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A Hole in McCain’s Defense?

An apparent contradiction in his response to lobbyist story.

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  • Posted By: Madrigal Poet @ 03/01/2008 9:51:16 AM

    McCain said about his dealings with Paxson, "As I said before, I believe that there could possibly be an appearance of corruption because this system has tainted all of us."

    The above statement is cause for major scrutiny of this guy, people. He knows that DC is corrupt, and is using it as an excuse to be corrupt, himself. "Oh, me, oh, my. I'm just a victim of the system." Dang! You'd think he was a liberal or something.

    He can't get his story straight about the lobbyist and Paxson, and his aides obviously do not have any contact with him. They're just making him look worse.

    Vote for Ron Paul!

  • Posted By: vcatarisano @ 02/29/2008 8:02:36 PM

    surprise suprise, nothing but business as ussual from the elite in this country, lets face it , the mcaines, the bushses, the clintons, and all the rest of the ellite dont give a damn about u&i, nothing but about the allmighty doller and corruption

  • Posted By: smartfeller @ 02/27/2008 6:48:05 PM

    Attention Republicans: America has had enough - You take away the civil rights of man just because he is a Democrat (Alabama Governor Don Siegelman), support a $1B a day war for oil, while our nation's inferstructure deteriorates, and live just for the almighty dollar. November can't happen soon enough.

  • Posted By: HolyRoller @ 02/23/2008 7:10:05 PM

    If playing footsie with lobbyists is the left wing loonies attack, then the Senator must be feeling good. 100% of Washington policy-makers have lobbyist relationships. Its natural.

    The economy is currently is in a downward direction, it will rebound. Thats how capitalism works. Its natural.

    The UNNATURAL events of life are what bother me. Like airliners flying into skyscrapers, or poison gas in subways, or trains exploding, or people blowing themselves up. Its UNNATURAL. These millions of people want no less than the destruction of America. They will not stop without being killed first. John McCain understands this. John McCain knows how to win this war. John McCain will win this war as Commander-In-Chief. Mr. Obama on the otherhand is determined to allow our enemy access to opportunity for their mission. To see us dead. The man is a mohammed..THAT IS THE STORY.

    NOBAMA!!!

    • Posted By: ISawYourMommy @ 02/25/2008 12:50:01 AM

      Do you just copy your earlier comments and paste them into new comments? You're a racist pig who, from your various comments, appears to hate everyone but yourself. I hope a few "mohammeds" (and a few "abrahams" and a "gerry" or two). Idiot.

      • Posted By: HolyRoller @ 02/26/2008 6:29:53 PM

        I know what you are. One of those Victimcrates. Cry a river. No don't, you would probably want the Nat'l Guard to rescue you.

        NOBAMA!!!

  • Posted By: dkpk @ 02/26/2008 5:02:23 AM

    John McCain is a good man in a dirty profession. There is always dirt or mistakes in everyones past. I don't think the Times report was completely acurate, but they were using what they felt were reliable sources. It is the job of a free press to put out infromation they have. It is a voters job to review information from as many places as possible before giving their vote to someone running for office. I just hope the folks who complain about a liberal biased press have the same consideration if and when unflattering stories come out about Obama and or Clinton.

  • Posted By: jdoll123 @ 02/26/2008 12:09:02 AM

    typical lying, corrupt, adulterous snake seeking to obtain the highest office in the land and spread and cultivate an empire of deceit and trickery through the country and the world.
    By the way, i recently signed up on S e n i o r Woo.com in hope to meet friends or more on Internet. Is it easy? I am 40+ mature woman. There are some hot pictures under the name KeightyKat there.

  • Posted By: VEGAS7250 @ 02/22/2008 5:51:54 PM

    McCAIN DID HAVE SEX WITH THIS WOMEN, AND DON'T YOU FORGET IT, SAME OLE REPUBLICAN BULL ***, DO YOU WANT THIS FOR THE NEXT FOUR YEARS, I DON'T THINK SO.

    • Posted By: ISawYourMommy @ 02/25/2008 1:11:51 AM

      How can I forget what I never knew? I wasn't there to see him bang her. You're an idiot. There should be a license for computer use and yours should be revoked for life.

    • Posted By: MERSCP @ 02/22/2008 6:13:01 PM

      Left wing nut case. YOu probably weren't against old Bill from getting some

  • Posted By: herb3836 @ 02/22/2008 10:54:30 PM

    My guess is that Mr. McCain probably had a hiden relationship with Ms. Iseman in view of the fact that he cheated on his first wife with his second (or current wife) wife. Maybe this explain why she was giving him that knowing look when they appeared together when he was giving his response to the NYT artical. posted by H Weaver @02/22/2008 Norfolk VA.

    • Posted By: ISawYourMommy @ 02/23/2008 12:27:38 AM

      You could be right. But you're guessing. So is the Times. You and I and other citizens are allowed to guess. Should the media?

      • Posted By: jaydee2 @ 02/23/2008 9:21:38 AM

        A reliable friend of mine recently told me that she witnessed "John" McCain go off with a prostitute in a Las Vegas Casino. She was soliciting someone else at the time and "John" dazzled her with his fame interrupting and said something like "come with me instead, Babe," There's "babes" like that ready to come out and it's going to happen, because he's a serialist philanderer.... according to my friend. We shall see.

        • Posted By: ISawYourMommy @ 02/25/2008 1:03:35 AM

          Even if McCain was inclined to hang out with your hooker friend, it seems rather preposterous that his handlers would let him roam free in a Las Vegas casino. Nice try.

  • Posted By: Suspicious Patriot @ 02/24/2008 10:59:10 PM

    ...is..is...he's just another liar...like Clinton...like Obama...like Romney...all liars....this isn't an election between republicans and dems...left or right...this is the real choice...what anti-American member of the Council on Foreign Relations do you want to vote for, today? It's all one big farce...just like they're "not" building a North American Highway...just like they're "not" developing a new currency (the Amero) to replace the US, Canadian, and Mexican dollars - no folks, we're being scamed, "big time"....left...right...gop...dems...what a joke...next thingk you know...they'll be telling us that are elections are rigged - lol...bought and paid for whores....that's all they are....the wholle lot of them.

    • Posted By: ISawYourMommy @ 02/25/2008 12:58:45 AM

      Let me guess. You're an unemployed male that just recently got kicked out of the local community college.

  • Posted By: gigamick @ 02/23/2008 11:38:16 PM

    For any media types (and everyone else) reading these comments, I'd urge you to read a well-researched analysis of John McCain's (continued) involvement in the Jack Abramoff cover up on the blog DailyKos:
    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/2/23/03912/3990

    It is long, but only because it covers the issue in depth and provides both quotes and links to sources for them. If only a formidable media outlet out there had the fortitude to pick this story up, it would really expose how corrupt McCain really is...

    • Posted By: ISawYourMommy @ 02/25/2008 12:53:55 AM

      By all means, read the Daily Kos. In fact, shut off your television and radio and stop reading the newspapers. All you need, to know everything you need to know, is the Daily Kos.

      Idiot.

  • Posted By: mommasara @ 02/23/2008 10:26:02 PM

    McCan't is an evil person, who would give away govt. secrets even while being a pow with special rights...... he did it to save his sorry ass... and why would the "Songbird" .... after his wife waited the whole time he was a poor (wah) pow waited for him . dump her when she was in an accident and paralyzed? Just to marry a younger not crippled Cindy (i think that's her name right?) He makes me sick and .... As for anyone walking around singing Bomb, Bomb iran in public..... you idiots who think he's great better wake up! He doesn't give a crap about the American people and he sure as h*** doesn't know anything about economics .... He's a wanna be . Now lets mention Ron Paul whom none of you seem to even want to mention...... he's a good man who wants to clean up this mess the Clintons and Bushes have made out of our country......... check him out at .... www.ronpaul2008.com ....... he's the one you all need in office WAKE UP AND FACE REALITY FOR ONCE!

    • Posted By: ISawYourMommy @ 02/25/2008 12:52:12 AM

      How many screennames do you have?

      Paul is a racist crapball. He should crawl back in the hole in which he was born.

  • Posted By: eabg_22 @ 02/23/2008 4:14:16 PM

    Wrong again. This article trys to show the truth behind the biggest political scandal since Socrates. John McCain didn't remember meeting a guy in his office in over 7 years ago. Though he admits he helped Mr. Paxson forward his issue with the FCC, that he seemed to suggest it was through his aids and not directly in conversation makes Watergate looks like a city council blunder and eclipses Bill Clinton's lieing under oath and making his wife defend him while he sorted out the mean of the word "is", tenfold. Shame on you Sen. McCain. You obviously hate your country and would not be able to make good decisions as President. Drop your bid for president, give your delegates to Obama so he can have both nominations and run against himself. He'll need both nominations to become president when Larry Sinclairs story breaks open

    • Posted By: ISawYourMommy @ 02/25/2008 12:46:27 AM

      Now you lost me. Assuming for the moment that McCain is lying, what does his lie ECLIPSE Clinton's lie? Absurd.

      Never mind the fact that if McCain is lying, all that means is this: he did in fact meet with Paxson and, thereafter, prompted the FCC to make a decision without directing FCC as to what that decision should be.

  • Posted By: robust @ 02/23/2008 1:02:05 PM

    ammendment to recently posted comment from robust..John Mccain is a typical lying corrupt, adulterous snkae seeking to obtain the highest office in the land and spread and cultivate an empire of deceit and trickery throughout our country and the world...

    • Posted By: ISawYourMommy @ 02/25/2008 12:38:46 AM

      Thanks for that. I wasn't sure who you were talking about. If made gender-neutral, it seems that the statement is equally applicable to each candidate running for President.

  • Posted By: MChieco @ 02/23/2008 11:38:59 AM

    I think MCcain is a good man. But I beleive what you are seeing is he is not an executive, he by his own admission said "economics are not his strong point, and he would be 72 years old at the start of his Presidency.
    Open you mind to the thought that MCcain can be a good person but a bad President

    • Posted By: ISawYourMommy @ 02/25/2008 12:37:01 AM

      Good President. No one that gets that far in politics is a good person and thus cannot be a good President.

  • Posted By: Quizmos @ 02/23/2008 10:42:51 AM

    Seems that the McCain team is taking a page from Larry Craig here. Craig wants his guilty plea reversed; McCain's team claims that McCain cannot recollects what he previously was able to recollect. Hmmmm.

    • Posted By: ISawYourMommy @ 02/25/2008 12:35:08 AM

      Yeah, hmmmm. I remember what I had for lunch yesterday and if asked to testify about it today, I could. If asked five years from now, I probably won't remember. Hmmm. Idiot.

  • Posted By: KathleenM @ 02/23/2008 5:25:25 AM

    I must agree with Victorazdc - you won't want to miss the extraordinary new detail and facts in this link tonight;
    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/2/23/03912/3990
    McCain has 750,000 Abramoff documents which he has used for political capital/blackmail and personal gain which he has kept from the public, which are not protected by state secret laws, and must be the focus of a journalist with guts to go get them.

    • Posted By: ISawYourMommy @ 02/25/2008 12:30:41 AM

      Yoo-hoo for the Daily Kos. What a joke. Do you people really think you can rely on sources as biased as the Daily Kos or the National Review for unbiased information. No wonder this country is so screwed up: you'll believe anything as long as its in print. Here's something in print: "You're a buffoon." Do you believe that? You should.

  • Posted By: victoria2dc @ 02/23/2008 3:32:08 AM

    There is a LOT more to it than meets the eye. Instead of running for President, we should put this man in jail. Read dengre's diary at DK. He is one of the most capable and thorough investigative bloggers arouond.

    Please read and rec this diary:

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

    Let me know what you think, please!

    • Posted By: ISawYourMommy @ 02/25/2008 12:28:16 AM

      Yeah, let's rely on the Daily Kos for objective journalism. Then, when you're done with the article, pick up the latest copy of The National Review. You'll come away with absolutely zero knowledge, simply two disgustingly biased opinions that purport to report facts.

    • Posted By: KathleenM @ 02/23/2008 5:29:37 AM

      I agree, just added a second link. k

  • Posted By: HolyRoller @ 02/24/2008 6:15:25 PM

    If playing footsie with lobbyists is the left wing loonies attack, then the Senator must be feeling good. 100% of Washington policy-makers have lobbyist relationships. Its natural.

    The economy is currently is in a downward direction, it will rebound. Thats how capitalism works. Its natural.

    The UNNATURAL events of life are what bother me. Like airliners flying into skyscrapers, or poison gas in subways, or trains exploding, or people blowing themselves up. Its UNNATURAL. These millions of people want no less than the destruction of America. They will not stop without being killed first. John McCain understands this. John McCain knows how to win this war. John McCain will win this war as Commander-In-Chief. Mr. Obama on the otherhand is determined to allow our enemy access to opportunity for their mission. To see us dead. The man is a mohammed..THAT IS THE STORY.

    NOBAMA!!!

  • Posted By: ayoss58 @ 02/24/2008 4:44:50 AM

    This new revelation by Newsweek is more definitive and compelling proof that MaCain has been lying all along to the American people!!!. The Myth of a "honorable man" and "straight-Talk Express" hs been fatally exposed and destroyed. How pathetic,he sounds now on the campaign trail.He is lucky Mitt Romney is not around to rub "salt" into his lies.But, just wait when the media is done with him, the democrats will stew him into his lies uptil he seeks true redemption this time around!!!

  • Posted By: gigamick @ 02/23/2008 11:38:52 PM

    For any media types (and anyone else) reading these comments, I'd urge you to read a well-researched analysis of John McCain's (continued) involvement in the Jack Abramoff cover up on the blog DailyKos:
    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/2/23/03912/3990

    It is long, but only because it covers the issue in depth and provides both quotes and links to sources for them. If only a formidable media outlet out there had the fortitude to pick this story up, it would really expose how corrupt McCain really is...

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