McCain's Domestic uber-Lobbyists

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Monday May 26, 2008 · 5:04 AM PDT

2008/05/26 · 05:04

We could join the MSM and prognosticate whether Hillary’s continued persistence in this year’s presidential sweepstakes with Don Quixote’s lack of perspicacity. We might also engage in vice-presidential aspirations or in the generic what does Hillary Clinton want? Her recent comments about "white people voting for her," followed by her macabre remark about the Robert Kennedy assassination demonstrate that Mrs. Clinton has crashed and burned. The ego bruise must excoriate her now that Senators McCain and Obama are engaged in the rigors of debate while Senator Clinton is all but ignored.

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Friday May 16, 2008 · 9:56 AM PDT

2008/05/16 · 09:56

"Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along. We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: "Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided." We have an obligation to call this what it is -- the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history." George Bush, 5/16/08 (Speech to the Knesset)

These words were meant to castigate the prospective Democratic nominee Barack Obama and the Iraq policies advocated by the Democratic Party. Senator McCain agreed with Bush’s assessment and went one step further evoking the name Neville Chamberlain.

What President Bush did not tell the Knesset was that his grandfather the former-Senator from Connecticut and financier Prescott Bush was a Nazi collaborator. He was a shareholder in companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany.

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Wednesday May 14, 2008 · 7:08 AM PDT

2008/05/14 · 07:08

Richard Quinn, a senior political aide to Senator John McCain is also the owner and editor-in ~~chief of the neo~~confederate SOUTHERN PARTISAN REVIEW QUARTERLY. This association was brought to the attention of the Arizona Senator during the 2000 campaign. Mr. McCain received a letter from PAWs Ralph Neas based on information compiled by FAIR. The story also received the attention of the NYT, New Republic and other mainstream publications. The flap fizzled when McCain lost the South Carolina primary in a vicious campaign against President George W. Bush. Shortly thereafter Mr. McCain’s campaign collapsed.

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Thursday February 21, 2008 · 6:14 AM PST

2008/02/21 · 06:14

So, John McCain is an old lecher.

The wife of a former-Congressman turn lobbyist told REFORM that McCain "followed me around two GOP conventions like a puppy dog. All I had to do was wiggle my finger and he would have been there."

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Monday February 18, 2008 · 2:50 AM PST

2008/02/18 · 02:50

In keeping with a dialogue that must be had by the progressive religious community, I offer this article written for my quarterly ezine GARART. I hope you find it edifying:

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Sunday February 17, 2008 · 1:58 PM PST

2008/02/17 · 13:58

I put forth this document as an articulation of the New Covenant that attempts to convey the rights, duties and responsibilities of America in the 21st Century.

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Thursday February 07, 2008 · 1:49 PM PST

2008/02/07 · 13:49

It has been reported today that DNC chair Howard Dean views himself as someone akin to former-Soviet Dictator Josep Stalin. According to Dean, if the Democratic nomination is not cinched by spring he sees it as his role to breakup the fete. The Chairman wants to employ insiders to choose the party's nominee. In such a scenario is there a leap as to who the nominee will be? Does a lobbyist drive a Mercedes?

The 1972 McGovern-Frazier Commission rules all but abolished "at-large delegates" but were quickly reintroduced after the McGovernites "became" the party structure. That was called fighting over nothing. A Democratic Convention is now like a meeting of the British Parliament, the Commons provide the hoopla, while the Lords the cash and candidates. Although with Obama the Commons may be fulfilling both roles. Dean's entry into the feud does smack of the old-boy backroom deal making but this time it will be the old-girl who reaps the spoils.

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Sunday February 03, 2008 · 8:04 AM PST

2008/02/03 · 08:04

We are in an election cycle where I hope the wonders never cease. Susan Eisenhower, Caroline Kennedy and Tom Hayden agree on the same thing. All three want Barack Obama to be the next President of the United States.

Who does this scare? It severely frightens the establishment of both the Democratic and Republican parties. The recent purpose of our two party system has been to ferment screams of ear popping loudest and conjure the best scare tactics to cause panic among the American people.

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Friday February 01, 2008 · 3:04 PM PST

2008/02/01 · 15:04

It was reported in today’s Washington Post that over the last six years former-President Bill Clinton has racked up $40 million in honorariums for speeches from groups seeking motivation to slumlords a/k/a the National Association of Landlords.

Those yick-yacked to by Clinton, the Post reports, have also been a very generous source of aid to his wife’s political aspirations, the Wall Street investment firm of Goldman-Sachs paid the former-president $650,000 for a yick and forked over another $270,000 to Hillary’s campaign coffers. Citigroup ponied- up $250,000 for a speech and $320,000 in Hillary bucks. The group has also pledged $5.5 million to Clinton’s Global Initiative. The list goes on.

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Wednesday January 30, 2008 · 9:47 AM PST

2008/01/30 · 09:47

Are you a member of the Kennedy or Clinton wing of the Democratic Party?

This is one of the questions posed by the 2008 Democratic presidential campaign. I associate the Kennedy Administration and family with idealism, vigor and hope. The Clinton wing will always be associated with Monica Lewinsky, impeachment, indictment, guilt and near removal of office.

On public policy the Clinton wing crowed over school uniforms, don’t ask, don’t tell and a proposal for midnight basketball. Bill Clinton, we all know, governed as a quasi-Republican. By his association with the Democratic Leadership Council he has aligned himself with the corporatist, neo-conservative wing of the Democratic Party.

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Monday January 28, 2008 · 2:37 PM PST

2008/01/28 · 14:37

Barack Obama is not a kid. Barack Obama’s win in South Carolina is not the same as Jesse’s Jackson’s, and I worked for Jesse Jackson as his communications director in 1988. I worked for the Reverend not only because I agreed with his positions; but I also believed it was the time in our country’s history that a Black American be a viable candidate as the leader of the free world.

Is it Barack Obama’s time to be the first Black nominee of one of America’s major parties, I hope so. I hope despite the Clintons strategy to divide and polarize that we see through color and find the soul of an individual.

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Sunday January 27, 2008 · 3:49 AM PST

2008/01/27 · 03:49

He’s Black you know. You know he’s really Black. This is the 1990s rubbish that Bill Clinton tried and was, thank God, unsuccessful at using in the South Carolina primary.

According to Clinton, Barack Obama is a young, eloquent Black man. I understand the subtlety of Bill Clinton’s words, for my entire career I have been perceived as a white, Puerto Rican who is pretty smart. Yes, these characterizations have been said to my face. Bill Clinton should not only be ashamed of employing these words and tactics, I hope thinking people will consider his remark for what it was meant to be unadulterated racism.

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