From our "This would be funny if it weren't so scary" dept

You know how John McCain has been trying to convince people that Barack Obama is pals with terrorists?

Well, funny story...that is it would be, if weren't so, etc etc, see post title.

Via TPMMuckraker...

William Timmons, the head of John McCain's transition team, was involved in a lobbying effort on behalf of Saddam Hussein's government in the early 1990s.

Emphasis mine.