Posted on 02/22/2008 10:58:30 AM PST by HapaxLegamenon
A sworn deposition that Sen. John McCain gave in a lawsuit more than five years ago appears to contradict one part of a sweeping denial that his campaign issued this week to rebut a New York Times story about his ties to a Washington lobbyist.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
This is rich coming from Spikey Isikoff...
To hell with Michael Isikoff.
McCain WAS at the party at Canseco’s house?
Isikoff? Wasn’t that the Koran in the Toilet in Gitmo writer?
The best thing he could do now is gracefully exit the presidential race and turn all his delegates over to Duncan Hunter, who will go on to trash Obama during the general election... :)
So, five years later he didn’t remember a particular conversation. I don’t think it’s that big of a deal. What he has said is that he wrote a letter asking an agency to please make a decision on a matter that had been pending for twice as long as it usually took matters to get through that agency. But he was careful to say that he was not asking them to decide in favor of Paxson. I just fail to see anything wrong with that. And the fact that they keep trying to make this into something is beyond belief.
McCain draws scrutiny over $1m loan to campaign
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/21/johnmccain.barackobama
[snip]Feb. 22, 2008 - The Federal Election Commission (FEC) released a letter to McCain today that questions his ability to withdraw from the presidential public financing system – and avoid the spending limits that come with it. The FEC asked McCain to explain whether he used public funds as collateral for a $1m bank loan last month, a move that would commit him to a taxpayer-funded campaign.
The query is especially awkward on a day the senator is fighting allegations he had an affair with a lobbyist, and given that he has blasted Obama for appearing to hedge on his pledge to accept public financing for the general election. The likely Republican nominee accused Obama of “Washington doublespeak” yesterday, noting that both men agreed to take taxpayer funds and play by the rules that doing so entails.
Gov. Huckabee, please pick up the Red Courtesy Phone.
Isikoff is the guy who couldn’t pull the trigger in the Monica Lewinski story.
The goal here is to tie McCain up in knots and spend all his time answering old/ancient he said/she said and innuendo ... so he can not campaign and state policy and principle.
No matter how much one may dislike McCain, this is just inexcusably sloppy "journalism"
Just hours after the Times's story was posted, the McCain campaign issued a point-by-point response that depicted the letters as routine correspondence handled by his staff—and insisted that McCain had never even spoken with anybody from Paxson or Alcalde & Fay about the matter. "No representative of Paxson or Alcalde & Fay personally asked Senator McCain to send a letter to the FCC," the campaign said in a statement e-mailed to reporters. But that flat claim seems to be contradicted by an impeccable source: McCain himself. "I was contacted by Mr. Paxson on this issue," McCain said in the Sept. 25, 2002, deposition obtained by NEWSWEEK. "He wanted their approval very bad for purposes of his business. I believe that Mr. Paxson had a legitimate complaint.
Leave it to NewsWeak.
Must be Mike is really getting his rocks off with the McCain story since he was never allowed to report the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal.
Yeah, I’m a dreamer too.
That did not take long. We all knew that the MSM would turn on him when he got the nomination, but he has even won that yet! Sheesh.
LOL. One wonders what Spikey's sitting on at this very moment....
No doubt. I didn’t like McCain at all. But the pundits are right. This kind of crap is beginning to make me a supporter. Just as I became a Romney supporter only after Huckabee started his anti-Mormon schtick.
As for the election, politics is the art of the possible. McCain may be bad, but Obama is so much worse it’s not even funny. Elections are usually about the lesser of two evils. It’s time to grow up.
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