Now THIS is a political E-mail forward I can approve of:

[Pab Sungenis]

Just had this show up in my inbox.

JOHN McCAIN
THE MOST FLAWED PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE IN HISTORY

It is now clear that what is left of the Republicon Party, after being
fatally poisoned by the Bush administration, intents to commit suicide
by nominating Senator John McCain (R-Hanoi) for the presidency. Where
do I start?

THE EARLY YEARS

McCain spent his boyhood in exclusive boarding schools where staffers
were paid to put up with his tirades. We all did some immature things
before we matured. But with McCain, the tirades continue today.

Had he not been the son and grandson of admirals, there is scant
chance he would have been admitted to the U.S. Naval Academy. Given
his behavior patterns and academics, had he not been the son and
grandson of admirals, there is little doubt he would have been thrown
out. Instead, in 1958 he managed to graduate 894 out of 899. Had he
not been the son and grandson of admirals, he is no chance he would
have been accepted into the prestigious naval flight training program
over far better qualified officers. On his way to becoming a North
Vietnamese ace, the aviator lost 3 expensive aircraft on routine, non-
combat flights. Little was made of all that, because he was, you know,
the son and grandson of admirals.

McCain’s most horrendous loss occurred in 1967 on the USS Forrestal.
Well, not horrendous for him. The starter motor switch on the A4E
Skyhawk allowed fuel to pool in the engine. When the aircraft was “wet-
started,” an impressive flame would shoot from the tail. It was one of
the ways young hot-shots got their jollies. Investigators and
survivors took the position that McCain deliberately wet-started to
harass the F4 pilot directly behind him. The cook off launched an M34
Zuni rocket that tore through the Skyhawk’s fuel tank, released a
thousand pound bomb, and ignited a fire that killed the pilot plus 167
men. Before the tally of dead and dying was complete, the son and
grandson of admirals had been transferred to the USS Oriskany.

As a rising naval officer, McCain was surrounded by rumors of numerous
adulterous affairs, such as used to be called “conduct unbecoming an
officer.” Author and biographer Robert Timberg has detailed several of
McCain’s sexual relationships with subordinates when serving as a
Squadron Leader and an Executive Officer. I think we all know such
behavior is a clear violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice,
in other words, a crime.

When McCain’s application to the National War College was rejected,
according to noted author and researcher Joel Skousen, he whined to
daddy who pulled strings with the Secretary of the Navy.

PRISONER OR HONORED GUEST?

McCain’s 5½-year stay at the Hanoi Hilton (officially Hoa Loa Prison)
has ever since been the subject of great controversy. He maintains
that he was tortured and otherwise badly mistreated. One of many who
disagree is Dennis Johnson, imprisoned at Hanoi and never given
treatment for his broken leg. He reports that every time he saw
McCain, who was generally kept segregated, the man was clean-shaven,
dressed in fresh clothes, and appeared comfortable among North
Vietnamese Army officers. He adds that he frequently heard McCain’s
collaborative statements broadcast over the prison’s loud speakers.

On October 26, 1967, McCain’s A-4 Skyhawk was shot down over Hanoi.
The fractures of 1 leg and both arms were reportedly due to his
failure to tuck them in during ejection. According to U.S. News &
World Report (May 14, 1973), McCain didn’t wait long before offering
military information in return for medical care. While an
extraordinary patient at Gi Lam Hospital, he was visited by a number
of dignitaries, including, to quote McCain himself, General Vo Nguyen
Giap, the national hero of Dienbienphu.

Jack McLamb is a highly respected name in law enforcement circles.
After 9 years of clandestine operations in Cambodia and unmentionable
areas, he returned home to Phoenix where he became one of the most
decorated police officers on record. Twice McLamb was named Officer of
the Year. He went on to become an FBI hostage negotiator. This man has
stated that every one of the many former POWs he has talked with
consider McCain a traitor. States McLamb, “He was never tortured…The
Vietnamese Communists called him the Songbird, that’s his code name,
Songbird McCain, because he just came into the camp singing and
telling them everything they wanted to know.” McLamb further quotes
former POWs as saying McCain starred in 32 propaganda videos in which
he denounced his country and comrades.

The Glavnoje Razvedyvatel’noje Upravlenije is the Soviet’s military
intelligence division. Numerous sources confirm that during the Nam
Era, the English-speaking Vietnamese who conducted interrogations of
American prisoners were always overseen by Russian GRU officers. The
ranking GRU officer at the Hanoi Hilton had a multilingual teenage son
who was tasked with translating all interrogation reports into
Russian. He would become known only as T.

According to T who interpreted all interrogations and notes pertaining
to McCain during the latter’s stay from December, 1969, to March,
1973, when a well-fed looking McCain’s was released, privileges were
extended. These included time at a furnished apartment in Hanoi –
furnished with 2 prostitutes. McCain would attribute such absences to
solitary confinement.

It has been widely reported that following his father’s appointment as
CINCPAC Commander-in-Chief of all U.S. forces in the Vietnam theater
of operations, McCain was offered an immediate parole. McCain insists
that he refused such a preference. Others insist that his father
refused to allow such a preference. In any event, such an offer would
have required the approval of the Soviet masters, and T would have
seen documentation. He has no recollection of such an offer.

In 1991 the Soviet Union was in a state of collapse. People and things
were up for grabs. During that thaw, a mass document swap took place
between the KGB and CIA. All T’s translations were included. If these
dots are really connected, it is small wonder that McCain had fought
consistently to keep all files sealed, block any attempts to retrieve
POWs, and establish the friendliest of relations with his former
tormentors.

Imagine the possibilities. A Clintonian leak during the presidential
campaign. Or, in the unlikely event of a McCain victory, blackmail of
the Manchurian Candidate.

It is public record that Admiral McCain was on hand to greet his son
upon return. According to Major Mark A. Smith (USA Retired), a Green
Beret and former POW, a trusted friend of his accompanied the Admiral
that day. Later, when the friend referred to that meeting, McCain
became enraged, volunteered that he had received “no special
treatment,” and then denied that his father was there.

In 1989 legislation known as The Truth Bill was introduced in the U.S.
House. It required the Department of Defense to publish the names and
information on all unaccounted for POWs, MIAs, and KIAs in WW II, the
Korean War, and Vietnam. It languished and was resurrected 2 years
later. Then came the McCain Bill, promptly enacted, that blocked such
information. The DoD does not even have to acknowledge confirmed
sightings of live Americans.

TEMPER AND TEMPERMENT

The senator’s temper and temperament remain in question. His
biographer quotes him: “At the smallest provocation I would go off
into a mad frenzy, and then suddenly crash to the floor unconscious.”
Has he moderated over time? Apparently. Somewhat. Senators who have
had McCain scream hyphenated obscenities at them nose-to-nose include
Rick Santorum, Richard Shelby, Thad Cochran, and James Inhofe. Most
colleagues decline comment. The man has been called psychologically
unstable.

BIRDS OF A FEATHER?

Four years ago McCain loudly defended the glorious hero of the Vietnam
War, John Kerry. That would be the young naval officer who hid out in
an office until he took command of a river patrol boat for a few
weeks. He put in for a purple heart every time he got a scratch or
bruise. With 3 of those, he rotated out with the intention of running
for public office as a war hero. When Kerry saw the level of anti-war
sentiment, he quickly morphed into an anti-war hero running for public
office and later married the widow of an extremely wealthy,
conservative senator who died under highly suspicious circumstances.
Swift Boat Veterans for Truth have not died. Their affiliate is
Vietnam Veterans Against John McCain, headed by former Sergeant Ted
Sampley, who also serves as vice-president of the half-million member
Rolling Thunder Motorcycle Rally.

Sampley has spent years working toward the return of Vietnam era MIAs
and POWs abandoned by our government (which is invariably the case at
a war’s end). McCann has thwarted him at every turn, dismissing 1,600
credible first hand sightings, 14,000 second hand sightings, and
countless radio intercepts that supported the observations.

In 1991 a Senate Select Committee held hearings on the subject of
Vietnam POWs. Tracy Usry, honored Vietnam veteran and former chief
investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, testified
that American POWs were routinely interrogated by Soviet intelligence
officers. Several times, an enraged McCain interrupted, shouting that,
“…none of the returned U.S. POWs released by Vietnam was ever
interrogated by the Soviets.” He knew better. So apparently did Bui
Tin, former Senior Colonel, NVA, who testified that he had been privy
to all Soviet documents pertaining to American prisoners. He supported
Usry, refuted McCain, and offered his personal records as added proof.

In short order, Usry and all participating staff members were fired.
Jack Wheeler, Republicon insider and master strategist, attributed
that to McCain’s behind-the-scenes pressuring.

Add to that McCain’s despicable treatment of families of POWs. Is that
based on guilt or is the man simply despicable?

A LITTLE HISTORY LESSON

In the 1920s, the Bronfman family of Montreal rose to power and wealth
based particularly on its Seagrams liquor business, which had as its
Prohibition Era partner Meyer Lansky, American Mafia boss. Bootlegging
profits were enormous. The family branched into many areas, including
media. In recent years, Bronfman acquired a major chunk of Time-Warner.

Michael Collins Piper is the author of several books including FINAL
JUDGMENT and THE HIGH PRIESTS OF WAR. According to his research, Jack
Ruby, Texas nightclub manager and silencer of JFK’s alleged assassin,
was a Bronfman asset. Piper identifies Ruby as “a key player” in the
smuggling of arms stolen from U.S. military bases to Israel.

In the years prior to World War II, the move into Arizona was made. In
1941, Gus Greenbaum of Phoenix started a national wire service for
bookies. When he shifted to Las Vegas in 1946 to oversee Meyer
Lansky’s casino interests and subsequently replace the infamous,
violent Bugsy Siegel, Kemper Marley was appointed crime syndicate boss
of Arizona. According to sources within the Marley group, it was
Bronfman who put him in the liquor business and enabled him to build a
statewide monopoly. In 1948, the feds sent 52 employees to prison for
liquor violations. Rumor has it that Marley remained untouched because
one of his lieutenants, James Hensley, took the fall and did a dime.
Piper reports that Hensley’s attorney and dealmaker was William
Rehnquist. Yes, that would be the Chief Justice who later pulled his
former girlfriend onto the high court and spent his last decade on the
bench hallucinating on drugs. Upon release, Marley gave Hensley one of
the biggest Anheuser-Busch distributorships in the country – certainly
the biggest in Arizona. Thank you for your faithful service.

Then one day in 1981, an obscure, newly retired naval officer rode
into the land of sun, cacti, and retirees. After his first wife, who
had raised his children and waited for him became crippled in an
accident, John McCain had dumped her overboard and married his
mistress – Cindy, daughter of James Hensley. The next year the
“straight talker” was installed in the U.S. House of Lords. Four years
later he moved to the senate.

So who owns honest John McCain? The mob that runs Arizona? The big
Vegas money that continues to contribute heavily? The Israeli
connection? You be the judge.

UNDERSTANDING ECONOMICS – WHO NEEDS IT?

Not long ago, McCain stated to a journalist that, “Economics isn’t my
strong suit.” But, he added, he is reading Greenspan. That would be
Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan who, during his tenure, expanded the money
supply more than in all the years since 1913. The Greenspan who kept
the printing presses running at warp speed, turning out little pieces
of paper called money and backed by the promises of politicians. Alan
the Inflator fueled the dotcom bubble, the stock market bubble, and
more recently the real estate bubble. It is no wonder that the LONDON
ECONOMIST recently pegged 2007 true U.S. inflation at 17%. Just what
we need – another president who is an economic illiterate. It’s small
consolation that McCain admits it, because if elected, he’d appoint
the wrong advisors.

MCCAIN VERSUS THE CONSTITUTION

McCain, also known as senator hyphen around D.C., frequently partners
with members of the far left. The McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance
Reform Bill was an obvious, full-frontal attack on the First Amendment
– perhaps the most blatant since the Sedition Act 200 years previous.
Specifically, it outlawed the most protected of free speech, political
descent. This alone should be a deal breaker. Anyone voting for the
bill should have been impeached and removed from office. George Bush,
when he broke another of his pledges and signed the odious
legislation, said he had problems with it but that the Supreme Court
might very possibly strike down parts. Apparently, his thinking was
(1) this is bad law, but why should I worry, and (2) I don’t need to
do my job because somebody down the line might do it for me.

Accordingly, it is entirely logical that radio talk show hosts are in
strong opposition to McCain. They understand how much he hates free
speech, and they don’t want to see a return to the deceptively named
Fairness Doctrine that used to force broadcasters to devote matching
time to the promotion of liberal views to balance conservative. At the
core is the liberals’ fear of exposure to the marketplace of ideas and
free discourse. To them, it is not enough that you have a dial and an
opposed thumb. If we’re going to have a Fairness Doctrine, let’s carry
it all the way out. For every 80 anti-gun news stories, I want to see
80 (easy to find) pro-gun stories. Not 1. For every male bashing
commercial, mandate one female bashing. Let’s limit the number of
black players on college and NBA teams to 12½ percent, reflective of
the population. Et cetera.

McCain also works to destroy the Second Amendment. John McCain does
not trust you with a firearm, regardless of the plain words of the
Constitution. He would bar you from defending yourself from marauders
and certainly from an out-of-control government. The Gun Owners of
America rates McCain F minus. Although the National Rifle Association
is far softer in defending gun rights, its president has termed McCain
the “worst Second Amendment candidate.” Example: McCain sponsored an
amendment to S. 1805 that would destroy gun shows by outlawing private
gun sales at such events, although they have been proven to not be a
significant source of criminals’ weapons. A next step would be the
outlawing of private transfers. A father would be unable to pass down
a family treasure without government blessing. The unconstitutionality
of all this is of no importance to the senator and his ilk. Check his
record. This alone should be another deal breaker.

Just about everybody loves a maverick, right? Spirit of America and
all that. We often impute a certain sense of integrity to someone who
turns on his own. Is the senator from Hanoi really a maverick? Sure,
but from what? Honor? Duty? The Constitution he works so hard to make
irrelevant? But as a career politician and long-time member of the
Council on Foreign Relations, McCain is also a one- worlder and a
senior insider.

CAMPAIGN FINANCE

I’m sure the sponsor of the so-called Campaign Finance Reform Bill
wouldn’t mind if we took a cursory look at his donors. They include
the sinister international currency manipulator George Soros, JP
Morgan Chase & Company, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and Lehman Brothers.
In other words, McCain is backed by most of the usual suspects who
back “the competition.”

According to WorldNetDaily, since 2001, this candidate has receiving
funding via the Reform Institute of Alexandria, Virginia, founded to
launder money from George Soro’s Open Society Institute and Theresa
Heinz Kerry’s Tides Foundation. Let’s just know who owns whom. All
this only makes sense. The senator is a long-time member of the
Council on Foreign Relations, a one-worlder, an ultimate insider.

Funding scandals? Sure. We have them too. Does anybody remember the
Keating Five debacle from 1987 that cost depositors and taxpayers $160
million? Charles Keating owned American Continental Corporation and
its subsidiary Lincoln Savings & Loan. Facing multiple federal
indictments, he called on the recipients of his largesse – Senators
Alan Cranston, John Glenn, Don Riegle, and from the great State of
Arizona Dennis DeConsini and John McCain. Strings were pulled, but, in
the end, Keating was convicted. In 1991, the Senate Ethics Committee
(I know, such an oxymoron) ruled that McCain hadn’t quite done
anything illegal. But by his own standards he was corrupt.

D.C. FOLLIES

Recently, the New York Times ran a piece suggesting that McCain may
have had an affair with lobbyist Vicki Iseman that went back 8 years.
Ms. Iseman is a partner in Alcalde & Fay, who represent Carnival
Lines, several broadcasters, and municipalities. The Times, along with
Drudge and the Washington Post, had been sitting on the story for some
weeks. The allegations are unproven, and, the senator has exhibited
extraordinary self-control when denying them. I can only say that he
has a history of this type of Clintonian behavior, both in the
military and, admittedly, during his first marriage. Apparently it is
acceptable anymore. In any case, I question whether the Times should
have run with this.

Influence peddling? Sure, McCain rode Lowell Paxson’s jet several
times. It would be asking a lot of a high-profile senator to walk
through a crowded airport and climb on a commercial flight. Maybe he
wrote Paxson checks at the commercial fare rate. He did accept
$100,000 donation from Alcalde & Fay. And he did write 2 letters
recommending that the FCC approve Paxson’s purchase of a Pittsburgh TV
station. Only two? Lobbyists lobby. I don’t have any finger to point
here.

THE GREAT CONSERVATIVE

Taking a page from Bill Clinton’s Attorney General, McCain has called
Christian leaders “agents of intolerance.”

McCain often crosses the aisle to block the confirmation of
conservative judges with strict construction leanings. His record on
taxes is clear; he likes them. Senator hyphen has co-sponsored ill
conceived legislation that would boost gasoline prices by more than
half a dollar a gallon. And he supports radical global warming
measures that would significantly disadvantage the U.S.

COME ON UP. HERE’S A CHECK.

Teaming again with Teddy Kennedy, at al, the senator from Hanoi
sponsored an amnesty bill for illegal aliens. A top aide, Juan
Hernandez previously held a cabinet level position with ex-president
of Mexico Vincente Fox. This dual citizen is on record as favoring
“Mexico First.” McCain supports open borders. Well, until he caught
sight of the prize. These days he’s auto-phoning into Ohio, promising
that “first I’ll close the borders.” He’d still like to see Social
Security money paid to the sneak-ins. Another deal breaker?

DISCLAIMERS AND CONCLUSIONS

The presidential frontrunners have a curious commonality. Not one has
any significant administrative history. None has headed a company,
none has managed an organization, and none has ever had to meet a
payroll. Their experience has been totally devoted to throwing other
people’s money at problems they created (often for that very purpose),
and they’ve run nothing but their mouths. Seriously, if you owned a
large business enterprise, is there any chance that you would pick one
of the candidates to manage it?

As for the illegal, immoral war in which we are engaged, Obama is
clean, Hillary is implicated, and McCain says he’s fine with another
hundred years.

Personalities aside, I’m not certain how much difference it makes.
McCain has essentially endorsed Hillary. According to him, “She has
integrity,” and “I have no doubt that she would be a good president.”
He likes, really likes the woman, and says, “I think she’s a very good
person.” Meanwhile, Barack Hussein Obama’s policies differ not one
whit from Hillary’s. So that’s a popularity contest.

Then there is the matter of the label. In his way, George Bush has
done to the Republicon Party what Bill Clinton did to the Democrat
Party in his way. In the last congressional race, the Rs did poorly;
yet their D replacements have fixed nothing. The congress’s approval
rating is 22 percent. As the legatee of Bush, what does baggage does
McCain bear? Here are just a few bags: unrestrained spending, huge
trade deficits, illegal wars of aggression, empire building beyond our
capacity, abandonment of our fallen veterans, war crimes, the
elimination of civil liberties with war as a pretext, the death of
habeas corpus, favoring Israel over the U.S., the stock bubble, the
real estate bubble, collapsing home values, permanent core job losses,
true 10 percent inflation, debasement of the currency (They won’t even
publish M3 numbers anymore.), torture of prisoners (On October 6,
2006, McCain voted to exempt the CIA from restrictions.), prisoner
rendition, deconstruction of the Constitution, opening our borders to
everybody and anybody, violations of separation of powers, corruption,
and incredible incompetence. I could go on. My question: Is the
Republicon nomination worth more than 15 cents? Even if McCain puts
nominal Democrat Joe Lieberman on his ticket to demonstrate bi-
partisanship and pull in Dems and Independents?

Are you a genuine social conservative? Do you believe in our wonderful
Constitution? Are you opposed the Iraq War and its precursor
strategies that have killed hundreds of thousands of innocents? Are
you fiscally responsible? Do you truly understand the principles of
republicanism? Do you believe in marital fidelity? Are you a supporter
of free speech? I submit that if your answer to any of these questions
is yes, you cannot vote for John McCain and retain your integrity. The
lesser of 2 or 3 evils is still evil. In this case, not by a
measurable amount.

The party of Ronald Reagan left me years ago. America’s bright beacon
of hope, so loved by much of the world for over 200 years, is being
reduced to a faint glow in the eyes of the true believers.

We have had some incredibly unqualified and inept people run for and
sometimes win the top job. But John McCain must be the most flawed and
compromised candidate in our nation’s history.

[redwitch]

1. I think these emails are bullshit.

They are anonymous acts of cowardice. I include in that the Obama is a Muslim, etc., etc.

If there is documentation of these allegations, let us see. Otherwise, much as I dislike McCain and believe he would continue the current disastrous course, don't indulge in this.

[vanboggie]

2. Excellent!

I've bookmarked this for later reference. I have only one qualm about the content. I wouldn't say McCain is THE most flawed and compromised candidate in our nation's history. He can string a sentence together coherently (so far), so I'll give him a few points over Chimpie for that. :evilgrin: