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On Feb 2, 4:25=A0pm, jazzerci... [at] hotmail.com (-) wrote:
> http://www.rense.com/general80/strongs.htm
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> Pulling Strings For Senator McCain
> By Joel Skousen
> World Affairs Brief
> 2-1-8
>
> The US political circus is an amazing, if not agonizing, show to watch. Fi=
rst,
> we saw Rudy Giuliani, the establishment's pre-election favorite (only beca=
use
> the media said so) go from front runner status to a disastrous showing in =
the
> primaries--garnering less votes than Rep. Ron Paul, who was systematically=
> denied any meaningful media coverage at all. It appears the public is eith=
er
> fickle or the media polls were just plain lying--perhaps both. Then we saw=
> John McCain with almost no support suddenly rise to front runner status af=
ter
> a barrage of big name newspaper and personality endorsements so unanimous =
that
> there had to have existed some guiding hand. The establishment boost for
> McCain is still ongoing in a big way and is intended to gain McCain a majo=
rity
> of delegates before the convention convenes--which would eliminate a broke=
red
> convention where deals and concession have to be made in order to gain tha=
t
> majority. In an up or down vote between McCain or Romney, without Huckabee=
to
> draw away votes from Romney, McCain would lose. That's what the king maker=
s
> are trying to avoid by manipulating the public during the primaries. It's =
time
> to let America know more about the real McCain. Believe me, he is no hero.=
>
> First, a suspicious view from the Left. British journalist Johann Hari of =
The
> Independent in Britain tells Americans "Don't be fooled by the myth of Joh=
n
> McCain."
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0"A lazy, hazy myth has arisen out of the mists of New Hampshire=
> =A0 =A0 =A0and South Carolina. Across the pan-Atlantic press, the grizzled=
> =A0 =A0 =A071-year-old Vietnam vet, John McCain, is being billed as the
> =A0 =A0 =A0Republican liberals can live with. He is 'a bipartisan progress=
ive,'
> =A0 =A0 =A0'a principled hard liberal,' 'a decent man' --in the words of l=
iberal
> =A0 =A0 =A0newspapers. His fragile new frontrunner status as we go into
> =A0 =A0 =A0Super Tuesday is being seen as something to cautiously welcome,=
> =A0 =A0 =A0a kick to the rotten Republican establishment.
>
> =A0 =A0 "But the truth is that McCain is the candidate we should most fear=
..
> =A0 =A0 =A0Not only is he to the right of Bush [like almost all British jo=
urnalists,
> =A0 =A0 =A0Hari is writing from a leftist perspective, who mistakenly view=
s
> =A0 =A0 =A0socialist and globalist Bush as a radical right winger-because
> =A0 =A0 =A0of his Hitler-like pre-emptive attacks on other nations. In
> =A0 =A0 =A0European leftist terminology, Left is using government power
> =A0 =A0 =A0"for the people" (socialism) and Right is using government powe=
r
> =A0 =A0 =A0"against the people" -at least those on the Left. In US politic=
al
> =A0 =A0 =A0doctrine it's very different, Left is anything furthering gover=
nment
> =A0 =A0 =A0power to restrict liberties and redistribute wealth, and Right =
is
> =A0 =A0 =A0for less government and more individual liberty--strictly
> =A0 =A0 =A0limiting government power to the defense of fundamental rights,=
> =A0 =A0 =A0and banning socialism. At least it used to be that way until
> =A0 =A0 =A0Republicans began shifting to the middle and then to the Left
> =A0 =A0 =A0and still calling it "conservative." Bush is actually center-Le=
ft,
> =A0 =A0 =A0though his rhetoric still tilts deceptively to the Right], he i=
s also
> =A0 =A0 =A0the Republican candidate most likely to dispense with Hillary C=
linton
> =A0 =A0 =A0or Barack Obama.
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0"McCain is third-generation Navy royalty, raised from a young a=
ge
> =A0 =A0 =A0to be a senior figure in the armed forces, like his father and
> =A0 =A0 =A0grandfather before him. He was sent to one of the most elite
> =A0 =A0 =A0boarding schools in America, then to a naval academy where
> =A0 =A0 =A0he ranked 894th of 899 students in ability. He used nepotism
> =A0 =A0 =A0to get ahead: When he was rejected by the National War College,=
> =A0 =A0 =A0he used his father's contacts with the Secretary of the Navy to=
make
> =A0 =A0 =A0them reconsider. He later married the heiress to a multi-millio=
n
> =A0 =A0 =A0dollar fortune [after dumping his first wife who waiting faithf=
ully
> =A0 =A0 =A0for him during his war years].
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0"Right up to his twenties, he remained a strikingly violent man=
,
> =A0 =A0 =A0'ready to fight at the drop of a hat,' according to his biograp=
her
> =A0 =A0 =A0Robert Timberg. This rage seems to be at the core of his
> =A0 =A0 =A0personality: describing his own childhood, McCain has written:
> =A0 =A0 =A0'At the smallest provocation I would go off into a mad frenzy, =
and
> =A0 =A0 =A0then suddenly crash to the floor unconscious. When I got angry
> =A0 =A0 =A0I held my breath until I blacked out.' But he claims he was
> =A0 =A0 =A0transformed by his experiences in Vietnam... His plane was shot=
> =A0 =A0 =A0down on a bombing raid over Hanoi, and he was captured and
> =A0 =A0 =A0tortured for five years [Not all true. He was tortured at first=
, and
> =A0 =A0 =A0then he collaborated with his captors until released].
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0"... He used second his wife's fortune to run to as a Republica=
n
> =A0 =A0 =A0senator. He was a standard-issue Reaganite corporate Republican=
> =A0 =A0 =A0[Reagan had his faults but he wasn't a "corporate Republican."
> =A0 =A0 =A0The Left still hates Reagan] until the Keating Five corruption
> =A0 =A0 =A0scandal consumed him. In 1987, it was revealed that McCain,
> =A0 =A0 =A0along with four other senators, had taken huge campaign donatio=
ns
> =A0 =A0 =A0from a fraudster called Charles Keating [would had insider
> =A0 =A0 =A0connections with government]. In return they pressured
> =A0 =A0 =A0government regulators not to look too hard into Keating's
> =A0 =A0 =A0affairs, allowing him to commit even more fraud. McCain later
> =A0 =A0 =A0admitted: 'I did it for no other reason than I valued [Keating'=
s]
> =A0 =A0 =A0support.' [Keating and others were part of a wider insider
> =A0 =A0 =A0group of government supporters who were promised a kind
> =A0 =A0 =A0of unspoken immunity in exchange for steering campaign
> =A0 =A0 =A0contributions to politicians the PTB support -- like John McCai=
n --
> =A0 =A0 =A0a process still going on today].
>
> McCain took the only course that could possibly preserve his reputation: H=
e
> turned the scandal into a debate about the political system, rather than h=
is
> own personal corruption. He said it showed how 'we need to drive the speci=
al
> interests out of Washington,' and became a high-profile campaigner for
> campaign finance reform [which had very negative effects on independent
> political free speech and almost no effect on the big lobbyists]. But
> privately, his behavior hasn't changed much. For example, in 2000 he lobbi=
ed
> federal regulators hard on behalf of a major campaign contributor, Paxson
> Communications, in an act the regulators spluttered was 'highly unusual.' =
He
> has never won an election without outspending his opponent.
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0"But McCain has distinguished himself most as an =FCber-hawk on=
> =A0 =A0 =A0foreign policy. To give a brief smorgasbord of his views: at a
> =A0 =A0 =A0recent rally, he sang 'Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran,' to the tun=
e
> =A0 =A0 =A0of the Beach Boys' 'Barbara Ann.' He says North Korea should
> =A0 =A0 =A0be threatened with 'extinction.'
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0"These beliefs drive McCain today. He brags he would be happy
> =A0 =A0 =A0for U.S. troops to remain in Iraq for 100 years, and declares: =
'I'm
> =A0 =A0 =A0not at all embarrassed of my friendship with Henry Kissinger; I=
'm
> =A0 =A0 =A0proud of it.' His most thorough biographer -- and recent suppor=
ter
> =A0 =A0 =A0-- Matt Welch concludes: 'McCain's program for fighting foreign=
wars
> =A0 =A0 =A0would be the most openly militaristic and interventionist platf=
orm in
> =A0 =A0 =A0the White House since Teddy Roosevelt...[it] is considerably mo=
re =A0
> =A0 =A0 hawkish than anything George Bush has ever practiced.'"
>
> Scary. McCain is no true conservative. As I have documented in prior
> briefings, McCain is an expert at playing up his POW hero image to campaig=
n
> against government use of torture, and then quietly worked out an anti-tor=
ture
> piece of legislation which actually permits torture in the fine print. McC=
ain,
> like John Kerry also served on Congressional committees to whitewash the
> government investigation into POWs and MIAs left behind in Vietnam, Laos, =
and
> Russia (where hundreds were sent for mind control drug testing, according =
to
> Jan Sejna, a former major general in the Czechoslovakian Army who defected=
to
> the United States in 1968 and provided valuable intelligence on the Soviet=
> Union).
>
> One blogger named "Dan" offered up this list on the internet about John
> McCain's abysmal record as a "conservative:"
>
> IMMIGRATION: he wrote the bill granting amnesty to illegal immigrants
> (co-sponsored by Ted Kennedy)
>
> SOCIAL SECURITY: he voted to give your social security money to illegal
> immigrants
>
> TAXES: he voted against the Bush tax cuts multiple times (but still campai=
gns
> as a lifelong tax-cutter)
>
> FIRST AMENDMENT: he wrote the McCain-Feingold campaign finance bill that w=
as
> declared to be an unconstitutional infringement of the 1st Amendment
> (co-sponsored by ultra-liberal Democrat Russ Feingold)
>
> SECOND AMENDMENT: he was called the 'worst 2nd amendment candidate' by the=
> president of the NRA
>
> ENERGY TAX: wrote a bill (co-sponsored by his buddy Sen. Joe Lieberman)
> imposing a massive tax on energy which, according to the Department of Ene=
rgy,
> would drastically raise the price of gasoline.
>
> GLOBAL WARMING: supports radical global warming legislation
>
> JUDGES: he joined with Democrats (Gang of 14) to block the Senate Republic=
an's
> attempt to confirm conservative, strict constructionist judges.
>
> GAY MARRIAGE: he joined liberals to fight against a federal marriage amend=
ment
>
> CHRISTIANS: In 2000, he famously described Christian leaders as 'agents of=
> intolerance'
>
> ABORTION: he filed an amicus brief against pro-life advocates in Wisconsin=
>
> BI-PARTISANSHIP: he met with leading Democrats in 2004 to discuss the
> possibility of being John Kerry's VP.
>
> ETHICS: ringleader of the infamous Keating 5 ethical scandal which cost US=
tax
> payers $160 billion
>
> PERSONAL: McCain cheated on his first wife after she had a severe accident=
.. He
> then divorced her and married his multi-millionaire mistress, whose daddy
> bought McCain a spot in the Congress.
>
> With all of this, establishmen king-makers have their hands full trying to=
> turn sow's ear into a silk purse. As John M. Broder writes, "Mr. McCain, w=
ho
> has delighted in sticking his thumb in the eye of mainstream Republicans
> throughout his political career, is now accumulating a base of support amo=
ng
> party regulars who see him as the strongest general election candidate in =
the
> remaining Republican field."
>
> This is not true at all. McCain's support comes almost exclusively from th=
e
> same insiders who were promoting Giuliani. They all switched to McCain whe=
n
> someone gave them the signal that Giuliani wasn't going to make it (too ma=
ny
> corruption scandals revealed and more on the way), and they needed to make=
> sure Romney didn't accrue the remaining Republican support.
>
> I don't pretend to know who's making these calls that direct these perfect=
ly
> timed endorsements, but I know something is going on behind the scenes tha=
t is
> "too good to be true" to be natural. Consider:
>
> All six major newspapers that gave any endorsement just prior to the Iowa
> caucus and New Hampshire primary (and they did so within a day of each oth=
er)
> came out for McCain who was polling in last place. None for Giuliani, the
> front runner? None! There were no other endorsements for any other
> Republicans. There was even an anti-endorsement of Romney. That's unheard =
of.
>
> __________
>
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