McCain Campaign Responds Angrily to Report Questioning Ethics

This is just the tip of the iceberg with McCain…MANY SKELETONS in that musty old closet. Why he’d ever run for president…or anybody would let him…I don’t know. This PROVES he’s crazy. And it proves the GOP is just as incompetent as they’ve proven themselves to be these past twenty years.

wow… obama would have crushed mccain in november with out this story but now obama might pitch a shut out. mccain is just an old cheating warmonger.

Obama looks clean but he isn’t

Here we go..the Liberal press cannot wait to start throwing mud, but heaven forbid Obama be touched…he’s the second coming of Christ…or is that Allah?

If McCain has anger management issues, Obama will be merciless in the debates, just to see if he can get him to blow. Now that will be some fun TV.

Come on! As a disclaimer, I am a Barack Obama support. But, that said: NY Times? !? Come on!! While I can see reporting on the Keating Five business – or rather, dredging it back up – but the lobbyist thing? Come on! You are/were a serious media outlet and this is just sad. Rise above it, everyone. This election is NOT about personal scandals, if they even happened; it’s about healing our country with positive change and bringing all of us HOPE!

Interesting. Apparently this is also a coordinated effort from not only the NY Times rumor mill but from The New Republic.
I predict there will be some blowback from this smear story against The New York Times and The New Republic.

America BICKERS and then goes to bed… I bet this nation would really get somewhere if we could just weed out the superfluous ragging and blind patriotism. There is no innocent party. The Dems DROPPED THE A-BOMB back in the day in what was perhaps the most gruesome and random act of inhumanity ever carried out…. and the GOP have become nothing more than an organized mob who enlists the patriotic rage of the disenfranchised to fuel a military complex that it uses to carry out resource conquests that enrich the BIG backers of their party. BOTH parties have been guilty… but at this point in time, the GOP are at an all time low. I would NOT trust ANYONE from that party for another 2 decades at best. That party MUST change. It has become an extreme right-wing tool who approach international invasions (aka “war”) as casually (and recklessly) as one might approach a bar fight. STAY AWAY FROM THE GOP! Maybe in a decade or two… but right now THEY ARE POISON!

This what the Republicans moral and coservative and family values ? And they want this charecter to be their representative.
Ron Paul will represent the Republicans much better.

This story is the Obama campaign trying to get Mc Cain off his back, and warning him about future ‘swift boat’ attacks. Its done now as he and michelle have made some gaffs, and the last thing he needs is to fight both Clinton and Mc Cain on 2 fronts.
The republican media is doing everything it can to squash it. I suspect there should be a fresh new Rezko story up on fox soon…….

New Yorker: I hate to differ with you about MIchelle Obama being “ALL THAT”!!!!!!! Mrs. Obama for supposedly being a well-educated woman has no “CLASS” at all.
First of all what kind of a FirstLady material would say about the other democratic candidate (Hillary Clinton) that if she wins the nomination she (Mrs; Obama) will not support her. Now there’s a classy answer from a woman whom should try like her husband to keep the democratic party together.
Secondly, she has the nerve to tell the world that Hillary Clinton should clean up her house before she goes out into the world to run for office of the president of the United States.
Thirdly, she’s only now proud to be an AMerican because her husband is running for president.
She is the most arrogant, self=indulging,cocky, bad-mouth candidate’s wife that is running in this election for the title of First Lady.

Yawn.

There’s no question about John McCain’s ethics, he simply doesn’t have any.

Talking about the Keating Five scandal or Cindy McCain’s drug addiction is silly. Its all out in the open. No one has denied it. I’m really sick of the self-righteous Obama’idiots. You’re just lucky that the press has given Obama a total free pass this election cycle and the Far Right loonies hate McCain more than they hate borderline socialist unqualified empty suits like Obama. They (the right wing pundits) see Obama as Jimmy Carter – someone whose incompetence will lead to the second coming of Reagan. Anyway, this article is full of innuendo. No substantial facts. The NY Times should be ashamed of their shoddy journalism. But I shouldn’t be surprised. The liberal press is just doing their little bit to ensure that Obama wins the Presidency this year. Sad.

How ironic that some on the far right are now the ones trying to claim the ‘smear campaign’ might be the machinations of the ‘vast left-wing conspiracy’.
That statement from the McCain camp doesn’t deny it the way Bubba tried to, and the woman in some of the other pictures I’ve seen looks a lot like a younger version of Cindy McCain. So not only is the woman seemingly his ‘type’, given McCain’s history of affairs and favoratism, the circumstantial evidence in the Times article, and the way the story seems to have broke (before the primaries, from a former campaign insider who’s probably now working for a competing campaign) – my gut says he probably did have an affair.
That being said, I’d still vote for him over Hillary if Hillary were to get the nomination. It just doesn’t seem like affairs and insider favoratism are that unusual in politics for it to rule anybody out any more – it certainly doesn’t make him any worse than the Clintons. Like it’s not like he’s ever held himself up as a ‘values voters’ guy the way David Vitter did – barf!

reaganfan and murphy, you are absolutely right. anything they can do to get obama elected they are willing to do. journalistic ethics are history.

As for the timing, it sounds like everybody suspects it favors another candidate – I’m surprised to hear Hillary supporters think it favors Barack, because my first thought was that the NYT was trying to release it now to help Hillary’s poll numbers against a prospective McCain match-up which might affect Barack’s electability advantage.
Conversely McCain supporters and Republicans in general aren’t distinguishing between either Hillary or Obama supporters, they’re just generally lashing out at all of us.
The only one nobody’s pointing the finger at is Huckabee – isn’t he the one with the most to gain out of all the remaining candidates? He’s the ‘values voters’ guy, it’s only the far-right who really cluck their tongue at affairs the unnamed source who was a FORMER McCain campaign staffer is possibly a CURRENT campaign staffer of another Republican, and it’s do or die for his campaign.
Everybody knows the only way to stop an inevitable candidate is to bring them down with a ‘major gaffe’. Hillary tried it with the ‘plaigiarism’ thingie – I think this affair scandal might be Huckabee’s thingie. When the NYT dragged their heels on the article, maybe they released the info to a competing publication to speed up it’s release?

I suspect a “vast right-wing conspiracy” if that’s not being too plagiaristic !

The New York Times lower its’ standards? Ridiculous!! The New York Times has no ethical standards…it is ‘all the news that is fit to slant’.
The Times will not publish any negatives about The Annointed One (Obama), and no positives about a rival. They did it before, and shall do it again. All hail the Annointed One; the Times is waiting for Him to walk up the Potomac to assume His rightful position…

This starts to make Mike Huckabee look pretty attractive, doesn’t it? At least no-one can accuse him of being a Washington insider. I rather like the idea of someone who reformed the economy, infrastructure and schools in a nearly all Democratic state. Then he left with an $800,000,000 surplus after starting with a deficit. In 10+ years he turned the old ways upside down, and didn’t compromise his values to do it. Then he runs campaign on a shoestring budget that has the inside crowd so scared they are putting in an all-out effort to combat him.

I hate to read such NONSENSE….Face it, McCain is OLD and need to retire. For heaven sakes, the man is 71 years old. What can he do for this country except to continue what BUSH started. There is no way this man can run this country after what BUSH did to this country.
Obama is young, fresh, is WELL QUALIFIED, very educated and knows the global economy and changes that are happening to our world……..ALL, please remember that this Presidential election will not only affect the ‘Americans’ but it will affect the whole world. McCain is unfit to talk to anyone except for BUSH, no foreign minister will receive him…..he is a fraud and a waste of time.

jo, you are absolutely right about the jackie o thing. what really gets me is how michelle tries to con people into seeing herself that way, like the pink suit (which she looked horrible in) and the pearls, etc. the obamas are trying to create a myth that they are the black jfk/jackie, but i was around for jfk and jackie. jfk certainly had his womanizing issues, but he was extremely knowledgeable and qualified, unlike obama. and jackie was elegant and dignified, words that will never apply to michelle. her crudeness is kept well hidden by the media, but will eventually come out, and it will be an embarrassment to the country if we are dumb enough to put these two in the white house. i won’t be doing that – i’m a lifelong dem who will be voting repub for the first time in my life.

Does anyone find it unusual that,in the response from McCain camp, there was no attempt to deny the truth of he allegations concerning the woman.

wow, Randle you must be my pychic twin – we typed the same thing at the same time. Yes I do think it was odd!

Question for SamTheCat:
What makes you an Obama supporter? I’m curious about these Republicans for Obama. Especially given his incredibly liberal beliefs when it comes to the big three of the Republican party: Small government/market based solutions, Strong National Security, and Values Issues (e.g., Anti-Abortion, Anti-Gay Marriage). Mitt Romney personifies all those things. Obama is the antithesis of those concepts.

Murphy – I guess I answered your question? I’d just add:
One policy of Obama’s which I like is that he’s going to pass labor standards on China as part of the trade deal. Bill Clinton failed to include labor standards in his China trade deal which allowed China to enter the World Trade Organization. This failure to include labor standards is considered a susbstantial contributor to China’s fast rise – it gave them a competitive advantage and our trade debt with them is growng by the tens of billions each year.
While economists have found that imposing tariffs will hurt both our economies, imposing labor standards will help level the playing field so that our workers will better able to compete and will increase the wages of Chinese workers by as much as 50% so that they will be able to buy more American goods as well.
That’s just one platform of Obama’s that I like – what is you like about Hillary, Murphy?

Time for who ever knows about McCain and Iseman to come forward with pictures! Lets get this out right now!

Thanks for answering my question SamtheCat. For the record, I think Hillary is smart as hell but I wouldn’t vote for her: Too many big government solutions. I’m STILL not sure who to support at this point because I’m a fiscal conservative (I think Romney was the best in that area) and a (somewhat) social liberal (e.g., I don’t care if gays can get married). It sucks to be me. lol

MR – what more can I say . . . if you’re voting for Obama then we’re on the same side.

JJ, I’m a girl but I would guess the men who vote for Obama are men who like a government who respects the man who is willing to give 100% to a job which is going to give 100% back to him, so that he can pay his mortgage and support his family with the dignity he deserves.
McCain’s too busy worrying about Iraqis to care about empowering the American man to be the best he can be!

mr, i beg to differ. mccain is essentially a centrist with the same policies as hillary. he’s having to do some catering to the base to get the repub nomination, but is not at all fascist. and the 100 years thing has been completely twisted and taken out of context. one thing i know is that a president has to have a clue how to do things to get us out of the mess in iraq. hillary has a clue. mccain has a clue. obama has no clue whatsoever. so, despite his words, he will be the least likely to get us out of there quickly and safely. and re making the vietnam stuff irrelevant, that is not the case. going to iraq, like going to vietnam, was a disastrously stupid decision. but the issue now is getting out. the vietnam protests were about getting us out. and mccain can and will get us out, despite the rhetoric. as a practical matter, a democrat will have a much harder time accomplishing that, because we democrats have a reputation as “doves” to use the old word, and that greatly increases the pressure on dem politicians to prove they’re not weak. obama would have that problem. hillary wouldn’t have that problem, because she has established a reputation as a tough cookie. mccain obviously wouldn’t have that problem. and, by the way, voting for obama, who would never have come this far if not for the color of his skin, would make the civil rights stuff irrelevant. remember, mlk spoke of judging people by the content of their character, not the color of their skin. obama has been pushed forward based on the color of his skin, not the content of his character, the antithesis of the civil rights movement.

mr, i give up. if you read what i wrote, you would see that i said it was a disastrous mistake to go into iraq and that the 100 year thing has been twisted. now you call me names (which i have observed to be a prime tactic of obama supporters). i suggest you do some research. but i have no time to spend arguing with those who respond with “how dare you” and “shame on you” types of comments. as my comments clearly illustrate, i’ve got a few years on me, and that means there are only so many left. i intend to use them wisely. bye.

Wasn’t it Bush Jr and Karl Rove that spread the rumor in 2000 that McCain had a secret illegitimate black child…and ruined McCain’s chances in the presidential race? And NOW all you Republicans (who I’m sure voted for the Worst President Ever) are saying THIS is unfair? You people are so hypocritical and phony it makes America PUKE.

Does anyone really believe that any of the dysfunctional hype being pushed here has a shred of argumentative validity to it? That’s American politics for you: We cast votes based on some newspaper blather, then turn the final decision over to the supreme court. Whatever happened to objective news reporting?

My only comment to this is…KEATING FIVE!!!!!!!!!!!
Welcome to the GOP’s raw deal. The Main Stream Media is just waiting to hammer this guy and figuatively beat him to a pulp in the press until November. The premature burial of the POW issue, and 34 alleged propaganda tapes will come out, divorcing his newly paralyzed wife to marry the Navy nurse, all sorts of things before November. Forget November, who knows if he’ll make it to September in Minnesota. This guy might as well be a cardboard stooge to throw tomatoes at for the Main Stream Media. It’s gonna get ugly.

Sapphira Kelly – I hope you are right. McPain would just be another Bush, JR., only worse (if that’s possible??).

John McCain = TITANIC

It’s O’k to write a story that a candidate might have had a affair 10 year ago and their evidence is that some aids thought he was getting to close to a women but have no proof ,,, he also fired these aids last summer but that wouldn’t have anything to do with the story. The NYT holds on to the story for 3 months but that doesn’t bother these people on the blog that NYT are trying to be Kingmakers. But a story about a candidate being addicted to drugs while in college, how dare anyone mention that, it’s someone’s private life.

Another example of the betrayal of the very escence of who we are as human.
Bill, McCain……same

Ya know, I read this story and got I got absolutly nothing from it.

Uh Theodore – McCain has NEVER been associated with the Christian right. In fact he called Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson agents of intolerance several years ago.

If the NYT really wanted to thwart McCain they would have released the story prior to the Florida primary not now.
The paper was about to be outed by the New Republic for sitting on the story while it ENDORSED McCain for president, so the paper blinked.
Its easier to believe the far right is giddy Huckabee now has the “Macaca” moment he has been waiting for.
Blaming the media is a cop out and suggest the electorate that complains is incapable of making up its own mind.
If I remember correctly wasn’t it the liberal NYT that broke Whitewater?

Don’t get this wrong. I follow the articles on NY times, they are all about the Clintons and not Obama.why are you guys drawing Obama into this. The Clintons were the ones endorsed by the NYT, the clintons are the ones falsefully overated on their delegate standing at the moment. Only NYT has done that for the clintons; making Obama look fiecefully tied with HRC.
NYT is sure a shameless paper, however it is not sponsored by Obama. Leave Obama alone. The Clintons are dirty you don’t even want to know. The Peter paul case is opening today, let us wait for the out come. Leave Obama alone.

For those that are missing the point… this story isn’t about McCain’s sex life. Geez, I’d be happy to hear the guy had one, to be honest. What this story IS about is a possible ethical violation. If he had a sexual relationship with this lobbyist, and extended political favors to her… he’s toast. As far as WHY who is happy to see this story come to light… heck,… the list is too long. Any of the Dems, of course. But Huckabee and Romney must be grinning ear to ear, too — ultra conservative Republicans don’t have a feel-good relationship with McCain, as we know. Unless someone comes up with some can’t-deny-it-evidence, I think it’ll all blow over. Too bad. I really can’t stand the guy.

The news media is ramping up to make sure a Republican doesn’t get elected. Hail Obama!

That didn’t take long. Long heralded as a maverick and loved by the mainstream press, McCain now is given a smear treatment by the NYT. I guess he is their guy when McCain breaks ranks with Republicans, but when push come to shove, he is still just an evil Republican. Nice reporting, NYT. But I have to say, with your track record on woefully wrong and inaccurate reports over the last five years, who can believe you now?

John McCain is too old, angry and hypocritical to become President anyway.
Jesi

This guy is calling out Obama about finance issues… PLEASE..
1989, the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association of Irvine, Calif., collapsed. Lincoln””s chairman, Charles H. Keating Jr., was faulted for the thrift””s failure. Keating, however, told the House Banking Committee that the FHLBB and its former chief Edwin J. Gray were pursuing a vendetta against him. Gray testified that several U.S. senators had approached him and requested that he ease off on the Lincoln investigation. It came out that these senators had been beneficiaries of $1.3 million (collective total) in campaign contributions from Keating.
This allegation set off a series of investigations by the California government, the United States Department of Justice, and the Senate Ethics Committee. The ethics committee””s investigation focused on five senators: Alan Cranston (D-CA); Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ); John Glenn (D-OH); John McCain (R-AZ); and Donald W. Riegle, Jr. (D-MI), who became known as the Keating Five.
After months of testimony revealed that all five senators acted improperly to differing degrees, the senators continually said they were following the status quo of campaign funding practices. The only member of the Keating Five still in the U.S. Senate is John McCain…. The man with all the experience…

Who John McCain may or may not have slept with eight years ago is completely irrelavent. Why on earth should any of us care? Were he a Democrat, the Christian right would call for his crucifiction, but he’s a republican, so they will pray for him. Those of you who think this came from the Democrats, think again. Mike Huckabee’s people planted this ididot story. Only his followers would really care. The rest of us should remember the Keating Five scandle. Now that IS important.

so if McCain is a cheat does that mean obama is a drug addict.

What I find interesting about this blog is that so few of you have the courage to use your real names. At the time of our founding, the true patriots would stand in the town square, and discuss their differences openly. Many of you toss your mud, and hide behind a fake name. It’s not only because of the politicians that this country has problems, it’s also because of people like you that tear others down, instead of finding issues we agree on, and working for positive change.

I’ve voted for Democratic candidates since GWB was first elected and I’ll be doing so again. Having said that, I am disgusted with the kind of political smear campaign that is being visited on McCain. The Republicans under Rove and Gingrich perfected this “politics of personal destruction” to an artform. I had hoped this sort of nonsense was over but I see now I was engaging in wishful thinking. Looks like an honorable patriot is being swift boated, yet again. Personally I smell extreme right wing members of his own party behind this.

I just knew that this would get amusing.
Michelle, you can go ahead and pick out curtains for the Lincoln bedroom.

Here we go again!
The New York Times part of the most corrupt institution in America, our mostly liberal MSM wolfpack press comes out in support of their “fellow” Democrats and pals by attacking the GOP nominee.
It”s WAY PAST time for major reforms within America”s “Free Left-Wing Press”.

Patriot2008 posted: Republican presidential candidate John McCain said President Bush should veto a measure that would bar the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods on terror suspects.” and this is what the GOP wants to elect? nothing but a Bush clone.” And just where did you get this crap information from? Remember that McCain endured waterboarding while a POW? I guess not…it truely amazes me at the infantile ignorance of some people when posting something they have no idea about. McCain pushed for outlawing waterboarding as it was nothing short of inhumane torture. Get you story straight, Patriot2008

OOhh !!! Brotherrrrrrrr……Well like the old saying . I have good news and bad news which ones you want to hear first. What’s goes around come’s around that’s the name of the game. UUUHHH ??? Hang in There. Happy New Year.
MC

The unprecedented power and influence that Barack Obama has taken during this campaign will shrink McCain into a dried up amoeba early in the presidential campaign. John McCain can’t even eek out the support of his own party, much less independents, and the full impact of Obama’s tsunami has not yet reached it’s full magnitude. His opponents are just some badly confused hasbeens futally grappling with the true greatness of this man.

I don’t think anyone should be surprised by the information the Liberal Rag New York Times printed. I also thought Robin on the morning show was pushy with her questions. You news people should do your jobs and report the facts, and leave fiction and creative writing to the Hollywood crowd.
Because of those types of attacks by the liberal media, it assures my vote for Honorable John McCain.

I have been wondering when a media outlet would revisit McCain’s involvment in the ‘Keating 5′. It seems to me that an S&L collapse is kind of like a subprime mortgage collapse, so I was surprised that the story had not come back up.

This is just the first skeleton out of a very large closet.

Kitty–Are you nuts? Serving your country does not trump everything! I am an honorably discharged veteran and believe very strongly that this country has seen too many McCains (both democratic and republican). Our future rests with Obama, who, has never served.

A sex scandal? Wow! McCain is really trying to attract the democrat vote! They eat that stuff up! I wouldn’t be surprise to find democrats rallying around him just like they did Bill Clinton.

A ll B out C linton ABC
Your cverage on the McCaain scandal was comical. All All All the anchors could not get the word out fast enough.
The attack on McCain has officially began. Keep us laughing

If the media has evidence that John McCain used his position in the government to grant this woman favors, in exchange for sex, then we should hear about it.
If not, then I really don’t care about affairs. That’s for his wife to be concerned with,& simply, none of my business.
Let’s be very careful about reporting on a politician’s private life. Even FDR fooled around and where would this country be without him ?
I don’t recall any reports that G.W. Bush or Richard Nixon had affairs. Did that make either one of them a good president?

Again we ask, where was NYT when, in real time, Clinton was acting like a high school freshman in the Oval Office? There was pretty of proof then. If a supposed affair 7 years ago is the best NYT can do, the end is near for NYT. Not worth buying!

Lies, lies, lies.

I find this NY Times Smear Article about McCain scary on several levels. First I’m both a lifelong democrat and subscriber to both the Post and Times. And I find myself siding with Republican crazies. But I’m asking questions because I know the Times and Post (have read them religiously for over 30 years) and something is seriously wrong with the quality or lack thereof in their political campaign reporting this season. The editorial page is going front page. News Headlines are looking like Madison Ave Captions. Without a doubt, the Times and The Post along with the big mouth television pundits and light weight network news stars have engaged in an obvious and overt hatchett job against Hillary Clinton. Under the cloak of journalism they have launched a first class propaganda operation that any beginning communications student would recognize. This is textbook propaganda, way beyond unethical and bad journalism. So now the Times is broadening and McCain is their target. I’ll wager in the weeks ahead, especially if Obama is the democratic candidate, that the smear campaign via the media will continue. Let’s stoop so low that we actually resurrect the unsubstantiated indeed subsequently discounted smears that helped knock McCain out in 2000 and elevated Bush Jr to the Presidency So now the question INQUIRING minds might ask –of course, not True Believers, Obamaniacs — WHY? WHO benefits the most from the Hillary smears and now McCain smears?

I do not give a damn about John McCain’s sex life. If he has one at his age, good for him. I will not be voting for him, but it is because of his voting record, his temperament, and the hypocracy of his rhetoric that has come out in this campaign in an attempt to woo the right wing. I liked him much better when he recognized that the Falwell / Robertson crowd were agents of intolerance ..to be kind about it.
So, my message to the media is to stick to the issues, we all now where we can find the tabloids at the grocery store if that is what we want.
Now, as to the loony toons who have degreed that this is an attack orchestrated by the Obama campaign. ON exactly what inside information are you basing your accusation. There is nothing in the Obama history that in any way indicates that this is his style of politics at all. If it is important to you to find out who planted this story, true or not, my guess (and I will admit that that is ALL that it is ) would be to look inside the Republican party right wing (or perhaps to a competing or formally competing candidate).
Last, but not least, I have always got a kick out of the right wings accusation that the media is a far out liberal, left wing socialist leaning group of corporations. Goodness folks, those who CONTROL what comes out of the mouths of the media are ALL multi-millionaire capitalist . . .sure they are likely to be in favor of taking from the rich and giving to the poor. To silly to be taken seriously. How about we all grow up and look at the issues and the character and ability of the candidates to meet the needs of 2008, and make our choices that way.

Garbage!

What Next!?!?!?!?
Can’t we all get along???
Want Dirt? Start sniffing around Hillary’s past for cryin’ out loud!

Do you really think the New York Times is going to risk all for John McCain?…Clinton had an affair but could still lead.

Can anyone possibly be any worse than the present president and his administration?

I was voting for mccain but he aint get my vote anymore I wish I new earlier I could have voted for Huckabee

If you think this is good just waite the media is just getting warmed up on McCain. The Media got him where they wanted him,now their going to destory him.

I don’t even like Old Man McCain, but this kind of smear is inexcusable. Is this the kind of s### we’re going to be subjected to for 9 months?! Ugh!

Interesting that you are talking about Hillary’s changing of her slogan which hasn’t changed – she’s delving deeper into the issues, explaining to people what she can and will do for this country, in detail. Are you a hired Obama internet blogger who is hired to attack Clinton everywhere? Anyway,what’s more important is morals, values – the fact that there is a cover-up going on that glosses over Obama’s history and there isn’t a fair playing field of the candidate’s pasts: we have the drug/sex story about Obama that isn’t getting coverage, but yet McCain is being crucified for this affair with an aide story. And, maybe Obama’s campaign wants it that way to divert focus from Michelle’s anti-American comments from yesterday? I want equal coverage for everyone: and isn’t that what the Obama campaign is all about? Equality?

Busted!!!

Wayne – You’re right up to a point. After Bill Clinton’s sexual relationships with several women and his business relationships with Chinese businessmen and others, the Democrats don’t have a lot of room to talk. All those people are pretty much the same. Like Huey Long, the honest ones admit they’re stealing.
Like you I am much more interested in issues. That’s why I have to support McCain. I really don’t like his position on a lot of issues but he wins my vote by default. Sad but true, I am once again forced to vote for the lesser of evils so to speak.
The place we differ is your assumption that the Republicans are the party of the rich. The two richest men in America are Democrats as well as several other of the super rich. We all know how destitute the Kennedy family is. The Democratic money goes back a long way past Lyndon Johnson who’s in-laws owned Haliburton. A Democrat owned the place, a Republican just worked there.
The Republican Party is the party of the rich and extreme upper middle class. The Democratic party is the party of the obscenely wealthy buying votes from the poor while keeping them poor. No political party really represents the working class and lower middle class to any extent.
As far as liberal media, only two words are necessary for evidence: Dan Rather. There is more evidence but it really isn’t necessary.
I am a proud union member since January 1977, equally proud NRA member longer than that. I am not an evangelical Christian, (those people scare me). I am bi-racial and have many close friend of other races ethnic origins. My union president, NRA president, Tribal Chief nor anyone else owns my vote. I wish more Americans owned their own vote no matter which candidate they support.

Oh, and I have also just withdrawn my membership from the Teamsters.

Although I agree with most critics that the NYT article is very thin on news and sources, it accurately describes the self-righteous McCain whose arrogance allows him to tread where he forbids others. His self-appointed virtue is weak, bordering on delusional. Romney was the ONLY leading Republican without a shade of impropriety in his life. That, “my friends”, is the real reason McCain hates him so much.

I am adamantly disappointed in New York Times for running the “SMEAR” story against McCain. More importantly, NYT’s has lost trust and confidence from a number of people, many family, friends and coworkers that all share my concern for this deliberate attempt to deface McCain. This man is an honorable, honest person that has already prevailed and survived through a traumatic captivity. In addition, he has honestly served his country in several capacities, military, public servant and politician. McCain is a man of integrity and selflessness, he proved this while a POW and persisted to stay while other POWs with seniority/time departed before him…in other words he didn’t allow his “father’s” position to influence him during a dire time of need or work in his favor. Now that’s a great man!
I am outraged by this article and will never read another NY Times again. Bad on the editors for stooping to this level…they should be ASHAMED! In fact, the NY Times has sunk to an all-time new LOW; they can put themselves in the same category as National Enquirer, cause that’s about the quality of their reporting….gossip pages!!!!
Lastly, when I sent this comment to their web site blog, ironically they didn’t post it. How convenient! I see how it is… their staff only posts comments that “fit their agenda”. So there are no antagonistic comments that will “hurt” their reputation because they sort through them! It’s likely they could still be “reviewing” it, but as of now it still hasn’t been posted. Why even review it? They could build a database to eliminate harsh, hateful words consequently, no wasted staff to “review” it. Plus it would reassure their readers that they are being totally fare and impartial! I am even more disappointed in this company. They lost a good customer! More tragically, they hurt the reputation of a good man!
Thank you for your time and attention. I want to spread the word about this disappointment, regarding a reporting agency ONCE trusted and respected.
Most Politely,
J Marie

News media can anger a saint. All the trash they dig up and publish seems to be hearsay. If they could ever just print the facts. They had facts with Bill Clinton but that made no difference. I have lost all respect for news media and most politicians. I haven’t found one that is trust worthy lately.

Mr. McCain, 71, and the lobbyist, Vicki Iseman, 40, both say they never had a romantic relationship.
Hmmm..
Huckabee believes in a miracle..
Will the Republican party defend John McCain?
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Lets see, seems like everyone here is still in high school, taking a rumor with no hard facts and running with it. Can anyone here see that there is a 31 year difference in the two! Get real….

The New York Times must be short on subscribers so it cooks up a story about John McCain and a lobbyist. They sound more like a scandal magazine than the reputable newspaper they should be.

I have more questions for the NYTimes than I do for Senator McCain. This paper just endorsed him. They’ve been working on this story for a few months and apparently held back because they couldn’t get the confirmations they needed. Yet Today, under pressure from the New Republic – which had information it only could have gotten from reporters on the story, it went ahead and published its piece without the confirmation it should have had. It seems that this newspaper was really held hostage by its reporters. How much of that is going on in other media outlets? Where are the experienced editors and publishers? Have they turned over responsibility to young, inexperienced reporters. During this election, I’m fast losing respect for all mainstream media.

1 word
OBAMA
yea baby