kelly posted on Oct 09, 2008
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I just finished reading a very interesting article about John McCain in Rolling Stone. There is oh, so much I didn't know about him. Being a bad pilot is the least of it....
The article
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bloc said on Oct 10, 2008....
that's a damning article. -
sheltercrow said on Oct 10, 2008....
I read that article a few days ago and was delighted to see a writer finally doing the right thing by using fact instead of fiction.
In his 2002 book...In his 2002 book, "Worth the Fighting For," John McCain offered this confession -- an acknowledgment of a restless mind: "Although I seem to tolerate introspection better the older I am, there are still too many claims on my attention to permit more than the briefest excursions down the path of self-awareness. When I am no longer busy with politics, and with my own ambitions, I hope to have more time to examine what I have done and failed to do with my career, and why."
A telling observation, or so it seems, and refreshingly candid for a public figure. But the words are not John McCain's. They were written by his longtime aide Mark Salter, McCain's literary alter ego. "Worth the Fighting For," like McCain's other four books, is by "John McCain With Mark Salter," as they all say on their covers. This comment on McCain's disinclination to commit introspection was "my surmise," Salter said in a recent interview in his windowless office at McCain headquarters in Crystal City. -
sheltercrow said on Oct 11, 2008....
The Washington Monthly.A HISTORIC TICKET.... Now that Sarah Palin has been found to have abused her powers, violated state ethics, and lied about it, I did a little digging and found an interesting historical footnote.
The McCain/Palin ticket is the first in American history in which both candidates were found to have violated ethics standards before a national election.
McCain, of course, was admonished by Senate Ethics Committee "for exercising 'poor judgment' for intervening" with federal regulators on behalf of Charles Keating, as part of the infamous Keating Five scandal.
And now McCain's running mate has also been found to have violated state ethics laws and abused the powers of her office, as part of the "Troopergate" scandal.
The nation has had 102 major-party tickets covering 51 presidential elections over more than two centuries. And we've never had a ticket in which both candidates on the same ticket were responsible for ethics violations before a national election. McCain/Palin is the first.
It makes the whole "reform" pitch a little more difficult, doesn't it? -
mixednuts said on Nov 14, 2008....
thanks for sharing the info! -
sheltercrow said on Nov 15, 2008....
Just think what would have happened if McCain had actually become president?
A top executive of Swiss banking giant UBS was indicted Wednesday in a massive tax evasion scheme in which he allegedly helped the bank’s U.S. clients hide $20 billion in assets from the Internal Revenue Service.
UBS doesn't deny that its American clients keep some $18 billion in 19,000 undeclared Swiss accounts—investments that earned UBS about $200 million per year.
John McCain's economic adviser, Phil Gramm, is Vice-Chairman of UBS bank. He was the top choice for the Treasury department.
So obsessed with protecting bankers from government oversight was he that when Clinton tried to place stronger controls on terrorist money laundering, Gramm opposed even that measure as a "totalitarian" incursion.
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kelly said on Nov 15, 2008....
Republicans have a morphology problem. What with talking out of both sides of their mouths for decades they're beginning to look a little deformed. -
sheltercrow said on Nov 15, 2008....
Every republican I have met personally is either a control freak, a greed head, or a sociopath. Spelling and honesty are not their strong suits. And there is always a strong desire to place the tax burden on someone else. Not reduce taxes, whatever the rhetoric may suggest. Taxes have always been a source of income for a true republican. Witness the manipulations that Bush junior engaged in to make his fortune in Texas. All at the expense of the tax payers. -
mixednuts said on Nov 21, 2008....
I just had to read this again!