McCain's Blue Dress

We will probably never know if John McCain had an affair with that pretty blonde lobbyist, as suggested by the New York Times today, and in my heart of hearts I don't give a damn. I know there are some out there who are still worrying about the sex life of Warren G. Harding and John F. Kennedy, but I am not among them. In the case of McCain and his lady lobbyist, they will both deny it and there is no way of proving it. It will probably remain more of a smudge than a stain on the McCain name. But, of course, as a committed Democrat I do care, in so far as it punches a hole in his egregious campaign as flag-bearer of Republican morality. Personally, I think his physical and political embrace of George W. Bush was the most lewd and obscene act this guy could commit, proving that it was easier for him to withstand years of torture by the Viet Cong than resist his own tortured political ambitions. I wouldn't care about McCain's sex life if he wasn't the soon-to-be nominee of the Republican Party; the party who cared more about the stains on Monica's blue dress than about Americans who couldn't afford a new dress or shoes for their kid's first day at school.

So, if, like McCain, you're the guy who knows better, but you turn your back on your own moderate beliefs and swallow whole the right's agenda on social, economic and foreign policy, indeed, if you contribute to that agenda, you leave yourself open to newspapers and ordinary folks like me saying, "John, we hardly knew ye!" Or did we know you? And do you know better? Weren't you one of the Keating Five, a politician who took big favors from and advanced the cause of a corrupt Savings and Loan company and barely escaped the fallout of its wreckage? Weren't you the guy who made ugly jokes about the looks of the young Chelsea Clinton? Weren't you the guy who left his wife to marry the beer heiress, Stepford Cindy, who is so proud to be an American that she was obliged to break her long vow of silence and take a whack at the words of Michelle Obama? As Henry Kissinger proved to us when he went about with beautiful starlets, power is a great aphrodisiac, and McCain, having reached great power in the Senate, should be allowed the usual senatorial hanky-panky as part of the perks that come with his arduous job: the free airplane rides, hot tickets to sporting events, and charming a gullible mainstream press on the campaign trail, while back-tracking on former political beliefs in the greater cause of making John McCain POTUS.

Comments

[Henry]

The issue is that lobbyists of big biz have stolen the democracy! The traitors, the sell-outs are the elected officials who permit it to happen.
I liked the old fashioned days, the Tidal Basin Bombshell, if you recall, was not a lobbyist. There's ethics and then there's ethics.

[cke]

I think this is just mud being slung by --- the Republicans. They want to portray McCain as still a virile, vital guy instead of a dried out, old angry man just perpetuating the failed Bush policies.

[LeftRight]

Sherman,

I still don't care about his sex life, and I never will, since it doesn't affect me at all, any more than Bill Clinton's sex life affects me. The only three or four people who matter in this issue are John, his wife, the lobbyist, and her husband (if she has one).

What I DO care about, however, is the fact that Senator John McCain, a man who has always stood up for the troops, until after 2000. Since then he has decided that the george bush way of doing things is the only way to do it, especially in the "post 9/11 world". george bush's way of doing things is the only WRONG way to do things, and I'm tired of them, and yet this man still continues claim that the only RIGHT way is to continue this same disasterous way.

[JJinWI]

John McCain "knows what's best for America", and that's Straight Talk, my friends....unless of course you're a Native American.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x336724

[JJinWI]

The Honorable Janet Reno
Attorney General
U.S. Department of Justice Constitution
Avenue & 10th Street, N.W.
Washington. D.C. 20530

The Honorable Bruce Babbitt
Secretary U.S. Department of Interior
1849 C Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20240

Dear Attorney General Reno and Secretary Babbitt

I write to urge the Departments of Justice and Interior to proceed carefully in the coming months to settle the relocation of remaining Navajo families in a timely and orderly process. My paramount concern is to ensure the safety and wall-being of these Navajo families and the fair resolution to outstanding issues following the enactment of the Settlement Agreement for the Navajo and Hopi people.

I understand that the Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation sent 90-day notices on January 25, 1999 to the remaining Navajo families who have not signed the Accommodation Agreement. The end of this 90-day period is quickly approaching and I have not received any further notice that the remaining families have agreed to sign onto the Settlement Agreement or applied far relocation benefits. I ask that you submit in writing to me the actions that the Department of Justice will take in the coming months to ensure compliance with P.L. 104 301.

Please keep my office apprised of further actions. Thank you for your immediate attention to this matter. Sincerely

John McCain
United States Senator
cc: Christopher Bavasi, Executive Director, Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation

[LeftRight]

Out of curiosity, how does this relate to my previous comment?