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 McCain’s 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 client’s 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 woman’s 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 lobbyist’s 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.
Let me give you a hint. Nothing in there is true. Nothing.
Yeah, I don’t see a denial to the allegations, only spin. And then to mention his military career first? Oh brother did the McCain camp screw this one up. He should have specifically addressed the allegations and then spoke about his marriage of ____ years to Cindy. I swear the McCain camp is run by a bunch of morons.
However, Rudy never had any drug use allegations, true?
For a person who is a professional (worked for the 2000 campaign) one would think he could spell better.
But Hillary is “stable”?
Look, everyone loses their cool unless their heavily Medicated!
My question is, when McCain digs in for a fight, is he right?
Against the Dem’s, I say give ‘em Hell!
A voice of sanity among the few posts I’ve read on this thread. Folks here who believe the NYTimes over McCain seem to be suffering from MDS. The NYTimes, frequently referred to here as the NYSlimes, is sliming the republican nominee, the one I might add, they endorsed not so long ago (when they supposedly already had this story in their pocket). Go figure.
Yah...
Lot's of good it did.:-)
Now we have the situation where it's going to be Obamma or McCain....
We need a intervention of some sort......
There’s also an important caveat missing from that phrase...
“never done special favors for ...lobbyists”
there should be added...”except for the Keating Five”.
Or suddenly this doesn’t count?
Two things i’m relatively certain of:
(1) McCain must be partially responsible for this, given the empty press statements being released.
(2) The New York Times ambushed McCain in a cold blooded fashion.
I can’t wait until we hear more.
Since the conservative base hates the New York Times, this should help McCain.
McCain was exonerated in the Keating Five case. Period.
stupid sheeple! McCain’s self admitted EGO led him to the middle of nowhere. I’ve never supported him. Hope we get a do over. (OBAMA wants MANDATORY second language in schools. Enforcement? LOL From Washington? He said not just Spanish. I’m thinkin’ Arabic.
Yiddish.
I wasn't for him, by the way.
That's not the problem. What is the problem is the McCain was made by the MSM. We told his supporters long ago that if he got the nod, the MSM would turn on him and that they have the ammunition to do it.
Now it begins......Actually, it started this weekend, but I don't want to split hairs.
That's the problem, the truth is irrelevant.
From the WaPo article you posted:
In the years that McCain chaired the commerce committee, Iseman lobbied for Lowell W. “Bud” Paxson, the head of what used to be Paxson Communications, now Ion Media Networks, and was involved in a successful lobbying campaign to persuade McCain and other members of Congress to send letters to the Federal Communications Commission on behalf of Paxson.
In late 1999, McCain wrote two letters to the FCC urging a vote on the sale to Paxson of a Pittsburgh television station. The sale had been highly contentious in Pittsburgh and involved a multipronged lobbying effort among the parties to the deal.
At the time he sent the first letter, McCain had flown on Paxson’s corporate jet four times to appear at campaign events and had received $20,000 in campaign donations from Paxson and its law firm. The second letter came on Dec. 10, a day after the company’s jet ferried him to a Florida fundraiser that was held aboard a yacht in West Palm Beach.
McCain has argued that the letters merely urged a decision and did not call for action on Paxson’s behalf. But when the letters became public, William E. Kennard, chairman of the FCC at the time, denounced them as “highly unusual” coming from McCain, whose committee chairmanship gave him oversight of the agency.
McCain’s campaign denied that Iseman or anyone else from her firm or from Paxson “discussed with Senator McCain” the FCC’s consideration of the station deal. “Neither Ms. Iseman, nor any representative of Paxson and Alcalde and Fay, personally asked Senator McCain to send a letter to the FCC regarding this proceeding,” the campaign said.
Iseman and her firm, which includes high-profile Republicans and Democrats, have also represented a number of other companies that have had issues before McCain and the Commerce Committee, including Univision, the Spanish-language television network. Iseman clients have given nearly $85,000 to McCain campaigns since 2000, according to records at the Federal Election Commission.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/20/AR2008022002898.html?hpid=topnews
Could have legs
Tomorrow should be good. Now maybe the sheeple will recognize a liar when they see one. Did the lobbyist go into hiding yet? What does she LOBBY FOR? That’s the problem.
You are so right. Why would his people talk about this?
Maybe to cover their butts.
It would not surprise me to see McCain go down in flames like Gary Hart.
There was a South Park episode about this called Turd sandwhich.
It seems that episode is very applicable now.
But still, there’s a very clear ‘worse’ side and a ‘just ok’ side for Republicans to choose from..
If it’s obama or mccain, which is VERY likely now.. I’ll choose McCain.
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