2008 Primaries Thread 2: THE QUICKENING

Then again, even eight years ago McCain was pretty old. At that age, he probably just likes the female company rather than actually doing anything about it (if he still can).

4xpost: "Wipe your nose for us like you did in Texas!"

you don't need an erection to eat a lobbyist out

^^^sound advice

*blork*

bathtubs in the middle of a field people

you don't need an erection to eat a lobbyist out

T-shirt slogan of the year.

the nyt is tiptoeing around the sex stuff which is lolzy but kind of beside the point. here's the AP on what's really the problem here

The published reports said McCain and Iseman each denied having a romantic relationship. Neither story asserted that there was a romantic relationship and offered no evidence that there was, reporting only that aides worried about the appearance of McCain having close ties to a lobbyist with business before the Senate Commerce Committee on which McCain served.

The stories also allege that McCain wrote letters and pushed legislation involving television station ownership that would have benefited Iseman's clients.

In late 1999, McCain twice wrote letters to the Federal Communications Commission on behalf of Florida-based Paxson Communications _ which had paid Iseman as its lobbyist _ urging quick consideration of a proposal to buy a television station license in Pittsburgh. At the time, Paxson's chief executive, Lowell W. "Bud" Paxson, also was a major contributor to McCain's 2000 presidential campaign.

McCain did not urge the FCC commissioners to approve the proposal, but he asked for speedy consideration of the deal, which was pending from two years earlier. In an unusual response, then-FCC Chairman William Kennard complained that McCain's request "comes at a sensitive time in the deliberative process" and "could have procedural and substantive impacts on the commission's deliberations and, thus, on the due process rights of the parties."

McCain wrote the letters after he received more than $20,000 in contributions from Paxson executives and lobbyists. Paxson also lent McCain his company's jet at least four times during 1999 for campaign travel.

"Riding on the airplane was an accepted practice," McCain said Thursday, adding that he supported a change in rules since then. As for the letters, he said: "I said I'm not telling you how to make a decision; I'm just telling you that you should move forward and make a decision on this issue. I believe that was appropriate."

xp o jesus christ elmo

"you don't need an erection to eat a lobbyist out, but it helps!"

Cui boner

The published reports said McCain and Iseman each denied having a romantic relationship. They did admit to fucking though.

The thought of McCain going down on anyone is just...

More than $2 million of the red ink is owed to chief consultant and adviser, Mark Penn.

Talk about a poor investment.

"Rubbin on her clit / with my face cyst"

http://www.sfgate.com/blogs/images/sfgate/mlasalle/2007/07/02/mccain.jpg

Mark Pwnn

thread summary: you don't need an erection

...to have a good time.

I wonder if he has false teeth? That would be all kinds of gross...

speak for yourself, chief

xpost

arghhhh

you don't need teeth to drink lobbyist pee

too far

THX ELMO

for my new default masturbation fantasy

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/650000/images/_653304_lightsaber300.jpg

maybe he lovingly clutched her breasts in his hands and addressed them sincerely as "my friends"

http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/2008/POLITICS/02/21/mccain/t1home.mccain.thurs.07.ap.jpg

why would I cheat on my plastic wife?

"Every man needs three women," McCain said in response to allegations that he'd cheated on his wife with a lobbyist, Vicki Iseman. "His wife comes first, of course," he said, before joking, "Unless I'm having an off night," presumably a reference to erectile problems.

McCain went on, saying, "The second woman's his mistress. And the third woman's his ho. That's where Vicki came in.

"So no -- the relationship wasn't romantic. But you do have to throw your ho a bone or two. That's what the Paxson stuff was about."

McCain then gave this reporter a high-five.

Meanwhile, Israeli newspaper prints racist Obama cartoon

http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/02/israeli-newspap.html

you don't need an erection to have a good time.

new Prince single in 2020

"U Don't Need an Erection (To Have a Good Time)"

meta question: is il* getting nastier?

I know I already posted this pic, but

http://www.blueindiana.net/upload/mccainwow.jpg

http://www.notes.co.il/karny/user/obama_caricature.jpg
http://www.notes.co.il/karny/user/maariv_obama_fear.jpg

lol nice one guise

that would be awesome if obama painted the whitehouse black tho

Like I always say what's good for the gaze
Is always good for the camera
oh Vicki, oh, oh

Oh, baby -- love me right
Let me love you till I get it right, hmm
Can't you let the others be
'Cause with you is where I got to be

Oh, sugar -- where you been?
Hangin' out with your lobbyist friends
Listen, somebody's going to hurt you
The way you love, to keep hurting me, we say

Oh, oh Vicki -- let me love you till the morning comes
Oh, oh Vicki -- you know I want to be the only one

Oh baby, understand -- that I want to be the only man

But it seems you're screaming too hard
Now think yourself to have an only friend
Oh baby, it's plain to see
That my gummy mouth can fill your needs

I think you just threw up on me
Honey, baby, that's how this town can be

And we say
(repeat first verse)

Oh baby, it's 1-2-3
I love you baby honestly, hmm, I want to
Di a di da li a di a di da li

Oh, oh Vicki...
(repeat 2, 3, 4, 1)

Oh baby, it's plain to see
That my gummy mouth can fill your needs

ddamn

maariv is barely a newspaper

actually that might be unfair - I really just know that it's a tabloid. I don't know how bad it usually is.

What does that Klingon text say on the front page?

(er, sorry)

I couldn't really tell you, but if you want to know what the word "Obama" looks like in Hebrew, it's right above his head.

i love how primary results are front page news everywhere - the whole world is following along w/us!

Some interesting folderol over at NRO:

I just got off the phone with John Weaver, the former top McCain campaign official who is now an informal adviser to the campaign. I asked him about his 1999 meeting on the campaign's behalf with lobbyist Vicki Iseman. He said he "had no reason to think" that McCain might have been having an affair with Iseman, but he was concerned about word he had heard suggesting that Iseman was telling associates she had connections with McCain. "This was a woman who was saying that she had special influence with John's committee staff and with him," Weaver told me. "I didn't believe that was the case."

"When you hear back from several people that this person is saying they can get anything done, then that is alarming," Weaver continued. So Weaver met with Iseman, at a Union Station restaurant, and told her to back off. He told me he didn't exactly say, "Get lost," but that that was the gist of it. "The discussion lasted all of five or six minutes in which I told her to cut that stuff out," Weaver told me. "I said, 'You need to stop this.'" Iseman's response, according to Weaver: "She was not happy."

It is not all that unusual for lobbyists to spread the word that they have good access with lawmakers; it's the currency of the realm in that business. "If a newspaper is going to run stories about lobbyists who claim they have special relationships with members of Congress, it will run out of ink," Weaver said.

Weaver told me he was contacted by the New York Times in December — he doesn't remember the precise day but says it was around the holidays. The Times wanted to do an interview; Weaver asked for written questions. Weaver told me the paper's reporters knew about the meeting with Iseman, asked a question about it, and he answered it, also in writing. (Weaver told me he did not answer the Times' other questions, because, he said, he didn't know anything about the specific legislative issues involved.) Weaver also told me that he emailed the McCain campaign exactly what he sent the Times, on the same day he sent it. Weaver told me the Times quoted his response on the Iseman question in its entirety.

I asked about the implications heard in some reports that Weaver, who left the McCain campaign during last summer's blow up, is disgruntled. Absolutely not, he told me. "From the day I left the campaign, including holidays — Christmas, Thanksgiving, Labor Day — not one day has gone by when I haven't talked to the campaign," Weaver told me. He is regular contact with top officials Salter, Charles Black, Steve Schmidt, as well as McCain himself and several of the campaign's surrogates. Weaver stressed that he would not do anything to harm the campaign. "When I first approached John about running for president in 1997, I badly wanted him to be president," Weaver told me. "And today, I badly want him to be president."

Though more amusing is Andy McCarthy essentially saying, "Feel sorry for you, McCain? FUCK YOU YOU PRICK."

i love how primary results are front page news everywhere - the whole world is following along w/us!

Asked about why he was so interested in the US presidential race, a Dutch PM said "Because it's going to be our new president as well", stating his view on how important the US is for the rest of the world.

Our vice-MP Wouter Bos even got reprimanded by MP Balkenende for saying he'd like Obama to win.

So yes, YOU ARE BEING WATCHED.

goddammit, this is gonna turn into a lewinsky-in-micro situation: 'lol u nailed her' 'no i did not', when the real story is that he was super cozy with a lobbyist and doing favors for her and her clients. he's said he's never had anything to do with lobbying or lobbyists. straight talk my fucking eye.

lolz @ former Romney campaign staffer complaining about the NYT not running this story in December on CNN last night. gee, bitter much?

I'm bitter! Candidate Mitt would have been so much more entertaining.

personally I think this story is bullshit. Couldn't care less about the infidelity angle, and wau I am shocked - SHOCKED - that McCain is a hypocrite re: lobbyists. I guess it will hurt him with the Republican base, which is good, but lolz what are they gonna do now, all turn to Fuckabee?? yah right