So - If Ayres Would Have Gone To Jail.......

[chitty]

Then his relationship, whatever it was, with Obama would have been Okey Dokey.

Basically that's what McCain said on Letterman to justify his relationship with Liddy.

It's OK if you're "palling" around with someone who breaks the law as long as they serve their time in jail.

Does this include all offenders?

Letterman made McCain look like an asshat last night.

[jakem]

1. "have you rehabilitated yourself?"

[yellowcanine]

2. By McCain's reasoning, being convicted of a crime is better than not being convicted of a crime.

Of course being a Republican it is easy to see why he might think that.

[alcibiades_mystery]

3. It would seem that Gordon Liddy is still "unrepentant."

Not to mention that he advocated the murder of federal agents as recently as the mid-1990's. when Professor Ayers was - on the contrary - helping the children of Chicago.