McCain’s ‘Free Ride’

You really must be kidding? McCain???s ???Free Ride???? WHAT ABOUT BARACK OBAMA'S Free Ride? He has not had a single negative article written, or been questioned about anything by the media. He is the Media's darling that can do no wrong.

Newsweek lost all credibility as an unbiased news organization long ago. The only people who believe this level of reporting are the loony leftists who get most of their news from the Daily Kos. Since we now have an interview with Clinton political hack Paul Waldman on John McCain, I hope that Newsweek will continue its tradition of fair and balanced reporting by providing Ann Coulters opinion on Barack Obabma. Betcha that happens next week.

In addition to the fact that Newsweek has already caught the McCain camp in a blatant lie with their recent article, I'd urge everyone 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
McCain is the epitome of political corruption, just as he has been since his involvement in the ???Keating Five??? scandal starting back in 1982! Instead of focusing on one misstep made by the NYT, take a moment to instead consider the larger issue of widespread corruption due to our current lobbyist situation in Washington. 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...

You could argue that the currents system is so corrupt that we need an independent in there two drag the Republicans and Democrates back to the will of America and American interest not world interest.

Nader for president. Turn your backs on the party system that isn't even what our country was founded on. In all honesty you could argue it unconstitutional. The constitution dictates that anybody can run for president and I even believe it states further that all names must appear on all ballots. Pretty simplistic given the mess we have today, with two parties waring against each other and dictating election rules.

Are we to believe that McCain is in bed with lobbyists and not Clinton and Obama? Why then did he raise so much less money than each of them did? There are serious reasons why someone might vote for Obama over McCain: universal medical care, the War in Iraq, tax policy. And these issues need to be debated. Why muddy the waters with unbalanced reporting and unsubstantiated charges?

Maybe an easy ride but not a free ride certinally not by the obamanation of scrutiny the press has given to the silver tounged Obama.
Naters the hater of democratic victory will give McCain more of a free ride to the Whitehouse,as he spoiled before he seeks to spoil again, than the press . If it was not for the failure to uphold immergration law and the injustice given by republican judges I would vote for the Cainster

Mc Cain doesn't have a "cozy relationship with the press" as you put it. Mc Cain was loved by the Democratic Party--controlled MSM as long as he was against President George W. Bush and things he wanted to accomplish. When however Mc Cain started to run on his own against a Democrat, he became a persona non grata to the MSM, who want to help get Democrats elected.

Shallow and deceptive. Senator McCain has been a lair and fraud his entire political career. He has loudly decried bills in front of the Media and then voted for the very same bills. His close associate Congressman Rick Renzi is in Federal Court charged with a host of felonies resulting from land deals enabled by bills passed by the Congress that were co-sponsored by Senator McCain (and McCain's campaign pocketed over a million dollars from the grateful profiteers).

The New York Times was on to a valuable story and investigation and then were sidetracked by the wily Bob Bennett (Clinton's criminal lawyer friend and advisor over the Lewinsky matter) with the romance innuendos. It wasn;t romance with lobbyist Ms Iseman that McCain's staffers were worried about, it was the Senator's selling of his office in return for free private planes, vacations, campaign donations and fund-raisers. Thank goodness that Mr. Paxson likes to keep video records of his conversations with Senator McCain and that his diary was not shredded so that he was able to point out that the day after Senator McCain wrote to the FEC ('most inappropriate' according to FEC chairman's stiff response) that he was a guest of honor at a lavish Palm Beach fundraiser for Senator McCain hosted by Ms. Iseman's boss.

Shades of the Keating 5! Is the Media's memory so short? McCain has been selling his office as long as he has been in it.

Paul Wldman,
I find you to be the most shallow of any of the people that you mentioned in this article, including Hillary. Do you really think you will influence voters with this so called interview? McCain isn't the Jeckle & Hyde that your trying to portray him as. Just for arguments sake, could McCain possible be the real deal and like to have transparency on the issues? Could it be that's why he does the open and honest interviews? Could he be the only real conservative candidate that isn't affraid to take on the republican political machine and that's why he appears to be teflon coated? He has always voted his constituants way. It's been a while since I have had a civics or govt. lesson but I think we elect our Senators to do just that for us.

Another non-story story....man, must be a really thin pile of things you have on Mccain for every networks to take a slice from a story that's been around for 8 years. Now all are trying to tie it to the idea that Mccain was so close in proximity with a lobbyist....sitting only a few feet away from her.....hmmmm, and? To put the promximity angle into perspective......was Obama not have regular basketball games and poker games with lobbyiest on a weekly basis when he was in the legislature? In terms of feet, wouldn't that put him in closer proximity then Mccain to this woman? If so, when will the media pull out the measuring stick and begin to total the # of feet each of these candidates have been with a lobbyist and divide it by the # of times and report the averages to us. Can you hear the ridiculousness of this? The sad thing is that most americans are too busy to put food on the table to analyze every aspect of these tabloid stories to get to the truth. The rely on their trust of the media to provide facts and only facts so they can form their judgement. What in the world are you guys in the media doing to the public when you slant and twist and imply such inuendo without much substance? you are doing the public a great disservice and this has been the greatest blunder i've seen in this election. The media as become a dangerious medium for lies and bias with the voters as the biggest victims.

shame on you NYT!!!

NYT is so full of bullshit!!!

I used to consider NYT one of the best newspapers, but right now it is just so full of ***. To NYT reporters: just because you guys are so desperate to get a dem in the white house, doesn't mean you should go out and fight dirty and publishing ridiculous stories about the republicans. john mccain will become president and he will be a great president and all you pitiful S.O.B. 's have totally lost it if you think you can play politics by saying horrendous lies about decent and honourable politicians.

Yes,MaCain is a great war hero and rendered great services to his country.like all the other war heroes of Vietnam,they did their service to their country and we are grateful.However, this doesnot mean MaCain or any veteran HAS MORE RIGHTS to the president of the United States of America over other folks.In the US-constitution, where is stipulated that a war-hero has more right than other citizens???. That is a lot of bull.....Baloney, as Bush said !!!. Fact, well Lincoln, FDR,JFK, Clinton,Bush, etc were not war-heroes but still got elected.Bush got elected above MaCain in 2000!!!.
Cindy MaCain is the worst choice for a first lady.A tight-lipped,humourless beer heiress who,when she opens her mouth,is only trash others better gifted than her.Worst, she is as tainted as MaCain is in her role in the Keating Five Scandal which costed the treasury $3.4 billion in losses.America can afford her or MaCain!!!.
A MaCain presidency will be as disasterous as the Bush presidency. It will be a reign of terror where lobbyists rape the US-treasury with impunity.Given that MaCain is the least substantative candidate in the race,where his poor grasps of even the most basic of economic policy;makes him the least qualified among all the candidates for the economic challenges ahead.What policy plans does he offer.....Nothing!!!!.All he has been parotting from Bush is Bush's tax-cut which he promises as a campaign pledge to make permanent.But was this not the same MaCain who voted twrice against the Bush taxes???.Talk of a FLIP-FLOPPER, MaCain is in a class of his own!!!.What is to make him keep his campaign pledge???.His record on voting for the Bush Taxes........Hahahaha!!!.Who is being duped by MaCain with his straight talk now.Of course, republicans.With his small brain and flip-flopping,democrats will make a honest "liberal" once again!!!.

From a South African's perspective, if McCain is nominated as the Republican nominee it will raise big questions about Bush's tactics in Africa re AFRICOM, for why would the Republicans want to nominate someone who can only see that perpetuating ongoing WAR will be a solution for restoring global peace.

Dr. Ron Paul is the only Republican candidate who will seed, restore and enthuse a worldwide return to TRUSTING America as a global player.

Yes the press gets things wrong. Currently it is Obama! But of course a correction will be made once the MSN has ensconced him in the Oval Office.