Jason Rosenbaum

Evening Open Thread: The Blogs On McCain

by Jason Rosenbaum  ::  Filed Under Special Topics  ::  May 12th, 2008 @ 6:30 pm EST

Isn’t the general election fun?

Let’s see, so far, we’ve got the House Republican whip Roy Blunt saying John McCain will be a 3rd Bush term. (Thanks Roy! Couldn’t have said it better myself!)

Then we’ve got Wonkette joking about the McCain campaign dumping lobbyists left and right for their connections with the ruling junta in Burma.

And finally, BarbinMD has a great expose poring over a myriad of suspicious deals McCain has helped set up in return for campaign contributions:

The moral of this story seems to be, if you are interested in real estate, John McCain is the man to know.  Or, for that matter, if you need an advocate for beer distributorships, telephone carriers, railroads or mining companies.  If you are a patron, then you’ve got a friend in John McCain.  Even as he insists that:

I have carefully avoided situations that might even tangentially be construed as a less than proper use of my office.

Not carefully enough.

Looks like the honorable Senator from Arizona isn’t quite as squeaky clean as he might like to say he is.

So, folks, what have you been reading today? Dig up any good McCain dirt?

The Seminal News Feed

Britain presses Iran to cooperate with UN watchdog
Thursday, 20 November 2008, 4:53 pm
LONDON, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Britain accused Iran on Thursday of failing to cooperate with a United Nations watchdog and said this increased its concerns over Tehran's nuclear programme.

WRAPUP 1-Major shipper skirts Gulf of Aden to avoid pirates
Thursday, 20 November 2008, 4:39 pm
* Danish shipper to divert ships round Cape

Ethnic divisions delay Bosnia transition decision
Thursday, 20 November 2008, 4:33 pm
BRUSSELS, Nov 20 (Reuters) - The body overseeing Bosnia's peace process agreed on Thursday to delay into 2009 a decision on when to end international supervision, as ethnic divisions continue to preve. […]

DISCUSSION

One RESPONSE to “Evening Open Thread: The Blogs On McCain”

a.m. schmitz says  ::  May 12th, 2008 @ 11:12 pm EST

ah jason how sussinke you are in your obersayions of mc/cocain…hes our next dirty rat to rule the roost..yea hes the go to man when an s&l needs bailing out..hes got more dirt than mr. clean can scoop up…im rolling over with lafter …yer killing me jason…


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