McCain's mixed message

On Friday, John McCain opened the latest new phase of his troubled presidential campaign by stressing in New Hampshire --- where opposition to the Iraq war runs especially high --- that he remains foresquare behind President Bush's troop-surge plan.

On Saturday, as he wrapped up a swing through the all-important state, he took Bush on, criticizing the administration on global warming.

One thing about the Republican senator from Arizona, you can't say that he's a slave to consistency.

The Times Michael Finnegan was with McCain as he traveled to the rural town of Claremont and reports that the candidate opened a forum at a veterans hall with negative words about Bush's approach to climate change.

"I'm not happy that the Bush administration ignored this issue for a long period of time," McCain said. Reiterating his call for expansion of nuclear, solar and wind power, he said the U.S. must work more closely with other nations to reverse global warming. He added: "I'm convinced that it can be incredibly serious, and every day we wait in order to act will be a day that we cannot reclaim."

McCain took questions for more than an hour from the crowd of about 100, and was warmly received. But outside the hall, there was a clear sign of his diminished status in the state he took by storm during the 2000 primary season. A heckler wearing a McCain rubber mask was there to greet his entourage, holding out a tin cup and wearing a sandwich board that read, "My campaign spends money like a drunken sailor."

The barb not only referred to the financial problems afflicting McCain's campaign, but was a play on one of his tried-and-true laugh lines: after accusing Congress of spending money like a drunken sailor, he likes to say that he received a letter from a Navy vet with a drinking problem who said he resented the comparsion.

After spending Sunday at home in Arizona, McCain heads to Northern California Monday for a town hall meeting in Santa Clara.

-- Don Frederick

Comments

[Angel]

The affairs are jiust one thing - almost minor compared to his other crimes.

The U.S. has had Presidential candidates and Presidents who were known criminals, prevaricators and very immoral, promiscuous men who harmed national security. John McCain is no exception. However, does the public and do Republican delegates and leaders really want to pay the same costs in the future of America for McCain that they paid in the past for nominating and helping elect illicit Presidents ?

This article contains a description of many of the known crimes, moral transgressions and allegations of nuclear treason by John McCain. Some of these crimes may have been felonies and if so, would have also made McCain ineligible to be President should he have been prosecuted (as he should have been) and convicted.

The information about McCain in this article has been made available to Duncan Hunter, former Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, via the appropriate members of his Congressional staff and his national campaign director, all of who know me. Since withdrawing as a Republican Presidential nominee candidate on January 23, 2008, Duncan Hunter has campaigned for Presidential nominee candidate Mike Huckabee and has had, and continues to have, an opportunity to communicate this information about McCain to his fellow Baptist, Mike Huckabee. [However, Huck and McCain ARE good friends, so I don't see how this is working out.]

Duncan Hunter, as a Republican leader and a Christian, has a moral obligation, responsibility and civic duty, and as an act of conscience to ask Mike Huckabee to publicly ask his delegates not to vote to nominate McCain and to publicly tell them why. Regardless of what Huckabee may or may not do, Duncan Hunter’s conscience as a Christian should also tell him that he also has a moral responsibility before God to tell the public and the Republican party (and his one delegate) not to vote for McCain for the nomination and Presidency and WHY.

The Republican delegates and Party must be told by Huckabee and/or Hunter what they know about McCain and why Republicans need to nominate someone else besides McCain as the Republican Presidential candidate. [Is this really why Huckabee is hanging in there thinking HE may be the new candidate if these truths about McCain come out ? Huckabee loves the limelight front and center. ] God WILL HOLD THEM RESPONSIBLE AND IN JUDGMENT if they do not tell the public and the delegates this in an effort to save America, lives and souls. They are modern day Christian Jonahs that God has given the opportunity to tell America the truth,[ shocking a that may be since Americans are so well programmed to lies and deceptions and truth is usually dismissed. Americans have had a steady diet of deceptions and lies for the past 147 years !] They really do not want to be figuratively “swallowed by a whale” or no longer be used by God for not more directly and firmly warning America about what they know about John McCain.

If Hunter and/or Huckabee are not willing as Christian, Baptist leaders to take the risk of paying a political price for telling the truth about McCain and standing for Godly Christian values and principles when they know to do so, they risk losing their souls, having their consciences seared, and having the “Son of man being ashamed of them” when he returns. See Mark 8:34-38. If Hunter and Huckabee do not act NOW decisively against McCain, they also risk losing the respect of their fellow countrymen and Christians for not standing in the breech when it was needed most. [No doubt Huckabee may decline, as McCain is his friend and Huckabee really likes center stage. His own background is not all that pure either as far as keeping his word and promises to voters and being the 'conservative' he claims to be. Is record does not support his claimed 'conservatism' .]

The article, "Influence peddling claims dog McCain, describes McCain’s criminal corruption while on the Senate Commerce Committee for which McCain should have been removed from office and prosecuted. During the time this was going on, McCain was receiving large contributions to his Reform Institute from socialists George Soros and Teresa Kerry:

“In 1999, McCain refused to recuse himself when the Commerce Committee gave legislative oversight approval for mergers then before the Federal Communications Commission, involving two communications companies that were Davis, Manafort & Freeman lobbying clients – COMSTAT Corp., a government-owned satellite company, and SBC communications, a Baby Bell phone company.

“But in between the two separate $100,000 contributions Cablevision made to the Reform Institute, McCain, then chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, wrote a letter to the Federal Communications Commission supporting Cablevision's desire to continue packaging customer TV programming in a manner more profitable to Cablevision."

“In 2005, after the Associated Press exposed McCain's apparent conflict of interest in the Cablevision case, McCain resigned as Reform Institute chair.“

But another offense for which McCain should be in prison is the fact McCain helped criminally loot the S&Ls of 100’s of billions of dollars for himself and 4 other U.S. Senators (Charles Keating 5) as well as his buddy, former US Senator Jake Garn, who knowingly legalized the looting with the Garn-St.Germain law. McCain should be in prison today for this and the public should be reminded of it. McCain in effect has solicited bribes to wield his influence in these scandals. [Other politicians also were involved in this scam. Jeb Bush for one. Jeb Bush will most likely be McCain's running mate if the rumors are correct. Birds of a feather .....]

Former CIA officer Phillip Giraldi has linked John McCain with corrupt senior U.S. officials who criminally helped proliferate U.S. nuclear technology to Islamic nations according to this February 4, 2008 article,"Why Sibel Edmonds Must be heard:"

“Many of the officials involved are apparently the same neo-conservatives who cooked the books to enable the rush to war against Iraq and who are continuing to urge more wars in the Middle East, most notably against Iran and Syria. Several of them are close allies of leading Republican presidential candidate JOHN McCAIN.”

On February 18, 2008, The Dallas Morning News publicly called for a formal and full blown investigation of the matter:

"…Congress and the Justice Department should have no higher priority. Nothing deserves more attention than the possibility of ongoing national- security failures and the proliferation of nuclear weapons with the connivance of corrupt senior government officials.”

The above story constitutes another serious corruption and criminality allegation, this time an allegation of treason, involving McCain and affecting national security that deserves a full investigation BEFORE McCain is nominated or is elected.

McCain and former Senator Jake Garn also directly conspired against American MIA/POWs (in North Korean, China, Russia, Laos, North Vietnam) and their families from 1988 to 1992. [There is a reasons why the military does not support McCain!] McCain intentionally used his position as a Senator on the Senate Armed Services Committee to stymie investigations and to block information going to the public about known POWs that were intentionally but falsely listed as MIAs to hide what was known about them, and to avoid accountability for not trying to recover them.

I have first hand witnesses who know of McCain (via WSJ author and world renowned POW/MIA expert Bill Paul) conspiring with Senator Garn to conceal information about known POWs while McCain was at DIA, then in the House and then as Senator on the Senate Armed Services Committee (while still covering up for DIA as a Senator according to Bill Paul), and the Senate Subcommittee POW Hearings by Kerry and McCain in 1992. During testimony before the Kerry subcommittee about American POWs left behind in North Korea, McCain walked out of the hearings but not before demeaning, castigating the expert witnesses.

NSA officers responsible for handling intercepted and other intelligence traffic in SE Asia (Laos, North Vietnam, Cambodia, etc) during the time of McCain's captivity are in the process of preparing to reveal what they know of McCain’s confessions and his radio broadcasts from North Viet Nam condemning the US and his collaborating with the North Vietnamese and Cubans to the detriment of fellow POW members (treason). [It's a lie that he was a war 'hero' !] Another intelligence officer, Jack McLamb, has recently already made similar assertions known publicly. You can now read a declassified transcript of McCain’s Confession Speech to the North Vietnamese Broadcast by Radio & Praising them for His Treatment.

A former NSA officer says "he does not know of ANY people in US intelligence that he knows (he knows many) that do not believe McCain collaborated with the North Vietnamese and was not a TRAITOR to the U.S." This is a quote that I was asked to write down.

There is very strong suspicion McCain tried to hide POW information from the public and POW/MIA families because McCain did not want to draw attention to his collaboration with the North Vietnamese and the betrayals of some fellow POWS and MIAs.

McCain molested a MIA's wife (that many POW/MIA families know personally) in the mid 1980s while McCain’s second wife, Cindy, was giving birth to one of their children. McCain has publicly admitted to having extra martial affairs during his first marriage. John McCain’s biographer Robert Timberg has listed and documented McCain's sexual affairs with his military subordinates when he was an Executive Officer and as a Squadron Commander.

In 2000, McCain attacked Christian leaders, calling them "agents of intolerance." The pro-abortion Republicans for Choice Political Action Committee have endorsed McCain.

McCain’s claims of wanting to nominate ”conservative” Supreme Court judges ring hollow when one considers the fact that McCain worked closely with Democrats (the “Gang of 14”) to block confirming conservative, strict constructionist judges.

John McCain co-sponsored a bill with Ted Kennedy to given amnesty to illegal aliens. McCain has never spoken out against the intentional non-enforcement of illegal immigration laws, a violation of the law in itself. In fact he voted to send social security monies to illegal aliens. McCain’s Hispanic Outreach Director, Juan Hernandez, is well known for his "Mexico First" declarations.

McCain co-authored the McCain/Feingold campaign finance bill that was ruled to be an UN-CONSTITUTIONAL infringement of the First Amendment.

A man like John McCain who publicly praises Islam and publicly says he could vote for a Muslim US President, would help arm Muslim terrorists and take their campaign dollars because he already has.

John McCain helped armed Kosovo Islamic terrorists. In gratitude the Albanians collected one million dollars for the McCain’s presidential campaign.

McCain also backed Bosnian Muslim terrorists and the Clinton plan to use the CIA, AlAaeda, AlQaeda leader Dr Ayman Zawahiri, and Iran to train them and later bring some of them to the US and Salt Lake City.

John McCain has betrayed his two wives, POWs and MIAs, the US Constitution, his fellow Republicans. He has committed crimes that amount to felonious kickbacks and bribes for which he should be in prison. This man cannot be trusted ! If former CIA officer Phillip Giraldi’s assertions are true, then McCain may also have engaged in another felony, more treason, for criminally helping proliferate US nuclear technology to Islamic nations.

If McCain had been prosecuted and convicted for any of his felonious crimes, McCain would not be eligible to be President. [He may still have been in prison for all these charges had they been charged and arrested instead of running for the highest office in the land..]

McCain’s statements and actions have also aided and abetted enemies of the United States, Islamic terrorists and illegal immigrants (some affiliated with Islamic terrorists and Communist Chinese) inside the US.

McCain is a preeminent and immediate threat to the national security and sovereignty of the Untied States.

God has given the American people the responsibility of selecting just and moral leaders who will uphold the laws and the CONSTITUTION to protect the public, who will not accept or solicit bribes nor commit acts of treason against their country. [He has already done this many times throughout his life and apparently has gotten away with it. He has really had no right to be in the Senate all these years ! Criminals are not allowed to hold office. Wow - THAT would empty almost all of DC ! It would make a clean sweep of all the criminals we call 'politicians' ! SEE how much we've been made to ACCEPT criminals and TREASON as 'normal' !?]

American citizens and their leaders have a voice in the selection and direction of their leaders by voting and by their exercise of freedom of speech. God will hold both informed Christian leaders, even Duncan Hunter and Mike Huckabee, and the citizens themselves accountable for what they say and do to maintain good government, to support only righteous, moral and law abiding leaders, and to reject and/or even remove unrighteous, immoral and criminal leaders. Americans cannot rely on Divine protection from their enemies if they chose to select and follow immoral, corrupt and evil leaders like John McCain.