Posted on 04/01/2010 7:38:50 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
In May 2001, we went to Phoenix, Arizona, to report on the porous Southern border. As part of that program, I interviewed Sen. John McCain and told him that the only way the border could be secured was to use U.S. troops. The senator disagreed:
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, R-ARIZ.: I do not favor using troops because they are not trained for it. They don't have the kind of qualifications necessary. I have strongly favored us using all the technical equipment that our military has including satellites, including aircraft and other technical means.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
Well now Mr. McCain has changed his mind, finally. But it took a terrible tragedy.
Arizona rancher Robert Krentz, 58, was found shot to death on his own property. Mr. Krentz leaves behind a wife, three kids and two grandchildren. His family had been ranching in Arizona since 1907.
Police suspect the murder was committed by an illegal alien who then fled back to Mexico. Authorities say they followed the man's footprints for about 20 miles until the trail stopped at the border.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
McPain’s a RINO. RINO’s are Leftists as much as any other Leftist. Leftists lie. Leftists lie like “H”, and tell you what you want to hear until they gain what they want, which in politics such as this is political office for the power they seek.
McPain will do as always, and that is lie like a Leftist, in this case to REgain the office he has, and then do as he wants rather than do as his constituents want him as a representative to do.
McPain has to go. His time is long past.
April fools...
Thanks Johnny. We changed our mind on you also. Buh bye.
Another one... it’s going to be a long day. ;-)
No, but you bring up a great point: How can McCain be all bad, if he can sire a daughter with a rack like that?
“it’s going to be a long day. ;-)”
Yes, it is.
It’s as good a time as any to dig this out about McCain. It appeared briefly during the 2008 campaign, but was ignored. McCain is steeped in money from special interests to push legislation,usually in committees that he heads. His campaign ‘reform’ was really more about covering his big donors and his own corruption.
We know about the Indian money he exempted from his CFR, so they could give him ALL the money he wanted while being head of the Indian senate affairs committee.
Indians, Lobbyists and Arizona Politics...OH MY!’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2440173/posts
Here is some on other donations for legislation.
McCain pressed FCC in case involving major contributor
[snips - read it all]
Days before Senator John McCain joined hands with Senator Bill Bradley last month to decry the noxious influence of special interest campaign donors, McCain pressured the Federal Communications Commission to vote on an issue that cleared the way for a major contributor to his presidential campaign to buy a Pittsburgh television station.
Speaking generally, however, McCain said, ‘’People give money to buy access. We’re all tainted by this system.’’ From time to time, he said, he has agreed to meet with major donors. ‘’They have access, and therefore they have influence. It corrupts the system. And I’m a victim of it too,’’ said McCain, who was ensnared but later cleared in the so-called Keating Five scandal nearly a decade ago. He was one of five senators who interceded with federal banking regulators on behalf of Charles Keating, whose name became synonymous with the savings and loan scandal that cost taxpayers billions of dollars.
McCain’s insistent urging that the FCC vote on the Pittsburgh issue had the effect - if not the intent - of benefiting Paxson, a West Palm Beach, Fla., network of 73 family-oriented stations and the nation’s largest owner of independent television stations. Through the end of September, Paxson’s top officers and their family members - and even the personal assistant to the wife of the company’s founder, Lowell W. Paxson - contributed $12,000 to McCain. In 1998, Paxson officials gave $9,000 to McCain.
And in July, as Paxson lobbyists were asking members of Congress to exert pressure on the FCC, 13 members of Paxson’s law firm, Dow, Lohnes & Albertson, contributed more than $8,000 to McCain on a single day, according to campaign finance records.
Sometime between McCain’s first letter on Nov. 17 and his more insistent letter on Dec. 10, Paxson made its four-engine jet available to ferry McCain and his entourage from New Hampshire to Washington on Dec. 3, a day after McCain declared in a New Hampshire appearance:
Though McCain’s committee has oversight of the FCC, there is no evidence that his May criticism affected the FCC’s decision to allow the mammoth SBC merger. Two weeks later, however, McCain filed legislation to strip the agency of its say in telecommunications mergers.
But on the Pittsburgh issue, officials familiar with the decision said McCain’s involvement was more problematic.
Now that GH has been outed as a ‘April Fool’s day troll’ after giving some of us a scare I am wondering “Where are all the John McCain supporters today?” . Seem’s like John (JM) must have some redeeming qualities even though we can’t think of them at the moment.
No it didn't...that's B.S. and typical weasel-like politics.
It took a real challenge to his Senator seat...for McLame to change his mind.
LOL. I missed her on The View today with the rest of the Nation's Brain Trust. Good thing that table blocks our view. I always worry that some of that show's viewers might vote.
Hey I been meanin to ask you...How come Megyn Kelly never wears a necklace?
I know you meant the incumbent US Senator. Nevertheless, Crist is the incumbent governor. That gives him all the advantages over the political machine that an incumbent US Senator would have had, which his challenger simply can’t have. The point being, Rubio’s surge in the polls over a RINO who had the backing of most of the US Senators, and most of the local political machine, should send a warning to jokers like John McCain that they can be taken down too.
Oh, ok......
If McCain looses the primary, he will run as an independent- guaranteed.
She is on FNC now. Wearing purple.
You are right. The woman she is interviewing is wearing one but she isnt. In fact she is wearing a high neckline dress unlike Meg McCain. I think she likes to be taken seriously, plus a necklace would divert you from her face, which is the purpose of them.
“plus a necklace would divert you from her face, which is the purpose of them. “
That explains Helen Thomas never being without one.
She needs a truck tire for that purpose, yuk!
Well, I don’t think Muslim women wear necklaces. Is there a connection?
“Well, I don’t think Muslim women wear necklaces. Is there a connection?”
Uh, no.
Ever see a Muslim woman with here entire body covered, save for a thin rectangular slit for her to see out of?
I rest mah case!
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