10/23/2008
McCain and Al Qaeda: You Telling Me Y’all Believed That?
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Collapsing argument I just got off a conference call held by the McCain campaign held to deny that al-Qaeda, contrary to reports in the AP and the Washington Post , is rooting for their man. To describe the call as panicked would be an understatement. Jim Woolsey, the former CIA ...
washingtonindependent.com - 10/22/2008
McCain Advisers Freaked Out by Al Qaeda Preference for McCain
— washingtonindependent.com — I just got off a conference call held by the McCain campaign to deny that Al Qaeda,... contrary to reports in the AP and the Washington Post , is rooting for their man. To describe the call as panicked would be an… (more) McCain Advisers Freaked Out by Al Qaeda Preference for ...

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washingtonindependent.com - 10/23/2008
McCain Completely Misrepresents U.S.-Iraq Basing Deal
— washingtonindependent.com — My colleague Matt DeLong caught Sen. John McCain’s interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer and passed along a... quick discussion about the U.S.-Iraq basing deal that calls for a total withdrawal of all U.S. forces by Dec. 31, 2011. Long story… (more) McCain Completely Misrepresents U.S.-Iraq Basing Deal

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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 10/22/2008
McCain Campaign Attacks Washington Post, Insinuates Terrorists Want Obama Victory
— tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com — The McCain campaign is now charging that the terrorists want Obama to win, while pretending they're not... really saying that. The McCain campaign just held a curious conference call with reporters in which McCain advisers made the insinuation. It's ... (more) McCain Campaign Attacks Washington Post, Insinuates ...

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Wonk Room:  McCain Spokesmen: Al Qaeda Endorsement ‘Ludicrous’

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan:  Al-Qaeda, McCain And The Election

WTF Is It Now?!?:  PSM

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McCain Spokesmen: Al Qaeda Endorsement ‘Ludicrous’
Wonk Room — Listening to Team McCain’s press call reacting to today’s Washington Post’s story about a pro-McCain posting on an Al-Qaeda affiliated website, I think Attackerman is right. Panicked is an understatement. The Post reported: Al-Qaeda is watching the U.S. stock market’s downward slide with something akin to jubilation, with its leaders hailing the financial crisis as a vindication of its strategy of crippling America’s economy through endless, costly foreign wars against Islamist insurgents. ...

Al-Qaeda, McCain And The Election
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Spencer Ackerman discusses a McCain conference call responding to an article on an al-Qaeda linked website appearing to back McCain: To describe the call as panicked would be an understatement. Jim Woolsey, the former CIA director who publicly connected Iraq to the 9/11 attacks without any evidence in 2001, and senior foreign-policy adviser Randy Scheunemann spent more time whining about the Washington Post's standards of fairness than on the logic of why al-Qaeda might prefer McCain. "An amazing piece of ...

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WTF Is It Now?!? — Al-Qaeda has endorsed America's American American, John McCain. Why does McCain hate America?

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