Had Your Phil of McBush’s Advisors Yet?

Did you see?  Obama has made good on one of his promises already and he isn’t even president yet!  As the new leader of the Democratic Party he has made it official policy to not accept PAC or registered lobbyist payola. 

This guy is formidable!!  

Will McCain and the Republicans please take notes?

OK, it's cut and paste, which makes it less substantial, but here is a look into McCain's character.

Huge article from the Daily Mail:

McCain likes to illustrate his moral fibre by referring to his five years as a prisoner-of-war in Vietnam. And to demonstrate his commitment to family values, the 71-year-old former US Navy pilot pays warm tribute to his beautiful blonde wife, Cindy, with whom he has four children.

But there is another Mrs McCain who casts a ghostly shadow over the Senator’s presidential campaign. She is seldom seen and rarely written about, despite being mother to McCain’s three eldest children....

[W]hen McCain returned to America in 1973 to a fanfare of publicity and a handshake from Richard Nixon, he discovered his wife had been disfigured in a terrible car crash three years earlier. Her car had skidded on icy roads into a telegraph pole on Christmas Eve, 1969. Her pelvis and one arm were shattered by the impact and she suffered massive internal injuries.

When Carol was discharged from hospital after six months of life-saving surgery, the prognosis was bleak. In order to save her legs, surgeons had been forced to cut away huge sections of shattered bone, taking with it her tall, willowy figure. She was confined to a wheelchair and was forced to use a catheter.

Through sheer hard work, Carol learned to walk again. But when John McCain came home from Vietnam, she had gained a lot of weight and bore little resemblance to her old self.

Today, she stands at just 5ft4in and still walks awkwardly, with a pronounced limp. Her body is held together by screws and metal plates and, at 70, her face is worn by wrinkles that speak of decades of silent suffering....

McCain divorced her in 1980 and married Cindy, 18 years his junior and the heir to an Arizona brewing fortune, just one month later....

'My accident is well recorded. I had 23 operations, I am five inches shorter than I used to be and I was in hospital for six months. It was just awful, but it wasn’t the reason for my divorce.

‘My marriage ended because John McCain didn’t want to be 40, he wanted to be 25. You know that happens...it just does.’

Some of McCain’s acquaintances are less forgiving, however. They portray the politician as a self-centred womaniser who effectively abandoned his crippled wife to ‘play the field’. They accuse him of finally settling on Cindy, a former rodeo beauty queen, for financial reasons....

When McCain – his hair turned prematurely white and his body reduced to little more than a skeleton – was released in March 1973, he told reporters he was overjoyed to see Carol again.

But friends say privately he was ‘appalled’ by the change in her appearance. At first, though, he was kind, assuring her: ‘I don’t look so good myself. It’s fine.’...

In 1979 – while still married to Carol – he met Cindy at a cocktail party in Hawaii. Over the next six months he pursued her, flying around the country to see her. Then he began to push to end his marriage.

Carol and her children were devastated. ‘It was a complete surprise,’ says Nancy Reynolds, a former Reagan aide....

Ted Sampley, who fought with US Special Forces in Vietnam and is now a leading campaigner for veterans’ rights, said: ‘I have been following John McCain’s career for nearly 20 years. I know him personally. There is something wrong with this guy and let me tell you what it is – deceit.

‘When he came home and saw that Carol was not the beauty he left behind, he started running around on her almost right away. Everybody around him knew it.

‘Eventually he met Cindy and she was young and beautiful and very wealthy. At that point McCain just dumped Carol for something he thought was better.

‘This is a guy who makes such a big deal about his character. He has no character. He is a fake. If there was any character in that first marriage, it all belonged to Carol.’...

But Ross Perot, who paid her medical bills all those years ago, now believes that both Carol McCain and the American people have been taken in by a man who is unusually slick and cruel – even by the standards of modern politics.

‘McCain is the classic opportunist. He’s always reaching for attention and glory,’ he said.

‘After he came home, Carol walked with a limp. So he threw her over for a poster girl with big money from Arizona. And the rest is history.’

No Double A.  I missed that.  

My problem with Lierbeman is that he puts Israel before America.  Yeah, I know about our relationship with Israel, and I am all for it.  But this guy is not a Democrat.  He is not a Republican. He is not Independent.  He is a closet Likudite operative and should plant his ass in the Knesset. 

He is a favorite of the whacko end-timers who see the fruition of Israel and Armageddon as the necessary prelude to the Second Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.  To that end Lierbeman is doing the Lord’s work in their opinion and a key element in pushing us along toward the Apocalypse.   

In my opinion he is unAmerican where those objectives are concerned.

I remember this now that you mention it Phaedrus.  It was not widely publicized at the time, and is not getting any play now.  But it certainly does speak to the man’s character.    Barry Goldwater, The Man in my book, seemed to have some quiet reservations about McCain:

'Pure Barry' A conversation about Barry Goldwater with the senator's son and John Dean

Jun. 8, 2008 12:00 AM      

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/viewpoints/articles/0608vip-goldwater0608.html 

[…]    

John McCain replaced your father in the U.S. Senate in 1987 and often refers to him. He did so again today in a speech calling for town-hall meetings like Goldwater and Kennedy were going to do before the Kennedy assassination. And McCain used the steps of the Yavapai County Courthouse as a backdrop for a major speech, as Goldwater did in 1964. Is McCain cut from the same cloth and in the Goldwater pattern, or are we comparing apples and oranges here?
   
Goldwater: I think my father and John McCain had a working relationship. I don't think they were close. . . . I think I would have to say that they're not necessarily cut from the same cloth. My father was raised in the territory of Arizona. My mother taught him at an early age about patriotism and loving this country and particularly loving the state of Arizona. John McCain comes from a different background. He came into the state, he doesn't really know the state, he is not attached to it like my father, like (Congressman Morris) Udall was. . . . Philosophically, I think that McCain is a conservative but not as pure as my father. He has a tendency to be more opportunistic or open to other suggestions. I think my father was a little more narrow in his interpretations of what is possible and what is not politically. So, I don't think they're cut from the same cloth, but they're not that far apart. They weren't enemies.
   
Dean: I think that McCain, while it may make him turn blue to be told this, his father made his life easy for him. It's a reality. You see it in everything, his naval career. I think that Senator Goldwater, who was terribly fond of Admiral Jack McCain, was helping a friend's son get a head start here. I think he thought (McCain) was a carpetbagger when he first came to Arizona. And while he tried to buckle down and try to learn a little bit about the state, how can you begin to know it like Senator Goldwater did, who had prowled every inch of it and gone and talked with nearly everybody in Arizona at some time? He helped McCain . . . making everyone know that he wanted McCain to have his Senate seat, eliminating any competition. And yet we did put enough in the book that the senator did pull McCain up short when he was misusing his name for his own purposes after he got in trouble with the Keating Five.
    

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For some reason the posted version has left out a couple of paragraphs from the print edition concerning Barry Goldwater’s displeasure with McCain’s use of Goldwater’s name in a fundraising event without his permission.       

This information seems to corroborate your information Phaedrus.  It seems that perhaps a very discerning Barry Goldwater, Mr. Conservative, saw the real McCain. 

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