"Bush Quietly Raises Money For McCain": McCain Talks Straight With Forked Tongue

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McCain's latest act of cowardice and hypocrisy portrays him more as a desperate and opportunistic political hack than a principled man capable of any kind of "straight talk."  He takes on the appearance of a viper with leprosy--poised to wag his forked tongue at the enemy--ready, if necessary, to sink his fangs into his own litter.  His secret meetings with Bush have everything to do with money and nothing to do with principle.  President Bush goose-steps from state to state in secret rooms filled with oil, quietly collecting money to help fill McCain's purse, 30 pieces of silver at a time.  It should come as little surprise that McCain would turn to Bush's oil field friends to cough up his field of blood.  Nor should it come as any surprise when nothing changes if he is elected, as it is clear he will serve the money and not the people.  McCain's most secured creditors will no doubt be the same as Bush's...and no one shanks the bag man. 

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote:  "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.  This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.  It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.  It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."

I doubt John McCain would admit the connection between straight talk and integrity, but you can't have it both ways.  You can't distance yourself from the president & then have him trollop around in the dark of night secretly funding your cause as though no one will notice.  It's no different than the principles he funneled down the drain to Hagee; suggesting its okay to piggyback votes off of a bigot...but certainly not a Nazi.  John McCain may talk straight, but it's with a forked tongue.

From U.S. News & World Report

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/bulletin/bulletin_080528.htm

Media commentators are casting President Bush's appearance with Sen. John McCain at a fundraiser as a political risk for the GOP nominee. Most reports also suggest McCain and the White House tried to minimize any PR damage to the campaign by keeping cameras out of the event. The Arizona Daily Star, for example, says "the prime goal of President Bush's visit here Tuesday was to raise money for...McCain. The second was to do it quietly. By the end of the day, it appeared he'd succeeded at both." The Daily Star adds "a private fundraiser attended by nearly 500 people was expected to have generated millions for the campaign, possibly more than $3.5 million, said Tucsonan Mike Hellon, a co-chair of McCain's Arizona campaign. " Moreover, "unlike Bush's previous visits to the state...this four-hour stop was a relatively guarded one." The fundraiser "was completely closed -- underlining, critics said, the struggle the Arizona senator and presumptive GOP presidential nominee faces running in the shadow of an unpopular president."

CNN's The Situation Room reported, "The bottom line is all this is likely to give Democrats more fodder for what they like to say when they call the Republican candidate McBush, but the fact is, the truth is not quite so black and white." On the environment, McCain has "broken dramatically with the president, calling for caps on carbon emissions and suggesting Mr. Bush has not shown leadership on global warming."

The CBS Evening News noted Barack Obama "had something to say about the McCain fund-raiser today. Let's take a listen." Obama was shown saying, "No cameras. No reporters. And we all know why. Senator McCain doesn't want to be seen hat in hand with the president whose failed policies he promises to continue for another four years."

Fox News' Special Report reported that "with no one yet sure how much of an asset he is beyond his fund-raising, Mr. Bush made the trip alone. All three McCain fund-raisers in Arizona and Utah are closed to the press, and McCain himself is only attending one of them, a scheduling coincidence says campaign adviser Nancy Pfotenhauer." The Washington Post reports, "The same ground rules will cover Bush's trip to Utah on Wednesday, where he will appear with former presidential candidate Mitt Romney to woo big-money Republican donors to McCain's cause. ... Whether McCain can continue soaring above his ailing party, or will find himself crashing down to Earth with it, could determine whether Republicans retain control of the White House next year."