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Posted Wednesday, May 21, 2008 1:30 AM

Crooks and Liars: Top McCain aide steps aside, rather than take on Obama

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Last summer, Mark McKinnon, the former chief media adviser to George W. Bush, and now a top aide to John McCain’s presidential campaign, admitted that he liked Barack Obama so much, he didn’t want to work on the campaign running against Obama and he wouldn’t create negative ads against the Illinois senator if he became the Democratic nominee. Of course, that was easy to say at the time. A year ago, McCain’s campaign was in deep trouble, and Obama still seemed like a relative long-shot. Given that we’re talking about a top-tier politico who was Bush’s top media guy, I assumed he’d come up with some excuse to change his mind. I assumed wrong. Chris Cillizza reports that McKinnon actually meant it . Mark McKinnon, the lead media...
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