I love how John McCain is going after members of Barack Obama's VP vetting committee.
First he takes out Jim Johnson and follows up with an Eric Holder ambush. I can't wait to see how he blindsides Caroline Kennedy.
This Frog's just wondering who made McCain the Vito Corleone of Presidential politics. I mean, since when do the Dems have to kiss his ring before proceeding to win back the White House?
That being said, I thought old John would try to pull this "I am older and wiser" bit in attempt to downplay his age with a bit of reverse ageism.
Tell that to the two little old ladies I overheard in a thrift store today. We don't hate McCain, he's just too damn old.
And with age comes experience, often ladened with a couple of horse heads that land in one's bed.
Like this one.
Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain’s national campaign general co-chair was being paid by a Swiss bank to lobby Congress about the U.S. mortgage crisis at the same time he was advising McCain about his economic policy, federal records show.“Countdown with Keith Olbermann” reported Tuesday night that lobbying disclosure forms, filed by the giant Swiss bank UBS, list McCain’s campaign co-chair, former Texas Sen. Phil Gramm, as a lobbyist dealing specifically with legislation regarding the mortgage crisis as recently as Dec. 31, 2007.
Gramm joined the bank in 2002 and had registered as a lobbyist by 2004. UBS filed paperwork deregistering Gramm on April 18 of this year. Gramm continues to serve as a UBS vice chairman.
News of Gramm’s involvement as a paid advocate for the banking industry, simultaneous with his unpaid work on McCain’s economic policies, comes as McCain’s campaign continues to reel from the purge of four other lobbyists. Two weeks ago, McCain banned lobbyists from advising him on the same subjects covered by their lobbying work.--May 2008
With age wisdom does not necessarily come.
