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Everyone has shady friends:

John McCain's Friends:

G. Gordon Liddy
Not only did Liddy spend four years in a federal prison for his involvement in the Watergate scandal, but as Chapman notes, he proposed kidnapping anti-war activists during the 1972 Republican National Convention and even planned the murder of an unfriendly newspaper columnist.

Take the Rev. John Hagee for example, whose endorsement McCain has embraced despite his anti-Catholic and fundamentalist views. McCain blatantly solicited Hagee in order to shore up evangelical votes. While Obama has distanced himself from his former pastor's actual statements, the Pope-bashing Hagee endorses McCain solely because he believes the senator's willingness to kill Arabs en masse might jump-start Armageddon and bring back Jesus. Even more hypocritical, in 2000 McCain rejected the Christian right, comparing Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell to Al Sharpton and Louis Farrakhan. In 2008, McCain says of Hagee, "I'm glad to have his endorsement."

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