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Hillary's Brother Meets With McCain Campaign
August 20, 2008 11:56 AM
What the heck is this about?
The Scranton, Pennsylvania, Times-Tribune reports that on Monday, the top economic adviser for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., Carly Fiorina, met with Tony Rodham -- the younger brother of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY -- and some others, including Rodham's wife, at the Dunmore, Penn., home of a political consultant close to the Clinton family, Jamie Brazil.
Brazil is now national director of Citizens for McCain.
This news comes just a few days after former President Bill Clinton praised Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., for his position on global warming.
Boy, I can’t imagine why anyone would think the Clinton family is trying to defeat Obama so Hillary can run in 2012!
Clinton's office did not respond to a request for comment.
- jpt
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While misguided often, but clearly intelligent, I see McCain offering Hillary a spot on the cabinet ...
Might be the best she'll ever do at this point....
Posted by: Jennie | Sep 22, 2008 10:06:21 AM
If McCain wants to run Rezcko commercials, then maybe it's time for a look back at the Keating Five. Hey!!! News Media!!! Sorry to disturb you, but how about letting voters get acquainted with John McCain, the guy who uses the POW narrative as a crutch!
Since we are currently faced with a mortgage crisis, financial institutions failing, credit crisis, lending crisis, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, etc. Let's take a walk down memory lane to another Bush and another financial scandal.
It's relevant. McCain has a record. McCain flip flops a lot, but we don't hear about that. We just get the POW narrative and what a funny sense of humor he has. We hear about the "Maverick"...who supported President Bush 90% of the time.
Why is the news media supporting McCain? It's pretty obvious! My goodness. The news media aired that Paris Hilton and over and over and over again so they could "discuss it." John McCain couldn't have afforded the paid advertising you guys gave him for free.
As for an elitist? John McCain got his own version of Affirmative Action. A wild spoiled kid who's father and grandfather got him into Annapolis...where he graduated 294 out of a class of 300! He crashed 3 airplanes as a pilot, before he became a POW. When he left the Navy, he said he didn't know how to do anything else, so he went into politics. He married a multi-millionaire heiress. Second wife.
His colleagues in the Senate think he is a dangerous, unstable guy with a bad temper. People in his own party think he is unsuited to the office he aspires to. Why hasn't that been covered...over and over and over again?
Posted by: Anon | Aug 22, 2008 10:45:17 AM
Christ, use your heads. If the Clinton's worked for Obama's defeat and McCain won Hillary's political career would be over.
Among other things, remember, President McCain will get probably 2 Supreme Court Appointees.
Posted by: JohnW1141 | Aug 22, 2008 6:50:15 AM
I never trust clintons. It is just impossible.They never staight, never cerain, but always selfish and self-oriented.
To hell.
What is important now to make people understand all danger of McWar.
Posted by: Linda,Fl | Aug 21, 2008 8:15:54 AM
It is upseting to see the unfair vicious attacks Obama has suffered in this race due to his race. It may seem funny to some but we all know this type of behavior will always be seared in America's collective conciousness.All have witness a great person ridiculed because he looks different. People will never admit it publically but God is not asleep.Here we have a constitutional lawyer who respect and loves his counrty. He has been called unpatriotic because he doesn't resemble the chisled faces on Mt Rushmore. Here we have a Christian who has been called a Muslim. Here we have a man who truly loves his family and adores his intellegent wife. McCain didn't even keep his vow to God when cheating on his wife who sustained terrible injuries at the same time he was recovering from injuries in Vietnam-- talk about a lack of compassion. There is no comparison between these men's moral fiber.America will elect the president it deserves and will have to deal with it for longer forever.
Posted by: clarity | Aug 21, 2008 2:23:35 AM
"do you think that Obama's supporters will rally around HRC in 2012"
oooooooh.
OBAMA's backers are making threats; they must be afraid..... very very afraid.
Frankly, I think they have reason to be.
HILLARY OR MCCAIN
2008 AND 2012!
Posted by: between the ears. | Aug 21, 2008 12:48:03 AM
@@@@@Brooklyn Democrat | Aug 20, 2008 5:42:47 PM:
LEAVE CINDY ALONE... UNLESS YOU WANT
MICHELLE IN THE POLITICAL SPOTLIGHT HIGHLIGHTING A NEW CAN OF WORMS!
Posted by: EYES OPENING | Aug 21, 2008 12:44:00 AM
For those that are hoping/wishing/praying for an Obama loss, do you think that Obama's supporters will rally around HRC in 2012?
Remember, what goes around comes around
Posted by: Mary | Aug 20, 2008 9:52:48 PM
do they want her to lose her senate seat?
Hillary's brother doesn't have the best record of keeping his nose clean...
and everyone knows that if Obama loses Hillary chances are will most likely lose her senate seat in New York.-----------------------------------------------
Good luck with that. Some newbie democrat will NOT win NY....
Posted by: patti | Aug 20, 2008 7:19:31 PM
Fact Check -
The Christian Science Monitor debunks the oft repeated McCain story that Mother Theresa personally begged Cindy to take the child. It simply didn't happen. Mother Theresa was in Mexico at the time.
It also debunks her claim that she was "in the very room" where her husband was treated after his captivity in Vietnam. She was not. The Vietnamese would not let her enter it.
Most recently, after continually claiming that she's an only child, one half sister emerged yesterday and another one appeared today.
Ya gotta wonder whether this woman is a serial liar or whether her drug addiction was more serious than anyone's thought.
Posted by: Brooklyn Democrat | Aug 20, 2008 5:42:47 PM
-and everyone knows that if Obama loses Hillary chances are will most likely lose her senate seat in New York.-
How so, by pumping gozzillian $ in ads against her, by dredging Ken Starr CRAP, dusting it off and recycling it (oh, they did that in the primaries), by fraud at the polls, by thuggish intimidation...good luck with trying to tell New Yorkers what to do. NY ain't Chicago.
Posted by: pls go away | Aug 20, 2008 4:02:16 PM
McCain/Hillary '08
The face of the new American Centrist Party.
Posted by: pls go away | Aug 20, 2008 3:57:59 PM
"With all the backstabbing the Democrats did to Hillary and Bill Clinton it would be right for them to back McCain now."
No, it wouldn't. They are first & foremost Democrats! They have nothing in common with the Republican Party, and other than being angry that Obama got the Nomination (McCain wanted to run against Hillary), I don't even think they have that much in common with McCain either. Besides, it would tarnish their respective reputations for posterity and their egos are too big to allow that to ever happen.
I can't imagine them wanting to be as reviled as Joe LIEberman has made himself by turning his back on the Democratic caucus. No, Bill & Hill won't endorse McCain. It would be political suicide.
Posted by: mrspeel | Aug 20, 2008 3:49:03 PM
"Graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard Law School and being Editor of the Law Review....yea, only dummies do that"
"Last June, a record 91 percent of Harvard students graduated summa, magna, or cum laude, far more than at Yale (51 percent), Princeton (44 percent),"
I guess with those odds, it would be surprising if he didn't graduate Magna Cum Laude.
Posted by: Mack | Aug 20, 2008 2:58:46 PM
Rodney-- a,um, you know ,and a,kinda,ah,um yes I think he could.
Posted by: Noah | Aug 20, 2008 2:37:54 PM
got to go gang
the last 8 years we have been living in an era of prosperity due to nafta----minimum wage sucks just like wallyworld.
Posted by: rodney | Aug 20, 2008 2:36:30 PM
noah
dont ask mccain about his diploma------he would not know what you are talking about---do you think he could spell the word..
Posted by: rodney | Aug 20, 2008 2:30:26 PM
Partisan arguing aside, I truly worry what the Clintons are going to get up to. It can't be good, and they've been way too quiet lately... The calm before the storm? I mean, who *cares* about what's best for the country, whatever that may prove to be? It's all about perpetuating a legacy.
Posted by: Marty | Aug 20, 2008 2:28:24 PM
Exactly where did Obama rank in his class. Who said so. Wheres the proof? Did he graduate? His diploma is probably in the same drawer as his birth certificate.
Posted by: Noah | Aug 20, 2008 2:27:53 PM
Debra, Debra, Debra!
Poooma is a myth. The "founder" Murphy admited last week on Hardball there are only 900 and they have only raised $50,000. And watch, she will steal that money from those poor, lonely women!
Posted by: Llama in Pajama's | Aug 20, 2008 2:26:18 PM
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