Actually the worst part about this is the lobbying part. Think about it. A lobbyist as head of the transition team? No potential of abuse or influence peddling there is there?

C'mon! This is just another example of lib'rul false equivalency to counter the Ayers stuff. Besides, Saddam is dead. Why are democrats always focused on the past? Ayers is still alive!

I think the question of Obama's relationship with Mr. Ayers just fell of the table for Wednesday night.

Obama's ethics agreement is a marked contrast.

And considering how Bush sold the Iraq war, working for Saddam's government pretty much translates for people as "working for Satan's government."

Yikes - what's that creaky, prying sound I hear? Oh, it's the widening enthusiasm gap.

The wingnuts may own a.m. radio, but the intertubes are OURS. This just proves it.

If liberals can be believed, Saddam Hussein never plotted against America, so why the sudden shock outrage?

Bill Ayers however did plot against America, and not even liberals deny that.

Timmons? a decent man being smeared.

"I wonder what the response would be from the political world in general, and Republicans in specific, if a top Obama campaign aide was associated with lobbying on behalf of Saddam Hussein."

Exactly! Substitute any number of questionable Repug activities, (_________) fill in yer own fav and Faux news would be clutching the beads and fainting on the couch.

Faux news is poisoning the minds of Americans. For example , I have an MBA CPA for a boss who said I had better be carefull who I vote for because of who that Obama fellow associates with. I asked what station she watched and she said FOX. I can confirm as the other day in the gym where they have all the major networks on the tee vees side by side. Where the others like CNN were covering multiple stories Faux , I swear went on for 1/2 hour about Ayers. They are the ones responsible for those shout outs at the rallys

LOL. Want some cheese with that whine? You were the ones who wanted to play the guilt by association game. As Obama said, we won't throw the first punch, but we'll damn sure throw the last. Enjoy it.

If Joe Biden's wife was involved with a Delaware Independent Party (doesn't exist) and Obama had hired Timmons to run his transition team, the race would be over.

The talk of being unpatriotic and hypocritical would drown everything else.

Funny how it ain't so with John and Sarah, rather not so funny, almost scary!

You see, Obama's associates are palling around with the worst sort of Axis of Evil terrorists who want to bring down America...
Wait, this was *McCain's* aide?

Say... isn't Saddam Hussein a TERRIST!? Oh, wait. He WAS a terrist before we killed him. For being a TERRIST!!

Except, as Murray Waas reports today, we're talking about a McCain campaign aide.

That's easy:

[crickets]

Al, Al, Al: You really have to do better than that my friend. Lobbying on behalf of the enemy . . . you really want to defend that? No matter how tightly you squint your eyes Obama was never, not directly, not indirectly, in any way, shape or form tied to Ayers' terrorist activities. For once play this one straight. McCain did a terrible job of vetting this guy. Just like with Palin.

I always wondered why Obama's team leaked their ethics agreement in the context of their discussion about their transition team. I guess now we know.

Wait, is Al serious, or is he parodying the Republicans? I honestly can't tell.

I predict that this story will get NO coverage from the corporate media, which is far too busy whipping up hysteria about the fake, phony accusations of "voter fraud" against ACORN and Obama's troubling "association" with Bill Ayers.

Sorry, folks. The mission of the corporate media is to advance the economic interests of its ultra-rich owners through propaganda, and that means character assassination of Obama and glorification of John McCain who has promised to give the giant media corporations $1.44 BILLION in tax cuts, plus millions more in individual tax cuts for their ultra-rich CEOs, plus further deregulation of media ownership so they can gobble up the few remaining independent TV and radio stations and networks.

This information doesn't help to advance that agenda. So it will be buried, just like the Alaska legislature's report finding that Sarah Palin abused her power, violated the public trust and broke state law.

Yup, and the double standard continues. McCain could have man sex with Osama Bin Laden, and it wouldn't matter, but if Obama accidentally wears the color red, he is suddenly a islamo-pinko-whatever.

Liberal media my butt.

Yup, and the double standard continues. McCain could have man sex with Osama Bin Laden, and it wouldn't matter, . . .Posted by: BombIranForChrist

Not entirely true. If McCain got knocked-up but didn't want the baby . . . I'm just saying.

That's John HUSSEIN McCain! Kinda catchy.

Honest mistake.

Barack Hussein Obama is whompin' McSame good, McCain brought this aide on because he kept hearing they were related somehow.

and anyone associating with tongsun park is guilty of knowingly associating with a grafter/criminal.

the more interesting sty would be, was the rev. moon also a party to this conspiracy?

This was planned by McCain.

"Now we've really got 'em where we want 'em!"

Tongsun Park played a leading role in the Koreagate bribery scandal of the 1970s.

According to Wikipedia, Park testified under immunity before a congressional hearing in 1978, and confessed to distributing cash to dozens of congressmen in an effort to influence U.S. policy towards South Korea:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koreagate

Incidentally, Park has just been paroled from a five-year prison term imposed for his role in the oil-for-food scam:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongsun_Park

Obama's guys have one day to get him prepped on all this.

Of course Republicans have a long history of supporting Saddam Hussein. There's that famous photograph of Donald Rumsfeld shaking hands with Hussein in 1984.

We always need to remember that Reagan and Bush I actively sought to supply Hussein with arms for many years, right up until he invaded Kuwait. Hussein had been a Soviet client and the Republicans thought he represented a twofer -- a counter to Iran and a wedge in the Soviet bloc. The brilliant foreign policy strategist Ronald Reagan even approved giving Hussein chemical weapons technology.

Lobbying the US government on behalf of Hussein after he invaded Kuwait is simply unconscionable for an American. McCain has assembled a brazen and cynical cast of professional operatives on his campaign, giving no thought to policy integrity or consistency. He will pay a price for his "party loyalty above all else" approach to managing.