ENPR Special: Sources Say McCain Veep Pick to Come This Week 07/21/2008
http://www.humanevents.com/...
Per Bob Novak, July 21, 2008: "Sources close to Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign are suggesting he will reveal the name of his vice presidential selection this week while Sen. Barack Obama is getting the headlines on his foreign trip. The name of McCain's running mate has not been disclosed, but Mitt Romney has led the speculation recently."
Aside from Mitt Romney, ye biggest phony this side of P.T. Barnum who happens to still have hair of his own, McCain's top picks appear to be:
Carly Fiorina, former CEO and Board Chair of Hewlett Packard who touts herself as an expert on business. The truth is, she was fired from Hewlett Packard and the best she can muster now is as a Fox News contributor (like Bob and Karl Rove).
T. Nitt Pickens, former CEO of BP America who is older than McCain and all of a sudden thinks he can get into heaven via wind and solar power.
Some guy from Minnesota who someday history will record as being almost as memorable as Walter Mondale.
Pill Gramm, former US Senator from Texas, who could be credited as the author of legislation that deregulated the mortgage industry which created the sub-prime lending debacle, author of legislation that deregulated the oil industry that today allows speculators to control the price of oil rather than supply and demand, or the author of legislation that deregulated the electrical power industry enabling the Enron debacle where millions of everyday investors and California consumers got screwed by Ken Lay and other friends of Phil Gramm's and George Bush's; but Pill doesn't deserve full credit. The fact is, his wife, Wendy, was head of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) which chose not to exercise it's regulatory responsibility, and the fact is that it was energy lobbyists who wrote the legislation that Phil Gramm helped to enact. He couldn'ta thunk of it all by hisseff.
This campaign has become an exercise of ritual. For better or worse, Barack Obama is the next President, should he survive some lone ascribant of James Earl Ray. McCain would not still be in the race but for the rote of tradition. He's a political speedbump.
As for our friend Bob, who, as the sole surviving card-carrying member of the Know Nothing Party of the 19th century and self-proclaimed Prince of Dankness, leaves a 40 year journalistic legacy reminiscent of a sweaty plumber's buttcrack as he snakes the kitchen drainpipe; since no one else has chiseled at the chance it is my privilege to inscribe your epitaph, Bob:
The Newsman Who was Nowhere to be Seen, and Nobody asked, 'What about Bob?'.
We love ya, Bob. You light up a room like a fart set aflame in a crowded elevator.
JR Ford
UP (Unsubstantiated Press)
St. Petersburg, Fl
sixtimeseven@aol.com
"I played by the rules of politics as I found them.." -- Dick Nixon.