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McCain's Melanoma...And So the Attacks Begin

Posted by Will Malven on Monday, March 10, 2008 4:28:37 PM
You knew that the Left would balk at nothing to win this 2008 Presidential Election, so you should not be surprised that, suddenly, John McCain's 2000 bout with skin cancer (melanoma) would become a topic of discussion.

This is just the start. McCain's age is ripe for attack and the Dems have already begun to make little cutting remarks and ask questions about his capability of withstanding the rigors of being President of the United States of America.

Democrats are nothing if not ruthless and hateful in their political tactics. Remember it was Al Gore, not George Bush who first floated the Willie Horton issue in the 1988 presidential campaign. So why would anyone be surprised by this latest "trial balloon" being floated by the Democrat Party surrogates in the MSM?

This from the International Herald Tribune (by way of the Drudge Report):
Little spoken on the campaign trail: McCain's bouts with melanoma

By Lawrence K. Altman
March 9, 2008

Along with his signature bright white hair, the most striking aspects of Senator John McCain's physical appearance are his puffy left cheek and the scar that runs down the back of his neck.

The marks are cosmetic reminders of the melanoma surgery he underwent in August 2000. McCain, the presumed Republican presidential nominee, sometimes tells audiences that he has "more scars than Frankenstein."

The operation was performed mainly to determine whether the melanoma, a potentially fatal form of skin cancer, had spread from his left temple to a key lymph node in his neck; a preliminary pathology test at the time showed that it had not.

But because such a test cannot be definitive, the surgeons, with McCain's advance permission, removed the surrounding lymph nodes and part of the parotid gland, which produces saliva, in the same operation, which lasted five and a half hours.

The final pathology analysis showed no evidence of spread of the melanoma, his staff said at the time. McCain, of Arizona, has said he did not need chemotherapy or radiation.
Uhhh yeah Lawrence, little spoken of, but you don't mind speaking of it do you? This is the old "Not to mention McCain's melanoma problem, but did you know about McCain's melanoma problem? Not that it's any big deal, but do you think it might be a big deal that McCain has had melanoma? Oh yeah, it has been in remission for sometime, but you never know..." ad infinitum, ad nauseum routine that Liberals like to play.

These Liberal media types are so predictable. Now that Senator John McCain, their favorite Republican, has been forced upon the Republican Party largely by RINO's and the Republican machine, with the assistance of large crossover voting by Liberals hoping to influence the Republican ticket, the MSM who have championed McCain, can begin to tear him down.

The goal of these "off-hand" comments is to try and find some issue that will stick to McCain and torpedo his Presidential aspirations. In pursuing this, the Leftist media will spare no effort. They want a female or black Democrat as president and they will do whatever's necessary to make it happen, even if it means tearing down someone they admire.

I have made it clear that I do not like McCain as a prospective president and that I am disinclined to vote for his election, but these kinds of below the belt attacks cannot be allowed to go unchallenged. This is an attempted political assassination by implication and association. Lawrence and his fellow hit teams don't care whether McCain is likely to face further difficulties with cancer, they only wish to raise the issue in an effort to skewer his presidential campaign.

I still have not decided whether or not I will support McCain in the general election, but the more of these attacks I see and the more I hear Hillary and Barack promote pure socialism, the closer I draw to voting for McCain. I may have to take an air-sickness bag with me to the voting booth, but I could very well wind up voting for him.

All the Democrats are offering us is a return to the failed policies of the sixties and seventies, with huge increases in welfare spending, socialized medicine, and high marginal tax-rates. They want to return to the failed socialism of the past.

The rest of the Western world is moving in the opposite direction, moving toward more capitalist economies.

It's true that Obama offers us change. Hillary offers us change as well. They will be real vessels for change. The problem is the change they are offering is a big step backwards into the dark years of Lyndon Johnson and Jimmy Carter. The change they offer is change for the worse. They will lead us down the path to lower employment, sluggish economies, and rampant inflation; the "malaise" of Jimmy Carter's term.

I have seen the "future" that Hillary and Barack offer. I lived through it and it was disasterous for the American people and our psyche. It was a time not of "shared prosperity," but of shared misery. Of course Liberals love misery. If they aren't able to complain, if the American people are not suffering, then Liberals can't relax and "enjoy" their lives.

Afterall, we are America and so we are the greatest evil on the face of the planet. Liberals believe that if one is prosperous, then they are bad and have done something evil to achieve that prosperity. Therefore they suffer from guilt at living in the most prosperous nation on Earth and continually seek a means of bringing that prosperity to an end.

Liberls dream of the halcyon days of our national post Vietnam depression. They were in total control of our government, everyone (so they thought) was properly miserable, so naturally Democrats were in Heaven.

Well we are now faced with the very real possibility of having to live through such times again, because Liberals have successfully crippled our education system to the point that younger voters are completely unaware of the misery that Democrat Party policies brought about in America.

The difficult task facing Republicans and McCain is the education of those young voters who have become so enamored of the platitudes of the Left. They have never learned the failings of socialism, never witnessed the misery that the false promises and empty rhetoric of the Left causes.

We definitely have our work cut out for us it we are to avoid another descent into the morass that was the misery of Democrat policy. It took the optimism and patriotic love of country that Ronald Reagan had to shake Americans out of the Jimmy Carter malaise.

I am not so sanguine about John McCain's ability to lift the nation up into the optimism of the eighties.

Long Live Our American Republic!!!
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Democrats Advocate Corruption in Defense Contracting

Posted by Will Malven on Monday, March 10, 2008 10:55:33 AM
Well, it would appear as though the Democrats, who were elected largely on their agenda of "cleaning up" Washington and eliminating "the corruption" of the Bush administration and the Republican Party only care about corruption when it suits their political agenda.

Apparently it was okay with Nancy Pelosi, D-CA , Norm Dicks, D-WA, and Rahm Emanuel, D-IL, for Boeing to bribe the Air Force procurement official in their pursuit of the lucrative new tanker deal which has now been awarded to Northrop Grumman.

Leave it to Democrats to lead the way in displaying hypocrisy. Here's the AP story:
Angry Boeing Supporters Target McCain

Mar 8, 9:44 AM (ET)
By MATTHEW DALY

WASHINGTON (AP) - Angry Boeing supporters are vowing revenge against Republican presidential candidate John McCain over Chicago-based Boeing's loss of a $35 billion Air Force tanker contract to the parent company of European plane maker Airbus.

There are other targets for their ire - the Air Force, the defense secretary and even the entire Bush administration.

But Boeing supporters in Congress are directing their wrath at McCain, the Arizona senator and nominee in waiting, for scuttling an earlier deal that would have let Boeing build the next generation of Air Force refueling tankers. Boeing now will miss out on a deal that it says would have supported 44,000 new and existing jobs at the company and suppliers in 40 states.

"I hope the voters of this state remember what John McCain has done to them and their jobs," said Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Wash., whose state would have been home to the tanker program and gained about 9,000 jobs.
Ethics? Ethics? We don' need no stinkin' ethics.

What was Democrat Congressional Campaign Chairman Rahm Emanuel's reaction?

"Having made sure that Iraq gets new schools, roads, bridges and dams that we deny America, now we are making sure that France gets the jobs that Americans used to have. We are sending the jobs overseas, all because John McCain demanded it."
Rahm, you are a true blue Democrat.

Seems John McCain's crime is in questioning a clear case of criminal corruption.

More from the AP article:

"The deal was killed in 2004 after a former Boeing executive improperly recruited an Air Force official while she was still overseeing contracts involving prospective Boeing deals. The former Air Force official, Darleen Druyun, and a top Boeing executive both served time in prison, and the scandal led to the departure of Boeing's chief executive and several top Air Force officials."[Emphasis added.]
My word! We can't have a President who actually dared to intervene in a corrupt deal between a defense contractor and members of our military. Why this might lead to people questioning the $ millions in contracts that Diane Feinstein's husband got while she was on the Senate Defense Appropriations Committee.

Of course no article would be complete without a few words of wisdom from the Wicked Witch of the Left. Madame Speaker of the House, that paragon of virtue, had this to say:

"I mean, the thought was that it would be a domestic supplier for it. Senator McCain intervened, and now we have a situation where the contract may be - this work may be outsourced...Given the ramifications of this decision for the United States, the Air Force must explain to Congress how it meets the long-term needs of our military and the American people."
Excuse me Madame Speaker, as Senator McCain said, the purpose of defense contracts is not to provide employment to American citizens, it is to provide the equipment our military needs to fulfill their obligation to defend our nation.

Of course, what should you expect from people who believe that the primary purpose of government is to provide employment to those who are unemployed, even if the jobs it provides are less efficient, more costly, and counter-productive to the needs of the country.

With this hypocritical campaign against McCain, the Democrat Party is once more proving that what angered them about Haliburton and their "no-bid" contracts was not the possibility that America was being bilked out of $Billions, it was merely a convenient vehicle for their attempts to destroy the Bush Administration.

Besides, Northrup Grumman is an American Corporation. Yes some of the parts for the tanker will be manufactured in France, but it will be assembled in Alabama, so jobs will be created for American citizens...just not those citizens in the Democrat state of Washington.

Democrats don't care about the people, they only care about acquiring and holding onto power and anyone who doesn't see this is a gullible fool.

Long Live Our American Republic!!!!

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