Vicki Iseman Denies McCain Affair

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So she waits until three weeks before the election to say, "I did not have sex with that man"?

Plus the National Journals has a well established rightwing bias, though not quite as outright cuckoo as National Review.

If the NY Times was so off base here---and that story they ran does seem to have damaged her career as a Capitol Hill lobbyist, why isn't she suing? She wasn't a public figure, so there would be no Sullivan Test for any possible libel action she might want to file, making it easier for her to win a favorable judgment.

This is just part of a Republican campaign to look like they were victimized by the media they claim is in the tank for Obama. But my suspicion is that McCain had his fundamental was in a tank of a different sort and now they are trying to sing and dance their way around it. And that phone call to Lanny Davis? That was an act.

Look, if her and McCain's relationship was so on the up and up, his aides wouldn't have been concerned about keeping them apart. So there was indeed some kind of smoke there, but we just haven't seen a definitive fire out of it yet.

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Colin Powell Is Ready To Endorse

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Bradley was the black Gerald Ford, a slow witted tool of the L.A. westside political machine (which whored itself out to local developers). A nice enough guy to be sure, but just not exactly what I would call a leader. L.A. had already started deteriorating under Mayor Yorty, so I don't totally blame Bradley for the frightening level of homicides in L.A. at the time, but he sure didn't do much to ameliorate it.

That therefore made that gubernatorial election a Hobson's choice because George Deukmejian hated anyone who didn't make into seven figures. Not exactly swift upstairs himself, but his staid conservatism apparently made him more palatable to the electorate. I held my nose and voted for Bradley.

Willie Brown is a no good hustler. There is an analogy I have always made of Brown, but it would probably be censored even though it is extremely appropriate. He was a big water carrier for the insurance industry and should have been locked up for it.

Again, I am a Democrat, but I calls 'em as I sees 'em.

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Note: There was another post I wrote parodying the "Obama is too exotic" cant of McCain by applying it to Colin Powell, whose parents are Jamaican. I even put an emoticon with it to let everyone know I was joking. That one got censored. Again, the HuffPo moderators are humor challenged.

Dirty Secret Of The Bailout: Thirty-Two Words That None Dare Utter

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This is a reply to a Republican poster:

Look, the GOP had both houses of Congress from 1994 through 2006 and they are the ones who wrote the legislation (Phil Gramm, in fact, was the main guy behind it) that Clinton signed that did away with the Glass Steagall Act. Now they could have reimposed Glass-Steagall anytime at all in the ensuing decade, but they did not. McCain, in fact, who confessed that he didn't understand the testimony he witnessed from the two entities while chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, today STILL says that he believed that the Republican deregulation was good for the economy and wanted to extend it to the health care issue.

Blaming this on the Democrats is nonsensical, especially when the McCain campaign has 26 employees who were lobbyists or employees of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, including his campaign manager, Rick Davis.

So stop with the smoke and mirrors on who was responsible for this. The GOP had control and began rolling this ball down the hill before it crashed into something. THOSE are the facts.

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