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McCain Adviser Won’t Attack Obama

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Posted on Feb 13, 2008
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One of John McCain’s top advisers, Mark McKinnon, says he will resign from the campaign if Barack Obama wins the Democratic nomination, because “I would simply be uncomfortable being in a campaign that would be inevitably attacking Barack Obama.” McKinnon says he would still support McCain from a distance, but “I met Barack Obama, I read his book, I like him a great deal.”

You can listen to the interview on NPR.

ABC News:

ABC News’ Teddy Davis Reports: A top adviser to John McCain said Wednesday that he will step down from the Arizona senator’s presidential campaign if the presumed GOP nominee faces Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., in the general election.

“I would simply be uncomfortable being in a campaign that would be inevitably attacking Barack Obama,” said McCain adviser Mark McKinnon in an interview with NPR’s “All Things Considered.” “I think it would be uncomfortable for me, and I think it would be bad for the McCain campaign.”

McKinnon, who was a Democrat before serving as President Bush’s ad maker in 2000 and 2004, said that he plans to be behind McCain “100 percent” no matter who the Democratic nominee is. He explained, however, that if the Democrats nominate Obama, he will be supporting McCain “from the sidelines.”

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By msgmi, February 14 at 5:02 pm #
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Has anyone ever wondered what Bush I and Bush II confided to their fellow elites about their closet demons prior to their initiation to the Skull & Bones Society while attending Yale University? No one who knows dares to utter it. On the flip side, it appears that Mark McKinnon has more moral capital than the party hunchos who ‘CRUCIFIED’ Senator McCain’s character by sliming him with despotic fabrications in the 2000 GOP presidential primary. Perhaps the 2008 election will avoid such swine politics, yet, i certainly doubt that ‘da swine’ will stay corraled inside the sty before it’s all over.

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By Robert Mendez, February 14 at 8:11 am #
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McKinnon ex drug dealer

As an ex-cocaine dealer during the late seventies and early eighties, Mark McKinnon fears his past will come back to haunt him.  I know, we lived in the same home.

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By Douglas Chalmers, February 14 at 6:36 am #
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By Expat, February 14: “...apparently Mark McKinnon has some personal ethics.  How unique in the present body politic...”

Obviously, one of them isn’t loyalty....... but then, who is Obama really loyal to anyway???

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By Maani, February 14 at 8:18 am #
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Doug:

“...but then, who is Obama really loyal to anyway???”

Excellent question!  And one that does not get asked nearly often enough.  And anyone who says “only himself” or “the people” must be smokin’ that wacky tobacky!

Peace.

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By Ryan Healey, February 14 at 6:20 am #
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If Mr. McKinnon does not want to attack Obama later, I suggest he help McCain knock him down NOW so he ISN’T the nominee. The media has left Obama’s promises mostly unchecked, there is ALOT they can attack on and do real damage before the Texas and Ohio primaries.

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By Aegrus, February 14 at 5:21 am #
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Barack Obama inspires the best in people? This isn’t news, it is axiomatic fact!

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By Expat, February 14 at 2:59 am #
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Very interesting........

^ apparently Mark McKinnon has some personal ethics.  How unique in the present body politic.

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By Paracelsus, February 13 at 8:01 pm #
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Obama Secret Society Ties

http://www.sarajevo-x.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=36907

What was that JFK said about secret societies?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1710662559138481080

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By Maani, February 14 at 7:29 am #
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Re: Obama Secret Society Ties

Paracelsus:

Other Prince Hall Masons including Charlie Rangel, Jesse Jackson, Andrew Young, Thurgood Marshall, Al Sharpton, W.E.B. DuBois, Alex Haley, Scottie Pippen, Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Nat King Cole.

Are you suggesting that all these people are or were involved in something nefarious or sinister?

Peace.

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By Paracelsus, February 14 at 7:34 pm #
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Re: Re: Obama Secret Society Ties

No, many of them are porch masons. Rangel, Sharpton, Jackson and Young I suspect of being mobbed up. I’ll get to that later if you are curious.

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By Douglas Chalmers, February 13 at 5:51 pm #
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News flash - McCain endorses Obama! So BO must be a good Neocon Republican after all.......

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