McCain: ‘As President, I’m going to end these abuses [of power] whatever it takes.’
McCain: ‘As President, I’m going to end these abuses [of power] whatever it takes.’
Just moments ago at a townhall rally in Davenport, IA, John McCain delivered this statement:
As a Senator, I’ve seen the corrupt ways of Washington and wasteful spending and other abuses of power, and its corruption. We now have former members of Congress residing in federal prison. That’s how bad it’s gotten. As President, I’m going to end these abuses whatever it takes.
Watch it:
McCain’s statement is ironic, considering his running mate was cited just last night by an official state investigation for unethically and unlawfully abusing her power. Noting that McCain was previously admonished by the Senate Ethics Committee for his involvement in the Keating scandal, Steve Benen reports:
The McCain/Palin ticket is the first in American history in which both candidates were found to have violated ethics standards before a national election.
The very first time I ever heard Sarah Palin’s name floated as a potential VP was on Morning Joe. Andrea Mitchell immediately responded that Palin was the subject of an active abuse of power investigation, so she was out. Everyone seemed to agree with that, and the conversation moved on. Sounded sensible enough to me. But within days she was John McCain’s choice.
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The people controlling the world are criminals.
It turns out that Bush’s grandfather Prescott conspired to overthrow the Constitution, assassinate FDR, and turn the United States into a Nazi Camp. Here’s the July 2007 BBC report.
This video of investigative journalist John Buchanan details the documents discovered at the National Archives and Library of Congress implicating Prescott.
George W Bush quote: “If this were a dictatorship, it’d be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I’m the dictator.”
John McCain quote: “I’ve always aspired to be a dictator.”
Barack Obama’s economic adviser, Austan Goolsbee, is a member of the Skull and Bones Secret Society.
Other members of Skull and Bones include Prescott Bush, Bush Sr, Bush Jr, and John Kerry.
The $700B bailout bill is Unconstitutional.
Both McCain and Obama voted FOR the unconstitutional bailout bill.
Christopher Story, editor and publisher of International Currency Review, explains the $700B bailout was nothing more than on-the-books cash for the criminals’ new trading platform:
Quote From Forbes Magazine:
In fact, some of the most basic details, including the $700 billion figure Treasury would use to buy up bad debt, are fuzzy.
“It’s not based on any particular data point,” a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com Tuesday. “We just wanted to choose a really large number.”
Associated Press – Sep 29, 2008 - Fannie, Freddie disclose subpoenas, investigations
Why did Bush Sr call for a New World Order on September 11, 1990?
And what about 9/11? Alaskan magnetometers went BONKERS with every 9/11 “event”, including the plane-shaped holes appearing in the towers. This is virtual proof of HAARP.
No one in New York reported the deafening sound of wide-body commercial airliners hitting the towers at full throttle. In 1999, the Washington Post reported on the military’s psychological operation hologram project.
See here for source information and much much more:
9/11: Distinguishing The Propaganda From The Smoking Guns
October 11th, 2008 at 1:21 pmholy crap batman! its SUPER MCCAIN!
hes gonna save the world!
open mouth, insert foot. please please please just quit talking mcYOUhaveNOideaWHATyouAREsayingANYMORE!
October 11th, 2008 at 1:21 pmThe people controlling the world are criminals.
It turns out that Bush’s grandfather Prescott conspired to overthrow the Constitution, assassinate FDR, and turn the United States into a Nazi Camp. Here’s the July 2007 BBC report.
This video of investigative journalist John Buchanan details the documents discovered at the National Archives and Library of Congress implicating Prescott.
October 11th, 2008 at 1:23 pmThe first step is to put Nailed Palin in jail and the second step is to resign from the campaign and the Senate. President Obama will handle the rest.
CONGRATULATIONS, PRESIDENT OBAMA!
October 11th, 2008 at 1:23 pmAnd who pray tell do you think Gramps McCrankypants will appoint as his czar to end these abuses of power? Hmmm…maybe somebody who has a certain level of expertise in this area? Hmmm… wonder … who … it … could … be … [ HINT ]
Just saying . . .
October 11th, 2008 at 1:26 pmGrampy McSame, “I don’t know why I said abuse of power it just popped into my mind out of nowhere.”
October 11th, 2008 at 1:30 pmCB_Brooklyn – the folks behind the politics never go away:
Creepiness Factors Surrounding the Bush Clan
or
Tricky Dick Was Bush-League Compared to Chimpy
I am sure it will offend some, just one interpretation of history. Let’s just look at the “creepiness factors” here.
The Bush family fortune did not come from oil — it came from financing the Nazis in WW I. There was an investigation (official record) and I believe some assets were frozen and even seized.
In fact, some say the Prescotts and other powerful elites were actually behind Hitler’s rise to power in Germany. Think about this – it is a fact that the propaganda techniques had their roots in America. Was Hitler an evil genius or a stupid puppet — anyone else see some scary possibilities here.
George Bush I namesake and maternal grandfather, George Herbert ‘Bert’ Walker, was a native of St. Louis, who founded the banking and investment firm of G. H. Walker and Company in 1900. Herbert “Bert” Walker controlled Smith and Wesson. The brownshirts in the streets of 1920s Germany were armed with Smith and Wesson revolvers, which they got for free from Fritz Thyssen (of Thyssen/Krupp), who got them wholesale from Walker.
George’s grandfather, Prescott is responsible for bringing Richard Nixon into politics, set him up, and provided direction and support.
George I was involved with the CIA many years before being its director under Gerald Ford. He was involved with the Bay of Pigs. Some believe he has connections, direct or indirect, with JFK assassination. If you do not accept the Warren Commission, and most Americans don’t, then the murder of an elected president was nothing less than a coup d’etat. It is a verified fact, that the rest of the world accepts though it was never given the press it deserved, that chimpy did not win in 2000 – another coup d’tat?
If you think the JFK case is convoluted and full of lies – check of the RFK murder! Most certainly this paved the way for tricky dick to get into the Whitehouse (remember, this is Prescott’s main man). Isn’t this, in many ways, a coup too? While we’re at it – Martin Luther King’s murder was the result of a conspiracy – at least that is what a judge and jury decided when they heard the evidence. How come the rest of America never heard the evidence?
Nixon could not have possibly resigned over the Watergate burglary — this is minor league stuff, especially by today’s standards. What possibly could have been on that 18-minute gap that cannot be recovered with today’s technology? You know that you cannot actually erase your hard-drive this clean. A secretary certainly did not erase these tapes in this matter by herself. No — this is not a direct Bush thing, unless there was direct, indirect involvement with JFK murder. Any other speculation as to what was on that tape?
The “Reagan Revolution” was enabled by treason – George Bush Sr. negotiated with the Iranian hostage takers to hold U.S. citizens captive until AFTER the election. This, coupled with the “mighty Wurlitzer” mainstream media undermined President Carter and threw the election to Ronald Reagan. This “October Surprise” was actually a coup detat against a sitting president. Reagan did not start his presidency as a wildly popular “uniter”, he was propelled into office via an act of treasonous.
The Reagan assassination attempt was done by the son of a close bush family friend — while Ronald ran as an aggressive, “reform” type in 1980, he became a passive “hands-off” delegate after the assassination attempt. Coincidence — Nancy Reagan could not stand the Bushes.
If you can accept that there was Bush involvement with the CIA and perhaps even the Reagan assassination attempt, then please look at this link:
http://www.mackwhite.com/lennon.html
Neil Bush was a major player in the Savings and Loan scandal — cost us billions. He told congress that he received million dollar loans that were “forgiven” and that this “happens all the time.” Does anyone else think this makes chimpy’s Social Security con more reprehensible?
Bush Sr. was a leading player in the Iran-Contra scandal. Drugs were used as a weapon against targeted communities INSIDE of America and the illegal funds that these sales generated were used to maintain illicit, “off-the-book” programs that have never been made public. The destruction of America’s inner city funded additional illegal, treasonous activities.
Bush Sr. pardoned all of the Iran/Contra co-conspirators. Many of these same folks have played active roles in enabling treasonous acts of George W Bush.
Bush Sr. was having breakfast with Bakr bin Laden, brother of Osama, the morning of 9/11, at a Carlyle Group shareholders meeting.
Marvin P. Bush, the president’s younger brother, was a principal in a company called Securacom that provided security for the World Trade Center, United Airlines, and Dulles International Airport. The World Trade Center was destroyed just days after a heightened security alert was lifted. Daria Coard, 37, a guard at Tower One, said the security detail had been working 12-hour shifts for the prior two weeks because of numerous phone threats. But on Thursday [September 6], bomb-sniffing dogs were abruptly removed. On the weekend of 9/8, 9/9 there was a ‘power down’ condition in WTC tower 2, the south tower. This power down condition meant there was no electrical supply for approx 36 hrs from floor 50 up… “Of course without power there were no security cameras, no security locks on doors and many, many ‘engineers’ coming in and out of the tower.” Surveillance tapes and maintenance logs are missing.
The Bush administration was specifically warned about planes being used as weapons and that “Bin Ladin Determined to Attack US” yet they claimed “who could have known?”
President Bush’s cousin should have been in the World Trade Centre when it was attacked. Jim Pierce, managing director of AON Corporations, had arranged a business conference on the 105th floor of the South Tower where its New York offices were based. But his group was too large so they decided to move across the street to the Millennium Hotel.
The Bush administration was specifically warned about the need to rebuild NOLA levees and was specifically warned about Hurricane Katrina, yet they claimed “who could have known?”
Iraq, a war that Bush I refused to continue fighting in after Desert Storm, was allowed to progress into what is now being more widely accepted as “the gates of hell” and a civil war. This after the American public was told “we would be greeted as liberators” and “mission accomplished. The oil industry, however, is making record profits that are astonishingly high and the military-industrial complex is making BILLIONS in profits – much of the federal money they receive (hundreds of billions) cannot be accounted for. Outrageous billings for services and supplies are the order of the day – but billions are just “disappearing” into the war machine’s deep pockets.
George W. Bush becomes the first President of the United States to proclaim that torture is official U.S. Policy. Of course, torture was part of the government’s attempt to destabilize sovereign governments under Iran/Contra. Those programs were illicit and kept “off the book” and out of the press. George W. proclaims this is now official U.S. Policy.
George W. Bush declares the constitution is just a “God Damn piece of paper” and declares that he is above the law. He signs bills with statements that he will not follow the laws he is signing. He also signs into law a budget bill that was not passed by both senate and house.
As President Bush embarks on a new effort to shore up public support for the war in Iraq, an uncle of the commander in chief is collecting $2.7 million in cash and stock from the recent sale of a company that profited from the war.
Is it possible that the Bush family has connections to some of the most disturbing events in the past 100 years?
I humbly present this for discussion only, not as fact – “Gemstone” files style, seeking to promote dialog. Much of this would never be verifiable if true – run these topics through your favorite “search engine,” see what you find, decide for your self, and share your ideas.
October 11th, 2008 at 1:30 pmOh – now we need to add the trillion dollar financial sector bailout too! (oh, and typo, not WW I, of course financed nazis WW II
October 11th, 2008 at 1:33 pm“My friends, I know to end abuse of power, my friends. I abused power, and I know how to stop it. My running mate Sarah Palin knows how to abuse power. I know how to end it, my fellow prisoners. That one, Senator Whats-his-name, he doesn’t understand abuse of power like I do, my friends.”
October 11th, 2008 at 1:34 pmThis explains why his campaign is doing so poorly. If he were elected the first thing he’d have to do is resign after he fires Palin, if he truly follows this policy.
October 11th, 2008 at 1:36 pmGood point ralph. Who knows how to stop abuse of power better than two people who have abused power.
October 11th, 2008 at 1:38 pmMcCain is doused in irony. No one strike a match.
October 11th, 2008 at 1:39 pmMcCain ought to start by throwing his ethically challenged “hockey mom” off of the ticket. And what about the stain of Keating Five on McCain himself? He’s such a hypocrite…
http://sunstateactivist.org/ssablog/
October 11th, 2008 at 1:41 pmDoesn’t “abuse of power” also include an abysmal voting record, i.e. not voting on many issues, then taking credit for having been for or against the issue?
October 11th, 2008 at 1:42 pmPerhaps he hasn’t read the newspaper yet? HA
October 11th, 2008 at 1:42 pmI would like to an Obama AD showing a reporter announcing
“scarah abused power as Gov..” then Mccan’t saying
this! Priceless.
Do John and Sarah know their party is suppressing the vote? If they really want to reform things, they could start by telling their party to stop cheating.
October 11th, 2008 at 1:42 pmralph the wonder llama Says:
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“My friends, I know to end abuse of power, my friends. I abused power, and I know how to stop it. My running mate Sarah Palin knows how to abuse power. I know how to end it, my fellow prisoners. That one, Senator Whats-his-name, he doesn’t understand abuse of power like I do, my friends.”
Do you write for SNL? LMAO
October 11th, 2008 at 1:43 pmstateofthedivision Says:
McCain is doused in irony. No one strike a match.
Bwaahaaahaaa!! roflmao :)
October 11th, 2008 at 1:47 pmspeaking of improbable attacks, this morning mccain attacked obama for voting for spending $230 million on the bridge to nowhere.
what the heck is that supposed to mean?
October 11th, 2008 at 1:51 pmThe two worthless lying electionn-stealing war-mongering traitorous thugs, Bush and Cheney, should resign immediately and let the Speaker of the House be a caretaker President until Obama becomes the new elected President in late January.
Both McCain and Palin should drop out as Republican candidates to succeed Bush and Cheney. They should apologize to the country for their racist rabblerousing.
October 11th, 2008 at 1:55 pmHow can he say he’ll end abuses of power one day, when his VP pick says she wants to expand the power of the VP?
Cognitive dissonance anyone?
October 11th, 2008 at 1:57 pmstjack Says
October 11th, 2008 at 1:58 pmI think it was in a bill he voted for.
Whats funny is that Mccan’t railed
Sarah “abuse of power free for 1 second” Palin
when she got 27 million for her little town of 7000.
So, Is McCain going to off Palin; I know he wishes he could.
October 11th, 2008 at 1:59 pmnofltwlt Says:
So, Is McCain going to off Palin; I know he wishes he could.
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i’ve been wondering whether palin was simply a way to keep the *real* veep candidate from any serious scrutiny until it’s too close to election time to do anything about it.
btw, ever wonder what would have happened if the story about the rumsfeld/cheney/wolfowitz wolf-crying about that fake super-secret russian sub in the 70s had gotten a lot of press right before the 2000 election?
October 11th, 2008 at 2:03 pmMcSame: ‘As President, I’m going to end these abuses [of power] whatever it takes.’
lol Thanks TP for the laugh for Saturday. Gramps McSame is using the same rehash BS from the clown President’s speech in the 2000 election. A crooked Presidential nominee to end the abuse of power by crooks. Nothing more to add. That’s says it all.
October 11th, 2008 at 2:09 pmnofltwlt Says:
So, Is McCain going to off Palin; I know he wishes he could.
Gonna send her moose hunting with Cheney?
October 11th, 2008 at 2:11 pmTwo go out, but only one comes back-either way it’s a win/win situation
Alaska Barbie is truly an embarrassment, what a petty vindictive horror show she is. And McCain shows his “judgement” in picking this unqualified yahoo.
October 11th, 2008 at 2:15 pmAnd then, there’s this:
Looks like the bar just lowered itself.
October 11th, 2008 at 2:25 pmReally. As a good Republican Colin Powell had to rid himself of any hint of respectability.
October 11th, 2008 at 2:32 pmApril 9th 2008, I “read Kaddish” over Colin Powell.
October 11th, 2008 at 2:40 pmYet he voted with the Bush administration over 90% of the time. He has been there over twenty five years. What has he done?
October 11th, 2008 at 2:44 pmGrampy McSame, “My friends I know how to abuse power. I have abused power. Mr. Peepants over there doesn’t know how to abuse power but I’ll show him by stealing the election. Heh, heh, heh.”
October 11th, 2008 at 2:47 pmKeeting to mcdreadful “I’m your’s till dath do us part” circa 1986…American voter’s to mcdreadful “get outta town john and don’t come back” circa 2008…Blessings
October 11th, 2008 at 2:52 pmStart by dumping Palin and then we’ll talk.
October 11th, 2008 at 2:54 pmMcIrony?
October 11th, 2008 at 2:55 pmI’ve seen the corrupt ways of Washington and wasteful spending and other abuses of power, and its corruption.
And what did did exactly do to stop said corruption and wasteful spending?
Can anyone name one specific initiative, bill, Senate committee, hearing he ever headed or initiated to stop such practices? Anyone?
October 11th, 2008 at 3:46 pmDon’t know who is in prison, but might that be a good thing. So many people in prison for smoking weed, might it be progress for members of Congress to be in prison for their crimes? Having congress-critters in prison might have a positive rippling effect.
And what has he been waiting for anyway?
October 11th, 2008 at 4:18 pmMcSame always says to look at his record. So what has he done along this route in the last 8 years (bush clone ?). What has he done in the last 30 years in politics.
Who are you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes ?
October 11th, 2008 at 4:35 pmTP – don’t pull your punch. Put in the timeline that first Palin tried to get the investigation quashed. Then Palin refused a subpoena. Now she denies the report as they never talked to her.
Add that just before the report came out, Palin released her own report exonerating her from all charges.
October 11th, 2008 at 4:36 pmDumb Question: doesn’t it seem like this calls for some sort of damage control from the McChurian Candidate’s camp ?
All I’ve heard are the crickets chirping.
October 11th, 2008 at 4:38 pmEven the TROLLS dont seem to have the stomach for this one.
October 11th, 2008 at 4:43 pmMcNumbNuts says: “I’m going to end these abuses [of power] whatever it takes”
Please, please, please. Tell me that’s your concession speech, Johnny!
October 11th, 2008 at 4:56 pmBuckie Boy Says:
McIrony?
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Hah… more like the McFlopsweat of McDesperation, if ya ask me.
October 11th, 2008 at 5:01 pmAll McCain has done during his “campaign” is to show he is racist, bigoted, un-American, unpatriotic. He has spent his time pandering to extremists & racists while he blowsw his own horn over & over & over as being a POW (with apparently no patriotism whatsoever) – now, suddenly, he realizes the Pandora’s Box of hatred he unleashed- but McCain, you caused it- you & Palin- and if you can’t calm them, it’s your own bloody fault. McCain/Palin = hatred, racism, anti-Americanism. How dare he even try to put himself forward as a patriot with the lowlife tactics he employs. He wants to destroy America. At least, he has no platform to disprove that he is anti-American- everything he says is negative, anti-U.S., anti-middle class, & anti-intelligent. He is not – ever- “for country”. What a liar.
October 11th, 2008 at 5:25 pmSorry for the rant. McCain/Palin are such liars it is hard not to be upset. I think of the children listening to McCain/Palin hatred, racism & lies, and it makes me angry. They are the antithesis of role models. They are despicable.
October 11th, 2008 at 5:29 pmFlippy McSpin sure “knows” lots of stuff he ain’t tellin’. It seems to me that a real patriot would have acted on some of this “knowledge” before he needed it for a sham election.
Just another example that this sham/campaign has no intention of speaking to rational people. It’s all about keeping the sheeple in a frightened flock for future exploitation.
October 11th, 2008 at 5:34 pmNo apologies needed, dasm. It is frustrating that ol Flippy and the scum who promote him don’t burst into flames when they say some of their crap. Shows you how much attention God is paying to “His People”.
October 11th, 2008 at 5:37 pmwho says that…”off with his head” my GOD I live in a country with these simple minds? These are McCain supporters? WE THE PEOPLE forgot about BUSH and CHENEY crime? I would expect MORE. VOTE NOVEMBER 4th….yes people for the BLACK MAN….MY GOD. the white guys robbed you BLIND…and for the socialist thing look at McCains HEALTH CARE PLAN….5,000 (not many zero’s there honey) when it cost 700.00 per month you ‘lil brains will run out before Memorial DAY (I know what your thinking…these folk like people are not that bright) …black man still = HUMAN. unlike ya’ll…. git yur gun….yee haa. Abortion BAD but shoot-up your neighbor OK???????
October 12th, 2008 at 9:52 pm“The Borgen Project has some good info on the cost of addressing global poverty.
October 13th, 2008 at 2:18 pm$30 billion: Annual shortfall to end world hunger.
$540 billion: Annual U.S. Defense Budget.”