Seems a bit too convenient, doesn’t it?

Seems a bit too convenient, doesn’t it?

Lotta “conveniences” and “coincidences” goin’ on with the McCrazy campaign…..

Hi Christy! Great find…as usual.

Hope all is well at Chez Redd.

DIGG This story, please. And while you’re at it, Howie has some Keating 5 info that needs digging, too.

How can you question McCain’s ethics? He was a POW!

What was that, you say. Keating Five? But he was a POW. He suffered terribly, he couldn’t possibly, having been a POW, be beholden to lobbyists.

Anyway, he was a POW, so there!

Never hang around with a guy named “Swindle” would be my advice.

Sure, John McCain may or may not have been confused about that cross in the dirt story.

I mentioned this downstairs, it’s a great point and I’m surprised nobody cought it before this

In all the discussion of John McCain’s recently recovered memory of a religious epiphany in Vietnam, one thing has been missing. The torture that was deployed against McCain emerges in all the various accounts. It involved sleep deprivation, the withholding of medical treatment, stress positions, long-time standing, and beating. Sound familiar?

According to the Bush administration’s definition of torture, McCain was therefore not tortured.

Cheney denies that McCain was tortured; as does Bush. So do John Yoo and David Addington and George Tenet. In the one indisputably authentic version of the story of a Vietnamese guard showing compassion, McCain talks of the agony of long-time standing. A quarter century later, Don Rumsfeld was putting his signature to memos lengthening the agony of “long-time standing” that victims of Bush’s torture regime would have to endure. These torture techniques are, according to the president of the United States, merely “enhanced interrogation.”

No war crimes were committed against McCain. And the techniques used are, according to the president, tools to extract accurate information. And so the false confessions that McCain was forced to make were, according to the logic of the Bush administration, as accurate as the “intelligence” we have procured from “interrogating” terror suspects. Feel safer?

McManchurian Canidate …no?

12 houses………………….oy glad i dont have to clean them…he must have some tawny people to do it

deep olive, no papers?

What a great picture…the lives of Father Knows Best..

Rove, if he were working against McCain, would plant stories that McCain’s house help are mostly illegals. Too bad he’s not working against McCain now.

In the 90’s there was a state rep. from GA running for U.S. Congress, named Pat Swindle who went to jail for fraud and perjury, I believe. It was the first time that a was called by a research firm and one question asked “was I born again?” My answer was that my mom had a difficult delivery the first time and certainly wouldn’t want to repeat it. I wonder if Pat and Orson are related.

Could be- the guy’s from Georgia:

Grew up: Camilla, Ga.; raised by his grandmother and great-aunt.
Education: BA in industrial management from Georgia Institute of Technology,
1959; MBA from Florida State University, 1973.
Career: U.S. Marine Corps, 1955-1979. Retired as lieutenant colonel. Flew
205 missions in Vietnam, was shot down and spent six years in POW camp.
Awarded two Purple Hearts, two Silver Stars and two Bronze Stars. Director
of the Georgia office of the Farmers Home Loan Association from 1981 to
1985. Director of the Economic Development Agency, part of the Department of
Commerce, 1985 to 1989. Executive director of Ross Perot’s United We Stand,
1992. Executive director of KCAA, a group of preschools in Hawaii, 1991 to
1992. Associate director of Empower America, 1993 to 1994.
Family: Married to second wife, Angela Williams. One son by his previous
marriage.
=======================
The Honorable Orson Swindle retired from the United States Marine Corps as a
Lt. Colonel. He is currently a Federal Trade Commissioner. During the Reagan
Admistration he served as Assistant Secretary in the U.S. Department of
Commerce.

and who’s 2 say they are not?

I think this should be “investigated”

inquireing minds want to know!

McCain’s spokesman, Brian Jones, says that the fundraisers aren’t looking for favors. “You are talking about people who believe in his ideas, who are responding to him as a leader,” Jones says. Fair enough. But in the process, McCain’s image as a maverick and reformer may be suffering. “John couldn’t ride the maverick horse and win the nomination,” says Orson Swindle, a fellow pow and close friend. “If he is going to swim in the water, he has to raise money to swim. That’s the way it is.”

so there hippies :D

actually, there’s good information in this article from an Arizonan, natch. Including McKept took money from tribes

Gee, just like his friend Ralph Reed. Thanks

Thanks for the info. Small world two cheating swindles.

I just researched Pat and he spells his name differently swindall

This is more gearhead stuff which tends not to translate well to the throngs. Now if it involves a thong, well, that’s a whole other kettle of pesci.

I’m voting for Trading Cards

. . .all the lobbyists, homes, jets, falwell. . .y’all get the idea

Do look at the lovely photos in Architectural Digest linked above of the former Casa McCain — the hand-carved mantle is huge. One wonders if they left it for the new occupants or had it brought along to the double luxury condo pad?

his good buddy and ethical powerhouse Ted Stevens

Actally, they aren’t that close, unless there’s a swindle involved. The other kind…

Although Stevens is going to coast through his GOP primary here in Alaska next week, McSame is showing the lowest August numbers for a GOP Prez hopeful since Barry Goldwater.

Yeah, I was kind of being a smartass with that one. *g*

OT: This was just up at the Independent FWIW

http://www.independent.co.uk/n…..06192.html

Then McCain goes and makes a threat

http://www.independent.co.uk/n…..05455.html

swindle’s newsmeat page-the one in illinois is a typo, cuz he’s a ’III’.

hawaii then virginia.
donations listed under his consultancy co. except 99 and 00 ftc.

iddy biddy ones to lazio and allen, etc. all the rest are biggies to mccain and repub funds.

http://newsmeat.com/fec/bystat…..e&st=

couldn’t find anything on pat swindle yet.

bbl.

dmac, I went on local sources and he spells his name swindall. GA sure has some strange Christian politicians. They all seem to have legal problems.

Yeah. To the tune of $273K per year, apparently.

How much is the mortgage on your house?

Tell me again who’s an elitist?

BC

Yeah, we could send an email around with the subject, “McCain chooses Paris Hilton as Running Mate” … oh, wait…

Bob in HI

Back in the last century, where they both belong, Stevens and McCain were much closer ideologically. They both resisted the Gingrich crowd’s dismantling frenzy, and were both pro-choice back then.

As much trouble as Stevens is in now, it could have just as easily have landed on McCain for any of many bad acts he’s pulled. I think his handling of Indian Affairs was the most two-faced series of scams in the long, tawdry history of that very dismal Committee.

OT: Springsteen To Play at Obama Nomination Acceptance (?)

I didn’t see the POW cross story video, but looked up the transcript. Kinda incoherent and rambling, but it suggests that the guard drew the cross with his “handle”, whatever that means. You’d think that a military man would know that the ass end of a rifle is the stock. Maybe Mr. Swindle can clear that up as well.

But McCain is Airforce. Maybe they don’t know so much about rifles.

Bob in HI

did you say Springsteen is the VP nomination?

How about NAVY See his hat

McSame was Navy, Canoe U, auld school tie all the way. Which raises the question, “Why is a mustang marine pandering for him?”

now you’re talking

This is pretty cool:

Washington — Presidential historians and convention observers believe this year’s Democratic convention will be the first time that a rabbi gives an invocation before the presidential nominee’s acceptance speech since the advent of modern American political conventions nearly a century ago.

Rabbi David Saperstein, director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, will be making history August 28 as he opens the Democratic convention’s last day, in front of an expected crowd of 70,000 in the audience and millions more watching from afar.

Navy, Not Air Farce

Got to keep AIPAC happy

What size carbon footprint for one fucking capuccino?

Umm, a reform rabbi is highly unlikely to make AIPAC happy.

o/t

. . .the righties just can’t help themselves – they McHate him

Pat Buchanan no likey Scheunemann:

“He is a dual loyalist, a foreign agent whose assignment is to get America committed to spilling the blood of her sons for client regimes who have made this moral mercenary a rich man.”

The neocons got their war with Iraq. They are pushing for war on Iran. And they are now baiting the Russian Bear.

Is this what McCain has on offer? Endless war?

not linking – it’s from World Nut Daily

ok, got it, funny….

yeah, they stand out cuz they got caught.
the devil made them do it….(flip wilson)

lol.

bbl, was just checking .

I’ve been critical of Obama’s pandering to that lobbying group, but asking Rabbi Saperstein to deliver the invocation is a great move. He has been a very powerful voice for the separation of church and state, and on keeping fungie wackoos out of the courts. Obama is sending a message to a lot of people with this move. I would have preferred Rabbi Michael Lerner, but that’d never happen…

obama already has his response to the president’s “timetable”

I like this, he takes the initiative right out of the republicans court very nicely;

“I am glad that the Administration has finally shifted to accepting a timetable for the removal of our combat troops from Iraq. Success in Iraq depends on an Iraqi government that is reconciling its differences and taking responsibility for its future, and a timetable is the best way to press the Iraqis to do just that. I welcome the growing convergence around this pragmatic and responsible position.

the entire speach is up at c and l right now

http://www.crooksandliars.com/…..d-in-iraq/

no live tape yet though

yep, but it’ll fool the fundies.

It is the private spa right off the master bath that makes me run for a big dose of late night Suzanne’s brain bleach super sprayer …….

Apparently we don’t have people on our side willing to get down and roll around in the mud with the repigs.

It’s interesting because I thought that Obama would announce before the six o’clock news est. It’s getting late.

New Scarecrow post

I’m willing. I just have no clout.

Abe Lincoln is supposed to have said:

You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.

Apparently the fundies are a subset of the group which can be fooled all the time.

BC

The Tikkun guy? If so, I really like him.

Yup, the Tikkun guy.

I thought it was the “army-air force”. But McCane went to the Naval Academy, right? I thought he was navy, like his daddy and his daddy before him.

i looked at these photos yesterday, and that cat stood out..but didn’t see the captions…..was the only thing in the photos that wasn’t framed, or an objet d’art besides the towels on the lounge chairs by the pool..bizarre.

and the train on the mantle–glass over it.

and weird thing, cindy refers to things in the ‘one step removed’ way—my husband, over and over, and “has been in the family” not my family when talking about her childhood home….

did anyone read the article? i did yesterday.
mccain saed cindy has a photo fetish-
and the article mentions one–this is so strange,,,one of mccain the day he dropped out of the race the last time, now, tell me, is this a photo you would want around to remind you of thatday?

and–
ya just can’t make this stuff up
==snip==
The house is also a showcase of the senator’s enthusiasm for buying exotic carpets. “I’m a terrible shopper, but I buy these rugs when I travel. I was recently in Afghanistan and bought this,” he says, pointing out a large, finely made carpet in russet and brown. There are others from Turkey and Georgia, as well as the Native American carpets from his wife’s family.

my favorite person of history…..

thanks.

You are correct that McCain went to the Naval Academy. After graduating, he trained as a Naval Aviator.

And it was the “Army Air Corps” up until the Air Force became its own branch of service in 1947.

McCain’s spokesman, Brian Jones, says that the fundraisers aren’t looking for favors. “You are talking about people who believe in his ideas, who are responding to him as a leader,”

Which ideas? He keeps flip-flopping until he gets the campaign dough.