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.
My view: This “story” is designed to change the story from Michelle Obama’s visceral anti-Americanism.
Also, a historical note: in 1960, Bill Lawrence of the New York Times was simultaneously reporting on Senator Kennedy’s campaign and serving as an adviser to the Kennedy campaign.
I repeat from the NYT Comments section: (A comment and opinion I relate to;)
Wait a second - even if this is true, and it sounds pretty vague, I thought we all stopped worrying about cheating spouses with Bill Clinton? How can it be okay for Bill but not for McCain? McCain never came out of church with a ten pound bible in his hands. This is shoddy journalism. I am not a McCain fan. I wanted Rudy. But it’s amazing to me how the NY Times can be counted on to find some piece of slime, whether substantiated or not, and fling it rightward over and over again. Screw this sickening turn in journalism. This just makes me determined to vote McCain in November.
— MariSimone, Las Vegas
He got rebuked by the ethics committee for his “bad judgement”.
PERIOD.
PERIOD AGAIN.
...how soon they forget.
The American public would not think that as being “exonerated”.
Or are you one of those people who think the American people are stupid?
McCain has made integrity the central theme to his campaign.
If his credibility on that is lost, then he has nothing.
This is the question the GOP will be facing even with the appearance of impropriety.
Maybe Cindy had a stroke over Vicki. Cindy was awfully young to have a stroke bk then.
I still don’t see the payoff for McCain???
Contributions from paxson?
Given the alternatives, I certainly hope so.
‘McCain has made integrity the central theme to his campaign.’
Ah, WRONG, McCain has made IRAQ the central theme of his campaign.
Yup.....they sure did.
We don't call those 6 million Jews in concentration camps heroes. It's just not the right word. They were victims and the people who got them out were heroes. It doesn't lessen the horror of their experience to not call them heroes. It's just wrong to use the wrong word. They were strong. They were survivors. Some of them probably were heroes during the ordeal in that they did heroic things to save others. But being in a prison camp doesn't make a person a hero. It's just the wrong word usage.
Republicans are supposed to maintain the moral high ground. Who cares what the soulless dems do? Since when are they relevant?
I apologize if I displace anger, but McCain really draws my ire.
But this may backfire bigtime. The SLimes and Keith Overbite may have just done what McCain could not, unite a sizeable portion of the base behind McCain. Murphy's law is a wonderful thing.
Who knows.
Old-fool-itis?
IIRC, that station in PIttsburgh was WQEX(16), a public sister station of original PBS affiliate WQED.
I think it was held up because lefty PBS supporters didn't want to set a precedent of having a cherished PBS station being sold to a private company. It was held up in litigation for may years by the lefties.
> Quoting the WaPo: 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.
O.K., let’s see if the media can find a money trail, or soemthing wrong in this Brouhahahaha.
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