McCain Campaign Responds Angrily to Report Questioning Ethics

Source: ABC News

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Arizona Sen. John McCain's campaign responded tonight to an article in the New York Times about his ethics, and specifically to reports that McCain had a relationship with a female lobbyist eight years ago that some on his staff were concerned appeared inappropriate.

The female lobbyist named in the story is Vicki Iseman, who according to NY Times sources, was told to keep her distance from McCain. The Times also reports that a former campaign adviser was instructed to keep Ms. Iseman away from the senator at public events while a top McCain aide met with the woman at Union Station in Washington, DC to ask her to stay away from the senator.

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Here is the full statement from McCain Communications Director Jill Hazelbaker:

"It is a shame that the New York Times has lowered its standards to engage in a hit and run smear campaign. John McCain has a 24-year record of serving our country with honor and integrity. He has never violated the public trust, never done favors for special interests or lobbyists, and he will not allow a smear campaign to distract from the issues at stake in this election.

"Americans are sick and tired of this kind of gutter politics, and there is nothing in this story to suggest that John McCain has ever violated the principles that have guided his career."



Read more: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/02/mccain-campaign.html

having an affair with the lobbyist.

But as CKB astutely notes, they didn't bother to deny the facts of the story. Now, as I recall, an allegation like this is enough to derail a candidacy. Right, Mr. Hart? So, when will Maverick John do the right and honorable thing, and bid farewell to politics? Surely no Republican can possibly vote for a man who would cheat on his most sacred vows. Even if it's second time around.

;)

Two disgruntled staffers who don't have the guts to be identified are the main source of this story. Yep, that's credible.

I'm sorry, but this is a non-starter and will be off the news within a few days.

no smokoe without fire

This part of the story is strange to me.

Well, that's what I've heard.

Source: Washington Post

Aides to Sen. John McCain confronted a female telecommunications lobbyist in late 1999 and asked her to distance herself from the senator during the presidential campaign he was about to launch, according to one of McCain's longest-serving political strategists.

John Weaver, who served as McCain's closest confidant until leaving his current campaign last year, said he met with Vicki Iseman at the Center Cafe in Union Station and urged her to stay away from McCain. Association with a lobbyist would undermine his image as an opponent of special interests, aides had concluded.

Members of the senator's small circle of advisers also confronted McCain directly, according to sources, warning him that his continued relationship with a lobbyist who had business before the powerful Commerce Committee he chaired threatened to derail his presidential ambitions.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/20/AR2008022002898.html?hpid=topnews

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Takes the pressure of the NYT for being unfair!

It's technically a duplicate topic. :hi:

can you give a thread link?

Sometimes my search just misses things.

No harm done. :)

I find that statement hilarious coming from people that built their whole party around gutter politics and have enjoyed much more success than they ever should have deserved because of it.

McCain's spokesman could have at lest thrown in a few f'n-heimers for emphasis.

K&R!

apparently she's a pill popper...pain meds..

Thinking about it, I would be popping them as well if I had Mr. Wobble bouncing on top of me :evilgrin:

But I do think you have give well known guys some slack because most of us don't have women throwing themselves at us.

On the other hand, I don't remember him giving Big Dawg any slack. Hell with it--Get him!

the worst part of this whole story is the notion that McCain has sex at all...

And here I am, out of Brain Bleach...

about the shoulder and a tad below...but looking at that, what is that under the dress?

At the navel area and again on her left abdomen, it appears as though she has either a watch under there, or a colostomy bag.

Maybe I really don't want to know...it may be something like in "Alien"...a nasty critter that is about to blast through...

I thought WTF? I am a woman and can't think of what she had on under that dress. If it were a girdle (do they still make those?)or a tummy flatner, it would be, well flat.

:shrug:

n/t

http://archive.salon.com/mwt/feature/2000/03/06/carol/index.html

"... It seems that McCain, who had once revealed to fellow prisoners of war in Vietnam that he wanted to be president, was restless in 1979. As Navy liaison to the Senate, he didn't have the career momentum he had counted on to propel him into an admiralty and on to the White House. He was 42, mired in stifling ordinariness. (Civilians call it "midlife crisis.")

"But McCain was making bold career moves on the home front, hotly pursuing a 25-year-old blond from a wealthy Arizona family -- while married. Carol, his wife at the time, had once been quite a babe herself apparently, until a near-fatal car accident (while her husband was in Vietnam) left her 4 inches shorter, overweight and on crutches. The couple had three children, whom Carol cared for alone while her husband was in Vietnamese prisons.

"McCain's strategy worked perfectly: After chasing Cindy Hensley around the country for six months, he closed the deal late in the year, had a divorce by February and was married to Hensley shortly thereafter. Bingo! McCain was a candidate for Congress by early 1982, his coffers full, his home in the proper Arizona district purchased."

Cindy was obsolete in 2000, I guess.

What pictures of Iseman are you looking at?

"McCain Campaign Responds Angrily to Report Questioning Ethics"

Of course he responds angrily, because he's guilty as hell!

Typical Republiscum!

let s get it on you sack of shit!

Funny; they seemed to love it when Bill Clinton was caught.

...which is how slugs like McCain skate on the real corruption on which they base their careers.

Which shade of journalism would you like?