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To: ig who wrote (17301)	4/12/2008 6:26:28 AM
From: zeta1961	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

You've got an excellent point..but Sam Stein is not a tabloid, supermarket journalist...I don't know him to be pedaling gratuitous hit pieces on the candidates during this primary season...it was part of my consideration for posting that piece.. As I said in my previous post, McCain clarified the anger issue with fellow congressman that was revealed in the same book and didn't touch this one...which tells me something.. You'll note there was no McCain hate or otherwise negativity following my post....unlike the obsession with Obama-hate on the PfP thread...

To: ig who wrote (17301)	4/12/2008 8:59:13 AM
From: zeta1961	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Your coming over here giving us/me a bad mark for posting that McCain piece would be taken with more affability on my part if you'd at least once come over to acknowledge the civility on this thread re: McCain(17K+ posts)...as it is, it makes you appear that you're just standing by lurking and ready to pounce on anyone who posts something that sheds a negative light on him...leaves a funky taste.............

To: ig who wrote (17301)	4/12/2008 9:36:08 AM
From: zeta1961	Respond to of 149317

McCain Attacked Soros-Funded Dem Effort -- But Soros Gave $300,000 For Legal Defense Of McCain-Feingold By Greg Sargent - April 11, 2008, 3:13PM Okay, this McCain-Soros story just keeps on giving. McCain sent out a fundraising letter yesterday attacking a planned third-party Dem effort because it's being funded by George Soros, a reliable villain for many on the right. But as I reported below, a group that McCain co-chaired also was perfectly happy to benefit from Soros' generosity. The group, a good-government outfit called the Reform Institute, received $150,000 from Soros in 2003 -- when McCain was its honorary co-chair and McCain's current campaign manager (the same guy who signed yesterday's fund-raising letter) was its president. But it gets still better. I've now learned that in 2002, Soros' charitable foundation, the Open Society Institute, gave $300,000 in grants to various groups that were defending the Arizona senator's campaign finance law against legal challenges to it. An OSI spokesperson, Laura Silber, confirms to me that Soros' foundation gave $300,000 to the Brennan Center specifically for use defending McCain-Feingold. Brennan subsequently distributed that sum to various groups fighting on behalf of the McCain-sponsored law. So by my count, Soros has contributed a total of $450,000 either to a group co-chaired by McCain or to defending McCain's pet legislation. There was nothing wrong with Soros' money then, presumably. Yet now the McCain campaign is attacking a fledgling Dem effort because it's taking money from...Soros. tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com