Distorting the DHL Deal

I can't believe anyone in Ohio would buy this story. McCain is a senator. What in the world would he have to do with what companies decide to do for their bottom line? I think the next Obama ad he is going to blame McCain for the disappearance of the Montauk monster. Throw chandra Levy in there and a few unsolved murders and I think Obama may be on to something.

You say at the beginning that the ads were false. Then in the very next paragraph, you concede that McCain did in fact oppose an ammendment that would have saved jobs. It doesn't matter if McCain didn't mean to do it, his job is to have a keen sense of foresight, and he failed in this case. That's exactly what we can expect from him as President, which is just one more reason (out of a billion) that we must not elect him. He belongs in a museum, not the White House.

To be fair did you fact check also the Mc Hitler Ad on tax ?

You have got to be kidding me.

McCain constantly lies and distorts Obamas record and policies with little to nothing from the MSM. And now this?

What absolute and blatant bias.

You have got to be kidding me.

McCain constantly lies and distorts Obamas record and policies with little to nothing from the MSM. And now this?

What absolute and blatant bias.

i guess obama is just trying to put a little humor in the election

Obama bundlers include the billionaire casino developer who plans to put a slot parlor in Philadelphia; Obama has decried gambling for its steep "moral and social cost" - but voted in favor of a gambling operation by the same developer in Illinois.

On Nov. 14, 1997, he backed legislation to permit riverboat casinos to operate even when the boats were dockside. The measure, pushed by the gambling industry and fought by church groups whose support Obama was seeking, passed with two "yeas" to spare -- including Obama's. He wasn't exactly up front with his constituency, telling a church group on a 1998 campaign questionnaire that he was "undecided" about whether he backed an expansion of riverboat gambling. The senator who led the opposition to the gambling measure, Republican Todd Sieben, said "He was obviously paying attention to this vote. It was a major, major issue in the state, and it was a long debate," Sieben said. "The inadvertent 'Oops, I missed the switch' -- I'd be kind of skeptical of that."
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-obamavotes24jan24,0,4956975,full.story?coll=la-home-center





And there is the director of General Dynamics, the military supplier that has seen profits soar since the onset of the Iraq war and that has benefited from at least one Obama earmark.

Despite His Claim that He Fought to Expose Abramoff, McCain Relies on Abramoff-Linked Advisors and Fundraisers



WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- This week John McCain has stayed busy trying to escape his ties to criminal lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his shady lobbyist colleagues, including Randy Scheunemann and Ralph Reed. The McCain campaign has been trying to gloss over the details of Scheunemann's swings between lobbying and advising McCain, often on issues of interest to recent clients, and attempting to excuse McCain's enlistment of Abramoff crony Reed to raise money. But the McCain campaign can't spin away Scheunemann's shady ties, or his influence on McCain, and they're not having any more success trying to escape the fallout over McCain's refusal to cancel his Monday fundraiser with Reed.



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Scheunemann served as McCain's campaign foreign policy advisor in 2000 and is back in 2008, despite lobbying in the interim. Until May, Scheunemann was lobbying for Georgia - earning more than $800,000 in the process - yet now in August, he's advising McCain on the conflict between Georgia and Russia. Scheunemann's other notable lobbying stints include putting his McCain ties to use in 2006 advising Greenberg Traurig, Jack Abramoff's former firm, as McCain served as chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, charged with investigating Abramoff.



McCain has also enlisted Abramoff crony Ralph Reed to raise money for his campaign. Abramoff directed at least $4.2 million to Reed as he defrauded his clients, yet as chair, McCain never called Reed to testify before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs during the Abramoff investigation. Now Reed's helping McCain fundraise, sending emails with the subject line "special invitation from Ralph Reed" to recruit donors to join him at McCain's Monday fundraiser in Atlanta - and McCain is ignoring calls from nonpartisan watchdog groups to cancel the fundraiser.



Scheunemann and Reed are only two of the cast of McCain advisors and fundraisers who prove how deeply McCain embedded McCain is in the Republican culture of corruption - and just how clear it is that McCain means more of the same old politics.

Double minded people will always vote for the Son of Cain who killed his brother, at least church going people know who Cain is, can't even raise his hands up to praise the Lord, he might seem to be a nice guy but don't trust him, Able did.

John McCain's top foreign policy adviser lobbied the Arizona senator's staff on behalf of the republic of Georgia while he was working for the campaign, public records show.

Randy Scheunemann, founder of Orion Strategies, represented the governments of Macedonia, Georgia and Taiwan between 2003 and March 1, according to the firm's filings with the Justice Department. In its latest semiannual report, the firm disclosed that Scheunemann had a phone conversation in November about Georgia with Richard Fontaine, an aide in McCain's Senate office.

Orion Strategies earned $540,000 from its foreign clients over the year ending on Dec. 1, reports show. Scheunemann also received $56,250 last year from March to July from McCain, according to campaign finance records.

It is strange that this is happening at this particular time and place,.... or is it?

I work at DHL in Northern Kentucky, about an hour south of the facility that "may" be shut down. I work with the Wilmington Hub on a daily basis. The contract has not been signed and they haven't been told when they will be let go. There is a lot of speculation and rumors, but not a lot of facts. They are leaving out the fact that 2 years ago 1000 employees were let go when DHL moved to Wilmington. They are also leaving out the fact that if the contract is signed, 1000's of jobs will be available in Lousiville KY. Wilmington claims that DHL was nothing before the Hub move was complete which is completely false. This all comes down to the money that city of Wilmington received from DHL, do they really care about the workers? Stop crying Wilmington and find another job, there is a new GE plant opening that you can work at. I much rather have DHL sacrifice the 8000 in Ohio than the 40,000 nationwide. I was a Obama supporter until now, I now see that he does not speak the truth. Go McCain.