Lebell, welcome back. You were gone a long time and you already posted that nothing has changed around here. Once, we were dealing with Karl Rove's role in the "outing" of Valerie Plame's employment details at the CIA.
Now, there are new "stories". As I always try to do, and you have not agreed, in the past, and may not agree with this statement now, is to post my take about what is going on, and where it should lead to.
I think the information presented in this thread is important, because the attention of it from the media is not commensurate with the details.
For both McCain and Obama, these two sets of circumtances are related to their judgment and their ethics. The "problem" is that focus is overwhelmingly on Obamas shortcomings in this area, whereas McCain's are, IMO, more disturbing.
There are 82,700 search results for the search terms [ McCain Hensley ]
Hensley is McCain's late father-in-law's and McCain's wife's last name.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&s...ey&btnG=Search
There are 645,000 search results for the search terms [ Obama Rezko ]
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...=Google+Search
IMO, this wide disparity needs to be narrowed to confirm that the public is being informed by the media about both these sets of circumstances:
I agree that Obama's house purchase arrangement smells, it bears much more scrutiny, but it isn't the financial basis for the entire launching of his political career, and it hasn't netted him $50 to $100 million, as overwhelming evidence documents that McCain's ethical lapses have.
Why is it that Sam Giancana's description of his son-in-laws "lot", described on PDF page 128, here:
http://foia.fbi.gov/giancana/giancana1.pdf
....do not apply similarly to James W. Hensley's son-in-law, John McCain?
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Originally Posted by Giancana to a news reporter
..."An ex-convict can't get a job now, he explained. He has to get a gun and go out and hold up people to get something to eat. There's going to be a lot of crime if this keeps up. It will be worse than Capone.
<h3>'Look at that kid,' he added, pointing to his son-in-law. who was helping Antoinette cut a four foot high wedding cake.
'Now everybody is going to hook him up with me'. No one will hire him. I'll have to give him a .45 and put him to work for me.'.....</h3>
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Why is the mainstream media not at least asking John McCain why he cast his lot, immediately after resigning from the Navy, with the business and financial support of a former "mob soldier" in an environment where the "king pin" of the same "mob", Kemper Marely, was widely regarded, and widely publicized at that time, as the man who ordered the "mob hit" on Phoenix investigative reporter, Don Bolles?
Did John McCain really take a VP job as PR "liason" from a man as wealthy and connected as James W. Hensley was, without looking into, then or later, Hensley's background and the circumstances that resulted in his being in the beer distribution business, owning the very difficult to obtain, extremely profitable, exlclusive franchise to wholesale America's best selling beer?