John McCain and his 527 pals

Two of John McCain's campaign co-chairs, Senators Lindsay Graham and Joe Lieberman, turn out to be advisers to an anti-Obama 527. There's nothing illegal about this, but it does violate McCain's stated policy of not not having members of his campaign team also work with 527s involved in the presidential campaign.

It should be fun to torment him over this inconsistency, but the thing that really caught my attention was the ad itself. It closes with a loaded rhetorical question: "If Barack Obama won't listen to us, who will he listen to?" Nothing surprising about that kind of attack coming from the GOP, but the funny thing is that John McCain is the one listening to terrorists and quoting them on the campaign trail. For example:

General Petraeus is correct when he says that the central battle ground in the struggle against Al Qaeda is Iraq and Osama Bin Laden just confirmed that. So General Petraeus and I and Osama Bin Laden are in agreement. It is hard to understand why Senator Clinton and Senator Obama do not understand that. I don’t know if its naïveté or what the problem is, but it’s obvious that they are dead wrong.

Can you imagine if Barack Obama had said he agreed with bin Laden on something, especially if he then used it in a political attack against McCain? It's amazing what the press let's Teflon John get away with.