Vicki Iseman, John McCain and Presidential Candidate Scandals

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DBKP Political Scandal Library DBKP stories and videos about scandals involving 2008 Presidential candidates. JOHN McCAIN-VICKI ISEMAN DBKP stories about, or mentioning, the John McCain-Vicki Iseman connection: * 25 Vicki Iseman-John McCain Affair Quotes Who is the Internet commentator who dropped hints in comments on video websites weeks before the NYTimes released their story on John McCain-Vicki Iseman? * The Mysterious EllaLohan Cindy McCain: Lies, Drugs, Theft, and Intimidation John McCain used his Keating Five lawyer to file extortion charges against the man who called the DEA about wife, Cindy's Drug Theft * Cindy McCain: The McCain Manipulation Machine * Vicki Iseman: McCain's Aide "Had no reason to ask her" about Romantic Involvement" Is it true that the only evidence the NY Times has is that John McCain is a Republican? * "Denials and "No Substantial Evidence" * Vicki Iseman, McCain: Times Story's Motives, Timing Questioned * Who is Vicki Iseman? * John McCain: New Female Lobbyist Scandal * Cindy McCain-Vicki Iseman: Striking Similarities? From December 21, 2007 * John McCain and Lobbyists: Not Exactly News From December 20, 2007 * John McCain Tries Spiking NY Times Story: Ghosts of the Keating Five Past? From December 20, 2007 * McCain Lobbyist Story: Spin, Smear or Straight Reporting? From January 31, 2008 * John McCain's Double Talk Tango JOHN EDWARDS-RIELLE HUNTER Over 25 stories involving John Edwards and "producer" Rielle Hunter, who produced a video for the Edwards campaign. The video mysteriously disappeared and questions began to be raised as to "why?" and "Who is Rielle Hunter?" The National Enquirer broke the story in October 2007. Edwards denied it and Rielle Hunter denounced the Enquirer--even though it had not named her as the other woman. In December 2007, the Enquirer published a picture of the now-pregnant Rielle Hunter. Hunter had been moved to within 5 miles of the Edwards campaign HQ in Chapel Hill, NC. She was living in a $1 million-plus home of an Edwards' backer, driving a BMW registered to Edwards former Director of Finance and having her bills paid for by--whom? Stories on Hunter, Edwards and the subsequent total Mainstream Media blackout of the story. * DBKP John Edwards Love Child Scandal Library Over 30 DBKP stories on the John Edwards-Rielle Hunter Love Child Scandal. LARRY SINCLAIR and BARACK OBAMA Ongoing story of Larry Sinclair, a gay man who alleges a night of sex and cocaine in the back of Sinclair's rented limo in Gurnee, IL in 1999. Sinclair has since filed a federal lawsuit against Obama and others in the campaign alleging harassment. Sinclair is scheduled to take a polygraph test next week (week of February 24, 2008. Again, the MSM has imposed a total news blackout on the story. Includes the video where Sinclair makes his allegations. The video, on YouTube, has over 400,000 hits at last count. * Larry Sinclair: Latest on the Obama Accuser * Larry Sinclair: Obama Accuser Hits up YouTubers for Cash * Obama: Muslim Call to Prayer "One of the Sweetest Sounds on Earth" * Controversy Surrounding Polygraph Expert Larry Sinclair's full statement and additions: * Sinclair Flunks Polygraph; Polygraph Expert Flunks Credibility Test? * Larry Sinclair Fails Polygraph Tests * Obama Supporters Circulating Fake Washington Post Editorial? We contacted Larry Sinclair. After a brief exchange of emails, we received no more response. We fill in the blanks on Larry Sinclair. * Larry Sinclair: Obama Accuser Takes a Polygraph * Bill O'Reilley Tap-Dances around Larry Sinclair-Obama Story * Larry Sinclair: Obama, Sex, Drugs and the MSM * Obama: Gay Man Alleges Sex, Drugs with Barack in 1999 * NEW! "Obama: Gay Man Threatened Over Sex and Drugs Claims" HILLARY CLINTON's SEXUALITY Two stories on the relationship between "special assistant" Huma Abedin. * Hillary Clinton's Lesbian: It would set Gay Rights Back 50 years * Hillary Coming Out: Resume Enhancement?

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Obama: Man Claims Gay Sex, Drugs in '99 with Barack

The internet is abuzz with an ongoing story where a man alleges he and Senator Barack Obama had gay sex and did illegal drugs in 1999. While the MSM is aware of this story, no one in the MSM has touched it with a ten foot pole.

Is this yet another "non-story" where the MSM, as "watchdogs," decide not to report it? Or is the story about the MSM itself, that the MSM is withholding a potentially damaging report about a popular candidate running in the 2008 election for its own convoluted reasons?

While the MSM continues to ignore this story, the internet has taken up the slack, various blogs have reported on Sinclair and his claims of his illicit involvement with Senator Obama.

The video was posted one month ago on Youtube. Entitled "Obama's Limo Sex and Drug Party," the video has been seen by over 290,000 plus viewers. The man in the video, Larry Sinclair, claims he met up with the then state representative, Barack Obama, in 1999 for drugs and for sex two times, once in a limo and the other at a hotel.





A pudgy, scruffy looking guy wearing a brightly colored shirt and a baseball cap, Sinclair claims he made the video and posted it on Youtube "because of an incident involving myself and Senator Barack between November 3rd and November 8th in the Chicago, Illinois area."

He goes on to state that he and Obama met at an upscale lounge in Chicago, Illinois, in November of 1999.

Sinclair in '99

Sinclair claims that "after having a few drinks, "Obama and I left in my limo, we began to drink, Mr. Obama acquired powdered cocaine for my use, crack cocaine for his use. I performed sex on Senator Obama , who at the time was a state representative for the state of Illinois. Mr. Obama knows these allegations to be true. I'm challenging Mr. Obama to come forth, be honest, stop claiming that his drug use is limited to his teenage years."

Sinclair goes on to directly address Obama:

"In 1999 you weren't a teenager. In 1999 you were a state representative for the people of the state of Illinois. In 1999, I performed oral sex on you in the back of my limo as well as in my hotel room in Gurnee, Illinois, two days later. If you challenge this, the authenticity of this allegation, I challenge you to take a polygraph test as I will submit to as well."

Sinclair goes on to claim the allegations are true:

"These allegations are true and need to told to the public. Let the public decide whether Mr. Obama is being forthright and honest."

Sinclair challenged Obama to take a polygraph. The question was, would Sinclair submit to one as well, after all, he's the one making the nasty allegations against Obama.

The blog, Whitehouse.com, made a challenge to Sinclair. For $10,000 bucks, take a polygraph and put the money where your mouth is, (Not where it once was) and $100,000 smackeroos if Sinclair passes the test.

The truth will set you free they say, but the truth plus $100,000 will set you even freer. That's the conclusion our good friend Larry Sinclair has come to after considering the offer we made him yesterday: $10,000 to take a polygraph test over his Barack Obama sex and drugs claims, and $100,000 if he passes it. Source - Whitehouse.com

Sinclair has also filed a Federal suit against Obama and David Axelrod:

Later in the day, Sinclair filed suit against Obama and his campaign guru David Axelrod in Minnesota district court for allegedly attempting to abridge Sinclair's right to free speech, and for waging an intimidation campaign against him. Source - Whitehouse.com

We wondered, is the fact that Larry Sinclair is not the brightest bulb in the bunch, a scruffy, pudgy guy with no credentials, is that why the MSM is turning a blind eye to this story?

What if Sinclair, were, say, someone with an Ivy League background, a six or seven figure income, would this make the MSM sit up and report the story?

We're not sure if they would have reported the story unless, and this is a cynical view of the MSM, Sinclair had made his allegations and had named John McCain or Mike Huckabee as the participants instead of Obama.

We would like to know the truth. It's that simple.

Is Larry Sinclair lying or is he telling the truth? Did he spend time with a candidate for the office of the president of the United States doing coke and letting Larry give him blow jobs?

We don't expect our candidates to be inhumanly perfect but we'd like to know if our guy is into kinky sex and doing drugs before we decide to vote for him. What we shouldn't have to deal with is a press who acts as a watchdog for our interests. This is patronizing and not supposed to be the credo of the MSM.

You report, MSM, then let us decide.

Funny, Larry Sinclair said the same thing in his video.

By LBG
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John McCain's Double Talk Tango

Next Stop for the "Straight Talk Express":
The Waffle House

"Let me give you some straight talk."
--John McCain



John McCain promises "Straight Talk" at every campaign stop.

After months of campaigning, careful readers are still waiting for him to deliver on that promise.

Perhaps, no politician has bent the truth and been on both sides of more issues more times than John McCain. The only one that even comes close is former President Bill "The Meaning of 'is'" Clinton.

A recent look at Mr. Straight Talk, John McCain, through the eyes of Ann Coulter.

Of course, I might lie constantly too, if I were seeking the Republican presidential nomination after enthusiastically promoting amnesty for illegal aliens, Social Security credit for illegal aliens, criminal trials for terrorists, stem-cell research on human embryos, crackpot global warming legislation and free speech-crushing campaign-finance laws.

I might lie too, if I had opposed the Bush tax cuts, a marriage amendment to the Constitution, waterboarding terrorists and drilling in Alaska.

And I might lie if I had called the ads of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth "dishonest and dishonorable."

McCain is the favorite Republican of the liberal Mainstream Media because McCain agrees with so many MSM positions.

Global warming? Illegal immigrants? Tax cuts? Free Speech?

John McCain comes down--and comes down hard--on the side of liberals on every one of the above issues.

With a GOP nominee like McCain, who needs Democrats?

In fact, on almost every issue, John McCain and Hillary Clinton are virtually in perfect, harmonious agreement.

One of the few differences is people who disagree with them: where Clinton thinks that those who disagree with her are part of a "vast right-wing conspiracy", McCain thinks they are "racists", "dishonorable", or "dishonest".

Robert Novak and others think that John McCain is unstoppable because of some recent victories in a couple primaries--primaries which allowed Democrats and Independents to vote for the Republican nominee.

Let's look at a breakdown of how McCain fared among Republicans in Michigan, for instance.

What kind of Michigan voters preferred McCain? Voters in the GOP primary who don't like President Bush, who oppose the war in Iraq and who report that they have no religion at all. Oh, and those who say they are not, in fact, Republicans.

"Let me give you some straight talk."
--John McCain

This just in: Ann Coulter replays a "Mr. Straight Talk" moment.

But like the Democrats, McCain thinks if he simply says something over and over again, he can make people believe it's true. Thus again at the South Carolina debate on Jan. 10, McCain was proclaiming that he was "the only one on this stage" who supported the surge.

Since he would deny it about two minutes later, here is exactly what Mr. Straight Talk said about the surge: "I supported that; I argued for it. I'm the only one on this stage that did. And I condemneded the Rumsfeld strategy before that."

The next question went to Giuliani and -- amid great flattery -- Giuliani noted that he also supported Bush's surge "the night of the president's speech."

Mr. Straight Talk contradicted Giuliani, saying: "Not at the time."

Again, Giuliani said: "The night of the president's speech, I was on television. I supported the surge. I've supported it throughout."

To which McCain finally said he didn't mean that he was "the only one on this stage" who supported the surge. So by "the only one on this stage," McCain really meant, "one of several people on this stage." OK, great. Now tell us your definition of the word "is," Senator.

On the issue of the Law of the Sea treaty--which is both a direct slam at U.S. sovereignty and provides a way for the United Nations to tax U.S. companies--McCain is his typical, straight talking self.

Here’s a listing of McCain’s various statements on the treaty:

* McCain joins liberal Republican Senators Susan Collins and John Chafee in a 1998 letter to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee urging immediate consideration and approval of the Law of the Sea.


* McCain declares to Senator Richard Lugar in 2003 that he wants to testify in support of ratification but a scheduling conflict prevented his appearance before the Foreign Relations Committee for this purpose.

* McCain submits written testimony in 2003 in support of the treaty to the Foreign Relations Committee.

* McCain tells conservative bloggers on October 25, 2007, that he would “probably” vote against it because it negatively affects U.S. sovereignty.

* McCain sends a letter to a constituent on November 14, 2007, declaring that the treaty is beneficial to the U.S. but that he will keep in mind the objections to it.

On his website, there is a 2006 McCain speech to the conservative Federalist Society, in which he says that “We are a nation that limits government so that government cannot limit us. I believe this notion of limited government will stand as our lasting contribution to the world. We are proof that people can frame a government to serve as an instrument of the people, not the other way around.”

"Let me give you some straight talk."
--John McCain




McCain has perhaps been toughest on free speech--or as he phrases it, "campaign finance reform"--McCain-Feingold.

Others would label it "unconstitutional" or "incumbent re-election insurance".

Whatever you think of a law limiting what free people can or cannot say on the public airwaves with their own money at certain times of the year, McCain arrived at such a hard stance via a 1980's scandal that occurred during his first Senate term: The Keating Five Scandal.

The Keating Five Scandal featured several familiar McCain trademarks: backroom deals, arrogant handling of anyone calling him on it and a chummy relationship with a fat cat donor who steered plenty of campaign cash into the Senator's coffers.

The Arizona Senator was just learning the ropes then.

The Keating Five (or Keating Five Scandal) refers to a Congressional scandal related to the collapse of most of the Savings and Loan institutions in the United States in the late 1980s.

This allegation set off a series of investigations by the California government, the United States Department of Justice, and the Senate Ethics Committee. The ethics committee's investigation focused on five senators: Alan Cranston (D-CA); Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ); John Glenn (D-OH); John McCain (R-AZ); and Donald W. Riegle, Jr. (D-MI), who became known as the Keating Five.

After months of testimony revealed that all five senators acted improperly to differing degrees, the senators continually said they were following the status quo of campaign funding practices. In August 1991, the committee concluded that Cranston, DeConcini, and Riegle's conduct constituted substantial interference with the FHLBB's enforcement efforts and that they had done so at the behest of Charles Keating. The committee recommended censure for Cranston and criticized the other four for "questionable conduct."

As a member of the infamous Keating Five, John McCain was investigated and found to have engaged in a lot less than "straight talk". McCain is the only member of that renowned quintet to still be in the public spotlight.

While squashing ordinary citizens' rights to express their displeasure with an incumbent Senator, for instance, McCain hasn't changed his ways when it comes to lobbyists and the favors they can do for him.

Last month, reports surfaced that McCain and his campaign tried to spike a story at the New York Times which portrayed the Arizona senator dispensing special favors to a "female telecom lobbyist".

The Mainstream press was quick to leap to McCain's defense, calling the story "rumors" and "innuendo".

McCain himself first vehemently denied the story, then later "clarified" himself into confirming, at least parts of, the story.

McCain responded to the story Thursday by denying all charges of granting special favors to lobbyists, but admitted that his staff had been in contact with the New York Times regarding the story (see AP). While McCain denied having any personal contact with the paper, Politico has confirmed that McCain himself had indeed spoken with executive editor Bill Keller on concerns regarding the story.

"Let me give you some straight talk."
--John McCain

For those McCain supporters who are backing the "Straight Talk Express" and its senator engineer, because they like his tough stance on the War on Terror, it might be wise to consider McCain's other tough stances on issues--before he faced any pressure.

For those voters who like their presidential nominees with a certain "moral flexibility", John McCain is just the ticket.

As far as everyone else, they're still waiting for someone who doesn't deliver "Straight Talk" out of both sides of their mouth.

by Mondoreb
images: michael totten;freakingnews
Sources:
* GOP to Edwards: How Much for that Concession Speech?
* McCain: No More Mr. Straight Talk Express
* Straight Talk Express Takes Scenic Route to Truth
* U.N. Double Talk from Straight Talker John McCain
* The Dirt on John McCain and the Telecoms
* Keating Five



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