Smear Campaign Against McCain?
Written by Sam on December 20th, 2007WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. John McCain, rising in the polls as a Republican presidential candidate, defended his integrity Thursday, declaring he had “never done any favors for anybody—lobbyist or special interest group.” McCain made the remark to reporters in Detroit when questioned about a report that The New York Times was investigating allegations of legislative favoritism by the Arizona Republican.McCain acknowledged that his presidential campaign aides have had discussions with the newspaper regarding its inquiries.“I have not been in talks with The New York Times. They’ve been communicating with our staff and with us,” McCain said. “I’ve never done any favors for anybody—lobbyist or special interest group—that’s a clear, 24-year record.”
McCain was cleared of any wrong doing in the incident relating to this accusation, that being he and four other senators tried to influence banking regulators for Charles Keating, later convicted of securities fraud. I do find the timing of this story rather interesting considering what other news has broken today:
Arizona Sen. John McCain has surged in New Hampshire in the past month and is now tied with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in the state race for the Republican presidential nomination, a poll showed on Thursday.
The survey by the American Research Group found McCain, a strong backer of President George W. Bush’s Iraq war strategy, had 26 percent support, up from 11 percent in a poll in late November.
He was tied with Romney, who had dropped 10 percentage points since the last survey.
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These guys call themselves christians and then do crap like this. It just goes to show that no matter where you go you can find the dirty side of christianity if that is what they call it. I call it you better get on your knees and beg forgiveness because they have a lot that they need forgiveness for. How can they set and straight-faced tell you that they know nothing about and had nothing to do with this crap. If this is how they conduct themselves and they are leaders of congregations don’t that just make you wonder what type churches that they are leading and using as examples.