I will start with an old adage: It depends on whose Ox is gored. Let’s carry this forward and visualize the country as everyone’s Ox. Then it depends on what politician will gore the Ox worse, or maybe someone who will protect the Ox. In my opinion Mrs. Clinton and John McCain would gore the Ox in a more harmful manner, and frankly I don’t want my Ox to be harmed in any way.

Turned to MSNBC on Saturday morning. Caught the Morning Joe program. There was one of their supposed journalists named David Schuster - I thought he was going to have a stroke defending Mrs. Clinton and defending Bill’s right to attack candidates running against Mrs. Clinton because he LOVES her. If he loved her, he wouldn’t be running around with his fly open and a gleam in eyes. What he really wants is to be President again through Mrs. Clinton. The morals of this country degenerated badly during his first eight years. Do you want it to be completely demolished by another four years of the Clintons?

Another endorsement for John McCain from a liberal rag in Philadelphia’s. These Democrats sure love John McCain. No wonder - he is one of them, working as a mole in the Republican party. Maybe leopards can’t change their spots, but McCain is sure trying. He talks of Romney being a flip-flopper, however, he is the master of flip-flopping. He reminds me of a cat, during his campaign, busily burying his mistakes. He may bury them, but they are still very smelly to me.

The Democrats are standing by clapping their hands and shouting encouragement. McCain can’t cover up his depriving people of free speech with the McCain/Feingold Act. He can’t cover up his votes against the Bush tax cuts by saying they should be extended. He is undoubtedly a flip-flopper. He can’t cover up his helping the Democrats to make Bush’s judicial nominees subject to filibuster. He can’t cover up his participation in the Keating Five efforts to clear Keating, who used his savings and loans to steal billions, depriving many retirees and citizens of their life’s savings. McCain received thousands of dollars from Keating towards his campaign and was a house guest of Keating in the Bahamas, and he talks of campaign finance reform - ain’t that a hoot?

See attached:

Remember the Keating Five?
McCain’s own standards would have hung him.

Mr. Levin is also president of the Landmark Legal Foundation.
April 5, 2001 9:15 a.m.

For too long, McCain has been given a free pass by the media, which promotes campaign-finance reform to silence other voices, and by his Republican colleagues, who are concerned about alienating McCain given the GOP’s tenuous majority in the Senate.

In John McCain’s America, any politician who accepts a large contribution or gift from a donor, and then takes steps consistent with the donor’s interests — even though there is no legal quid pro quo — is corrupt. Well, then, by his own standard, McCain is corrupt.

McCain was one of the so-called “Keating Five” senators. He was investigated by the Senate Select Committee on Ethics in 1991 regarding the acceptance of favors from Lincoln Savings & Loan Association (Lincoln) and its owner, Charles H. Keating, Jr. Simply put, the issue was whether McCain and the other senators used their official positions to attempt to pressure Federal Home Loan Bank Board officials to go easy on the troubled institution. Eventually Lincoln went bust, costing depositors and taxpayers millions.

In its final report (November 20, 1991), here is what the Senate Select Committee on Ethics concluded about McCain’s conduct:

“Mr. Keating, his associates, and his friends contributed $56,000 for Senator McCain’s two House races in 1982 and 1984, and $54,000 for his 1986 Senate race. Mr. Keating also provided his corporate plane and/or arranged for payment for the use of commercial or private aircraft on several occasions for travel by Senator McCain and his family, for which Senator McCain ultimately provided reimbursement when called upon to do so. Mr. Keating also allowed Senator McCain and his family to vacation with Mr. Keating and his family, at a home provided by Mr. Keating in the Bahamas, in each of the calendar years 1983 through 1986.

“…[F]rom 1984 to 1987, Senator McCain took actions on Mr. Keating’s behalf or at his request. The Committee finds that Senator McCain had a basis for each of these actions independent of the contributions and benefits he received from Mr. Keating, his associates and friends.

“Based on the evidence available to it, the Committee has given consideration to Senator McCain’s actions on behalf of Lincoln. The Committee concludes that, given the personal benefits and campaign contributions he had received from Mr. Keating, Senator McCain exercised poor judgment in intervening with the regulators without first inquiring as to the Bank Board’s position in the case in a more routine manner. The Committee concludes that Senator McCain’s actions were not improper nor attended with gross negligence and did not reach the level of requiring institutional action against him. The Committee finds that Senator McCain took no further action after the April 9, 1987 meeting when he learned of a criminal referral.

“The Committee reaffirms its prior decision that it does not have jurisdiction to determine the issues of disclosure or reimbursement pertaining to flights provided by American Continental Corporation while Senator McCain was a Member of the House of Representatives. The Committee did consider the effect of such on his state of mind and judgment in taking steps to assist Lincoln.

“Senator McCain has violated no law of the United States or specific Rule of the United States Senate; therefore, the Committee concludes that no further action is warranted with respect to Senator McCain on the matters investigated during the preliminary inquiry.”

McCain was the only Republican implicated in the Keating Five scandal, yet today he lectures his party and his president about “the corrupting influence” of money in politics. He rails against the so-called “wealthy special interests” and their ability to buy access to elected officials, yet this is precisely what the Keating Five scandal was all about. And, of course, under McCain’s current standard, a politician who takes a principled position that may benefit a donor is corrupt, even if no law has been violated.

The John McCain of old should be thankful that his political fate wasn’t determined by John McCain the reformer.

He has managed to blunt his effort to give illegal immigrants amnesty by saying “We HEARD the American people and the border comes first.” That isn’t saying what he and Teddy would cook up if he became President. Also, how might he work with the Democrats as he did with campaign finance reform and other things? I know he was a POW, and somehow this makes him a hero - how, I can’t understand.

I was in during Korea and I saw quite a few REAL heroes. I was on an aircraft carrier and our Chief of Commissary was a member of the Bataan Death March, consequently he saw to it that we were the best fed ship in the US Navy. There were thousands who were on this Bataan Death March. Also, there were hundreds of thousands of POWs in World War II held by the Japanese and Germans, and I would say they are all heroes in the same class as McCain.

I have noticed a lot of flailing around by old timers in the Senate and Congress. They can feel their power, in which they glory, being taken away by electing of outsiders, so they are all flooding to McCain. I am sorry to say, but Obama has come up with the best message. That message is change. Time for the old guard to just fade away and let the future happen.

Can you visualize what could happen if all the old timers in the Senate and Congress were to leave and return to the past in which they are mired and let new blood come in to make change and take us to the future? As far as I am concerned, this Congress and Senate we now have are led by a herd of old incumbents who want to continue the same old game they have been playing for years and years.

“What we have here is a failure to communicate” with the American people. We haven’t had a member of the Senate as a President of the USA since JFK, and McCain is no JFK. JFK looked to the future. McCain is mired in the past. He has used the young men and women on the front lines in Iraq and Afghanistan as foils in his campaign, which is DISGUSTING. He is now disseminating lies and chicanery in his campaign. I guess you can see by my writings that I am not a fan of John McCain. If he wins the nomination and runs against Hillary, I WILL stay home. If he runs against Obama, I will vote for Obama.

Now I will cover the media and poll manipulators. As you can see, they are all pushing McCain. I guess they go by the old axiom they prefer the devil they know. Also, he gives them more fodder as a destructive tool against the Republican party. He has delighted in his mantra being a maverick. The media LOVES this! Now he is calling on the Republican voters to vote him in as President. Why SHOULD they?

The media has gotten many, many stories in the past from his antics. We don’t need antics in this country. We need someone working with Congress and Senate for a purpose geared to the future, not to the past. This would be very debilitating to the media, and wouldn’t gain them the stories they love to cover. The media should be a voice of the people, not a voice of support for the old, tired politicians. As you can see, many, many liberal newspapers, or rags (if that’s what you wish to call them) are endorsing McCain. Makes you wonder what engenders this adoration.

John McCain said, on Meet the Press, that he would be the best to unite the Republican party. What a joke! McCain, if he wins the nomination, will split the Republican party and insure a Democratic win and destroy the Republican party. Do you think that the liberal tv media and liberal newspapers, with their love affair with McCain, are not doing this with a purpose? You gotta be kidding! Let’s hope those media outlets will not get their way.

From what I have observed of the Senate, and consequently Senators in the last several years, is that they are obsessed with their power and use it for destructive purposes, not constructive purposes - keeping judges from being confirmed and making a show out of everything they do. Remember the Judge Bork and Clarence Thomas hearings? The worst thing that ever happened to the legislative bodies was when they started covering them with tv cameras. It gives them a chance to preen, pontificate, and pose for the cameras. Also their ability to insert and change whatever they say into the Congressional record should be taken away.

I see a lot of free media coverage given to McCain and Huckabee, but not for Romney. I wonder why. The poll manipulators and how they frame the questions and the results they give are in the main as politically destructive as the old, old Senate and Senators we have at the moment. As far as I am concerned, this Senate works with a closed mind and looks to the past, not to the future. Nuff said.

May God continue to bless the USA.