Comments on: McCain Controversy Grows Legs: Huckabee Seeing Daylight, Works for Deadlocked Convention

By: Al Mascitti

Al Mascitti — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:30:53 +0000

Brilliant addition to the discussion, Art. Now say, “Baaa!”

By: Art Downs

Art Downs — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:22:56 +0000

The NYT has hads its moments of infamy. The lowest point was the pubication of the second-hand lies from the Kremlin forwarded by Walter Duranty. That was worth a Pulitzer.

Then came the lies written by AA pet Jayson Blair and long ignored by the people sho should have been at the other end of his leash.

The NYT has already begun backpedalling after inspiring some GOP unity.

Remember that the NYT is a corporation that is run by a family that holds the few shares of voting stock. The average shareholder has no voice.

The WaPo has a similar arrangement for a few insiders.

So much for self-proclaimed ‘nespapers of record’.

By: Sagacious Steve

Sagacious Steve — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 12:34:09 +0000

Here’s about as good a summary of McCain’s hypocrisy as I can find. And, it’s a cartoon:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/horsey/viewbydate.asp?id=1715

By: Nancy Willing

Nancy Willing — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 21:13:19 +0000

There is a call to “Free Vicki” assuming that she is in captivity somewhere.

The news of a tie-in to swift-boaters isn’t much of a surprise. There is one of the main perps here in Delaware who runs a bank and I have to stare at his smarmy face in his adverts everytime I pick the Business Ledger or Delaware Today.

By: Sagacious Steve

Sagacious Steve — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:30:52 +0000

Rebecca: It ain’t the blogs, it’s the NYTimes. And at the center of it is…Miss Vicki:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/23/us/politics/23lobby.html

BTW, I wonder why we haven’t heard from Vicki Iseman yet. No denial, no parsing of syllables, no nothing.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:47:06 +0000

There’s a story developing on the blogs that ties McCain’s efforts to Sinclair Broadcasting, and we all remember that Sinclair was the major conduit for the Swiftboat attack on Kerry. Oh what tangled webs these Republicans weave.

Essentially Sinclair has been a platform for Republican propaganda for the past eight years and McCain made it all possible.

By: anon

anon — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 15:22:22 +0000

Interesting factoid: The entire Keating Five has endorsed Obama except for Cranston (R.I.P) and McCain.

By: Sagacious Steve

Sagacious Steve — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:05:33 +0000

The lobbyist/corruption does have legs–or will if the MSM does half as good a job as the series of tubes called the internets is doing.

If you doubt me, ask yourself why mortal enemy Grover Norquist is now supporting Mr. Straight Talk. And ask yourself why Greenburg Traurig, Jack Abramoff’s lobbying firm, has given McCain $100K since the scandal.

The answer, my friends (couldn’t resist), is McCain’s slow-walking of the Abramoff investigation. Here’s some meat for those bones:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/2/23/03912/3990/390/462347

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:03:08 +0000

Being charitable Dana, McCain probably did have a senior moment. But I don’t want more senior moments in the White House, we had enough of those with Ronnie.

By: Dana Garrett

Dana Garrett — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 06:43:39 +0000

“McCain recalled not only speaking with Paxton, but the actual dialog of the conversation.”

Maybe McCain had a senior moment the other day.

By: jason330

jason330 — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 03:32:49 +0000

No skeletons on Richard Pryor’s closet.

By: Puzzler

Puzzler — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 03:03:09 +0000

McCain is a very driven guy, and he felt screwed out of the nomination in 2000.

No excuses for him, expecially for the apparent cover-up. But I wonder how many US Senators have NOT engaged in similar things. If the system seems to rot people, we won’t get far by just pointing out how rotten the other party’s people are. We’ll have to fix the system.

Real campaign finance reform would be a good start. But the system appears to be too damn rotten and our society seems too stupid and lazy to care.

We’ll see how this plays out. Personally though, I think if Mike Huckabee is the Repubican presidential candidate this November, Richard Prior could beat him (and he’s dead).

The question is, will the dems do better.

By: jason330

jason330 — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:31:17 +0000

Oh and I liked how McCain quoted Bennett in its first press release as thought he was some kind of nuetral outsider.

By: jason330

jason330 — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:29:27 +0000

We understood that he [McCain] did not speak directly with him [Paxson]. Now it appears he did speak to him. What is the difference?

Can you hear yourself Bob?

I’m starting to think that McCain is a pathological liar,

Yep. Explains why the party shills like him so much.

By: Sagacious Steve

Sagacious Steve — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:21:04 +0000

More proof that McCain lied. Check out this story from the Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/22/AR2008022202634.html?hpid=topnews

My favorite snip from the article:

“McCain attorney Robert Bennett played down the contradiction between the campaign’s written answer and Paxson’s recollection.

“We understood that he [McCain] did not speak directly with him [Paxson]. Now it appears he did speak to him. What is the difference?” Bennett said. “McCain has never denied that Paxson asked for assistance from his office. It doesn’t seem relevant whether the request got to him through Paxson or the staff. His letters to the FCC concerning the matter urged the commission to make up its mind. He did not ask the FCC to approve or deny the application. It’s not that big a deal.”

In the article, ‘Bud’ Paxson says that he met with McCain several times on the issue. And Miss Vicki was with him.

I’m starting to think that McCain is a pathological liar, which indeed would make him the logical successor to Dubya.