John McCain, the most flawed presidential candidate in history

[Guest guest]

*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, intends 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, there 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 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.

 

 

 

 

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