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I don't know what the deal is with this story, but it's big enough for the talking heads on cable news to get all atwitter. If John McCain was up to hanky panky, that's one thing--and it's bad on the "family values" side of the aisle to be sure--but it also brings up other unfcomfortable issues. The Keating Five controversy for one. Also, Mrs. McCain's troubles that resulted from the Keating Five. Then there's the possibility of favors for this favorite lobbyist. And, of course, the fact that she was a lobbyist in the telecommunications field, which plays into an issue on the table now.
Wherever this leads, it's not going to be a happy week for a man who is rumored to have quite the temper.
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McCain/Lobbyist Story In The New York Times Finally Drops
There's lots of fairly well-reported innuendo about a lobbyist named Vicki Iseman and a well-written recapitulation of the case against McCain as a good judge of optics... ... but nothing to suggest that McCain compromised his political principles. That said, the interest will be intense because the story was so heavily anticipated. And the wink-wink-nod-nod assertion that McCain allegedly acknowledged unspecified "improprieties" to some aides is bound to be the part of this that kicks for a while. . .
Read more at: The Atlantic
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