I think that what is good for the goose is good for the gander. They publically humiliated Bill Clinton not to mention Hill, and talked about impeachment. Why is his name still on the ballad? May be had real sex may be "didn't have real sex" but more than liky he had something inappropiate with Iseman. American people don't have time to find out.
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Feb 21, 2008 | Updated: 11:18 a.m. ET Feb 21, 2008
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They never stopped smiling. On Thursday morning John McCain, with his wife Cindy at his side, strongly denied a romantic relationship with a Washington lobbyist and declared published reports that his top aides had confronted him with concerns about his dealings with the lobbyist as "not true."
Speaking before reporters in a dingy hotel ballroom in Toledo, Ohio, where the senator is campaigning today, McCain described Vicki Iseman, a Washington lobbyist who represented companies with business before the Senate Commerce Committee, which McCain once chaired, as a "friend."
He denied a report in The New York Times that suggested he had done favors for one of Iseman's clients, Paxson Communications, which donated money to McCain's 2000 presidential campaign and allowed him to fly on its corporate jets at a cut rate. His campaign called the article, which the paper had been working on since last fall, a "smear."
"I am very disappointed in the article," McCain said. "It's not true. I have served this nation honorably for more than a half a century … and at no time have I ever done anything that would betray the public trust or make a decision which in any way would not be in the public interest and favor anyone or any organization."
The Times and a follow-up report in the Washington Post quoted anonymous former aides to McCain who said they had urged the senator to stay away from Iseman out of fear that their relationship would hurt his political career. "Some of his top advisers intervened to protect the candidate from himself," the Times reported in Thursday's paper, citing anonymous aides as saying they had sought to block Iseman's access.
John Weaver, a longtime aide to McCain who dramatically split with the senator's campaign last year, told the Times and the Post that he had met with Iseman in 2000 and asked her to stay away from McCain after a "discussion among campaign leadership" about her—a charge that current campaign aides, including Mark Salter, McCain's longest serving aide, strongly deny.
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