Schakowsky blasts GOP 'smear' of Barack Obama

Hurrah for Schakowsky. Idiocy should be denounced.

Schakowsky is the one doing the smearing.

Her remarks are "inflammatory and offensive".

As a resident of Iowa and a Barack Obama supporter, I'm totally disgusted at the remarks made by King. His mouth gives away the fact that he doesn't belong in ANY KIND of public office. I wonder WHAT SCHOOL he went to to end up so STUPID!!! (he probably couldn't get admitted to Harvard if he tried.) I'll be writing to our state newspaper, the Des Moines Register, about him!!! (I bet the people in his district that elected him are "right proud" of him...NOT!!! Hopefully, this will be his last term in office, then maybe he can go back TO SCHOOL and get some SMARTS and learn that there are many diverse people in the world...if he can get that through his ignorant head!!!

As much as I dislike Jan Schakowsky, I do agree with her on this one.

Remember when Republicans feared truly scary things, like death? and now they fear dancing?!?!

You could hardly understand the nutty Republicans sometimes, through their chattering teeth and over the embarrassing odors emanating from their pants, but they used to at least insist that the specter of death be the chit they'd trade things like our Constitutional rights and our civil liberties for.

Perrspectives reminds us of the sad Republican history of pantsbrowning:
http://www.perrspectives.com/blog/archives/000519.htm

Republican nut job King really raises the wuss factor to the Nth degree here, doesn't he? Now Americans can't elect our own president, for fear someone might... DANCE?!?!

To be fair, though, this would be Radical Islamo "dancism".

That's the new test, I guess. A Republican presidency is a success if terrorists don't kill Americans on their watch. But a Democratic presidency fails if anyone dances.

Let 'em dance. Let 'em declare anything they want. I thought if you weren't actually dead, that was a victory for us.

Apparently not enough, though. Gotta have a worldwide war on jubilation before King will be ready to commit to a clean pair of Jockeys.

The kicker is, the Repubs think Americans will think this stuff makes them sound like leaders.

This country would never survive if our history were not littered with such honorable women and men. Thank you Rep. Schakowsky, for your integrity, a trait sorely needed in these unsteady times!

Schakowsky is the one doing the smearing.

Her remarks are "inflammatory and offensive".

Posted by: Eugene Debs | March 10, 2008 8:45 PM

Eugene you must be can't be serious. She is rightly pointing out a series of heinous remarks that were beyond the pale. There is absolutely no comparison.

You are defending the indefensible. Quit while your ahead.

Rep. King is 100% correct!! When Obama tells the world he will immediately pull out of Iraq...of course the terrorists will be dancing in the streets! What radical terrorist would not claim this to be a victory? In fact, they are probably sending campaign contributions to Obama right now! Through Tony Rezko, of course!

Schakowsky is right. But this is not just a smear campaign, it is also a bigoted attack on Islam by equating muslims with terrorists. I'm surprised King didn't also make a slur about Obama's skin color.

Okay, I'll bite. Who is the "Tribune's John McCormick" and what horse does he have in this race? Obama now needs a Tribune somebody or another to rise to his defense? Maybe the Tribune and its John McCormicks should at least pretend to be objective.

That remark by Congressman steven King was below the belt and very irresponsible concerning Senator Obama.I think Congressman Iowan would be better serve with your resignation of your office.

I wrote earlier and I believe it to be true: King has it right. But the dancing in the street works for American interests, not against it.

Just because Arabs would be happier with Hussein Obama doesn't mean that Hussein Obama would sell the U.S. down the river. It only means that the bitter hatred expressed by the current regime would be gone and the world can have hope once again that the U.S. would be a friend of peace, not war.

Karl M.,
Condemn first, comprehend later?
Those were Obama's comments, not McCormick's.

Both comments are out of line, but these pols will say almost anything to get attention.

Rep. King is 100% correct!! When Obama tells the world he will immediately pull out of Iraq...of course the terrorists will be dancing in the streets! What radical terrorist would not claim this to be a victory? In fact, they are probably sending campaign contributions to Obama right now! Through Tony Rezko, of course!

Posted by: joe | March 10, 2008 9:36 PM

Duck and cover, Wingnut joe...and don't forget to be REALLY, REALLY SCARED because the Republic Party is depending on it.

This knuckledragging Wingnuttery entertains me to no end, how the same party (Republican) who trips all over itself to disenfranchise American voters of color is always quick to speculate and demonstrate earnest concern about how al Qaeda would vote, if only we were lucky enough to count them among our native people.

These are just ignorant fools. They are the same suckers that fall for scams of all sorts. They do not know the ground. They do not think and consider rationally. They act from ignorance, fear and greed.

In this case the Republic Party reacted in exactly the way terrorists have counted on since history began. It is judo. Use the weight of a stronger opponent to throw them. In the terrorist's case it is provoke that opponent into self inflicted damage far beyond what you can hope to do directly.

Bush--and, to be fair, the nation--fell for it with results we see now. Except in pure military terms we are far weaker now than before 9/11 and even our military has been eroded terribly.

swore on the bible... if i swore on the quran i dont think id feel obligated to speak the truth... anyways, OBAMA 08

swore on the bible... if i swore on the quran i dont think id feel obligated to speak the truth... anyways, OBAMA 08

Actually Rep. Steve King is correct.

The terrorists would feel they have a friend in The White House because Barack "Hussein" Obama would not be strong on The War on Terror and he belongs to a church that hates Israel.

'Dancing in the streets' is so very correct.

Paulo

Joe: Senator Obama has a wide range of supporters (BUT I'm sure you alresdy KNEW THAT) and did you NOT HEAR that the contributions he received from Rezko were given to charity??? Why don't you save the charges you want to level against him until after he's been CHARGED WITH SOMETHING...if he ever IS!!!

Paulo: what is YOUR middle and last name?? We're WELL AWARE of Senator Obama's, thank you. It sounds as if you have a problem with foreign names...so again...what's YOUR FULL NAME??? I'll bet it's not SMITH or JONES!!! So just what's your point???

Actually Rep. Steve King is correct.
The terrorists would feel they have a friend in The White House because Barack "Hussein" Obama would not be strong on The War on Terror and he belongs to a church that hates Israel.
Dancing in the streets' is so very correct.
Paulo

Posted by: Paulo | March 10, 2008 10:33 PM

I'm not going to tell you this again, Paulo!

Get back in that bed and quit playing on our computer.

Tomorrow is a school day for you, son

Some people are so stupid that, what say really defy human intelligence, which they obviously don't have. Mr. King and other racists: Suppose you are right and the "terrorists" will like Obama so much that they won't hate us anymore, and then they will not be our enemies anymore, right? If we use your logic. Well you are so stupid, I doubt if you actually get it. This is probably just waste of my time trying to teach you the basics of human logic!

"OBAMA SPEAKS"

NOT EVERTHING IS A BLACK THING.

NOT EVERYTHING IS A WHITE THING.

AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF I WIL ANSWER THE PHONE AT 3AM AS LONG AS IT ISN'T VICKI OR SARA. AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF I WILL ANSWER THE PHONE AT 3AM AS LONG AS IT ISN'T ABOUT OJ, BRITNEY OR SOMEONE CAUGHT IN A "HELLO KITTY" MOMENT.

REZKO DOESN'T KNOW R E NZI, R E NZI AND BINGO WASN'T HIS GAME.

MY NAME ISN'T EXXON
MY NAME ISN'T CHEVRON
MY NAME ISN'T AT&T
MY NAME ISN'T LARRY CRAIG
MY NAME ISN'T SPITZER
MY NAME ISN'T FOLEY
MY NAME IS GEORGE BUSH, DICK CHENEY, DAVID ADDINGTON, OR J0SH BOLTEN.

MY NAME ISN'T ON ONE OF 4300 MEN OR WOMEN YOU BROUGHT HOME DECEASED IN IRAQ OVER THE LAST 6 YEARS.

IT'S BARRACK.

NOT SPITZER
NOT REZKO
NOT R E NZI, R E NZI, AND BINGO WASN'T HIS NAME.

IT'S BARRACK!

NOT VICKI, NOT HILLARY, NOT PAXSON, AT&T OR VERIZON.

IT'S NOT "WATERBOARDING"
IT'S NOT "WAR ON TERROR"

IT'S BARRACK!

SCHARWKOSKI! WHICH MEANS WHAT WHERE!

MLD,

The point is Barack "Hussein" Obama is a muslim name and we are at war with Al-Qaida and they are a muslim group of terrorists that want to kill us and B.J. Clinton never did anything to protect us from them in the 1990's and they planned 9/11 for three years under B.J's nose and President Bush decided to fight back vs. talk tuff on T.V. like B.J did, and we're winning the war on terror because of Bush and if Barack "Hussein" Obama gets elected they will be dancing in the streets because Obama will pull our troops out and they, the terrorists, will WIN!

Duhhhhh!

What's your middle name M.L.D? Does the (L) stand for Larry or Lunatic?

Paulo

Maybe Jan and the wackos from evanston who keep sending her to congress should be more concerned about the check-kiting scheme her husband's writing out of her family checkbook. Representative King, unlike her, doesn't have a check-kiter and convicted felon living under his roof. Robert Creamer, Schakowsky's husband, is still serving house arrest for his crimes.

Until this woman can stop consorting with people who rip off the taxpayers then her opinion on everything in government shouldn't be worth the air she wastes everytime she opens her mouth.

p.s. Anyone who thinks an immediate drawdown of U.S. troops wouldn't be seen as a victory for Al Qaeda in Iraq is kidding themselves as much as a wife who finds no money in her joint checking account at the end of every month despite her job in congress and her lobbyist husband's $100,000 salary.

Kinda funny we the west criticize middle names.

How many of you know where your last names come from, your first?

I am not asking why your parents chose the name, but more along the lines of their origins.

So yeah his last name is hussien, but then again how many German born Americans really know that their last name was originally Hitler because Hitler was very prominent German surname for along time...

but then again this would be using logic...something uniquely Un-American i suppose.

We can tolerate a person who stresses Obama's opposition to the war when trying to illustrate a point about national security. Someone like this King of Crap, leaning heavily on the Hussein angle, is nothing more than a third grader who reaches for the height of wit by finding clever rhymes for the names of classmates who threaten him. Shelly Smelly, say. Or Julie Drooly. (Ha! Take that third grade crush who rejected me on the field trip to the zoo! I just torched your ass in a national forum!)
See? Same thing.

Posted by: Paulo | March 11, 2008 1:08 AM

The terrorists have already won, thanks to George Bush. He did exactly what Osama bin Laden wanted. He was bullied into waging an unecessary and immoral war in the name of the "war on terror". And,thus, let bin Ladeb slip right through his fingers and open up more expansive training grounds for AlQaeda in Iraq.

If the terrorists think they will have a "freind" in Obama when he becomes president, good. It will give them a false sense of security that will allow us to wage a much more efficient war on terror.

And can we stop all this rediculous talk how if we "pull out" the terrorists will claim victory. If we pull out in 10 years, 50 years or 100 years (John McCain) the terrorists that are left will still claim victory. That is what makes the "war on terror" difficult. And why different strategies other than the military must be examined.

This is a different kind of "war". Since terrorism is not a "state" and does not have a government, there will not be a "surrender", in the true sense of the word. Noone is going to sign a treaty like at versaille or apamattox or wherever else wars had ended.

This is exactly the fear the the republicans are using. Fear of a "never ending" war. So they can keep their war machines trouncing the countrysides of the world forever.

Maybe Jan and the wackos from evanston who keep sending her to congress should be more concerned about the check-kiting scheme her husband's writing out of her family checkbook. Representative King, unlike her, doesn't have a check-kiter and convicted felon living under his roof. Robert Creamer, Schakowsky's husband, is still serving house arrest for his crimes.

Posted by: Jeff | March 11, 2008 1:49 AM

This from a sycophant who idolizes a member of the Keating Five, who by the way, still consorts with lobbyists.

So? every politician consorts with lobbyists, including the obamessiah, who has 9 of the federal variety working on his campaign.

As Lincoln said "God must love lobbyists because he made so many of them." Lobbying isn't a federal crime. Neither was Keating Five, which the ethics committee said McCain and John Glenn were minimally involved in. Running a check-kiting scheme, though? Oh yeah, that'll put you in prison. Especially when you continue to accept your $100,000 a year salary from an organization that's out of money.

Paulo's mom:

What was his grade in English last semester?? Seems like he must not have been in class the day they discussed punctuation.

So? every politician consorts with lobbyists, including the obamessiah, who has 9 of the federal variety working on his campaign.

Posted by: Jeff | March 11, 2008 9:16 AM

Hypocrite Jeff, drop the sanctimony. McCain's feet are made of clay like every other politician. Since you must bring up the past offenses of those you hate ( and their relatives), let's please not omit Bush-lite McCain. Is his slogan, Vote for me, Bush and I were separated at birth?

Obama frequently comments that his father was raised Muslim but was an athiest when Obama was born. This is important because just as Jews hold that a child born to a Jewish woman is Jewish, Muslims hold that a chld born to a Muslim father is Muslim. It is not up to the child: if the child renounces Islam, the child -- if male -- is allowed to reach adulthood and is then killed if the son still refuses to accept Islam. What Rep. King was hinting at is that Muslim's might take Obama's name to indicate a Muslim father with the resultant theological problems.

The apostasy of Obama's father needs to be widely publicized in the Muslim world to avoid this problem.
If Obama is aware of this theological dimension he should have leveled with the American people. And then the American people should have ignored the problem because Obama is Christian and in America we get to choose our religion.

To learn more go to the Wikipedia article on Apostasy in Islam.

I abhor Rep. King's policies but he is hinting about a real potential problem.

Jeff, if Shakpowsky's husbands crimes make her unfit for office in your sage opinion, does Cindy McCain's pill popping and theft of prescription drugs from a charity make John McCain unfit for office? After all she still lives under his roof , right? Why didn't he kick her to the curb, like you advocate?

http://www.azcentral.com/news/specials/mccain/articles/0301mccainbio-chapter8.html

"Cindy McCain, 40, told them that she had been a drug addict for three years. From 1989 to 1992, as the Keating Five made headlines, she was addicted to Percocet and Vicodin. Worse, she had stolen pills from the American Voluntary Medical Team, a relief organization that she founded to aid Third World countries."

When's McCain going to stop consorting with a woman who stole from a charity? Until he does anything he says won't be worth the air that comes out of his mouth.

abhor Rep. King's policies but he is hinting about a real potential problem.

Posted by: Anna | March 11, 2008 10:41 AM

Anna your comments are horrible. Truely the ramblings of a VERY small minded person. Though eloquent, they wreak of smear tactics. You are no better than Rep. Steve King. The tactics of you and your kind are becoming more and more obvious. Geraldine Ferraro would be proud of you!!!

The difference, Michael, is that Cindy and John have both admitted what she did was wrong and Cindy quickly sought and got help. Schakowsky and Creamer, meanwhile, continue to operate under the fiction that what he did was somehow noble. You love that word "consorting," don't you? Cindy's been clean since 1992 and has repaid any debt to her charity a thousandfold.

Schakowsky on her check-kiting husband: "He is innocent," she said this in a statement in 2005 after he was indicted. McCain NEVER claimed Cindy was innocent. She admitted what she did was wrong and got help.

Schakowsky at Creamer's sentencing: "More than anything, I am proud of who Bob is. ... He has been a constant crusader."

That's right, he was stealing that money for the poor! He's Robin Hood!

The fact that Schakowsky sat on the board of the Illinois Public Action Fund (the group Creamer used to kite his checks) also says she's incompetent as an overseer. McCain never had any oversight over Cindy's charity.

The Creamers have never shown any remorse or contrition for what a federal prosecutor called Creamer's "serial bank and tax fraud" and they are NOT people who need to steal.

These are rich, politically-connected democrats from Evanston. That they steal from a fund entrusted to them and then refuse to show any remorse once they've been caught shows their arrogance. Creamer improperly used $2.3 million in the '90s. Don't you think that at least requires an apology to the people he defrauded? Prosecutors said that "Creamer's arguments sounded more like self-promotion than true remorse."

Here's some info about the book Creamer wrote while he was in federal PMITA prison. Still looking for an "I'm sorry for breaking the law" in there somewhere.

Creamer has written a book, Listen to Your Mother. Stand Up Straight: How Progressives Can Win."

Hey, I have no problem with an ex-con writing a book or trying to make a living. But I find it quite humorous that a whole bunch of big-time liberals, such as Sen. Dick Durbin, Jim Hightower, Rep. Jim McGovern, Rep. Lloyd Doggett, and a whole bunch of others fawn over Creamer in their endorsements of his book--and none of them mention his five months in prison last year, nor is that part of his life included in the summary of his public life below.

About those five months in the joint. Federal prosecutors had asked for a three year sentence, but US District Judge James B. Moran took mercy on Creamer. Coincidentally, Moran is the father-in-law of Peter Giangreco, a longtime Illinois Democratic insider who like Creamer, worked on Rod Blagojevich's successful 2002 gubernatorial campaign. Giangreco's endorsement is the first one I list.

To his credit, Creamer writes in his book, "I did much of the preliminary work on this book while spending five months on a forced sabbatical at the Federal Prison Camp at Terre Haute, Indiana."

Ahh, so all is forgiven as long as you admit that you are a pill-popper who stole medicine from needy children and were not punished in any way.

Never mind that no one actually lost any money due to Creamers actions.

Never mind that Jeff has yet again lied in saying that Creamer had never admitted doing wrong or apologized.

"None of this benefited me personally," Creamer added. "I never intended to cause any bank to lose any money -- and no bank ever did lose any money," Creamer said. But, he added, "My actions clearly caused our banks to provide Illinois Public Action the equivalent of a interest-free loan that they did not intend to provide."

"There is no doubt that my actions a decade ago were extremely foolish and placed myself, my family, the organization, and many of those who worked with me at considerable risk," Creamer said, and he apologized to those harmed by his conduct.

"Bob made mistakes along the way, mistakes that he has admitted to and apologized for today. He is fully prepared to accept the consequences of his actions, and I am ready to stand by him," she said. "In my heart, I know that these mistakes do not define or diminish this good man or the good work that he has done over the last 40 years and that he will do in the future."

http://www.nbc5.com/politics/4922286/detail.html

We all know better than to expect the truth from Jeff. Giving misleading partial quotes is just par for the course for Jeff, He has no shame or ethics.

These are rich, politically-connected democrats from Evanston. That they steal from a fund entrusted to them and then refuse to show any remorse once they've been caught shows their arrogance. Creamer improperly used $2.3 million in the '90s. Don't you think that at least requires an apology to the people he defrauded? Prosecutors said that "Creamer's arguments sounded more like self-promotion than true remorse."

Posted by: Jeff | March 11, 2008 12:07 PM

Jeffy,

McCain dumped his first wife when he met his second (current) wife and then he used her families wealth to launch his political career.

Your McCain worship makes me want to puke on you.

You want to talk about Obama having 9 lobbyists working for him? How about the fact that McCain has 52 lobbyists working for him and one of them does his lobbying business out of the back of McCains campaign bus, the bus McCain calls the "Straight-talk Express" by the way.

John McCain has 59 lobbyists raising money for his campaign, and yet he said "I'm the only one the special interests don't give any money to."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gEROVh8zK4

Michael, you are full of it! People absolutely DID lose money on Creamer's deal. People that invested in the bank he stole from who expected interest payments on the money they put into that bank! You even quote his BS statement that no one lost money where he ADMITS that the bank lost interest payments that it was owed? Reconcile Creamer's words? The bank never collected interest on the money investors put in it but no one lost money? Are you a normal person?

How dense are you? Read the statements you posted. They show that Creamer and Schakowsky continue to see him as some sort of martyr.

Here's some news for you: when a bank gives you a loan they INTEND to collect interest on it. You even agree to an interest rate. Shocking, I know! It was to Robert Creamer. Cindy McCain took some pills and paid restitution for them. It was stupid and the product of addiction but she was never charged with any crime in connection with it because no crime was committed. Robert Creamer, in contrast, stole money from a bank in the form of interest payments.

You, Michael, are the one with no shame or ethics. You are the one who stands up for the convicted felon who claims he returned all the money he stole from his bank despite the fact that he never repaid the interest that he agreed to.

Here's the money shot that you ignored: "My actions clearly caused our banks to provide Illinois Public Action the equivalent of a interest-free loan that they did not intend to provide."

Oh yeah, Michael, she gets it alright:

Jan Schakowsky on day after Creamer's sentencing: "we'll see if people can distinguish between a person who is trying to keep a public interest organization afloat and made some kind of, made some mistakes..." ("Public Affairs," CANTV, 11/7/05)

"Hopefully now Congresswoman Schakowsky realizes that mistakes don't land you in federal prison, crimes do," National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman Ed Patru said.

Remember, too, that while Creamer was defrauding banks to inflate this "public interest organization" he was also writing checks, as its director, to several political campaigns. One of which was Jan Schakowsky's successful 1998 run for congress. You can't say McCain's entire political career was based on Cindy's episode with addiction.

John, I don't terribly want to talk about lobbyists but Michael and your ilk keep bringing it up as if Obama weren't in deep with lobbyists, too.

When you guys fire all your lobbyists and stop lying about not accepting their campaign donations (and taking the money from wives and law partners) then I'll concede the high ground to you on lobbying. Until then you and your messiah are just another bunch of pigs in the trough.

"Special interest" groups aren't lobbyists. Lobbyists work for special interest groups but many simply bypass them and give directly to the candidates to get favorable legislation like ComEd did with Obama. When McCain says they don't give him any money he's right that they give none directly to him.

I was happy that the messiah and Hillary joined McCain who has for months called for the congressional earmark moratorium for months now. That's progress.

Nice passage from the story: "McCain is among only six members of the Senate who don't ask for pet projects. Obama does, though his requests are generally modest when compared to more senior senators like Illinois colleague Dick Durbin, a fellow Democrat."

"Your McCain worship makes me want to puke on you."

Awesome! The battle on John E's dinner is being won! I want you blowing chunks by 9 PM, you got that?

Stealing Prescription drugs isn't a crime? Really Jeff? Tell you what, go down to your local haspital, grab a bottle of narcotics and walk out the door. Tell me how that works out for you.

The whole point is , my friend, that we should no more expect Shakowsky to turn her back on her husband, and refuse to live under the same roof with him, as you self-rightously demand, than we should have demanded that McCain march Cindy to jail for her theft, rather than helping to cover it up like he did.

is schakowsky's 'husband' robert creamer out of jail yet? he was stealing $5. contributions from elderly women. he is thief and worse.

she signed the tax returns. if we didn't have the empty sack like george bush as president she would have been indicted and imprisoned like creamer. (isn't it cute the way these crooked politicians all use separate names).

she signed the fraudulent tax returns and was on the board of the instiution. she knew what was going on and actively participated.

JAIL HER. she's a socialist and criminal. she encourages stealing from donors

"Your McCain worship makes me want to puke on you."
Awesome! The battle on John E's dinner is being won! I want you blowing chunks by 9 PM, you got that?

Posted by: Jeff | March 11, 2008 4:25 PM

Then you need to come on over here because the only way I'm blowing chunks is if I can do it on your McCain worshipping lap, Jeffy

Of all the Senators who were busted in the Keating scandel John McCain/Bush was the only only who didn't retire or resign eventually.

Power is to important to crazy old man McCain, he's just like Bush but quite possibly even dumber.

Special interest groups aren't lobbyists....if you don't call them that, unfortunately for you the rest of America does call them just that, LOBBYISTS.

McCain was a Founding Member of the Keating Five:
Back in the old days, defendants in famous trials got numbers -- the Chicago Eight, the Gang of Four, the Dave Clark Five, the Daytona 500. McCain was one of the "Keating Five," congressmen investigated on ethics charges for strenuously helping convicted racketeer Charles Keating after he gave them large campaign contributions and vacation trips.
Charles Keating was convicted of racketeering and fraud in both state and federal court after his Lincoln Savings & Loan collapsed, costing the taxpayers $3.4 billion. His convictions were overturned on technicalities; for example, the federal conviction was overturned because jurors had heard about his state conviction, and his state charges because Judge Lance Ito (yes, that judge) screwed up jury instructions. Neither court cleared him, and he faces new trials in both courts.)

Though he was not convicted of anything, McCain intervened on behalf of Charles Keating after Keating gave McCain at least $112,00 in contributions. In the mid-1980s, McCain made at least 9 trips on Keating's airplanes, and 3 of those were to Keating's luxurious retreat in the Bahamas. McCain's wife and father-in-law also were the largest investors (at $350,000) in a Keating shopping center; the Phoenix New Times called it a "sweetheart deal."

Mafia ties:
In 1995, McCain sent birthday regards, and regrets for not attending, to Joseph "Joe Bananas" Bonano, the head of the New York Bonano crime family, who had retired to Arizona. Another politician to send regrets was Governor Fife Symington, who has since been kicked out of office and convicted of 7 felonies relating to fraud and extortion.

Family Problems:
McCain acknowledges that his adultery broke up his first marriage. His second wife Cindy, the daughter of a wealthy Budweiser beer distributor, was addicted to prescription narcotics and even stole hard drugs from a medical charity that she ran. McCain acknowledges that she didn't want him to run, and only agreed once he promised that she doesn't have to go to New Hampshire or Iowa.

http://www.realchange.org/mccain.htm

It looks like everybody here got it wrong. Nobody wants to speak out. Obama has no accomplishments. Cheerio Steve King. Keep it up. At least you have come out with the reality. I hope these liberals here will open their eyes.