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  • Posted By: Destiny1028 @ 09/25/2008 12:31:50 AM

    More LIES and Deception form the Mc SAME campaign. McSAME do you think we are going to buy into your latest shenanigans(your attempt to cancel the debates)? We are NOT stupid. We already know what you are all about. And we're sending you back to Arizona and Sarah "Clueless" Palin back to Alaska.

  • Posted By: paddlerguy @ 09/24/2008 10:37:30 PM

    Morning Joe says "no one cares about this issue" and condemns the messenger...then Newsweek comes up with this part of the story. Joe, your responses to this sound like the responses of Nixon supporters as the Watergate story unfolded. Come on, Joe, let's have a little less partisanship and a little more honest reporting.

    • Posted By: ProFromOregon @ 09/24/2008 11:59:52 PM

      I just recently got a large enough cable package to see Morning Joe, and WOW have I been amazed at the absurdity of Morning Joe. If this MSNBC show was the next step of his career, he must have one heck of an underwhelming Congressional career. Was he one-term wonder?

      Something that has surprised me as I've wandered the 'dial' and watched shows I've only heard of before, like Dobbs, Beck & Blitzer is the nuggets of great information and guests. Things I've only read in The Nation or the Internet, or heard about on Air America or Nova M radio.

      It's surprised me that these Failure Party sycophants are actually concerned about the same things as the progressives or liberals. What breaks it all down immediately afterward is their completely inaccurate and totally ideological rants about the issue being the fault of either the poor, or the needy, or the infirm, or immigrants, or unions, or the catch all group: liberals. It almost makes you believe that if you could have an honest dialogue with some of these wing nuts you might be able to find some common ground about the very real issues they present and then proceed to twist and distort in a partisan attack on their 'enemies'.

      But, I'm sure I'm just be hopeful.

      It's still entertaining to watch the author or contributor's face while the host perverts the message; some of them just don't have much of a poker face.

  • Posted By: AntonBursch @ 09/24/2008 11:53:03 PM

    Ya'll haven't watched Maverick if you thought that McCain being a Maverick meant that he was anything but a con man.

  • Posted By: ProFromOregon @ 09/24/2008 11:43:23 PM

    I heard the term "influence peddling" this afternoon on several different channels from several different people. It's a term I haven't heard since my youth - I'm glad to hear it brought up in reference to Davis, maybe there will be more than just words about this scumbag.

    When this story first started picking up steam yesterday, one of the first points I wondered about was if Davis has ownership shares in Davis-Manafort. If he does, then the $15,000 salary he was receiving until recently is only PART of his financial gain from a relationship with Freddie and Fannie. The FIRM he holds an ownership part in will increase in 'equity' value as a corporation, thereby continuing to financially remunerate Davis.

    I rememeber a time when politicians held THEMSELVES to a high enough standard of ethics that merely taking money from an entity that could benefit the recipient's relationship to a member of Congress WAS considered unethical.

    The 'new breed' members of the Failure party now claim it's only if the payoff can be tied directly to performing specific duties continually giving wriggle room to 'influence peddlers'.

    Unless we, as voters, starting holding politicians to some level of ethics and morals, our country will continue to devolve until our children and grandchildren find themselves in a second civil war attempting to recliam democracy for the people.

    I was once taught "it takes the village to raise a child." I now believe it will take the nation to save our country.
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    "The Failure Party": bringing you lies, hypocrisy, deceit and failure since 1972.

    "If it wasn't for lies, there'd be no Palin, or GOP, at all"

  • Posted By: Jess Wonderin @ 09/24/2008 11:33:48 PM

    Guess the TRUTH never is an option for McCain . . . . disgusting . . . proves not all panders are in Chinese Zoos.

  • Posted By: SteveKelson @ 09/24/2008 11:20:13 PM

    Seems like a Rick Davis and a McCain have been 'dirty dancing' for many years.
    Here's a $200,000 table dance they made on behalf of the Cable TV industry
    High Five!

    http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/004010.php
    March 8, 2005
    Mr. Clean?
    Cablevision made two $100,000 donations to The Reform Institute in 2003 and 2004. The Reform Institute employs Rick Davis, who also works on McCain's staff as his chief political advisor, and they pay him $110,000 per year. The Reform Institute has often supported McCain, paid for events highlighting him and his agenda, presumably including campaign finance reform.

  • Posted By: Beth in VA @ 09/24/2008 11:14:31 PM

    The hypocrisy of the McCain campaign is astounding. They air ads criticizing Obama for tangential connections to these companies as if Obama is horrible. Then McCain tells falsehoods about his own CAMPAIGN MANAGER--whose firm was being paid for "access" to McCain just last month! How the McCain supporters justify this is shear denial of reality and basic morals about truth and honesty.

  • Posted By: SteveKelson @ 09/24/2008 11:11:45 PM

    Seems like a Rick Davis and a McCain have been 'dirty dancing' for many years.
    Here's a $200,000 table dance they made on behalf of the Cable TV industry
    High Five!

    http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/004010.php
    March 8, 2005
    Mr. Clean?
    Cablevision made two $100,000 donations to The Reform Institute in 2003 and 2004. The Reform Institute employs Rick Davis, who also works on McCain's staff as his chief political advisor, and they pay him $110,000 per year. The Reform Institute has often supported McCain, paid for events highlighting him and his agenda, presumably including campaign finance reform.
    Quite frankly, this stinks. Here we have a man who has done more harm to the First Amendment as anyone in the past generation, all the while scolding us on coordination of electoral efforts, and he's playing a shell game with Cablevision in order to gin up indirect payments to his staff. Davis claims that McCain didn't solicit the donations, but Davis did; according to his own account, he sought out the donation from Cablevision after hearing that they might be interested in funding The Reform Institute. Coincidentally, McCain starts writing letters and making phone calls on behalf of Cablevision shortly after the first installment gets cashed by Davis and the Reform Institute. Under the BCRA, this kind of activity would easily qualify as coordination if they had pulled off this stunt during an election. It may still qualify as a conflict of interest under federal law, and possibly an illegal campaign contribution.

  • Posted By: sharpie @ 09/24/2008 10:42:03 PM

    McCain is a fraud. They will say anything, tell lie after lie and the republican base will believe it. The american electorate needs to wake up, the country cannot afford 4 more years of incompetence. Republicans have proven over the last eight years that they are incapable of running the government. They ran it right into the ground.

  • Posted By: ThinkingBeing @ 09/24/2008 10:39:38 PM

    "Davis's firm has been paid a $15,000-a-month consulting fee from Freddie Mac.....neither Davis nor anybody else at his firm did any substantial work for the payments." The firm that Davis supposedly hasn't been involved with since 2006 except now it turns out he has. And Davis is McCain's campaign manager? Are you kidding me?!?!?!

  • Posted By: sharpie @ 09/24/2008 10:37:49 PM

    mcCain the maverick is a fraud. He is no different than any other republican. They think if they say the lie enough times people will believe it. Unfortunately,the republican base believes anything that's fed to them by their party. The lies just keep on coming. I wish the American electorate would wake the hell up. This country is in deep trouble.We can not afford to have another republican liar in chief.

  • Posted By: sharpie @ 09/24/2008 10:36:20 PM

    mcCain the maverick is a fraud. He is no different than any other republican. They think if they say the lie enough times people will believe it. Unfortunately,the republican base believes anything that's fed to them by their party. The lies just keep on coming. I wish the American electorate would wake the hell up. This country is in deep trouble.We can not afford to have another republican liar in chief.

  • Posted By: tiredoflies @ 09/24/2008 10:08:08 PM

    McCain campaign chief Rick Davis said when talking about ads against Obama, and I quote, " It does not matter if it is true as long as it works."

    Any wonder why McCain LIES OVER AND OVER AGAIN IN HIS ADS?

  • Posted By: sharkman @ 09/24/2008 9:39:15 PM

    War hero,turned traightor,ha ha All the real heros'hit the ground fighting not throwing down their guns to become prisoners.

  • Posted By: ravenwing @ 09/24/2008 8:18:22 PM

    Lies, Lies, Lies. That seems to be all the McCain crew is capable of.

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