Feb 27 2008
John McCain for President . . . of Panama
I’m so sick of McCain’s sanctimonious bullshit I can’t even watch him on the tube anymore. Hell, he isn’t even a “native born” American citizen and has no business being on the ballot. He was born in Panama. Maybe it is time to send him back.
His hypocrisy is absolutely breathtaking. He mouths the words that he is a maverick. This from one of the most entrenched Washington insiders ever. He absolutely swears he didn’t have an affair with that woman. You know the one, the lobbyist Vicki Iseman.
According to the New York Times, his close ties with the telecommunications lobbyist, Vicki Iseman, 40, caused concern among his aides.
She accompanied him to fundraising events, visited his offices and travelled with him on a client’s corporate jet, the paper said, leading aides to believe a romantic relationship had formed.
Quoting an anonymous source, the article claimed that Mr McCain’s advisers instructed staff members to block the woman’s access, “privately warning her away and repeatedly confronting him”. (Source: BBC)
Yeah, John like we believe that. Not all of us were in diapers when you were in the center of the Keating Banking scandal. You’ve still got some dirty laundry and your holier than thou blather doesn’t carry water.
In early 1987, at the beginning of his first Senate term, McCain attended two meetings with federal banking regulators to discuss an investigation into Lincoln Savings and Loan, an Irvine, Calif., thrift owned by Arizona developer Charles Keating. Federal auditors were investigating Keating’s banking practices, and Keating, fearful that the government would seize his S&L, sought intervention from a number of U.S. senators.
At Keating’s behest, four senators–McCain and Democrats Dennis DeConcini of Arizona, Alan Cranston of California, and John Glenn of Ohio–met with Ed Gray, chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, on April 2. Those four senators and Sen. Don Riegle, D-Mich., attended a second meeting at Keating’s behest on April 9 with bank regulators in San Francisco.
Regulators did not seize Lincoln Savings and Loan until two years later. The Lincoln bailout cost taxpayers $2.6 billion, making it the biggest of the S&L scandals. In addition, 17,000 Lincoln investors lost $190 million.
In November 1990, the Senate Ethics Committee launched an investigation into the meetings between the senators and the regulators. McCain, Cranston, DeConcini, Glenn, and Riegle became known as the Keating Five. (Source: Slate)
Well John, you might be able to get away with that crap in Panama, but we don’t need you making our country another banana republic. Quite honestly I think America is fed up liars and crooks. Why don’t you pack your bags, don your Panama hat and head south of the border where corruption is an accepted fact of political life.
I hate McCain, probably more than you but this stuff that the NY Times is throwing out there is beyond belief.
But the First Congress, on March 26, 1790, approved an act that declared, “The children of citizens of the United States that may be born beyond sea, or outside the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural-born citizens of the United States.”
So, McCain is a natural-born citizen of the United States because both of his parents were US citizens at the time he was born.
B. Hussein Obama only had one parent who was an US citizen. His father was until his dying day a Kenyan National.
All bringing this crap up does is first shows how stupid the New York Times and you all are on the Left for not knowing the basic rules of US citizenship, and second help push people like me back into supporting him because of all your lame warrantless attacks.
Sorry Alex, it is not all that clear. Laws and policy have changed over time.
And about the NY Times, they have still not retracted their findings. In fact, Wolf Blitzer is quoted:
Knowing McCain’s coziness with lobbyist it does not surprise me that he would engage in inappropriate behavior. He did it before when he attempted to bail out the Keating Five at great cost to the taxpayers.
It was uncalled for by Alex to bring Barack Obama’s middle name into a comment about John McCain. There is an attempt by unscrupulous right wing supporters of the republican presidential candidate to attempt to paint Barack Obama as something he is not and never was by reminding readers that his middle name is a common one in Muslim countries. Although I am not an Obama supporter, I am a supporter of honesty and fairness when I see such a ridiculous attempt at character assassination.
If you must challenge Barack Obama’s fitness for presidential candidacy, chose something he stands for or against, not something over which he has no control. He has no control over his race or where he grew up or what his parents gave him as his middle name. Obama attended a public elementary school for a time in a mostly muslim country. As a young child he had no control of that, either.
Obama has never made any attempt to conceal any part of his life, and has repeatedly said he is a Christian, not a muslim. Since as American citizens we are granted freedom of religion, one’s religious background is a matter of choice and no one should have to defend that choice.