red rum

So it is finally over, or is it? True, I was wrong about whom I thought would win based on a history of 43 prior white men, but as for my reasoning I was not. This past 22 months has reinforced all of the positions I have laid out in text from my dissertations regarding the economy to why we as human being must obviate race from our lexicon if we can, for although this past week was historic, and the world now see America in a different light, we still see ourselves in the same fashion, well at least many of us do.

First, it is obvious that many folk prefer to emote in contrast to think. I was hard on McCain (but this was ok). Unfortunately I was just as hard on Obama (but for many this was not). I have never approached any subject matter with respect to feeling with the exception of family, my children and how I would treat my woman. Oh, and food. But with respect to politics, I have never based any decision on feeling. This has lead me to understand than many folks make selections based on feeling when I make my as a function on thinking. For I know that if there was no TV or Radio, and folks were forced to read the history and positions of the Republican and Democratic selections for this past election – you would have seen that there were basically no difference between the two and that they were more similar than dissimilar. I also learned that many folks tend to vote for the individual whereas I vote for the policy positions.

True Obama won, and I’m pleased with that, but American may be in the same position historically it has always been. Texas, Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi, Georgia, Utah, Montana and Idaho among others still remain GOP and in strong support of the divisive politics that have historically been a function of race (many in the South). And I know folks don’t like to use history to project future speculation and to form opinion – but I do. These states have been red for the longest and no end seems to be coming soon.

I feel that yes this is historic, but also may reflect a change – a regression for many back to the time before the civil rights movement. Yes, 40 years ago a great man was killed for bringing change. I just don’t know what will be, given what i feel will be major conundrums quick fast and in a hurry for the new president jones:

• Russia: This may be the first head bump for Jones. Russia (Putin) is making a fat cat move to buy allegiance from Latin American states that are right in our own backyard. Plus they mad because of our decision to deploy elements of a missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic. So as a result, they have decided to place some similar equipment in Cuba – or so they say.
• Economy: Many would like to infer that Obama’s victory brought back extreme volatility to the market, with the Dow Jones industrials falling 480 points and the major indexes tumbling more than 5 percent. After Tuesday night. True some may be pulling loot out as a form of fear, but truth as I have written before, this will continue for a couple of few administrations, irregardless of who had won. He will have to tackle this and his tax cuts, during a recession don’t make much micro or macro economic sense, but it sounds good to the voter. So he will need to foster the gumption to show how smart folk really think he is, for short term tactics as taking loot from the rich wont pay for nothing, nor do jack, when the deficit is approaching a trillion dollars; oh and did I say he wont be able to end the war as quickly as he proposed?
• Middle East: It will be difficult for Obama to end the war as he said. Especially since his chief of staff was one of the folks that assisted and motioned that we start a war with Iraq and has a desire to start one with Iran – Israeli Rahm Emanuel. Emanuel, the fourth-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives as the Democratic Caucus chairman, will be returning to the White House, where he served as a political and policy adviser to Clinton.

Which brings me back to thinking over feeling. I as many feel that America has changed. But looking the states that McCain carried, what I call the redrum states to honor one of my favorite movies of all time, the Shining, it won’t be easy. These folks will fight tooth and nail against him, even when it may benefit the commonwealth. For unfortunately, his victory has also brought back the zealots, the folks if they don’t like the color of your skin, will post up outside your crib and chase you with an ax and string you up from a tree. Yes this is historic, but the history he has fostered via victory, has only begun. Let’s just hope it does not assist in bring back the attitudes many thought were no more, and that some as myself – feel are merely dormant.

Had a ball talking politics with 12kyle at shop yesterday.

Crossposted from Torrance’s blog RawDawg Buffalo.

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I direct your attention to..

The man behind the curtain, John McCain. His name is at the top of the ticket and all the literature and ads the campaign puts out. The buck stops with his friggin ass.

And that doddering ole fuck needs to get a firm grip on reality. His campaign is spiraling out of control. People are talking major shit and make no mistake..its all shit. He acts like he is above the fray, but baby….its you on the line..your entire career is on the line.

And I wonder how in the hell it will survive this smarmy-friggin-campaign dude.

I really do. Because if you, John Sidney McCain aren’t the man behind the curtain..he’s fucking you bad dude..seriously.

In other news, Clyde is sans lampshade and much happier. If we can just get him to quick licking his ass all will be right in the world..or that small part of it.

Thank Gawd for feline tramadol..who knew?

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next stop – martial law

Alright Jones, recess is over, but Re-cess-is-on, so fuc the dumb shit. And before I go any further, would like to formally request that all bich azz ni double G a’s leave the room. I will wait. Now as you may have concoursed, I take pride in rumination and critical thought – that is to say beyond thought just to think. Meaning I’m not a pedantic. Nor have I ever considered myself to be a prognosticator, nor have I ever had the desire to tell some one that they would fuc they momma and kill they daddy as the Sooth Sayer did informed Oedipus in Oedipus Rex. Although I did attempt in vain for the past 16 months to acquaint readers with the anticipated collapse of the US financial sector, and maybe even the government. Now I got one more for you in two words – martial law.

Martial law has been defined as: military rule that is imposed on a civilian population when the civil authorities cannot maintain law and order, as during an emergency. If such occurs, based on my knowledge of some past Executive Orders, we can expect that: all communications media will be seized by the Federal Government including radio, TV, newspapers, telephones, and the internet. Meaning no More making of the band or Reality TV (not even twitter), for they will be under federal control. Hence, the First Amendment will be suspended indefinitely (Executive Order 10995). Executive Order 11000 states that all civilians can be used for work under federal supervision. Executive Orders 10998 and 10999 state that all food resources, farms and farm equipment will be seized and that all forms of transportation will go into government control.

Yes martial law can be declared even if the STOCK MARKET crashes. Now true, martial law aint exactly mentioned in the Constitution, but the suspension of habeas corpus is in Article 1, Section 9, and the activation of the militia in time of rebellion or invasion is in Article 1, Section 8. Article 1, Section 9 states, “The privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.” Habeas corpus basically says that a person may not be held by the government without a valid reason for being held.

Add to that the facts that the Feds got a little practice in 2005 during Hurricane Katrina after it hit New Orleans. Folk here also know that Beginning in 1999, the government negotiated into a series of single-bid contracts ($385 million) with Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) to build detention camps at undisclosed locations INSIDE the United States. The KBR contract is part of a Homeland Security plan titled ENDGAME.

If one of these centers/sites/camps aint been built around your area, no fear, they will likely use the Post Office. I mean next time you go to the Post Office (in pic) look in the back and see if they got fencing with barbed wire on top that can be locked and gated – LMBAO. Plus we already know (at least I do) that the A much discussed and circulated report, the Pentagon’s Civilian Inmate Labor Program, was updated for developing a “template for developing agreements” between the Army and corrections facilities for the use of civilian inmate labor on Army installations.” And to top it off, the current President, signed into law Public Law 109-364, or the “John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007” (H.R.5122) (2) on October 17th, 2006, in a private Oval Office ceremony, allows the President to declare a “public emergency” and station troops anywhere in America and take control of state-based National Guard units without the consent of the governor or local authorities, in order to “suppress public disorder.”

Now I aint trying to scare nobody, but as I said in the first paragraph, I take pride in rumination and critical thought. So yawl enjoy the debate, I aint watching. I mean like Obama but he is disappointing and cant see the forest for the trees – meaning, he cant see that no matter what he does, we in this economic mess for the next ten years at a minimum. And McCain, he has PTSD. Have read each and every proposal and plan both have put out – I mean them ALL. So enjoy the debat and I betcha by golly wow, no one mentions or talks about the likelihood of the suspension of Habeas Corpus, but recant, your folk here did, just like I told yawl for the last 16 months what was gone happen to our economy, even naming banks that was gone fail before they was on the news. Ignorance and freedom is incompatible. So no post until Friday or Saturday folk – so marinate on this jones mane, fore real though, for the next stop, like the MARTA train, maybe martial law.

PS: Good look for awarding me the Black Weblog Award for best blog on politics 2009.

Crossposted from Torrance’s blog-RawDawg Buffalo.

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McCain now tries to calm his hysterical supporters

After a few weeks of calling Obama everything dirty and unpatriotic under the friggin sun, McCain has finally seen th fruits of his labor and doesn’t like what it represents. Watch him defend Obama. Then watch the crowd BOO’ing him for defending Obama. Sick fucks. If you haven’t watched the great unwashed masses that support John McCain, check out the video on the sidebar…its a REAL treat.  From the YouTube description of this video:

Hatred and Ignorance is burning into the McCain campaign. McCain rallies have become a mixture of Limbaugh, Hannity and O’Reilly ideals and values meaning that is has become racist, xenophobic and comprised only of lies and smears. The have become hate fests and are looking more and more like clan rallies.

Alternet has a good read up about the BIPARTISAN concern of McCain’s latest tactics. Just a couple of choice money quotes for ya’all:

“I accuse you of deliberately feeding the most unhinged elements of our society the red meat of hate …”

“And from a purely practical political vantage point, please find me a swing voter, an undecided independent, or a torn female voter that finds an angry mob mentality attractive.”

“There is this free floating sort of whipping around anger that could really lead to some violence. I think we’re not far from that.”

“Stop! Think! Your rallies are beginning to look, sound, feel and smell like lynch mobs.”

All of these quotes above are from REPUBLICANS. Read the Alternet article for more outrage.

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How many times did McCain say “My Friends” last night?

Twenty-four according to this from the LA Times. That includes the singular use of the word. From the LAT writeup:

It is the most pronounced verbal tic in modern American politics – John McCain’s incessant use of the phrase “my friends.”

For months, it has provided blog fodder. During the Republican National Convention, it spawned a truly inspired Slate offering from Paul Collins, who traced the phrase’s use through the ages (one of his conclusions – “as a crowd bludgeon in modern political speechmaking, ‘my friends’ can be laid at the feet of one man: William Jennings Bryan).

Occasionally, it’s been reported that aides have advised McCain to curb his use of the line. But clearly, that’s a losing battle – in Tuesday’s 90-minute town hall encounter with Barack Obama, the Republican uttered “my friends” or “my friend” (directed at a specific questioner) 24 times.

It’s a damn shame that the Republican running for President condescends to pretty much everyone. His use of the word can many times be taken as condescending…add that to his temper…and you have a man unfit to lead.

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The real John McCain-Maverick my ass…

Great read from Tim Dickinson on Rolling Stone via TO. It’s called Make-Believe Maverick. An excerpt:

There’s a distance between the two men that belies their shared experience in North Vietnam – call it an honor gap. Like many American POWs, McCain broke down under torture and offered a “confession” to his North Vietnamese captors. Dramesi, in contrast, attempted two daring escapes. For the second he was brutalized for a month with daily torture sessions that nearly killed him. His partner in the escape, Lt. Col. Ed Atterberry, didn’t survive the mistreatment. But Dramesi never said a disloyal word, and for his heroism was awarded two Air Force Crosses, one of the service’s highest distinctions. McCain would later hail him as “one of the toughest guys I’ve ever met.”

Dramesi knows the real McCain and its not one of a Maverick. Let me leave you with this, also from the article:

In its broad strokes, McCain’s life story is oddly similar to that of the current occupant of the White House. John Sidney McCain III and George Walker Bush both represent the third generation of American dynasties. Both were born into positions of privilege against which they rebelled into mediocrity. Both developed an uncanny social intelligence that allowed them to skate by with a minimum of mental exertion. Both struggled with booze and loutish behavior. At each step, with the aid of their fathers’ powerful friends, both failed upward. And both shed their skins as Episcopalian members of the Washington elite to build political careers as self-styled, ranch-inhabiting Westerners who pray to Jesus in their wives’ evangelical churches.In one vital respect, however, the comparison is deeply unfair to the current president: George W. Bush was a much better pilot.

Doesn’t really say much about both McCain and Bush43 does it?

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David Sirota on Rachel Maddow last night.

 
Rachel was on after the debate last night and had David Sirota on to blast McCain’s lies and bullshittery in the debate. There was a shitload of em, lemme tell ya.

From Sirota, the facts vs the McSame lies and half-truths:

MCCAIN CLAIM: ”American business pays the second-highest business taxes in the world…”

FACT: Page 42 of this Bush Treasury Department report found that America has the second lowest corporate tax rate in the industrialized world, as a percentage of our GDP (ie. the real way to measure this). Last month,Congressional Quarterly reported: “Most corporations, including the vast majority of foreign companies doing business in the United States, pay no income taxes, according to a Government Accountability Office report released Tuesday.”

MCCAIN CLAIM: ”We’ve got to start also holding people accountable.”

FACT: What about the lobbyists in McCain’s own campaign? What about Phil Gramm, the guy who passed all this deregulation?

MCCAIN CLAIM: ”We have to do is get spending under control in Washington…How about a spending freeze on everything but defense, veteran affairs and entitlement programs”

FACT: Non-defense discretionary spending is at its lowest levels as a share of GDP in a generation, and are projected to be the lowest since the Hoover administration in coming years.

MCCAIN CLAIM: ”We need very badly to understand that defense spending is very important and vital, particularly in the new challenges we face in the world, but we have to get a lot of the cost overruns under control.”

FACT: Minutes later he said we need “a spending freeze on EVERYTHING BUT DEFENSE, veteran affairs and entitlement programs.”

MCCAIN CLAIM: ”I have opposed the president on torture of prisoner – Guantanemo Bay…”

FACT: The Los Angeles Times reported in February that “McCain squandered some of his moral authority by supporting the Bush administration’s position that the CIA should have more leeway than military interrogators” in torturing prisoners. The Boston Globe reported that McCain “had a choice between his principles and propping up a failed president. He chose the latter…McCain, a Vietnam prisoner of war, has long condemned waterboarding as torture, making him more sensitive than President Bush on an issue that stained America’s image. But the Arizona senator and virtual Republican nominee to replace Bush voted against the bill.”

MCCAIN CLAIM: ”If we drill off-shore and exploit a lot of these reserves, it will help, at temporarily, relieve our energy requirements. And it will have, I think, an important effect on the price of a barrel of oil.”

FACT: The U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Information Agency has statedthat the benefits from such drilling would be too small to have any significant effect on oil prices.

MCCAIN CLAIM: ”America is safer today than it was on 9/11.”

FACT: The New York Times reported in 2007: “On Tuesday, in a dark and strikingly candid two pages, the nation’s intelligence agencies offered an implicit answer, and it was not encouraging. In many respects, the National Intelligence Estimate suggests, the threat of terrorist violence against the United States is growing worse, fueled by the Iraq war and spreading Islamic extremism.”

 

I can’t believe how low McSame and his handlers will stoop to lie to the American voters. Its criminal, but all’s fair in love and politics if your a Rethug.

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McCain campaign manager paid by Freddie Mac recently.

Recently as in up until LAST MONTH. From the NYT:

One of the giant mortgage companies at the heart of the credit crisis paid $15,000 a month to a firm owned by Senator John McCain’s campaign manager from the end of 2005 through last month, according to two people with direct knowledge of the arrangement. The disclosure contradicts a statement Sunday night by Mr. McCain that the campaign manager, Rick Davis, had no involvement with the company for the last several years. Mr. Davis’s firm received the payments from the company, Freddie Mac, until it was taken over by the government this month along with Fannie Mae, the other big mortgage lender whose deteriorating finances helped precipitate the cascading problems on Wall Street, the people said.

This bag of batshit has been lying his ass off about Obama and his campaign personnel being tied to Freddie or Frannie. The deal here is this:

Either McCain’s people are lying to him, or the old man just hasn’t got a fucking clue and doesn’t ask the right questions of his managers. Either way, it looks really bad for Johnny. And nothing makes me happier at this point.

McCain and his minions are back-peddaling furiously but the fact remains…Ricky has been collecting money from Freddie Mac to lobby on their behalf. As the NYT states: Mr. Davis took a leave from Davis & Manafort for the duration of the campaign, but as a partner and equity-holder continues to share in its profits. (emphasis mine)

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John McCain and the POW/MIA coverup

Up at Morse’s blog is an old issue but, that said, this issue needs to be kept in the front of hearts and minds. Why? Because McCain wants to be President, thats why! Sidney Schanberg tells us about McCain, the media and the POW cover up over at The Nation Institute:

John McCain, who has risen to political prominence on his image as a Vietnam POW war hero, has, inexplicably, worked very hard to hide from the public stunning information about American prisoners in Vietnam who, unlike him, didn’t return home. Throughout his Senate career, McCain has quietly sponsored and pushed into federal law a set of prohibitions that keep the most revealing information about these men buried as classified documents. Thus the war hero who people would logically imagine as a determined crusader for the interests of POWs and their families became instead the strange champion of hiding the evidence and closing the books.

Almost as striking is the manner in which the mainstream press has shied from reporting the POW story and McCain’s role in it, even as the Republican Party has made McCain’s military service the focus of his presidential campaign. Reporters who had covered the Vietnam War turned their heads and walked in other directions. McCain doesn’t talk about the missing men, and the press never asks him about them.

The sum of the secrets McCain has sought to hide is not small. There exists a telling mass of official documents, radio intercepts, witness depositions, satellite photos of rescue symbols that pilots were trained to use, electronic messages from the ground containing the individual code numbers given to airmen, a rescue mission by a special forces unit that was aborted twice by Washington-and even sworn testimony by two Defense secretaries that “men were left behind.” This imposing body of evidence suggests that a large number-the documents indicate probably hundreds-of the US prisoners held by Vietnam were not returned when the peace treaty was signed in January 1973 and Hanoi released 591 men, among them Navy combat pilot John S. McCain.

What is really pathetic and incredibly ironic is McCain has made a living off his POW status and his patriotism. Yet this bag of batshit displays no patriotism whatsoever when it comes to the families of these missing soldiers. FOIA requests to shed sunlight on the report which includes information on the PAVE SPIKE program and these missing men does no good as all the information is still classified top secret.

Top Secret after 35 fucking years? Why would that be?

McCain, still to this day, verbally attacks anyone that tries to reopen this investigation. He attacks them with the zeal and zest of someone that has something to hide. He insults and verbally beats them to a pulp as witnessed by this video up at Morse’s blog:

Delores Alfond wants at the truth, that’s all. She has repeatedly exercised her rights to get at that truth for over 30 years. She has every reason to want the truth to come out whereas McCain evidently has every reason to keep it hidden. If you watched McCain bully and berate her in the video above then you understand why this man can not be elected to lead our nation. The National Alliance of Families among others, is still seeking the truth and have felt McCains wrath for doing so. Another blog devoted solely to McCain and his violent bullshittery has extensive information on this topic. From the blog entitled McCain’s Insults:

Members of the two major POW/MIA family organizations know the “real” John McCain and they despise him. They have experienced firsthand his cruel, angry temperament.

In 1996, McCain encountered a group of POW/MIA family members outside a Senate hearing room. The family members were some of the same who worked tirelessly during the Vietnam War to make sure Hanoi released all U.S. POWs – including POW McCain.

McCain immediately began quarreling with the POW/MIA family members, who were eager to question him on the issue of what happened to their loved ones.

Instead showing courtesy and appropriate compassion by answering their questions, the Arizona senator pushed through the group, shoving them out of his way, nearly toppling the wheelchair of POW/MIA mother Jane Duke Gaylor. Her son, Charles Duke, a civilian worker in Vietnam, is among 2,300 American POWs and MIAs still unaccounted for by the communists.

The POW/MIA families, shocked at McCain’s overly aggressive behavior toward Mrs. Gaylor, registered complaints with senate officials.

In an earlier incident involving families of servicemen still MIA, McCain got so angry that he went ballistic.

McCain was advised (Nov. 11, 1992) that Dolores Apodaca Alfond, chairwoman of the National Alliance of POW/MIA Families (her pilot brother Capt. Victor J. Apodaca is missing in action in North Vietnam), was offering testimony critical of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs. He rushed into the hearing room to confront her.

This bag of batshit can not be elected to the highest office in our country. By any and all means necessary, we must wage a fierce battle to keep this fucktard out of that office.

Tags: John McCain, Delores Alfond, National Alliance of POW Families, Senate Select Committee , PAVE SPIKE

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Ten Post Round-Up: Aargh! Edition

I totally slipped up not posting, yesterday.  I had to get a new phone and my dealer hooked me up with the lastest form of crack, also known as the Blackberry (Curve, flavored).  I just want to thank John McCain for making that possible.

I started researchin’ for today’s Ten Post Round-Up and I had this whole “opposite day” theme planned. Then, I realized that today be “International Talk Like A Pirate Day” and decided that I would run with t’ pirate theme instead and save t’ “opposite day” theme for some other day that I will likely forget in t’ future.

In keepin’ with today’s theme, I humbly offer you Rex Smith, Linda Ronstadt and Kevin Kline: Pirates of Penzance – Modern Major General for your enjoyment.

• Palin Stands For Beauties
  

• Bush Administration Appreciates T’ Troops
  

• Obama Totally Stole T’ Idea From Palin!
  

• Parks: Givin’ Hope T’ Homeless Families

• Failure o’ t’ Spectacular Kind be Richly Rewarded

• “Rarely be t’ questioned asked: Is our sprogs learnin’?”

• Spain is not in South America?

• Why Does Palin Hate beauties So Much?
  

• Save Today’s Soft Pansexual Youth!

• Sprogs More Interested In Networkin’ Than Porn

(originally posted at: The Sirens Chronicles)

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John McCain-Unforgettable

I would like to thank Jill Greenberg for giving me the idea for this video.

Crossposted at Bring it On! and Leftwing Nutjob.

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McCain and the immigration wingnuts.

McCain and Palin will say whatever it takes to get elected. From Real News Network:

John McCain was an early supporter of comprehensive immigration reform, but in this presidential campaign McCain has changed his position to come down harder on the issue. Many political analysts say he did so to appease anti-immigration activists in key swing states-Arizona, Colorado, Florida, New Mexico, and Nevada. But at an anti-immigration rally in Washington talk-radio hosts and activists said they wanted more promises of border enforcement from McCain before they embrace his candidacy.

All the reichwingers are still making immigrants the bane of our existance and its bullshit. These human beings work hard for what little they make, yet the reichwingers will have you believe they are the root of all of our problems. Ignorant fucks. No one works harder than a immigrant in the fields of the San Joaquin valley…NO ONE! They die on the job and nothing is said or done. It is horrible and evidently legal. Hate-filled rhetoric does nothing to solve the problem of illegal immigration. Treating people has humans first should be the goal.

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A Non-Issue

Before this disappears down America’s short term memory hole, let’s have a look at something most of us didn’t notice last Tuesday. As we were settling back into our ordinary routine, fresh from the Labor Day weekend, Rick Davis, John McCain’s campaign manager, revealed a little secret.

“This election is not about issues,” said Davis. “This election is about a composite view of what people take away from these candidates.”

We can be certain their idea of a “composite view” will not be grounded in reality.

Yes, the public will be shown meticulously staged images of McCain and Palin. The media will be saturated with the commercially sculpted illusions of the Republicans’ competence, history, and above all, character. American voters will be lured into selecting their future leadership from their caricature more than from their character.

Meanwhile:

The war in Iraq is an issue.

The looting of our treasury is an issue.

The destruction of the Constitution and rule of law is an issue.

Energy independence is an issue.

Our jobs and healthcare are issues.

And the Republican’s message is WHAT?

This election is NOT about issues?

Only in Amerika.

Crossposted at Freedom Rants.

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John McCain and saving his political ass..continued..

As I wrote about here earlier in the week, Johnny did more than just cover the ass of his drug addicted wife when he kept her from doing time on either a Federal or State level for her drug problems. He saved his own political career which had recently been rocked by the Keating Five Scandal.

Now, the Washington Post has picked up the story of Cindy and John McCain and their link to Tom Gosinski. Its a must read, but let me leave you a few of the money quotes:

While McCain’s accounts have captured the pain of her addiction, her journey through this personal crisis is a more complicated story than she has described, and it had more consequences for her and those around her than she has acknowledged.

Her misuse of painkillers prompted an investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration and local prosecutors that put her in legal jeopardy. A doctor with McCain’s medical charity who supplied her with prescriptions for the drugs lost his license and never practiced again. The charity, the American Voluntary Medical Team, eventually had to be closed in the wake of the controversy. Her husband was forced to admit publicly that he was absent much of the time she was having problems and was not aware of them.

There are things we would all do for a loved one with a drug addiction to pain killers. I do not hold that against John McCain.Arizona is a no tolerance state, and even the smallest amount of cannabis will cause you major legal problems in AZ.

For people to lose their jobs, their livelihoods and yet Cindy had no blowback…well, only a well-connected husband could insure that.

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John McCain and the DEA…saving Cindy’s behind and his career.

This isn’t about what a husband did to protect his wife. This is about what a man did to protect his political career that had recently taken a huge hit via the Keating Savings and Loan scandal. These are questions that only a handful of people can answer, and two of them aren’t talking. We need to make them talk.

OpenLeft has a very interesting article up today. It’s not so much about Cindy McCain’s theft of drugs, that’s old news. It’s about how Johnny intervened so that his wife wouldn’t have to suffer the consequences of her actions. Just a blurb from Matt Stoller’s writeup:

A whistleblower is coming forth against John and Cindy McCain, and the picture he is painting is not a pretty one.  You’ve probably heard about Cindy McCain stealing prescription drugs from her charity in the 1990s.  Today, Tom Gosinski, her former employee and a close friend of the McCain’s, came out on the record about the entire sordid episode.  And it appears that McCain used his Senate staff and resources to cover up Cindy’s drug use, and potentially to prevent the Drug Enforcement Agency from investigating his wife’s theft of illegal prescription drugs.  John McCain certainly used his political connections to begin a campaign of intimidation against Gosinski, because at the time – this was after the Keating 5 scandal – another major scandal would have derailed his career.  Gosinski stayed quiet out of fear until today; a recent fight with cancer has strengthened his resolve.  As he told me today, if he can beat cancer, he can go on the record regarding how the McCain’s do business.

I find this news nauseating for several reasons. We have seriously ill individuals that find medicinal cannabis helpful in relieving their pain and misery, yet our Federal Government would rather charge and ultimately jail these individuals than allow them to use a natural herb like cannabis.

Cindy McCain never did a day in jail for her transgressions.

If it is found that Johnny McCain did use his office to save his wife’s ass, I would like the world to know about it. Nothing but the truth of course, no innuendo. There are several videos that accompany Matt’s article and  I will include one here, but please…check out the article in it’s entirety to get the full 411 on what strings McCain pulled for his drug-addled wife. Again, from the Stoller article:

There are lots of unanswered questions, but the basic contours of the story are clear.  John McCain used his position as a Senator to help his wife abuse illegal drugs and avoid being searched by customs, and somehow his wife managed to avoid any charges by the DEA or the state (which has mandatory minimums in cases like this) on drug charges despite ample evidence.  Did the DEA or the state not file charges against her because of political pressure?  Did they keep this on the Federal level to avoid mandatory minimums for Cindy McCain because of political pressure from McCain?  Did John McCain and/or his Senate staff tamper with a criminal investigation of his wife and her conspiracy to fraudulently obtain illegal drugs?

Below is Mr.Gosinski on the record:

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