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.
Olbermann has Groucho Marx eyebrows except I believe Groucho’s were fake.
Well it’s time to call it a night for me.
But I do, as expected and not that anybody cares, have some thoughts on the matter.
First, I can’t stand McCain and have no intention of voting for him.
But this story is so much hock tooey. Now if tomorrow brings more information that I’ll change my tune.
For sure the story insinuates that this Izeman woman, if I remember the name correctly, and McCain had an affair.
The McCain campaign doesn’t even whisper a denial to that insinuation and that factoid seems odd. I’m not much of a campaign person so maybe this is intentional. Don’t dignify the insinuation with a denial...sort of like “You don’t still beat your wife, do youj?”
On the other hand, maybe McCain DID have an affair with this woman. Although the NY Times doesn’t actually say such a thing, at least at this link.
Which brings me to...would McCain having an affair with this woman eight years ago matter at all? I frankly don’t know after Bill Clinton but since I intensely dislike this angry man it gives me more reason not to like him. Still, that’s an issue with conservative types and we already know what McCain thinks of conservatives. The liberals sure won’t care.
And if McCain DID have an affair with this woman, surely, surely, he knew it. Can something like this EVER be kept a secret in political campaigns nowadays. Sure McCain and his staff knows this was going to come out?
Finally, yeah, it sure is odd as all get out that the NY Slimes would endorse this guy all the while knowing about this. IF they knew about it as I’m still not at all clear what they knew about.
But that factoid makes no sense at all.
What did that loser have to say about this? I was feeling too well to watch.
It appears they don't even need to quote sources, so all this stuff that McCain has in his Senate closet will come out.
There is a reason why we hardly ever consider a Senator for POTUS. In fact, almost never.
He lost 4 aircraft. One during a flameout and ejection over Norfolk, VA. [Timberg, Robert (1999). John McCain: An American Odyssey (paperback), Touchstone Books. ISBN 0-684-86794-X. pp. 66–68.]Keat, that’s a comment that will endear you to me forever. Lol.
I have to say if she and he both deny it, and nothing proves anything really occurred, well maybe nothing did happen. To go further is slander, and with malicious intent.
Nothing compared to Oval Office Hijinks! Whoops lets not talk about those days, eh Dems:(
Hey, congressmen have perks.
“You scratch my back, I rub your breasts”.
It’s how senators get things done.
Get him in a hotel room with a hidden cam.... thats a wet dream.
Okay well your explanation is closer to it. I’ll accept that, though still it is short of how I would normally define hero. This isn’t an issue deeply important to me. If everyone else is okay with calling captured people heroes then I’ll go along with it.
Wow. Start calling commenters stupid.
That’s when you’re down to your last damn debate.
McCain was not innocent in the Keating Five. It will hang over him.
Your calling me stupid does not change that fact no matter your obsession with semantics.
Do not miscontrue my failure to respond to your name calling debate as agreement with any further comment you make.
You may ignore me too. Argue with someone else that the Keating Five is but a big misunderstanding.
You need to do some research.
This is not an example of a double standard. This is an example of having different standards for different sins.
Americans hate hypocrisy more than they dislike "immoral acts"...those who claim a moral high ground and then are caught get far more disdain than those who simply get caught. This point is vital in understanding the mindset of mainstream America.
The reverse is also true. This will backfire BIG time. The NY Slimes sleaze attacks can help to rally the GOP to support McCain far better than anything he himself could do.
NYT joins Free Republic and other Conservatives in bashing McCain.
Seriously people, are you really going to sit back and let the NYT choose our next PresidentThis stuff alone is enough to mobilize me against the ‘Rat lefties.
They will cover this old rehashed lie but wouldn’t dare touch the Larry Sinclair-OsamaObama story.
By reading the rintense gossip column to get the latest dirt on all the politicians you dislike?
McCain is a pathological liar. We can be sure of two things - he wants open borders, amnesty, and CFR.
I could not agree more......
There is nothing to gain for democrats at this point with a story like this. I bet you will see something from Mike within the next 24 hours. He’ll go one of two ways with this: kiss McCain’s butt, or say McCain should get out of the race.
You are right about the self-centered quality. It is a serious character flaw.
His betrayals override any argument in his favor. He is found wanting, and unworthy of trust. One such as this should never be considered as the leader of the free world.
He is without honor.
so without reading through all 656 of these speculations... can someone tell me if .... McCain did have an affair or not?
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