snipp:< “In congress, Rep. John McCain quickly positioned himself as a GOP hard-liner. He voted against honoring Martin Luther King Jr. with a national holiday in 1983 — a stance he held through 1989. He backed Reagan on tax cuts for the wealthy, abortion and support for the Nicaraguan contras. He sought to slash federal spending on social programs, and he voted twice against campaign-finance reform. He cites as his “biggest” legislative victory of that era a 1989 bill that abolished catastrophic health insurance for seniors, a move he still cheers as the first-ever repeal of a federal entitlement program.

McCain voted to confirm Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court. In 1993, he was the keynote speaker at a fundraiser for a group that sponsored an anti-gay-rights ballot initiative in Oregon. His anti-government fervor was renewed in the Gingrich revolution of 1994, when he called for abolishing the departments of Education and Energy. The following year, he championed a sweeping measure that would have imposed a blanket moratorium on any increase of government oversight.”< Wow!

As for Shady Land deals like the Keating fiasco,
I would think that the reform foundation which was initiated as a anti-lobbyist group opposed to soft money but was in fact a huge fund-raiser of soft money from the telecoms and which was part of vast publicity scheme to benefit one John Sydney McCain ]I[ would come closer to violating federal laws where the telecoms used McCain to apply leverage against the FCC for which He received and still receives gifts and compensation while holding a chair.
A clear and present conflict of interest.

One of the traits which makes him so unsuitable for command is his ability to learn from his mistakes and from this article I would gather that when this guy screws the pooch He does it on a collossal scale.
Not the finger I want on the Nukkular option hot button.

Sorry for the shitty syntax and punchiation!
Cheers Rain.

I was referring to something more like his wife’s investment with Charles Keating in a shopping center; the story of McCain using his influence to secure water rights and land zoning in AZ for wealthy supporters is no doubt laying around waiting for some ‘journo-type’ to pick up and run with — the national press corps who travels with McCain is too busy primping for the camera to do the legwork, but maybe some ambitious wretch from the print media will sniff this one out.

Did you catch this piece on McCain yet?

Make-Believe Maverick
Tim Dickinson
Rolling Stone
Oct. 16, 2008
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain

http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=74158

Where there is smoke there is usually fire!

After the election, I wouldn’t be surprised if some major corruption case came out connecting McCain with sleazy Arizona land and water developers. How does he dodge a second Keating Five?