Let me start by saying that I know nothing about this site, hadn't heard of it before, so there is that caveat.

However, the plot thickens with McCain and the lobbyist. These connections are interesting, if the weave holds:


Did Vicki Iseman “Steal Honor” in THREE Presidential Elections?


http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/...tial-elections/


(Moderators may drop this if they want, since it does involve the 2004 election. It also affects the current election)

More thoughts or opinions on McCain's "relationships":

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/02/24/d...ring-loopholes/

Which in the comments (caveat) gets into more:

Did McCain Finally Get His Stadium Help Payoff?
Cardinals, Anheuser-Busch ink sponsorship deal

Subject: the 2003 Glendale, AZ Cardinals stadium deal in which Sen. McCain personally intervened to get the $600 million deal approved. After approval for the stadium, Anheuser Busch was given the single contract for alcohol serving .

The company that holds the distribution rights for Anheuser Busch is Hensley Co, whose Chairman of the Board, Cindy Hensley McCain received nearly $50 million dollars in a bonus payment after the stadium deal was secured.

The issue is not what politicians do with their private lives– the problem is graft. And the public life of John McCain shows a continued pattern of duplicity to enrich his own pockets.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080317/starr

The Other Side of the McCain Lobbyist Scandal

“I don't know whether Senator John McCain had sex with lobbyist Vickie Iseman, but I do know, first hand, that he broke the rules while doing the bidding of media mogul Lowell "Bud" Paxson, a major contributor to McCain's 2000 presidential campaign. McCain's staff lied it about it then and they are inventing new lies even now.

I was the leader of the campaign opposing the transfer of Pittsburgh's second public television station (Channel 16), along with $17.5 million, to a conservative televangelist ministry so that Paxson could expand his network into the Pittsburgh market. In fact, I wrote a well-reviewed book in 2000 about the entire case, Air Wars: The Fight to Reclaim Public Broadcasting.”

We will give a pass to McCain on this because what Elliot Spitzer did was MORE shocking!

(That was sarcasm)

Right now everyone is focused in on Obama's links to Rezko, Ayers, and supposedly Farrakan. While the neocons smear Obama, and keep Hillary Clinton down at the same time, they obviously are telling lies about 'disliking' John McCain. Believe me while you Democrats are still fighting each other over trivialities, the neocons and the Republicans will fall in 'line' just like they always do and put McCain in by a 'high' margin!

And the wars will continue; the economy will continue to falter; the globe will keep heating up; and life as you and I know it will come to an end.

But it won't be McCain's 'fault'. Just like it wasn't George W. Bush's, George HW Bush's or Ronald Reagan's. When it comes to that then these neocons can do 'no' wrong.

They just can't take 'responsibility' for anything while they continue to 'blame' the Democrats, Liberals or anybody else but themselves!

We NEED 'honesty' again!

We need to throw out the NEOCON trash!

Here's the latest! :dripple:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080314/ap_on_el_pr/mccain_iraq

Whether Iraq attacks or NOT...it's a WIN-WIN for McCaine!

If they DON'T then More Troops McCain will be saying the SURGE he sponsored is WORKING!

If they DO then McCain will say...SEE? I TOLD YOU SO!...in the hopes we will all hide under the bed while we cry in two BIG holes in NYC that has had NOTHING re-built on it...and vote for Papa Doc McCain to PROTECT US!

Rove has this PLANNED perfectly! And EVERYBODY is FALLING ALL OVER THEMSELVES TO MAKE THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE PRESIDENT!

China MUST be PLEASED! :bad: