Consider all of McCain's and Palin's past ties to anti-Semites, this is especially telling.
A few months after the group mocked Jews' "crocodile tears" over the Holocaust never happening again, McCain attends group's dinner.
McCain is a brash, arrogant, hot head. He likes to be his own man, and doesn't subscribe to the mainstream's standards of decency, respect for civil and human rights. That's why he voted against the Martin Luther King holiday. That's why he attended this despicable organization's dinner only months after it mocked Jews over the Holocaust. And that's why he lied about disassociating himself from this group in 1984, when he did no such thing.
There's a larger pattern emerging here of McCain as someone who is reckless and always looking to pick a fight - and as someone who likes to surround himself with people who pick fights first, and talk later. He's a gambler at heart, a playboy really, and all that it entails. And while the playboy/gambler/hot head is fun for the movies, it's dangerous in a president taking over during dangerous times. This isn't a Clint Eastwood movie.
From TPM Election Central:
In a much discussed story, the Associated Press reported today that John McCain served in the mid-1980s on the advisory board of a right-wing group called the Council for World Freedom, which has been controversial because of the group's aid to the Nicaraguan Contras and the presence of anti-Semites in its ranks.
Now we've gotten a hold of another fun little nugget that shows how whacked out this group really is: A newsletter from the group from July 1985 that lashed out at people who criticized Ronald Reagan for visiting the Bitburg cemetery in Germany, which includes the graves of members of the SS.
The Reagan visit was widely controversial among Jews, but the Council newsletter -- which you can view right here -- was less than charitable towards Reagan's Jewish critics.
"Those misguided souls who accused President Reagan of insensitivity for visiting the German cemetery at Bitburg are wallowing in tears of pity over the past crimes of the Nazi regime which collapsed over 40 years ago," the newsletter said. "They claim they want to keep the memory of the holocaust alive so that it can never happen again."
"Crocodile tears! It is happening again," the newsletter continues, "and again, and again, right now, in the modern world; only the crimes of today are not being perpetrated by the Nazis but by their philosophical and demoniacal soulmates, the communists."
McCain reportedly was still associating with the group a few months later: A States News Service article from October 15, 1985, found via Nexis, confirms that McCain was on hand at a Council awards dinner.
McCain told the AP that he resigned the group's advisory board in 1984, and eventually asked to have his name removed from the letterhead. But the State News Service article places him at a group dinner a year later.
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