You may wish to reconsider your position on a third alternative. It is perhaps the reason we are in the quagmire that we are in. I am reffering to the most famous 3rd choice in american history, the candidacy of H. Ross Perot. He garnered 19% of the popular vote, many of whom were prior Bush I supporters before his infamous “No new taxes” pledge. Had Ross Perot not been on the ballot, I am convinced Bush would have won a 2nd term and we never would have known a Clinton White House. Why is that important? It is common knowledge that Bill Clinton let OBL slip away when he was about to be handed to us on a silver plate by Pakistan. Do you think Bush I would have made that egregious error? I think not. Had Bush been in the White House at that time, he would have taken OBL when the opportunity presented itself, and perhaps we would not be in Afhganistan or Iraq today.
So Fernando although I too would support Gulliani if he is on the GOP ticket, there is no way in hell I would support a 3rd candidate and waste my vote, thus putting Hillary at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. That is exactly what you would be doing. You would be weakening our national defense. If you read the link that HP has put up on McCain, there is one hing that stands out like a sore thumb. John McCain is an ASS KICKER!!!!! I love this dude! He is a man’s man! At least he is honest about his life’s experiences with regard to his carousing and drinking and general hell raising as a young adult. No biggie here, I did the same damn shit. He’s the kinda guy I would have had a hell of a time with partying. So what! who gives a damn really? At least he has the balls to fess up about it, unlike Bill Clinton who “didn’t inhale” and “did ot have sex with that woman”. Give me a damn break! We need guys like John McCain who have integrity and who have been around the block.
S*%& Romney???? I’m disappointed. I think I’d stomach Tancredo better and that’s saying something. Romney is becoming a hypocrite of the first order, and I don’t like his We need more “skilled” (Europe, Asia) immigrants than poor immigrants (Latin America) code wordism.
Fernando, don’t fret - I think Giuliani will be the nominee - too many Italian Americans in the Northeast not to resist “flipping the electoral map”.
I know of McCain, I don’t like his brand of politics “ANYTHING to get into the White House”.
Hillary won’t get elected; she is like McCain “ANYTHING to get into the White House”. Those two make a terrible combination.
As for Romney? I can’t see him getting enough of the Latino vote since he is against illegal immigration. Most of the African American vote will naturally go to the democrats.
Unless the democrats pass Illegal Immigration Reform.
In politics “whether people like it or not”, it is still about “What’s best for my group Mentality”.
With past presidential election race’s being so close now, I don’t think that the democrats want to piss off at least 28% of the African American Community straight off the bat.
It’s STILL a NUMBERS GAME “People”, NEVER FORGET THAT.
WASHINGTON — Gov. Mitt Romney expressed support yesterday for an immigration program that places large numbers of illegal residents on the path toward citizenship, but criticized any form of “amnesty.”
Speaking to reporters after a speech on education reform, Romney also invited outgoing White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, a Holbrook native, to challenge Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., in midterm elections this fall.
Romney’s comments came as the Senate began heated debate on immigration reform. On Monday, the Judiciary Committee approved a controversial bill sponsored by Kennedy and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., that would make 11 million illegal immigrants eligible for citizenship.
“I don’t believe in amnesty,” Romney said, using a word voiced by Republicans to describe widespread forgiveness of illegal residency in the United States.
But at the same time, Romney said illegal immigrants should have a chance to obtain citizenship.
“I don’t believe in rounding up 11 million people and forcing them at gunpoint from our country,” Romney said. “With these 11 million people, let’s have them registered, know who they are. Those who’ve been arrested or convicted of crimes shouldn’t be here; those that are here paying taxes and not taking government benefits should begin a process towards application for citizenship, as they would from their home country.”
The McCain-Kennedy bill would legalize the 11 million immigrants if they demonstrate they’ve paid taxes, can speak English, pass a civics test, pay $2,000 in fees and aren’t criminals.
Massachusetts saw its illegal immigrant population increase from an estimated 55,000 people in 1990 to 200,000 people in 2004, according to a recent report by the Pew Hispanic Center
I’m not saying Romney is the perfect candidate, only that he is better than the rest I have seen so far. But it is still really early, so much can change.
But sometimes you do need that 35% or a little over of the Latino vote just not to throw the fiscal responsibility/low tax/gun rights baby out with the overall conservative bath water. Look at Illinois- the Democrats have the governorship and veto-proof majorities in the state House and Senate. Why you ask? They lost the “Lalo*” vote (successful Latino professional or entrepreneur) in the typically republican chicago suburb collar counties because of all the Latino bashing. Legality is not something you can determine by scent or other distinctive feature and I think a lot of us Pochos felt the wrath unjustly, and responded in kind by holding our nose and voting Democrat. And now look what we’re stuck with - staewide health care, soon to be higher corporate taxes, et al. I like Giuliani’s attitude. (Answer: Mexicans with papers, you figure out the question…).
*Lalo is the founder of Lalos, a chain of Mexican restaurants. Lalo was known for having framed pictures of several Republican pols at his flagship Berwyn IL location.
Can you imagine fighting politically for decades none stop?
“before 9/11″ to get State talking with the FAA,FBI, and not getting it because no one saw on the democrat side a need for it???
You know straight out that Both Parties As well as the Media is watching a Certain web site just to gauge what the democrat Latino’s are thinking???
Can you imagine fighting politically for decades none stop?
“before 9/11″ to get State talking with the FAA,FBI, and not getting it because no one saw on the democrat side a need for it??? Add on top of that being labeled a racist by the democrats, and an extreme far right winger????
You know straight out that Both Parties As well as the Media is watching a Certain web site just to gauge what the democrat Latino’s are thinking???
Guliani was unmitigatingly pro-choice and pro-gay rights as NYC mayor. (He slept in the guest room of a gay-couples apartment after his wife threw him out of Gracie mansion for his extra-marital affairs, a couple he referred to as mom and Dad) Now he seems to be waffling on the issues. What changed no way he wins the Republican nomination if he is pro choice and pro-gays, just as no way he wins the NYC mayors job if he is anti-choice and anti gay-rights.
Lets clear up some myths Calcon is spreading thanks to the right wing hit job ABC put out that disney had to admit was fiction after the people who were there all said they were exagerations and pure lies. here is what really happened.
Clinton bombed Al-quaeda targets in Afghanistan and Sudan in ‘97. It so happened while the Republicans were consumed in getting the President impeached because of the Lewinsky scandal. They all accused him of “wagging the Dog” by creating a war against an enemy and the congress did not take seriously as an attempt to distract them from his legal troubles over the blow job.
[quote comment=”141726″]Lets clear up some myths Calcon is spreading thanks to the right wing hit job ABC put out that disney had to admit was fiction after the people who were there all said they were exagerations and pure lies.
Let’s be clear. ABC and Disney are about as liberal an organization you will find anywhere. This news was just released today:
By Lisa Myers
Senior investigative correspondent
NBC News
Updated: 4:40 p.m. PT March 17, 2004
As the 9/11 commission investigates what Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush might have done to prevent the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, one piece of evidence the commission will examine is a videotape secretly recorded by a CIA plane high above Afghanistan. The tape shows a man believed to Osama bin Laden walking at a known al-Qaida camp.
The question for the 9/11 commission: If the CIA was able to get that close to bin Laden before 9/11, why wasn’t he captured or killed? The videotape has remained secret until now.
In 1998, President Clinton announced, “We will use all the means at our disposal to bring those responsible to justice, no matter what or how long it takes.”
NBC News has obtained, exclusively, extraordinary secret video, shot by the U.S. government. It illustrates an enormous opportunity the Clinton administration had to kill or capture bin Laden. Critics call it a missed opportunity. The tape proves the Clinton administration was aggressively tracking al-Qaida a year before 9/11. But that also raises one enormous question: If the U.S. government had bin Laden and the camps in its sights in real time, why was no action taken against them?
NBC News contacted the three top Clinton national security officials. None would do an on-camera interview.
One Clinton Cabinet official said, looking back, the military should have been more involved, “We did a lot, but we did not see the gathering storm that was out there.”
Well boys and girls, I think that just about sums it up!!
I mistakingly said it was released today. I was confused simply because of the date. I apologize, but the fact remains, that there is clear evidence that Bill Clinton missed an enormous opportunity to strike at Bin Laden and he did not for what appears toe political purposes.
Whoa Calcon don’t pull a muscle with all of these gyrations you are doing here about Osama and Cliton.
How could Pakistan or Sudan have offered Osama up on a silver platter when he was in Afghanistan.
Way to cherry pick that article take out all of the stuff that contradicts your point.
Three paragraphs up from the paragraph you included about anonomous sources is this paragraph.
“In reality, getting bin Laden would have been extraordinarily difficult. He was a moving target deep inside Afghanistan. Most military operations would have been high-risk. What’s more, Clinton was weakened by scandal, and there was no political consensus for bold action, especially with an election weeks away”
That of course was the bogus Lewinsky scandal that Republicans were obsessed with as I pointed out.
Oh yeah ABC is really liberal the network that carries Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity’s radio shows are really liberal.
This was a story reported by NBC, not ABC. In addition the point of the report was that Clinton had the opportunity, but as usual the asshole did not make a decision based on what was morally correct, rather he made a decision based purely on politics. Read the above quote where it states “Clinton was weakened by scandal, and there was no POLITICAL CONSESNSUS FOR BOLD ACTION”.
The reason I left some stuff out Michael is because it was a rather long story. I wanted the reader to get the point of the story without having to paste an entire story.
I live in Canada and want to move to the U.S badly but its so hard i live so close to seattle washington. Who would be a good choice because i have alot of fans in america i can get to vote for them. I want to vote for the person that will allow me easiest access into the U.S Legally. Im thinking Rudy Giuliani or John Mcain let me know what there immigration policy is for canadians thanks.
I live in Canada and want to move to the U.S badly but its so hard i live so close to seattle washington. Who would be a good choice because i have alot of fans in america i can get to vote for them. I want to vote for the person that will allow me easiest access into the U.S Legally. Im thinking Rudy Giuliani or John Mcain let me know what there immigration policy is for canadians thanks.
The REAL McCain - Oi!
Under the guise of “campaign finance reform,” the McCain-Feingold act by Congress repealed large parts of the First Amendment, “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech.” A political party and its candidates should be free to talk about whatever they want!
McCain has undermined the Second Amendment by voting for gunlocks and gun-show background checks.
McCain opposed President Bush’s tax cuts in both 2001 and 2003.
McCain led the infamous “Gang of 14” that fought for an immigration-reform bill containing the much-maligned “amnesty” shortcut to citizenship.
McCain favors Congressional action to reduce global warming.
McCain once called Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell “agents of intolerance.”
McCain grew up Episcopalian, went to an Episcopalian high school andhas been listed as an Episcopalian in 15 years of authoritative directories such as the Almanac of American Politics and Congressional Quarterly’s Politics in America 2008. As recently as June 2007, he told a reporter from McClatchy News Service that he was an Episcopalian. Then, Campainging the heavily Baptist state in September 2007, McCain told a reporter “By the way, I’m not Episcopalian. I’m Baptist.” No baptism in the Baptist church but he’s a Baptist overnight anyway.
So much for his supposed number one strength - honesty!
McCain was one of the congressmen called the “Keating Five” who were investigated on ethics charges for going out of their way to help convicted racketeer Charles Keating. Keating was convicted of racketeering and fraud in both state and federal court after his Lincoln Savings & Loan collapsed, costing the taxpayers $3.4 billion. His original convictions were overturned on technicalities such as jurors hearing about his prior conviction and Judge Lance screwing up jury instructions, so he now faces new trials in both courts. McCain intervened on behalf of Charles Keating. Was it because Keating had given McCain more than $112,000 in contributions? Was it because Keating had giving McCain at least 9 trips on private airplanes and put him up in his luxurious retreat in the Bahamas? Was it because McCain’s wife and father-in-law had $350,000 invested in a Keating shopping center?
McCain sent birthday regards, and regrets for not attending the party, to the head of the New York Bonano crime family Joseph “Joe Bananas” who had retired to Arizona.
Ross Perot told Newsweek that at one point he took care of McCain’s family, including paying her hospital bills after his first wife was in a serious car accident. Carol was a beautiful slim model before McCain left for Vietnam. When he came home he found that the accident had left her 4 inches shorter and many pounds heavier. Perot said, “After he came home, he walked with a limp, she [Carol] walked with a limp. So he threw her over for a poster girl [Cindy] with big money from Arizona.” None of John’s three children attended the wedding. But Carol said, “the breakup of our marriage was not caused by my accident … I attribute it more to John turning forty and wanting to be twenty-five again.”
McCain partially defused a media feeding frenzy by acknowledging that his adultery broke up his first marriage. His second wife was a model 18 years younger than he. Her wealth as the daughter of a Budweiser beer distributor funded the launch of John’s political career. Her addictions to prescription narcotics and theft of hard drugs from a medical charity were embarrassments that may be part of why she stays out of the spotlight and why she didn’t want him to run for president.
“McCain was adamant about shutting down anything to do with recovering POWs” asserted Ross Perot to the media as he announced his support for Romney. “Other POWs won’t even sit at the same table with him,” Perot said.
Unless you’re willing to forsake your ideologies for the sake of winning, don’t vote for McCain just because he may have more supporters than Clinton. You may as well vote for Clinton. The fact that McCain’s political views are so much like Clinton’s is the reason Clinton-haters from the left are attracted to him. The media is giving him a pass now because they know that if McCain is nominated they can have a heyday skewering him on the skeletons in his closet!
For myself, I would rather vote for Rudy Giuliani. He seems more sincere then the rest of the candidates out there.
If how ever the choices dwindle too, Hillary against McCain???? Then I WILL vote for a third alternative.
As of right now, I am a Mitt Romney fan.
Fernando,
You may wish to reconsider your position on a third alternative. It is perhaps the reason we are in the quagmire that we are in. I am reffering to the most famous 3rd choice in american history, the candidacy of H. Ross Perot. He garnered 19% of the popular vote, many of whom were prior Bush I supporters before his infamous “No new taxes” pledge. Had Ross Perot not been on the ballot, I am convinced Bush would have won a 2nd term and we never would have known a Clinton White House. Why is that important? It is common knowledge that Bill Clinton let OBL slip away when he was about to be handed to us on a silver plate by Pakistan. Do you think Bush I would have made that egregious error? I think not. Had Bush been in the White House at that time, he would have taken OBL when the opportunity presented itself, and perhaps we would not be in Afhganistan or Iraq today.
So Fernando although I too would support Gulliani if he is on the GOP ticket, there is no way in hell I would support a 3rd candidate and waste my vote, thus putting Hillary at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. That is exactly what you would be doing. You would be weakening our national defense. If you read the link that HP has put up on McCain, there is one hing that stands out like a sore thumb. John McCain is an ASS KICKER!!!!! I love this dude! He is a man’s man! At least he is honest about his life’s experiences with regard to his carousing and drinking and general hell raising as a young adult. No biggie here, I did the same damn shit. He’s the kinda guy I would have had a hell of a time with partying. So what! who gives a damn really? At least he has the balls to fess up about it, unlike Bill Clinton who “didn’t inhale” and “did ot have sex with that woman”. Give me a damn break! We need guys like John McCain who have integrity and who have been around the block.
I mistakingly said it was Pakistan that was offering up OBL. In fact it was Sudan 1n 1996. My apologies.
S*%& Romney???? I’m disappointed. I think I’d stomach Tancredo better and that’s saying something. Romney is becoming a hypocrite of the first order, and I don’t like his We need more “skilled” (Europe, Asia) immigrants than poor immigrants (Latin America) code wordism.
Fernando, don’t fret - I think Giuliani will be the nominee - too many Italian Americans in the Northeast not to resist “flipping the electoral map”.
I know of McCain, I don’t like his brand of politics “ANYTHING to get into the White House”.
Hillary won’t get elected; she is like McCain “ANYTHING to get into the White House”. Those two make a terrible combination.
As for Romney? I can’t see him getting enough of the Latino vote since he is against illegal immigration. Most of the African American vote will naturally go to the democrats.
Unless the democrats pass Illegal Immigration Reform.
In politics “whether people like it or not”, it is still about “What’s best for my group Mentality”.
With past presidential election race’s being so close now, I don’t think that the democrats want to piss off at least 28% of the African American Community straight off the bat.
It’s STILL a NUMBERS GAME “People”, NEVER FORGET THAT.
Romney is against illegal immigration? Are you serious? Damn, I feel so out of the loop…I did a quick google search and he doesn’t seem to be anymore anti-immigration than McCain, here is one of the google searches results on his immigration stance:
I’m not saying Romney is the perfect candidate, only that he is better than the rest I have seen so far. But it is still really early, so much can change.
Fernando and others-
But sometimes you do need that 35% or a little over of the Latino vote just not to throw the fiscal responsibility/low tax/gun rights baby out with the overall conservative bath water. Look at Illinois- the Democrats have the governorship and veto-proof majorities in the state House and Senate. Why you ask? They lost the “Lalo*” vote (successful Latino professional or entrepreneur) in the typically republican chicago suburb collar counties because of all the Latino bashing. Legality is not something you can determine by scent or other distinctive feature and I think a lot of us Pochos felt the wrath unjustly, and responded in kind by holding our nose and voting Democrat. And now look what we’re stuck with - staewide health care, soon to be higher corporate taxes, et al. I like Giuliani’s attitude. (Answer: Mexicans with papers, you figure out the question…).
*Lalo is the founder of Lalos, a chain of Mexican restaurants. Lalo was known for having framed pictures of several Republican pols at his flagship Berwyn IL location.
urbanleftbehind I know full well why we lost.
Can you imagine fighting politically for decades none stop?
“before 9/11″ to get State talking with the FAA,FBI, and not getting it because no one saw on the democrat side a need for it???
You know straight out that Both Parties As well as the Media is watching a Certain web site just to gauge what the democrat Latino’s are thinking???
urbanleftbehind I know full well why we lost.
Can you imagine fighting politically for decades none stop?
“before 9/11″ to get State talking with the FAA,FBI, and not getting it because no one saw on the democrat side a need for it??? Add on top of that being labeled a racist by the democrats, and an extreme far right winger????
You know straight out that Both Parties As well as the Media is watching a Certain web site just to gauge what the democrat Latino’s are thinking???
They all will do anything to get elected.
Guliani was unmitigatingly pro-choice and pro-gay rights as NYC mayor. (He slept in the guest room of a gay-couples apartment after his wife threw him out of Gracie mansion for his extra-marital affairs, a couple he referred to as mom and Dad) Now he seems to be waffling on the issues. What changed no way he wins the Republican nomination if he is pro choice and pro-gays, just as no way he wins the NYC mayors job if he is anti-choice and anti gay-rights.
Lets clear up some myths Calcon is spreading thanks to the right wing hit job ABC put out that disney had to admit was fiction after the people who were there all said they were exagerations and pure lies. here is what really happened.
Clinton bombed Al-quaeda targets in Afghanistan and Sudan in ‘97. It so happened while the Republicans were consumed in getting the President impeached because of the Lewinsky scandal. They all accused him of “wagging the Dog” by creating a war against an enemy and the congress did not take seriously as an attempt to distract them from his legal troubles over the blow job.
[quote comment=”141726″]Lets clear up some myths Calcon is spreading thanks to the right wing hit job ABC put out that disney had to admit was fiction after the people who were there all said they were exagerations and pure lies.
Let’s be clear. ABC and Disney are about as liberal an organization you will find anywhere. This news was just released today:
By Lisa Myers
Senior investigative correspondent
NBC News
Updated: 4:40 p.m. PT March 17, 2004
As the 9/11 commission investigates what Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush might have done to prevent the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, one piece of evidence the commission will examine is a videotape secretly recorded by a CIA plane high above Afghanistan. The tape shows a man believed to Osama bin Laden walking at a known al-Qaida camp.
The question for the 9/11 commission: If the CIA was able to get that close to bin Laden before 9/11, why wasn’t he captured or killed? The videotape has remained secret until now.
In 1998, President Clinton announced, “We will use all the means at our disposal to bring those responsible to justice, no matter what or how long it takes.”
NBC News has obtained, exclusively, extraordinary secret video, shot by the U.S. government. It illustrates an enormous opportunity the Clinton administration had to kill or capture bin Laden. Critics call it a missed opportunity. The tape proves the Clinton administration was aggressively tracking al-Qaida a year before 9/11. But that also raises one enormous question: If the U.S. government had bin Laden and the camps in its sights in real time, why was no action taken against them?
NBC News contacted the three top Clinton national security officials. None would do an on-camera interview.
One Clinton Cabinet official said, looking back, the military should have been more involved, “We did a lot, but we did not see the gathering storm that was out there.”
Well boys and girls, I think that just about sums it up!!
I mistakingly said it was released today. I was confused simply because of the date. I apologize, but the fact remains, that there is clear evidence that Bill Clinton missed an enormous opportunity to strike at Bin Laden and he did not for what appears toe political purposes.
Whoa Calcon don’t pull a muscle with all of these gyrations you are doing here about Osama and Cliton.
How could Pakistan or Sudan have offered Osama up on a silver platter when he was in Afghanistan.
Way to cherry pick that article take out all of the stuff that contradicts your point.
Three paragraphs up from the paragraph you included about anonomous sources is this paragraph.
“In reality, getting bin Laden would have been extraordinarily difficult. He was a moving target deep inside Afghanistan. Most military operations would have been high-risk. What’s more, Clinton was weakened by scandal, and there was no political consensus for bold action, especially with an election weeks away”
That of course was the bogus Lewinsky scandal that Republicans were obsessed with as I pointed out.
Oh yeah ABC is really liberal the network that carries Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity’s radio shows are really liberal.
Michael,
This was a story reported by NBC, not ABC. In addition the point of the report was that Clinton had the opportunity, but as usual the asshole did not make a decision based on what was morally correct, rather he made a decision based purely on politics. Read the above quote where it states “Clinton was weakened by scandal, and there was no POLITICAL CONSESNSUS FOR BOLD ACTION”.
The reason I left some stuff out Michael is because it was a rather long story. I wanted the reader to get the point of the story without having to paste an entire story.
I wonder when the news media will pick up on the fact that Henry Waxman’s SON is lobbying Capitol Hill?
Henry Waxman is the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Then again the news media might not pick up on that at all.
John McCain is the best canidate
I live in Canada and want to move to the U.S badly but its so hard i live so close to seattle washington. Who would be a good choice because i have alot of fans in america i can get to vote for them. I want to vote for the person that will allow me easiest access into the U.S Legally. Im thinking Rudy Giuliani or John Mcain let me know what there immigration policy is for canadians thanks.
I live in Canada and want to move to the U.S badly but its so hard i live so close to seattle washington. Who would be a good choice because i have alot of fans in america i can get to vote for them. I want to vote for the person that will allow me easiest access into the U.S Legally. Im thinking Rudy Giuliani or John Mcain let me know what there immigration policy is for canadians thanks.
The REAL McCain - Oi!
Under the guise of “campaign finance reform,” the McCain-Feingold act by Congress repealed large parts of the First Amendment, “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech.” A political party and its candidates should be free to talk about whatever they want!
McCain has undermined the Second Amendment by voting for gunlocks and gun-show background checks.
McCain opposed President Bush’s tax cuts in both 2001 and 2003.
McCain led the infamous “Gang of 14” that fought for an immigration-reform bill containing the much-maligned “amnesty” shortcut to citizenship.
McCain favors Congressional action to reduce global warming.
McCain once called Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell “agents of intolerance.”
McCain grew up Episcopalian, went to an Episcopalian high school andhas been listed as an Episcopalian in 15 years of authoritative directories such as the Almanac of American Politics and Congressional Quarterly’s Politics in America 2008. As recently as June 2007, he told a reporter from McClatchy News Service that he was an Episcopalian. Then, Campainging the heavily Baptist state in September 2007, McCain told a reporter “By the way, I’m not Episcopalian. I’m Baptist.” No baptism in the Baptist church but he’s a Baptist overnight anyway.
So much for his supposed number one strength - honesty!
McCain was one of the congressmen called the “Keating Five” who were investigated on ethics charges for going out of their way to help convicted racketeer Charles Keating. Keating was convicted of racketeering and fraud in both state and federal court after his Lincoln Savings & Loan collapsed, costing the taxpayers $3.4 billion. His original convictions were overturned on technicalities such as jurors hearing about his prior conviction and Judge Lance screwing up jury instructions, so he now faces new trials in both courts. McCain intervened on behalf of Charles Keating. Was it because Keating had given McCain more than $112,000 in contributions? Was it because Keating had giving McCain at least 9 trips on private airplanes and put him up in his luxurious retreat in the Bahamas? Was it because McCain’s wife and father-in-law had $350,000 invested in a Keating shopping center?
McCain sent birthday regards, and regrets for not attending the party, to the head of the New York Bonano crime family Joseph “Joe Bananas” who had retired to Arizona.
Ross Perot told Newsweek that at one point he took care of McCain’s family, including paying her hospital bills after his first wife was in a serious car accident. Carol was a beautiful slim model before McCain left for Vietnam. When he came home he found that the accident had left her 4 inches shorter and many pounds heavier. Perot said, “After he came home, he walked with a limp, she [Carol] walked with a limp. So he threw her over for a poster girl [Cindy] with big money from Arizona.” None of John’s three children attended the wedding. But Carol said, “the breakup of our marriage was not caused by my accident … I attribute it more to John turning forty and wanting to be twenty-five again.”
McCain partially defused a media feeding frenzy by acknowledging that his adultery broke up his first marriage. His second wife was a model 18 years younger than he. Her wealth as the daughter of a Budweiser beer distributor funded the launch of John’s political career. Her addictions to prescription narcotics and theft of hard drugs from a medical charity were embarrassments that may be part of why she stays out of the spotlight and why she didn’t want him to run for president.
“McCain was adamant about shutting down anything to do with recovering POWs” asserted Ross Perot to the media as he announced his support for Romney. “Other POWs won’t even sit at the same table with him,” Perot said.
Unless you’re willing to forsake your ideologies for the sake of winning, don’t vote for McCain just because he may have more supporters than Clinton. You may as well vote for Clinton. The fact that McCain’s political views are so much like Clinton’s is the reason Clinton-haters from the left are attracted to him. The media is giving him a pass now because they know that if McCain is nominated they can have a heyday skewering him on the skeletons in his closet!