Saturday, February 02, 2008

From The Sunday Times
February 3, 2008
Flawed Cindy McCain has a grudge list
Tony Allen-Mills

ON almost every step of his march towards the Republican nomination, John McCain has relied on the support of his glamorous second wife Cindy. Yet she has not always been a political asset. A Republican victory in November would bring to the White House a formidable but flawed first lady.

McCain’s marriage has long attracted attention both for the 18-year age gap between husband and wife and for their adopted Asian daughter, who became the focus of one of the most vicious dirty tricks of the 2000 presidential campaign.

The couple have also overcome daunting health problems that included McCain’s bouts with skin cancer, a stroke suffered by Cindy in 2004, and her admission a decade earlier that she had become so addicted to painkillers that she was stealing them from a medical charity she ran.

Yet somehow the McCains have emerged as a potent and durable political partnership. Cindy McCain was at her husband’s side last week as he celebrated the Florida primary victory that has put him at the front of the Republican field.

A former Arizona rodeo beauty queen and daughter of a millionaire Phoenix businessman, Cindy McCain was 25 when she met her future husband at a cocktail party in Hawaii. John McCain was a 43-year-old naval liaison officer travelling with a congressional delegation, his sights already set on a political career.

He was also still married to his first wife Carol, although the couple had recently separated. Carol later attributed the breakdown of the marriage to “John turning 40 and wanting to be 25 again”. McCain fell like a brick for Cindy, who was the heir to a brewery distribution business worth millions. For several years afterwards the McCains endured Washington gossip that he had dumped his first wife - who had been crippled in a car accident - in favour of a trophy bride to enhance his political ambitions.

It was in the late 1980s, after a series of miscarriages and giving birth to three children, that Cindy developed spinal problems and was prescribed painkillers after surgery. Her husband and family had no idea she was secretly taking pills stolen from a charity she had created called the American Voluntary Medical Team, which sent mobile surgical units to war zones. When federal agents began to investigate gaps in the charity’s records, Cindy telephoned her husband, a senator in Washington, and confessed.

She admitted at the time that the 1994 episode had “nearly destroyed both of us”. But she underwent treatment and attended meetings of Narcotics Anonymous as part of a deal with prosecutors who dropped charges.

A few years earlier she had visited Bangladesh with a different charity and decided on the spur of the moment to help a little girl with a cleft palate whom she met in Mother Teresa’s orphanage.

The McCains eventually adopted the girl, named her Bridget and raised her as their daughter. She is now 16, but during McCain’s ugly presidential primary fight against George W Bush in 2000, voters in South Carolina began receiving telephone calls suggesting the senator had fathered an illegitimate black child.

The authors of the smear have never been identified, but Bush was the beneficiary and went on to win the South Carolina primary and the Republican nomination. The McCains have never publicly blamed Bush and their relations have been outwardly cordial. But Cindy recently admitted that she keeps a “grudge list”.

Cindy McCain, now 53, claims she has no interest in policy making - “I am not the legislator in this family. He is” - and that she intends to keep busy running her charities and her family’s company. As first lady, it is clear that she would play a key role. Acknowledging that McCain had made many enemies in Republican ranks, she added: “The only person my husband can trust is me.”
McCain: "I Assume That I Will Get the Nomination"

The Manchurian candidate is scaring me.
Listen to me on the radio.
Wnyc New York the Brian Lehrer show (very liberal radio)
A round table of New Jersey republicans
talking about the presidential primaries.

I was so nervous, but I think I did OK.

Click here to listen in
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/episodes/2008/02/01
Then click on "are you the one? New Jersey republicans.
"Turn on any cable news show right now, and you will see Democratic pundits
attacking Romney, calling him a 'flip-flopper,' and heaping praise on
McCain and Huckleberry---almost as if they were reading some sort of
'talking points.' Doesn't that raise the tiniest suspicions in any of
you? Are you too busy boning up on Consumer Reports' reviews of microwave
ovens to spend one day thinking about who should be the next leader
of the free world? Are you familiar with our 'no exchange/no return'
policy on presidential candidates? Voting for McCain because he was a
POW a quarter-century ago or Huckabee because he was a Baptist preacher
is like buying a new car because you like the color. The candidate
Republicans should be clamoring for is the one liberals are feverishly
denouncing. That is Mitt Romney by a landslide." ---Ann
Coulter (http://PatriotPost.US/opinion/entrylist.asp?source_id=45)

Friday, February 01, 2008

And the left thinks that we should 'talk' to them!
More diplomacy.
America has done them wrong.
We just don't understand them.
RIGHT!

Mentally Retarded Women Used in Bombings

Thursday, January 31, 2008

Be afraid, be very afraid.

Part 1


Part 2

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

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Ahmadinejad tells West: Accept Israel's 'imminent collapse'
By DPA and Haaretz Services
Tags: Ahmadinejad, Iran, Israel


Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on the West Wednesday to acknowledge Israel's "imminent collapse."

Speaking to a crowd on a visit to the southern port of Bushehr, where Iran's first light-water nuclear power plant is being built by Russia, Ahmadinejad further incited his listeners to "stop supporting the Zionists, as [their] regime reached its final stage."

"Accept that the life of Zionists will sooner or later come to an end," the Iranian president said in a televised speech.

He added, "What we have right now is the last chapter [of Israeli atrocities] which the Palestinians and regional nations will confront and eventually turn in Palestine's favor."

read the rest of the story here
"A liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn't own."
---Frank Dane