Comments on: Will Cindy McCain’s White House Be the Bierhaus?

By: Robt

Robt — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:55:24 +0000

If Cindy and John Both win?

Look, its the First lady Cindy McCain the Buffalo Chip Queen !

And she earned every bit of that title with every bit of that banana. Who is that guy with her in the limo?

By: earlofhuntingdon

earlofhuntingdon — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:27:11 +0000

What’s hilarious about this is that the Goopers would be up in arms — splashing their bourbon and brandy — were Michelle Obama expecting to pursue her career as an in-house general counsel for anyone, be it General Motors, the Cleveland Clinic, the University of Chicago or the ACLU. “Conflict of Interest!!” the Villagers would scream, brandishing their cocktail forks like pitchforks.

As with Cheney’s continuing, very lucrative ties to Halliburton, one price of the highest office in the land is to give up all others for a time. Investments should be put in real — not thinly veiled — blind trusts. All other employment and remuneration from that employer needs to be cast aside. That includes one’s spouse (though not, I would say, one’s adult children or extended family).

The threats of conflict of interest or the inescapable appearance of a conflict (the usual standard for recusal) are too great. I would excuse vigorous charitable work, but that must exclude such work for one’s former or probable future employer or their own or their most closely allied charities.

We need to reinforce the expectation — tossed aside by Bush and Cheney, along with many others — that the President is the leader of all his or her people, not just his friends, not just those who voted for or contributed to her campaign. All of us.

By: presquevu

presquevu — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:37:51 +0000

I don’t think Hensley brews anything, strictly distributors. AB’s nearest brewery locations are in CA and CO.

By: yonodeler

yonodeler — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:24:19 +0000

The Hells Angels might take a security assignment in return for all the Bud they could drink. (Remember Altamont?). Their collateral damage numbers are not as high as Blackwater’s. Instead of “Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran,” McCain could sing “Sympathy for the Devil.” A bunch of devils from the Bush administration would be wanting sympathy and some government action of the moolah-generating kind.

By: newspaperbrat

newspaperbrat — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:16:50 +0000

Hey spurious! My poor nose is good thanks – swelling almost gone & happily the W.C. Fields redness easily concealed by sponging on old fashioned pancake makeup, happily. ;~)

By: foxman

foxman — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:13:51 +0000

The question always has to be: “Won what?”
What could we “win” in Vietnam?
What have we “won” in Iraq?
The oil?
Of course, that’s why we have such inexpensive gasoline…

By: dmac

dmac — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:10:43 +0000

suz–was thinking of you as i was getting ready for bed and saw the irish blessing hanging in my bathroom, hand painted and lettered….

for you-tried to find a version of how i sing it, no luck.
this one is close.

irish blessing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related

safe travels.

By: foxman

foxman — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:10:08 +0000

172 meant as reply to your 167.
Have a great trip.
-Joel

By: newtonusr

newtonusr — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:08:52 +0000

The asshole has also said, “I know how to win wars.”
I am underwhelmed.

By: cinnamonape

cinnamonape — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:08:09 +0000

I wonder if Cindy hasn’t already acted as the Chief lobbyist for her beer distribution company while Johnnie-Boy was Senator? In 1988 McCain pushed through the 1988 Indian Gaming Act which authorized Indian casinos…including liquor sales (previously restricted on reservations) provided the casinos obtained a liquor license.

Arizona now has over 20 Native American casinos, though some tribes (like the Navajo) have strongly resisted this for religious reasons (anti-gambling) and they don’t want alcohol on the reservations.

Cindy would have made another fortune as the distributor of Bud products to these casinos. It’d be interesting to see whether Hensley and Company has even supported initiatives re. Arizona Indian casinos and how much business the company actually does on them.

Bet John’s support of the 1988 law fattened Cindy’s bank account significantly!