McCain’s History On Katrina Doesn’t Match Campaign Rhetoric
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http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/04/25/mccains-history-on-katrina-doesnt-match-campaign-rhetoric/
By: Bill W. on Friday, April 25th, 2008
McCain Then and Now:
On Thursday, John McCain toured areas of New Orleans that are still
damaged from Hurricane Katrina and tried to explain how he would have
done things differently had he been President.
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John McCain: Never again will a disaster of this nature be handled in
the terrible and disgraceful way that it was handled. Never again.
Dana Bash: John McCain used these vivid reminders of a stained
Bush legacy to try to distance himself. President Bush famously flew
over New Orleans in the days after Katrina, a mistake McCain said he
would not have made.
John McCain: In all candor if I had been President of the United
States I’d have ordered the plane landed at the nearest Air Force base
and I’d have been over here.
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Now, I guess it’s asking a lot to let something like Katrina spoil his
birthday plans, but if he really would have done things so differently
had he been President, honestly, then why didn’t he at least say
something along the lines of: ‘I’m flattered you still thought enough
to come, Mr. President, but don’t you have something more important
you should be attending to?’ and wouldn’t he at least have exercised
better judgment than to participate in a laugh-filled photo-op with
the President for the historical record that fateful day?
Despite all the talk at yesterday’s campaign photo-op, John McCain’s
actions then and since could not be more stark in contrast:
VIDEO
[] The fact is, McCain has a history of denying the Gulf Coast aid
when it needs it most and a record of outrageous votes to show for it.
Instead of helping the area rebuild after Hurricane Katrina and the
people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast get back on their feet,
McCain actually voted to deny emergency funding to the area, and he
voted against giving victims of Katrina access to Medicaid and
unemployment benefits. []
As if it wasn’t already baffling enough that McCain would even dare
mention Katrina with a record like that, it’s especially so right now
seeing as how just this past Tues the radical pastor John Hagee once
again reminded the world that he’s a nut who literally believes that
Katrina occurred because God damned America, or at least the gulf
coast of it. Hagee has been saying as much for years in his sermons,
but McCain has yet to comment on Hagee’s offensive beliefs about
Hurricane Katrina and just this past Sun McCain reiterated that he’s
“glad to have” Hagee’s endorsement
I haven’t seen a worse staged photo-op belied of the facts since...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO2xi0uLnj8
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Oz:----
Fuck Katrina. Those mental misfits hadn't the sense to get out. The
Vietnamese and the Coonasses did. Gee, makes yuh woonder.....
lc
Wife’s Jet for Little Cost
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Given Senator John McCain’s signature stance on campaign finance
reform, it was not surprising that he backed legislation last year
requiring presidential candidates to pay the actual cost of flying on
corporate jets. The law, which requires campaigns to pay charter rates
when using such jets rather than cheaper first-class fares, was
intended to reduce the influence of lobbyists and create a level
financial playing field.
But over a seven-month period beginning last summer, Mr. McCain’s cash-
short campaign gave itself an advantage by using a corporate jet owned
by a company headed by his wife, Cindy McCain, according to public
records. For five of those months, the plane was used almost
exclusively for campaign-related purposes, those records show.
Mr. McCain’s campaign paid a total of $241,149 for the use of that
plane from last August through February, records show. That amount is
approximately the cost of chartering a similar jet for a month or two,
according to industry estimates.
The senator was able to fly so inexpensively because the law
specifically exempts aircraft owned by a candidate or his family or by
a privately held company they control. The Federal Election Commission
adopted rules in December to close the loophole — rules that would
have required substantial payments by candidates using family-owned
planes — but the agency soon lost the requisite number of
commissioners needed to complete the rule making.
Because that exemption remains, Mr. McCain’s campaign was able to use
his wife’s corporate plane like a charter jet while paying first-class
rates, several campaign finance experts said. Several of those
experts, however, added that his campaign’s actions, while keeping
with the letter of law, did not reflect its spirit.
“This amounts to a subsidy for his campaign, which is notable given
how badly they were struggling last year,” said Sheila Krumholz,
executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, a
nonpartisan group that collects and analyzes campaign data.
Mr. McCain was not available to be interviewed, a campaign spokeswoman
said. In response to written questions, the spokeswoman, Jill
Hazelbaker, said his campaign had acted legally and ethically in
paying first-class airfares for Mrs. McCain’s corporate aircraft.
“The campaign carefully followed all the relevant laws and F.E.C.
regulations on air travel at all times, and paid for travel exactly as
required by those rules,” Ms. Hazelbaker said.
Last summer, just before starting to use his wife’s plane, Mr. McCain
was quoted in a newspaper report as saying that he did not plan to tap
her substantial wealth to keep his bid for the Republican presidential
nomination going.
“I have never thought about it,” Mr. McCain was quoted by The Arizona
Republic as saying at a July appearance. “I would never do such a
thing, so I wouldn’t know what the legalities are.”
The McCain campaign turned to using the jet last August, a time when
it faced mounting debts and the possibility of financial collapse. It
stopped doing so in March, those records indicate.
During the first half of 2007, a time when Mr. McCain’s campaign did
not use his wife’s jet, it paid out over $1.04 million for travel on
noncommercial planes, F.E.C. records indicate. Over the second half of
the year, when that jet was used almost constantly for campaign-
related purposes, his campaign’s total spending for noncommercial
flying was about one-half that much, or $542,160, those records
suggest.
To determine how often the use of the jet was campaign-related, The
New York Times reviewed commercially available flight records for the
plane and compared them with campaign appearances made by Mr. McCain,
his wife and others on his behalf.
The plane is a Cessna Citation Excel, a midsize corporate jet that
typically seats eight and can fly four hours at a time. It is owned by
Hensley & Company, through a holding company, King Aviation. Mrs.
McCain is the chairwoman of Hensley, which is one of the country’s
biggest distributors of Anheuser-Busch products. Hensley was founded
by Mrs. McCain’s father, James Hensley, and her uncle.
It was her late father’s fortune, which also includes real estate,
that helped start Mr. McCain’s political career. King Aviation is
listed on Mr. McCain’s Senate disclosure forms as one of his wife’s
assets.
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On Apr 25, 1:48 pm, lc <lol7...@msn.com> wrote:
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Carol Shepp/Cindy Lou Hensley
John McCain makes Newt Gingrich husband of the year!
His [Gingrich] wife, who had started treatments for uterine cancer in
1978, underwent surgery in 1980. A day after the operation, Mr.
Gingrich came to the hospital. Since they had already separated, he
called her room to see if he could come up. Once there, according to
friends who knew them both, he began talking about the terms of the
divorce. She has said she threw him out of the room.
'She's not young enough or pretty enough to be the wife of a
President. And besides, she has cancer.'
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McCain animal husbandry $mart$
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.royalty/msg/d2526a509b5ff1d1
In 1964, while stationed in Pensacola, Fla., McCain started a
relationship with Carol Shepp, a tall Philadelphia model he met while
at Annapolis.. On July 3, 1965 McCain married Carol Shepp... In
1966, they had a daughter, Sydney.
They married (m. 1965, div. 1980) before his tour of duty in Vietnam.
After one year he was sent to war as a bomber pilot on an aircraft
carrier. Carol would not see her husband again for almost six years.
While he was imprisoned, she was in an auto wreck, thrown through her
car's windshield and left seriously injured. After his return to
America, McCain had an extramarital affair with Cindy Lou Hensley,
whose father owned Hensley & Co., a Phoenix-based liquor company that
is the nation's second largest Anheuser-Busch distributor. McCain and
Shepp were divorced in 1980, and he married his millionaire mistress
the following month.
http://www.nndb.com/people/914/000023845/
Cindy Hensley McCain (m. 1980)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy_Hensley_McCain#Marriage_and_family
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The McCain Family: Now that he is definitely the nominee, can you give
us a rundown on all the kids -- from both marriages. It is confusing.
How many are adopted?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/03/04/DI2008030401988.html
Amy Argetsinger: Okay, everyone -- your McCain Kid Cheat Sheet now
available!
From the first marriage to Carol Shepp:
-Doug, who is about 48
-Andy, who is about 46
[Shepp's kids, whom McCain adopted when they were 3 and 5]
-daughter Sidney, 40-something
From the second marriage to Cindy:
-Meghan, 23 (the one you see campaigning with dad)
-Jack, 21 (attends the US Naval Academy)
-Jimmy, 19 (Marine stationed in Iraq)
-Bridget, 16 (adopted from Bangladesh)
On Apr 26, 5:31 pm, "wizardryOfOz...@msn.com"