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The tag 'McCain' is associated with 10 posts.

FTR #652 Palin by Comparison

Sarah Pal­in’s polit­i­cal resume and her­itage is gen­uine­ly fright­en­ing: Alaskan seces­sion­ist par­ty, mili­tias and Iran­ian mul­lahs.


FTR #646 Georgia on Everybody’s Mind

” . . . McCain advis­er (and for­mer Geor­gian lob­by­ist) Randy Sche­une­man­n’s efforts on behalf of the Project for a New Amer­i­can Cen­tu­ry and the Iraq war . . . ”


McCain aide lobbied for republic of Georgia

by Pete Yost­San Fran­cis­co Chron­i­cle WASHINGTON — John McCain’s chief for­eign-pol­i­­cy advis­er and his busi­ness part­ner lob­bied the sen­a­tor or his staff on 49 occa­sions in a 3 1/2‑year span while being paid hun­dreds of thou­sands of dol­lars by the gov­ern­ment of the for­mer Sovi­et repub­lic of Geor­gia. The pay­ments raise eth­i­cal ques­tions about the […]


Georgia war is a neocon election ploy

by Robert ScheerCre­ators Syn­di­cate, Inc. Is it pos­si­ble that this time the Octo­ber sur­prise was tried in August, and that the garbage issue of brave lit­tle Geor­gia strug­gling for its sur­vival from the grasp of the Russ­ian bear was stoked to influ­ence the U.S. pres­i­den­tial elec­tion? Before you dis­miss that pos­si­bil­i­ty, con­sid­er the role of […]


FTR #637 Catching Up with Daniel Hopsicker

Avi­a­tion and its unreg­u­lat­ed use in CIA drug traf­fick­ing; Sau­di 9/11 evac plane used by McCain cam­paign; plane crash killed Venezue­lan exec­u­tive of Smart­mat­ic, par­ent com­pa­ny of Sequoia Vot­ing Sys­tems; links to Hugo Chavez; Guyanese pilot linked to Mohamed Atta and the 9/11 hijack­ers.


FTR #633 Miscellaneous Articles and Updates

Mus­lim Broth­er­hood-Al-Taqwa link to Berlus­coni; Eliot Spitzer scan­dal viewed in com­par­i­son to Pal­frey mur­der case; pan-Turk­ist move­ment link to shoot­ing of the pope.


Senior McCain Advisor Helped Arrange Rev. Moon Coronation

Filed by Nick Juliano The Raw Sto­ryA bizarre Capi­tol Hill cer­e­mo­ny a few years ago in which the eccen­tric con­ser­v­a­tive pub­lish­er the Rev. Sun Myung Moon declared him­self the Sec­ond Com­ing was orga­nized with help from a senior advis­er to John McCain’s pres­i­den­tial cam­paign.Adver­tise­ment Char­lie Black, a Wash­ing­ton lob­by­ist and McCain con­fi­dant, lent his name […]


Oberweis urged to drop his bid

by Robert NovakCHICA­GO SUN-TIMES Impor­tant Illi­nois Repub­li­cans are urg­ing dairy mogul Jim Ober­weis, who lost the dis­trict pre­vi­ous­ly held by Speak­er J. Den­nis Hastert, to drop out of the com­pe­ti­tion for a full term. How­ev­er, it is unlike­ly Ober­weis would con­sid­er step­ping aside. Ober­weis, who had lost three pre­vi­ous bids for statewide office, won nom­i­na­tions […]


Is Brownback Bringing Opus Dei Into The Senate?

by Bob Geigerhttp://www.democrats.com/node/9220 The Unit­ed States Sen­ate is often called “the great­est delib­er­a­tive body in the world” which usu­al­ly rais­es the bar on the tenor and intel­lec­tu­al con­tent of speech­es giv­en on the floor and for the offi­cial record. Not so for Sen­a­tor Sam Brown­back (R‑KS) who took to the Sen­ate floor last week to […]


God’s Senator

Who would Jesus vote for? Meet Sam Brown­back At the Vet­er­ans Day parade in Empo­ria, Kansas Nobody in this lit­tle church just off Times Square in Man­hat­tan thinks of them­selves as polit­i­cal. They’re spir­i­tu­al — actors and ath­letes and pret­ty young things who believe that every word of the Bible is inerrant dic­ta­tion from God. […]