Oct 11 2008
Character. Part I.
Well. In a desperate, last gasp move to save his campaign, we’ve all recently seen the McCain camp finally make that eventual leap all shitty Republicans make: character assassination. For a man who said he wants this election to be “a conversation among friends”, the hypocrisy and dishonor of McCain has finally shone through.
Seriously. When people say they hate politicians, they think they’re all crooks, the first person that should come to mind is Richard Nixon. The second should be John McCain.
The campaign has finally brought out their version of an “October surprise”, an association we’ve all known about and has been well documented for years, the association between Obama and Bill Ayers. For those of you that don’t know, Bill Ayers is an original member of the Weathermen, domestic terrorists in the 1960’s who opposed the Vietnam War by bombing federal buildings. Since that time, he’s became the preeminent educational scholar in the Chicago area. And in the 1990’s, Obama served on a board with him that distributed money to Chicago schools.
There you have it. But listen to McCain and his surrogates, and Obama and Ayers ride around Chi-town on a tandem bike wiring bombs and reading Mao. Bear in mind, when general piece of shit Ayers was running around with the Weathermen, Obama was…8.
So as a firm believer in fighting back when campaigns get ugly, let’s talk about some of the McCain campaign’s character issues.
Like when Cindy McCain was addicted to painkillers, and was caught by the DEA stealing them from her own non-profit medical relief organization. And then only admitted this in 1994, to change the story from her husband’s character issues.
When people mention the “Keating 5″ scandal, often they fail to remember that McCain was one of the 5. Accused of improperly interviening on behalf of Charles Keating in the federal Savings and Loan crisis, McCain wasn’t charged with a crime, but was harshly criticized for his “poor judgement” in interviening. Keating donated over $112,000 to McCain over the years, and Mccain and his family often vacationed for free and flew on Keating’s private jet to his private resort in the Carribeann. And then magically, Sen. McCain made the independent judgement that it would be in the interests of the country to have federal regulators back off of Charles Keating when being investigated for fraud.
Next issue: Mccain’s character troubles continued, followed by caribou Barbie.
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I wish that the politicians who want to run for office were inspired individuals who really cared about what was happening in their country. It’s not just the US, it’s so many other parts of the world. The candidates we finally get to choose between are not always those who will lead a country to better things - although I have to say that Obama is talking the talk and perhaps can walk the walk, time will tell on that. I appreciate that the smear-your-more-popular-opponent-to-win idea was sure fire way to get elected in the past, but surely these days people are smarter than to vote for someone just because they wear the right color ribbon and can lie better than the opposition.
As for Sarah Palin, well she abused power as Governor, now she wants to be VP with more power than ever granted to a VP before ….the US will get more than it bargained for if Caribou Barbie is allowed to be more than a limited edition!
There are just too many places to go for material on John McCain. Everyone can start by reading the Rolling Stone article, then moving forward to the illustrious ’80’s, where McCain sat on the board of the Anti-Communist League, a hot bed of racism and bigotry in the vein of Joe McCarthy. Hey, McCain/McCarthy…not too far off…let’s make some accidental name switches of our own.