22 February 2008
This Man Has No Honor
Posted by Joy Bischoff under: Presidential Election 2008 .
Chuck C. sent this to me from World Affairs Brief. I selected a middle portion to share with you but the whole article ought to be read. I have warned that I fear this man would start world war III because of his ideology and his aggressive, unreasonable temperament. This article helps illustrate my concerns:
PULLING STRINGS FOR SENATOR McCAIN
“McCain is third-generation Navy royalty, raised from a young age to be a senior figure in the armed forces, like his father and grandfather before him. He was sent to one of the most elite boarding schools in America, then to a naval academy where he ranked 894th of 899 students in ability. He used nepotism to get ahead: When he was rejected by the National War College, he used his father’s contacts with the Secretary of the Navy to make them reconsider. He later married the heiress to a multi-million dollar fortune [after dumping his first wife who waited faithfully for him during his war years].
“Right up to his twenties, he remained a strikingly violent man, ‘ready to fight at the drop of a hat,’ according to his biographer Robert Timberg. This rage seems to be at the core of his personality: describing his own childhood, McCain has written: ‘At the smallest provocation I would go off into a mad frenzy, and then suddenly crash to the floor unconscious. When I got angry I held my breath until I blacked out.’ But he claims he was transformed by his experiences in Vietnam… His plane was shot down on a bombing raid over Hanoi, and he was captured and tortured for five years [Not all true. He was tortured at first, and then he collaborated with his captors until released].
“… He used second his wife’s fortune to run to as a Republican senator. He was a standard-issue Reaganite corporate Republican [Reagan had his faults but he wasn’t a “corporate Republican.” The Left still hates Reagan] until the Keating Five corruption scandal consumed him. In 1987, it was revealed that McCain, along with four other senators, had taken huge campaign donations from a fraudster called Charles Keating [who had insider connections with government]. In return they pressured government regulators not to look too hard into Keating’s affairs, allowing him to commit even more fraud. McCain later admitted: ‘I did it for no other reason than I valued [Keating’s] support.’ [Keating and others were part of a wider insider group of government supporters who were promised a kind of unspoken immunity in exchange for steering campaign contributions to politicians the PTB support–like John McCain–a process still going on today].
McCain took the only course that could possibly preserve his reputation: He turned the scandal into a debate about the political system, rather than his own personal corruption. He said it showed how ‘we need to drive the special interests out of Washington,’ and became a high-profile campaigner for campaign finance reform [which had very negative effects on independent political free speech and almost no effect on the big lobbyists]. But privately, his behavior hasn’t changed much. For example, in 2000 he lobbied federal regulators hard on behalf of a major campaign contributor, Paxson Communications, in an act the regulators spluttered was ‘highly unusual.’ He has never won an election without outspending his opponent.
“But McCain has distinguished himself most as an über-hawk on foreign policy. To give a brief smorgasbord of his views: at a recent rally, he sang ‘Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran,’ to the tune of the Beach Boys’ ‘Barbara Ann.’ He says North Korea should be threatened with ‘extinction.’
“These beliefs drive McCain today. He brags he would be happy for U.S. troops to remain in Iraq for 100 years, and declares: ‘I’m not at all embarrassed of my friendship with Henry Kissinger; I’m proud of it.’ His most thorough biographer — and recent supporter — Matt Welch concludes: ‘McCain’s program for fighting foreign wars would be the most openly militaristic and interventionist platform in the White House since Teddy Roosevelt…[it] is considerably more hawkish than anything George Bush has ever practiced.’”
Scary. McCain is no true conservative. As I have documented in prior briefings, McCain is an expert at playing up his POW hero image to campaign against government use of torture, and then quietly worked out an anti-torture piece of legislation which actually permits torture in the fine print. McCain, like John Kerry also served on Congressional committees to whitewash the government investigation into POWs and MIAs left behind in Vietnam, Laos, and Russia (where hundreds were sent for mind control drug testing, according to Jan Sejna, a former major general in the Czechoslovakian Army who defected to the United States in 1968 and provided valuable intelligence on the Soviet Union).
http://www.worldaffairsbrief.com/
9 Comments so far...
Saddened Says:
22 February 2008 at 10:32 am.
It’s that old pendulum you guys keep writing about. Republicans want someone who is strong on the war and they don’t seem to care that you can have too much of a good thing. I don’t want to be in Iraq for 100 years. McCain has delusions of grandeur and I worry he wants to be seen as the great war time president that is in history books. He doesn’t have a peaceful bone in his body. What’s maybe worse is that he doesn’t have a clue how to compromise in a fight only in values.
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22 February 2008 at 10:50 am.
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Jesse Says:
22 February 2008 at 11:33 am.
The Anti-Lobbyist, Advised by Lobbyists
For years, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has railed against lobbyists and the influence of “special interests” in Washington, touting on his campaign Web site his fight against “the ‘revolving door’ by which lawmakers and other influential officials leave their posts and become lobbyists for the special interests they have aided.”
But when McCain huddled with his closest advisers at his rustic Arizona cabin last weekend to map out his presidential campaign, virtually every one was part of the Washington lobbying culture he has long decried. His campaign manager, Rick Davis, co-founded a lobbying firm whose clients have included Verizon and SBC Telecommunications. His chief political adviser, Charles R. Black Jr., is chairman of one of Washington’s lobbying powerhouses, BKSH and Associates, which has represented AT&T, Alcoa, JPMorgan and U.S. Airways.
Senior advisers Steve Schmidt and Mark McKinnon work for firms that have lobbied for Land O’ Lakes, UST Public Affairs, Dell and Fannie Mae.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/21/AR2008022101131.html
M.G. Says:
22 February 2008 at 12:57 pm.
This man has wrapped himself in a flag and in his POW prisoner status for so long that almost everyone is calling him a hero. There is no substance there.
Hank Says:
22 February 2008 at 1:43 pm.
Does this scare people like it does me to think of a man with a temper like this in the White House?
T. Fan Says:
22 February 2008 at 4:27 pm.
Why are republicans getting to be known as war hawks? Sure I want to win in Iraq and Afghanistan but I don’t want to start more wars or be thought of as a war monger. It seems like Christians could find a better balance. We know the war on terror is real and and Muslim extremists hate us but we can’t be all about war. That is what non-Christians think of us. They think we are dangerous. Because they shut their eyes to danger we sometimes go too far the other way. I don’t want McCain in there stirring up even more trouble than we need.
Cavetrollhead Says:
22 February 2008 at 4:48 pm.
We need to seal the boarder and be selective about who we let in to the country. We need to become oil independent so we don’t fund the terrorist nations
McCain wants to open the boarder, refuses to drill in Anwar, and simply attack the Oil rich nations. He has that all backwards.
Cavetrollhead Says:
22 February 2008 at 4:53 pm.
I like how it says McCain has never won a campaign without outspending his opponent. But he constantly attacked Romney for spending so much. He belittled Romney for being so rich, but unlike Romney, who has magnified his wealth through his own industry and ingenuity, McCain married his vast wealth after dumping his wife who faithfully waited for him.
T. Fan Says:
22 February 2008 at 4:56 pm.
Exactly. That’s one of the things that bothers me so much. His whole life shows he has a sense of entitlement. His dad gave him his career even though he almost flunked out. His wife bought his political career. He seems so darn angry now at the thought of anyone taking away the presidency as if it belongs to him. Look how he acted toward Bush in 2000. When he didn’t get his way he turned liberal and even almost democrat to be Kerry’s running mate in 2004. This is a man I could never get behind. I won’t exchange one evil for another.
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