Thursday, February 21, 2008
Your Morning News 2.21.08
Posted by Josh in Barack Obama, blowing stuff up, Election 2008, FDA, hillary clinton, john mccain, Stagflation, Supreme Court, Teamsters, US Navy, Your Morning News
I stayed up late last night to watch the eclipse. While watching the eclipse, I may have had a few beers (and a few glasses of whiskey). So I overslept and I was feeling a little delicate this morning when I popped open the newspaper. All of this is my way of saying to The New York Times, I WAS NOT PREPARED TO HANDLE A JOHN MCCAIN SEX SCANDAL. THAT IS GROSS.
Ok, it is not a “sex scandal”– yet — but The Times has a piece detailing the variety of ethical issues that Senator McCain has had come up during his career. The story leads by detailing McCain’s relationship with a female lobbyist during his 2000 campaign for President. She apparently traveled with him or to meet him on the campaign trail so frequently that campaign aides confronted both of them repeatedly to tell them to stop. Though he did not necessarily have an improper relationship with the lobbyist (both deny it), he did write letters to government regulators on behalf of her clients. The story is about 1 million words long and goes on to describe a variety of scandals in McCain’s career. But honestly, no one will be talking about a regulatory scandal from 1987. If this comes up at work, bring up that John McCain already has a smoking hot, super rich wife, so what the hell is his problem?
Democrats, The Law, and Blowing Shit Up after the jump