Getting to Know Him

This is a non-story as mcuh as the GOP may want to make it a story. If you look at many of McCAin's staffers and campaign managers, many were involved with lobbyists, shady deals and so on. WHat I am trying to sya is that in this day and age, it is impossible to know who is involved in what. I would say a big majority of politicians have had tiews with unsavory candidates. Obama is still the agent of change. Using a well known political figure to help him with the vetting process has nothing to do with changing his message,. HIs message can be achieved once he reaches the presidency, but he needs all the tools and expertise to get there first. Also, Obma did not fire Johnson and I would like the press to stop using that phrase of "under the bus" It is so overused and stupid.

"perfectly legal", yet ostracized by the press. Hmmm. Hopefully he was thrown under the bus in a freshly starched white shirt. Too bad Obama can't wave a finger and get rid of drival drooling writers (press??) like this.

Mr. Fineman: from what I understand Mr. Johson resigned and was NOT fired by Obama as your article suggests "he threw him under the bus". YOU may want to check your facts.

First getting rid of Johnson was not throwing him under the bus. Johnson came by the insiders path and thanks to the greatness of a fair media he simply slipped under the wheels of a little critical review. Maybe the lessons here are twofold;
When you are on top somebody is going to try and pick the stones out of your foundation
& loose stones tend to roll under the wheels wether by a little push or when the time is right Judis getting his.
At least this stone was picked from the "foundation " before it crumbled and brought down much more ruin in its path . As Chaney did ..

Ted Sampley, who fought with US Special Forces in Vietnam and is now a leading campaigner for veterans??? rights, said: I have been following John McCain???s career for nearly 20 years. I know him personally. There is something wrong with this guy and let me tell you what it is ??? deceit.

"When he came home and saw that Carol was not the beauty he left behind, he started running around on her almost right away. Everybody around him knew it. Eventually he met Cindy and she was young and beautiful and very wealthy. At that point McCain just dumped Carol for something he thought was better."


John McCain is the classic opportunist. He's always reaching for attention and glory, he said. After he came home, Carol walked with a limp. So he threw her over for a poster girl with big money from Arizona. And the rest is history.


Ross Perot, a billionaire Texas businessman, and a former presidential candidate, who paid her medical bills all those years ago, now believes that both Carol McCain and the American people have been taken in by a man who is unusually slick and cruel -- even by the standards of modern politics.

Ted Sampley, who fought with US Special Forces in Vietnam and is now a leading campaigner for veterans??? rights, said: I have been following John McCain???s career for nearly 20 years. I know him personally. There is something wrong with this guy and let me tell you what it is ??? deceit.

"When he came home and saw that Carol was not the beauty he left behind, he started running around on her almost right away. Everybody around him knew it. Eventually he met Cindy and she was young and beautiful and very wealthy. At that point McCain just dumped Carol for something he thought was better."


John McCain is the classic opportunist. He's always reaching for attention and glory, he said. After he came home, Carol walked with a limp. So he threw her over for a poster girl with big money from Arizona. And the rest is history.


Ross Perot, a billionaire Texas businessman, and a former presidential candidate, who paid her medical bills all those years ago, now believes that both Carol McCain and the American people have been taken in by a man who is unusually slick and cruel -- even by the standards of modern politics.

Ted Sampley, who fought with US Special Forces in Vietnam and is now a leading campaigner for veterans??? rights, said: I have been following John McCain???s career for nearly 20 years. I know him personally. There is something wrong with this guy and let me tell you what it is ??? deceit.

"When he came home and saw that Carol was not the beauty he left behind, he started running around on her almost right away. Everybody around him knew it. Eventually he met Cindy and she was young and beautiful and very wealthy. At that point McCain just dumped Carol for something he thought was better."


John McCain is the classic opportunist. He's always reaching for attention and glory, he said. After he came home, Carol walked with a limp. So he threw her over for a poster girl with big money from Arizona. And the rest is history.


Ross Perot, a billionaire Texas businessman, and a former presidential candidate, who paid her medical bills all those years ago, now believes that both Carol McCain and the American people have been taken in by a man who is unusually slick and cruel -- even by the standards of modern politics.

It appears that this is the start of the discrediting of Obama that some leaders said would soon happen to him--to relieve him of his candidacy... and to ready ?...

Mr. Fineman,
Since you are pure and perfect, why don't you volunteer to be on the v.p. committee. Your tone implies you know so much more than everyone else in D.C. Your judgemental article says a lot about you, also.
Liz

Gee, reporter guy, You should know this, if you are a reporter. BOTH elections were rip-offs witha capital RIP. I spoke to some Ohioans who were visiting Gettysburg and they said Demos stood in line for hours and then were told they could not vote there, but had to drive across town. That's OK with you. I don't like Willie anymore, but Bush is selling the store downriver. Care to go too?

From the Slate:

The Obama Standard
Barack Obama called out Countrywide by name on the campaign trail during the primaries. He particularly criticized the company's CEO for his excessive compensation and more generally "infecting the economy and helping to create a home foreclosure crisis," which he linked not only to the 2 million who lost their houses but to school districts that couldn't purchase supplies and pay teachers. This is the same CEO who gave Johnson his sweetheart deal. Obama's aides also criticized Clinton's then-campaign strategist, Mark Penn, for giving PR advice to the company.

Now the man Obama has entrusted with what he has called the most important decision of his campaign is wrapped up in Countrywide and tied to the CEO. There are lots of unanswered questions about the Johnson deal, though no evidence as yet that he did anything wrong. But the Obama standard isn't wrongdoing. It's mere connection to the company. By that standard, this is bad news.
Since Obama has just held a national seminar for 16 months on changing politics and shedding the old insider way of doing things, you might expect that he'd take these disclosures seriously, if for no other reason than to show that even when it might hurt him, he's committed to letting the light shine on his associates. Nope???his campaign has called the issue irrelevant. Double bad.

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