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For McCain, Self-Confidence on Ethics Poses Its Own Risk [McCain had an affair?]
New York Times ^
| February 21, 2008
| JIM RUTENBERG, MARILYN W. THOMPSON, DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and STEPHEN LABATON
Posted on 02/20/2008 4:49:57 PM PST by Wallaby
Edited on 02/20/2008 5:05:45 PM PST by Admin Moderator.
[history]
Early in Senator John McCains first run for the White House eight years ago, waves of anxiety swept through his small circle of advisers.
A female lobbyist had been turning up with him at fund-raisers, in his offices and aboard a clients corporate jet. Convinced the relationship had become romantic, some of his top advisers intervened to protect the candidate from himself instructing staff members to block the womans access, privately warning her away and repeatedly confronting him, several people involved in the campaign said on the condition of anonymity.
When news organizations reported that Mr. McCain had written letters to government regulators on behalf of the lobbyists clients, the former campaign associates said, some aides feared for a time that attention would fall on her involvement.
Mr. McCain, 71, and the lobbyist, Vicki Iseman, 40, both say they never had a romantic relationship.
TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bimboeruption; drivebymedia; goebbelsmann; iseman; liberal; liberalsmear; liberalvalues; mccain; mccainhassers; newyorktimes; nyslimes; nyt; nythitjob; rino; slimes; vickiiseman
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
Oh geez... now on Fox news alert!!
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posted on
02/20/2008 5:59:48 PM PST
by
jackv
(DEMOCRATS HATE BUSH MORE THAN THEY LOVE THEIR COUNTRY!!!)
To: rbmillerjr
“I predict backlash on the NYSlines for this
...unsubstitated claim
...unobjective timing of the innuendo story”
In the morning I take a typing class (yikes)
282
posted on
02/20/2008 5:59:53 PM PST
by
rbmillerjr
("bigger government means constricting freedom"....................RWR)
Fox News alert on this now....Bennet to appear on Hannity and Colmes
283
posted on
02/20/2008 6:00:28 PM PST
by
mystery-ak
(gopachy.com)
To: kcvl
Foxnews Alert!! Not kidding!
To: Richbee
ooohhhh, Alan Colmes just said “potentially explosive allegations against McCain” :)
285
posted on
02/20/2008 6:00:38 PM PST
by
TornadoAlley3
(Everytime McCain reaches out to conservatives, conservatives get poked in the eye.)
To: jackv
Check Google news. Affair and lobbyist are being used in the headlines.
To: rbmillerjr
I predict that McCain KO’s the Times before moring Breakfast, and it’s finished.
287
posted on
02/20/2008 6:01:20 PM PST
by
Richbee
(Why is modest warming any cause for alarm and the ALARMISTS?)
To: TommyDale
Why would McCain have to hire Bob Bennett for nothing? I remember the first time I ever saw Bob Bennett on tv he was asking questions about the KEATING boys.
288
posted on
02/20/2008 6:01:26 PM PST
by
Just mythoughts
(Isa.3:4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.)
To: Wallaby
1999?
Big deal.
Clintonwas still wiping stuff off the Oval Office rug in 1999.
The real story is why did they hold off on this until after the Republican primaries.
289
posted on
02/20/2008 6:01:27 PM PST
by
oldbill
To: SWAMPSNIPER
We have a country in big trouble, cant any of these turkeys keep it in their pants and pay attention to business? For some of them, such "perks" are why they got into politics in the first place. Even many of the Vietnam era peaceniks were really in it for the Free Love.
290
posted on
02/20/2008 6:01:35 PM PST
by
El Gato
("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
To: Brices Crossroads
Not surprising if McCain had an affair. He betrayed his first wife.
Cindy is not somebody who would make a good First Lady. She has no problem to have an affair with a married man with a sick wife, she had drug problems - possibly she has overcome it, she embezzled and received special treatment, etc. Laura Bush is far superior to her.
291
posted on
02/20/2008 6:01:59 PM PST
by
Dante3
To: RoseofTexas
All the GOP can really do at this point is have an intervention and tell the candidate that he must step aside unless he wants to torpedo the entire party, and then have a brokered convention.
292
posted on
02/20/2008 6:02:11 PM PST
by
counterpunch
(For the good of the party, McCain must step aside)
To: KansasGirl
McCain is releasing a statement. IT IS NOT COMPLETELY TRUE. NONE OF IT IS COMPLETELY TRUE.
I knew it wouldn't stand up.
293
posted on
02/20/2008 6:02:17 PM PST
by
tear gas
(Because of the 22nd Amendment, we are losing President. Bush. Can we afford to lose him now?)
To: Wallaby
Maybe this hit piece will make McCain fight these liberal dirt-bags! &$%& the NY TIMES.
294
posted on
02/20/2008 6:02:41 PM PST
by
conservativeinferno
(My SUV is the urban squirrel's worst predator.)
To: tear gas
What does “completely” mean?
To: El Gato
lol - that was way funnier than some of the ridiculous judgemental crap on this thread
296
posted on
02/20/2008 6:03:04 PM PST
by
RDTF
(Go AEGIS!)
To: mystery-ak
They are positively breathless. I think whoever this is talking now is saying that someone was going to do a hit piece on the NYT for not printing this sooner?
297
posted on
02/20/2008 6:03:05 PM PST
by
cgk
(I don't see myself as a conservative. I see myself as a religious, right-wing, wacko extremist.)
To: Wallaby
On a non-related note, she is HOT!! Where was I?
298
posted on
02/20/2008 6:03:12 PM PST
by
conservativeinferno
(My SUV is the urban squirrel's worst predator.)
To: oldbill
Words just WORDS!
The NYT could not validate the story, and IMO, they still can’t.
They need to SELL, SELL SELL their rag.
299
posted on
02/20/2008 6:03:27 PM PST
by
Richbee
(Why is modest warming any cause for alarm and the ALARMISTS?)
To: counterpunch
Why do some “conservatives” want one of the two far left
wing NE liberals, that were the first pick of the MSM?
“Rudy” and “Mitt” were given about 40 of the 60 minutes
in the first debate!
300
posted on
02/20/2008 6:03:51 PM PST
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
(McCain, Huckabee will send a self-abused stomped elephant to the DRNC.)
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