McCain Gets Money From Terrorist Funders And Arms Traffickers

John McCain is on a trip to Colombia, and he made some comments about the Colombian terrorist group FARC, which he called "one of the worst" terrorist groups, and then baselessly accused Obama of being unwilling to help fight terrorism in Colombia. If you are familiar with McCain, you might know where this is going.

Yes, last week Carl H. Lindner Jr., former CEO of Chaquita Brands International, co-hosted a $25,000-per-person fundraiser for McCain and the Republican Party, which raised about $2 million. In addition to that, Lindner also serves on McCain's Ohio Victory Team.

Now Chaquita, while Linder was CEO, gave millions of dollars to FARC, and later to AUC, a violent right-wing paramilitary group designated a terrorist group by the US. Chaquita, via subsidiary Banadex, also engaged in arms trafficking, and provided 3,000 AK-47 rifles and millions of rounds of ammunition to AUC. AUC was also funded by the drug trade.

So of course, McCain criticizes FARC, and Obama for being "soft on terror", yet McCain gets millions from an event co-hosted by a former CEO who oversaw the funding of FARC and another terrorist organization, and was also involved in illegal arms trafficking. But AUC is also opposed to FARC, so I suppose McCain would list this terrorist group as his "allies" on the "war on terror" that Obama doesn't want to support. Maybe it is because Obama doesn't deal with terrorists, and isn't funded by people who support terrorists.

Oh yes, and Charlie Black, McCain's chief advisor and superlobbyist, lobbied for Chaquita multiple times. And we are supposed to believe McCain doesn't have any conflicts of interest in dealing with these issues? Oh yeah, did I mention that McCain has already used his political power to do favors for Lindner?:

However, in the past, McCain has done favors on Lindner's behalf. Last May, the Washington Post reported that in the late 1990s, McCain "promoted a deal in Arizona's Tonto National Forest involving property part-owned by Great American Life Insurance, a company run by billionaire Carl H. Lindner Jr., a prolific contributor to national political parties and presidential candidates."

Quid pro quo. Quid pro quo.

Why is it that McCain's campaign is run by lobbyists with seedy connections to dictators, terrorists and corporate America, yet the media doesn't seem to care at all, even when he is hypocritically attacking Obama and FARC when he is being funded by terrorist supporters and arms traffickers? Why doesn't the media care? Why do they give McCain a free pass on EVERYTHING? This isn't an isolated incident, this scenario has cropped up over and over again with McCain, and every time no one seems to care.