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Rachel points out a few things you may not have known about McCain

By Tim Einenkel

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2 questions

1) So McCain "needed" Rush Limbaugh's Operation: Chaos? (I could be misinterpreting that, but that's how I understood that)

2) Didn't know about McCain's 9 houses... But weren't John Kerry's 7 houses a non-issue in 2004? I think the only time people heard about that was through some forwarded e-mails.

Sen. McCain's houses'

Yes Sen. Kerry may had many houses. But atleast he is in not 4 years in arrears on property taxes. Sen. McCain can't even do his duty and pay his taxes, some qualifications for president.

The Offshore Oil Drilling is Just a Cynical Hoax and a Decoy.

Dear Rachel:
You are one the rare journalist that we have, and I want you to carrefully read this post.

Indeed, the Offshore Oil Drilling is not McCain original IDEA, and the speaker Pelosi is very right to call it a HOAX or DECOY. One of the dishonest GOP Machine creations. I am really proud of Mrs Pelosi for refusing to play their dirty game.
The idea was suggest by Bill O'Reilly of Fox News during a his TV show in the week of June 09 to June 13, 2008. I forget the exact day.
In that show, Bill Oreilly asked the former House speaker Newt Gingrich this: “IF YOU WERE McCAIN, WHAT WOULD YOU DO TO GET PEOPLE COME TO YOU?”. His guest answered this:”I WOULD TALK ABOUT OFFSHORE OIL DRILLING, AND PEOPLE WOULD BE EXCITING BECAUSE OF GAS PRICE, SO SIMPLE”.
After two days, McCain started to talk about this drill issue. After two more days, Bush also picked up the issue and started to campaign for McCain by pushing this issue.
In fact, they did not have any plan concerning this drill issue, and they do not have any. It is just something suggested by Bill O’Reilly and Newt Gingrich. Just a dishonest strategy, so they can get people’s mind. What is sad, is that Bush has been using the office of presidency for the campaign of McCain about this "fictive drilling". Also, the clowns of GOP in congress are pushing this bill in the name American people. This is cynical because I do not recall that the GOP also worry about American people after what they have done to us during this past 8 years.
I will suggest Obama campaign to go the Fox News record and find that O'Reilly show, they can present it to the voters. It would ridicule them, and such shameless behavior would be a real scandal.

"Obama did this, Obama did that, bad Obama"

The number of houses isn't relevant the point is, in so may words Rachel is saying "hey lets talk about McCain because there stuff most people don't know here's some info".... "wow he doesn't look like such the conman man sort of a dare I say an elitist?" It was like 20 seconds of the only bad press McCain has gotten in this whole show.

Obama kick him where it hurts please your getting killed out here! It would be so easy for Obama to just say fine McCain your going to attack me your doing nothing to stop people from dragging my around in your name, here is a big list of facts about you that people should know about your character before they think about voting for you. I promise if the media made a big deal about how McCain dumped his wife who was injured for Cindy he would lose any ex-Hilary voters that are thinking about voting for him.

My heart really goes out to Rachel siting their waiting for the sock puppet to finish his BS the pain on her face was so obvious, I couldn't do her job shes the best.

what we dont know ?

you are f n kidding me , what we know about obama , you guys cannot justify , GOD only knows what we dont know about OBAMA, that is your candidates weakness,, MCCAIN is a open book ,while OBAMA remains a mystery.. LET IT RAIN MCCAIN !!!!!

What don't know?

What is with you people? We have heard everything that we possibly can about this man. We have scrutinized every nuance about every thing that he has said and done. If there is anything that could be buried in his life be sure that the Clintons, McCains, The Main Stream Media etc. would have found it out and yes reported it as soon as he was any where near being the nominee for the democratic party for POTUS. If nothing for nothing but he is the 1st viable black candidate to be President you can bet your last dollar for a gallon of gas that it would have been revealed. Why do you think he is being labeled as Arrogant, Elistist, does'nt Know his place etc. There is know Show stopper. Get over it the Balck guy maybe your next President.

Tragically Stupid

No politician has been scrutinized as much as Obama. His family, his education, his wife, his children, his religion have all been dissected.

A Conservative group recently said the press is 72% negative on Obama. You can hear it on this clip with those guys repeating several times, "We don't know Obama. He is a mystery". Those are negative comments AND THEY KNOW IT.

The entire US knows Obama's middle name and I bet, you won't be able to find 2 that know McCain's middle name.

McCain is white and stupid. Americans believe they can relate to him, but it's only an illusion. We are used to having politicians who only got where they are on family connections and money. It's been that way for years. Of course McCain can only win by taking Obama down. Of course Obama is exotic. He's smart, he graduated near the top of the class at Harvard, he only paid off his student loans a few years ago. What does that say about Obama's character when so many default on their student loans? NEVER IS THAT MENTIONED IN THE NEWS.

We know idiots like the one above is racist. These people hate blacks so much that they can't think logically. They can't make a true and honest evaluation. They try to hide behind the canard that they would vote for Rice or Powell. They know they don't have to. Besides, what will these racist idiots say if Powell endorsed Obama? He hasn't endorsed McCain. As far as I know, neither has Rice.

No one would go to a mechanic who was the worst in school No one remembers the worst student in any class they ever had and thought, hmmm, they were so presidential and such good ideas. No one would entrust their child to a doctor that was the worst they could find. And yet, Republicans who already went after mediocre, want tragically stupid. Out of 899 choices, they could only pick 4 that would be worse.

All of McCain's gaffes aren't age. They are dumb, pure and simple. NOW WE ARE BEGINNING TO KNOW THE REAL MCCAIN. And I can tell you, it's a shock.

Holy Cow..

Rachel was right all along.. HRC IS going to go ALL THE WAY to the convention.. Hillary just took a few weeks off to try on the alternative.. She is trying to ride in on her Silver stallion to rescue us.. This is making me ill....

I just took some Mylanta myself.

Hi Aethena, long time no see. Yeah, I was always with Rachel about Hillary's intent on taking it to the convention, but everyone thought I was nuts too. This woman (and her hubbie dearest) are so totally self involved that it is simply mind boggling. Hillary's previous statements on how she doesn't want to have her minions put her name into nomination never rang true to my big and floppy ears, it was always too restrained and self conscious, so her sudden switch now is nothing new. I know, I know, she only wants to do it "for her supporters", yeah right.

The simple point that her Mr. couldn't even respond to a simple question of "is Obama ready to be President", should have been enough proof that the couple hasn't gotten over their LOSS and their constant pouting is simply prepubescent!

OK, I got that out of my system (for the time being at least), so are you going to the Convention? I hear tell it will be a hoot...

Race for the White House hosted by Rachel!

Nice to hear Rachel hosting RftWH and the first hour of her own show... for once.
-- Andrew Rich
andrew.rich@gmail.com
http://www.project-insomnia.com/

Yeah, and I just missed

Yeah, and I just missed it.

I watch online clips of RftWH when Rachel is on it, but I watch the whole thing when she's hosting. Why don't we get any warning when she's hosting? Just a couple hours warning.

Please?

THE CLINTONS

FIRST, HILLARY DID NOT HAVE 18 MILLIONS VOTES.
THEY COUNTED FL AND MICH AND DID NOT COUNT
THE CAUCAS. MAKING IT PLAIN, PROABLY ONE THIRD
OF THE 18 MILLION VOTES WERE FROM REPUBLICANS OR INDEPENDENTS CONSERVATES WHO WAS VOTING
AGAINST OBAMA BECAUSE HE IS BLACK. HER VOTERS ARE NOT ENTITLED TO NO MORE THAN ANYONE DELEGATES WHO VOTED FOR BIDEN AND/OR ANYONE ELSE. MORE AND MORE SHE LOOKS THE PART OF THE CATHOLIC PRIEST, WHO SAID, SHE BELEIVE SHE IS ENTITLED. WHEN TIME IS OUT IT IS OUT.THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH HER GOING TO THE CONVENTION AND PUTING HER NAME IN, BUT SHE IS PLAYING THE END AGAINST THE MIDDLE. WHICH IS VERY DANGEROUS.

Clinton Bashing

Your guy is the nominee. Could you maybe quit yelling about the Clintons. I am not an Obama fan but I will be voting for him. As far as a caucus is concerned, in Washington state we have both the caucus and we have an election vote. Obama won the caucus but Clinton won the primary election vote. More folks voted than went to the caucus but the caucus counted more than the vote. That is just the way it is. Focus on your guy, not the Clintons, you will be happier.

Jean, I understand you're upset, but

PLEASE might you reconsider your keyboard's layout when speaking? I know how tempting it may be to use cap lock when you're angry, agitated or just plain sick and tired; but believe it or not, it really is disruptive.

More folks will read and respond to your actual thoughts if you utilize the lower case every now and then...

wow I really looking forward to chating about the clip

I was hopping some one would bring up the fact that even the show that is suppose to be unbiased was dragging Obama around and they never say anything really as bad about McCain.

This is my first time blogging or whatever. I was hoping to have intelligent conversation about what Rachel was saying, relevant to the the clip in which the blog I assume was suppose to be about.

Arianalk - Good Luck? :D

Actually, this blog (a handful of trolls aside) is amazingly civil and intelligent compared to, say, BuzzFlash's blogs which are just annoying anymore.

As for the clip itself - Rachel's been saying this on MSNBC every chance she gets...but nobody outside of Keith Olbermann (occasionally) seems to be listening. They're all sure they know McCain - and besides, he's an old White Dude and a War Hero (Hero: see "victim") to boot, not some strange skinny young uppity Black kid w/a charismatic speaking style (racist code words fully intentional).

Fact is, it's the MSM that's scared of The Outsider Obama more than most of Middle America - who know him just fine, thanks. He's the Young Black Professional who might irritate you a bit in the grocery store line - but is just who you want in your corner when your union's contract is up, some religioso nutter on the school board is trying to ban Harry Potter for "Satanic messages", you're in the ER with your thumb cut clean through, or you're pleading a drunk driving charge. Maybe there aren't that many YBPs on the Beltway (or that many high up the food chain enough for the poobahs to notice), but out past the Beltway Bubble they are as much part of the "normal Americans" as the White blue-collar workers Hillary pandered to during the Democratic nomination - and those are the people Obama's reaching out to with his Father's Day speech, proposed revamp of Rove's "Fucking Faith-Based Thing"...and yes, even his ultimate FISA cave.... ::sigh::

Drdarkeny - YOU ROCK

And what about these BS pols what are they talking about who are they talking to. I'm coming to the theory that the pols are total crap and they are using it's false data to project these crazy notions that he's going to lose because the people don't trust him or whatever. Then when the Republicans steel the election they can all say "wow McCain just barely won!".

wow thanks for the info I won't bother with other blogs and tolerate off subjects and trolls. Trolls lol, I only know what that is because I asked my husband about why people are visiting this site that are stupid/crazy and endorsing McCain. I think we should just start calling them Tools instead.

Who says John is more well known?

Rachael is right. Before the election I knew John was a POW and Obama gave a powerful convention speech that's about it.

War Criminal

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John McCain is a war criminal - a 'terrorist'.

Let's use Bush's own definitions.

Okay.

The 'Viet Nam War' was never legally declared a 'war'. It was an act of illegal American agression against the innocent civilians of Viet Nam - both North and South.

McCain willingly - eagerly - joined the 'terrorist' force that sought to illegally destroy innocent 'collateral' targets.

McCain flew over North Viet Nam and dropt bombs on innocent civilians. He murdered men, women, and children. He destroyed homes and businesses.

The 'homeland' defenders of North Viet Nam shot down McCain's plane, 'detained' him, applied 'agressive interrogation techniques', tried and convicted him in their 'military tribunal', and confined him to prison as was their right to defend their 'homeland' in the name of their 'national security'.

Using McCain's own terminology, America does not need a verified 'war criminal' / 'terrorist' as President.

Hypocrites

Those stoopid Democrats! If they are not wusses, then they are cowards.

Okay, so Edwards strayed; sympathies to his wife and children in their private matter laid bare to the public.

General statistics document that more than one-half of all American men admit to outside entertainment. How many American men lie? How many brag?

Hypocritical Republicans and their up-tight Christian Conservatives want to make Edwards' brief affair a campaign issue. Well, then, Edwards and the Democrats need to declare: 'Bring 'em on!'.

Let Edwards and the Democrats present their challenges:

- #1) McCain played around on his first wife while he was an active-duty Naval Officer. He entered into a marriage licence with wife #2 while still married to wife #1.

- #2) Republican Party favourite Newt Gingrich lost count how many times he has been cheating on one wife while married to another. Recall he delivered a divorce petition to wife #1 on her death-bed.

- #3) Republican Party god, Reagan, whose entire career was that of a playboy - bed-hopping the casting couch from one chicky starlette to his next - carousing on one wife while dating his mistress.

If Nancy hadn't nailed Ronnie's male member to the floor, no telling how many more times he would have been playing his field.

- #4) Senator Craig, everybody's friendly 'I am not gay' airport toilet mystery seat man tapping his happy feet confessed to his crimes in open court, then denied the entire event occurred when the press released his behaviour. He refuses to resign his office. There is no public out-cry against Craig.

- #5) Senator Vitter has his own troubles - indictments because of his fondness for prostitution. His Republican cohorts cheer him on for more.

- #6) Republicans spent years pinching their Capitol pages - especially their boy pages. Neither their electorate nor the law put an end to their petting in the playground.

- #7) Rumours abound that Bush-the-son himself has been straying with Condi. Let's press him under oath for something since he refuses to confess to his war crimes under oath without Cheney at his side.

Let's take a poll - under oath - under penalty for perjury: How many current members of the House of Representatives and Senate can clearly admit they never - ever - participated in any non-marital sexual activty? Let's begin the count with the Republicans since they are the ones calling the kettle black.

'Character and candor matter'?

Go ahead, throw your first stones, Bushies. Nope, bullies have no real ones.

John McCain & Andrew McCain Lobbyist/Banking scandals, Where is

McCain has been in beholden to lobbyist since the time of his banking scandals as part of the Keating 5. Mccains believes in the one hand washes the other style. Former Sen Gramm " America is a nation of whiners" fame who is one of the biggest lobbyist there is. Gramm, Mccain & the Republicans when they were in the Senate Majority, created and passed laws which deregulated & loosened controls of the Banking and Energy industries. Which resulted in the current crisises now befalling America such as the mortgage crisis, uncontrolled speculation in the Energy resulting in the collapse of Enron and the of astrnomically high cost not to mention the current bank failures. McCain is to beholden to lobbyist, I am not convinced he would put America's intersts ahead of his lobbyist friends. Take for example McCain's help in overturning the largest Military Aircraft tanker contract awarded to Boeing and awarded it to EADS (European). According to lobbying records filed with the Senate, Loeffler Group lobbyists on the project included Loeffler and Susan Nelson, who left the firm and is now the campaign's finance director. The Ogilvy lobbyist John Green, who was assigned the EADS work, recently took a leave of absence to volunteer for McCain as the campaign's congressional liaison.

And now McCains son is involved in his own banking scandal. The apple never falls to far from the tree!

The fallout from the Silver State Bank fiasco continued on Friday as the company announced a wider-than-expected quarterly loss and CEO Corey Johnson resigned. Johnson’s resignation follows the resignation of Board of Directors’ member Andrew McCain, who was on the bank’s Auditing Committee. McCain is the son of presumptive Republican presidential candidate John McCain. McCain and Johnson's departures came on the heels of resignation of one of the bank’s executive vice-presidents, who left just two months ago.

Silver State Bancorp (SSXB.O), the bank’s holding company, announced a net loss for the second quarter $62.7 million, or $4.15 a share, compared with a profit of $6.2 million, or 44 cents a share, a year earlier. Analysts had expected a loss of 65 cents a share. The company also said that it was suspending its share repurchase program, not a huge surprise since they announced that they need to raise another $40 million in capital just to survive. Since the share price has dropped over 95% in the past year (almost 90% since McCain joined the bank), and is down another 15% just today (trading at just over one dollar), raising capital through the sale of shares could be disastrous for shareholders who have already been hit hard by the bank’s financial problems.

Although the bank today blamed most of their financial woes on loan losses, which ballooned from $1.9 million a year ago to $58.6 million during the last quarter, it was their involvement with one of the largest financial frauds in history that has raised serious questions about the bank’s business practices. An article on The Faulking Truth, entitled Silver State Bank: What's Deposited in Vegas Doesn't Stay in Vegas details the bank’s shady involvement in the defrauding of over 50,000 shareholders in the CMKM Diamonds scam. The story has since been widely circulated on the internet, including news sites such as What Really Happened and the Huffington Post.

The lobbyists are in control of McCain's Campaign! These are the results of the Mccains and the Republican Good Ole boy economics!

Mccain voted against relief for the average home owner caught up in the Chaos they caused, however he voted for relief of banking & mortgage companies!

Republican banking scandals, especially the McCain's

Keating 5 over again!

Nation of whiners has his own UBS scandals.

The enron loophole.

Niel Bush and Silverado.

Plus hundreds of thousands more to come with the sub-prime mortgage mess!

Possible New Cold War.

The main reason why there was no nuclear war during the last war was the threat of mutual destruction. That either side could blow up the world. Both sides took the nuclear option off the table for this reason.

Now Pres. Bush has meet the new Russian leader, and said they agree on evrything except the new U.S. Missle defense system that could blow up Russians missles in orbit, neutralizining the Russian threat. Or atleast make people believe we could.

With Nato allowing for new former Russian republics to join Russia is even more threatened.

How many more Georgian attacks etc. is it necessary for the republican dream of missles defense to stop the possibility of the end of the world?

Impeachment of Pres. Bush

Why has Nancy Pelosi and Harry Ried refused to push the articles of impeachment?

Since A.G. Muckasey refuses to investigate any republican wrong doing, why not have a special prosecutor? It would be awesome to give a special prosecutor a $110 million fishing expedition like the one used on President Clinton. Then the republican rats can not ignore congressional subpeonas or hide behind presidential executive priviledge.

Sen. McCain's social security phonieness.

From his own web site last year he and his wife had almost $6.6 million in income. And Sen. McCain who said how badly the social security system is had his hand out for his benefits. Ones that the director of the program said it was voluntary to take the benefits or not.

He like to use the means based test, where richer people get less benefits if any. Except it does not apply to him.

Who is McCain

Doesn't he claim to have first hand experience on winning a war? However, he was in Vietnam a very short time and was shot down and spent the war in POW. Yes he was heroic to his fellow prisoners but he has no experience in winning a war especially a war we lost.

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