John McCain and the real reason Joe Lieberman loves him so

They both love the gambling money, especially when it comes from the 3rd Richest (but only 9th craziest) person in America:

Sheldon Adelson, the gaming multibillionaire, accompanied a group of Republican donors to the White House to meet with George W. Bush. They wanted to talk to the President about Israel. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was organizing a major conference in the United States, in an effort to re-start the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, and her initiative had provoked consternation among many rightward-leaning American Jews and their Christian evangelical allies.

Ah, images straight out of Charlie Wilson's War...except it's all true.

Adelson, who is seventy-four, owns two of Las Vegas’s giant casino resorts, the Venetian and the Palazzo, and is the third-richest person in the United States, according to Forbes. He is fiercely opposed to a two-state solution; and he had contributed so generously to Bush’s reëlection campaign that he qualified as a Bush Pioneer.

But former AIPAC employee Wolf Blitzer tells me that McCain says Obama's an elitist without comment? How could that be?

Adelson has long preferred a low profile in many of his political activities. But one of his maneuvers did appear in the press. He has been a generous donor to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, the dominant lobby of American Jewry regarding U.S. policy toward Israel. Since the nineties, Adelson has helped underwrite many congressional trips to Israel, sponsored by an AIPAC educational affiliate. (Adelson pays only for Republican members.) Last year, he contributed funds for a lavish new office building in Washington, D.C., for the organization.

It's getting more awesome!

Read all the more about Mr. Adelson and how he is now a strong supporter and donor to "the Maverick" who is straight-shootin' his way into perpetuating all the bad policies of George Bush as brand spankin' new and that somehow our media, with rare exception, pretends not to notice:

Republican consultant Sig Rogich, another longtime McCain supporter, who has also worked for Adelson...Rogich said that McCain had been “cementing his relationship with Adelson further,” and added, “All I’ve tried to do is make sure the two communicate well, and that he understands the passion John McCain has for the issues that are so important to Sheldon Adelson—first and foremost, Israel.”

But again, Barack Obama is allegedly an "elitist"; make that "just another politician", no, make that "not an agent of change", etc.