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20080828
 Cindy
McCain -  John
McCain -  Barack
Obama - 2008
Election - Phoenix
-  Arizona
- Family
"Cindy
McCain's Half Sister: "I'm Voting for Barack Obama"."
... "Cindy McCain's half sister is planning on voting for [2008
Election Democratic Presidential Candidate] Barack Obama, she tells
Usmagazine.com." ... ""I'm not voting for McCain," Kathleen Hensley Portalski
tells Us. "I have a different political standpoint." ... ""I'm voting
for Obama," the Phoenix [Arizona's capital] resident says. "I think his
proposals to improve the country are more positive and I'm not a big war
believer."" ... "Portalski, 65, and the potential first lady, 54, have
the same father: Jim Hensley, the founder of the beer distributor Hensley
and Co. that Cindy McCain now chairs." ... "In an interview with NPR News'
All
Things Considered last week, Portalski said she felt
"like a non-person" after Cindy McCain described herself as an "only child.""
... "Portalski's mother is Hensley's first wife; Cindy McCain's mother,
Marguerite Hensley, also had another daughter from her first marriage."
-UsMagazine.com
20080821
John
McCain -  Homes
-  Money
-  Politics
- 2008
Election -  Working
- Families
"McCain
owns so many homes, he’s lost count." ... "It’s one
thing to be so extraordinarily wealthy that you own multiple homes. It’s
another to be so extraordinarily wealthy that you can’t even remember how
many homes you own." ... "By one count, the actual number [of homes owned
by 2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate John McCain] is actually
10." ... "But in most respects, the exact number isn’t especially relevant.
The point is a) McCain is so rich he owns a lot of homes; b) McCain is
so out of touch he can’t even remember the number of homes he owns; and
c) despite his extravagant wealth, McCain is anxious to push an agenda
that favors the rich even more while screwing over the middle class
and working families." -By Steve Benen
-TheCarpetbaggerReport.com
20080820
John
McCain - Family
-  US
-  Bangladesh
-  Vietnam
-  History
- 2008
Election
"Watchdogs
make it harder for politicians to stretch the truth:
Cindy McCain's past is the latest to be questioned after errors were found."
... "The latest embellishments come from the [2008 Election Republican
Presidential Candidate John] McCain camp. Cindy McCain has repeatedly referred
to herself as an “only child.” This week came news that she actually has
two half sisters, although apparently she had very little contact with
them." ... "The McCain campaign had also put out the story that Mother
Teresa “convinced” Cindy to bring home two orphans from Bangladesh in 1991."
... "Mrs. McCain, it turns out, never met Mother Teresa on that trip."
... "In another instance, McCain told the Chicago Tribune earlier this
year that on one of her medical missions to Vietnam she was in “the very
hospital – and in the very room – where her husband was brought after being
shot down and then beaten by a mob during the war.”" ... "A 1992 Washington
Times story recounts a different version: “Mrs. McCain asked to see the
operating room and her husband’s cell, but was turned down. She took the
rejection philosophically. ‘It’s 27 years later. Let’s go on,’ Mrs. McCain
said.”" -By Alexandra Marks
-CSMonitor
20080819
Cindy
McCain - John
McCain - 2008
Election - Family
"Cindy
McCain's Half Sister: She "Makes Me Feel Like a Non-Person"."
... "[2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate] John McCain's
wife Cindy is coming under criticism from her older half sister
for claiming to be an "only child."" ... "Just last month, Cindy McCain
told CNN: "I grew up with my dad. I'm an only child. My father was a cowboy
and he really loved me very much, but I think he wanted a son occasionally.""
... "But in an interview with NPR
News' All Things Considered, half sister Kathleen Hensley
Portalski responded: "I'm upset. I'm angry. It makes me feel like a non-person,
kind of."" ... "Portalski's son Nicholas told NPR it's "just very, very
hurtful" that "we don't exist" and "Cindy has to put such a fine point
on it by saying something that's not true.""
-UsMagazine.com
20080818
Cindy
McCain - Family
- Phoenix
- Arizona
- John
McCain - 2008
Election
"Cindy
McCain's Half Sister 'Angry' She's Hidden." ... "Last
Tuesday, NPR broadcast a story about [2008 Election Republican Presidential
Candidate John McCain's wife] Cindy McCain's business and charity work.
In it, Ted Robbins described McCain as the only child of Jim Hensley, a
wealthy Arizona businessman. The next morning, NPR received an e-mail from
Nicholas Portalski of Phoenix [Arizona], who heard the story with his mother."
... ""We were listening to the piece about Cindy McCain on NPR, All
Things Considered, and it just struck us very hard," Portalski said."
... "His mother, Kathleen Hensley Portalski, is also Hensley's daughter."
... "McCain herself routinely uses the phrase "only child," as she did
on CNN last month. "I grew up with my dad," she said then. "I'm an only
child. My father was a cowboy, and he really loved me very much, but I
think he wanted a son occasionally."" ... ""I'm upset," Kathleen Portalski
says. "I'm angry. It makes me feel like a nonperson, kind of."" ... ""The
fact that we don't exist," he says. "The fact that we've never been recognized,
and then Cindy has to put such a fine point on it by saying something that's
not true. Recently, again and again. It's just very, very hurtful."" -By
Ted Robbins -NPR.org
20080812
Barack
Obama - Family
-  Hawai'i
- 
-  Journalist
- Politics
-  Military
-  Sports
-  Illinois
- 2008
Election
"Akaka
defends Obama's Hawaii vacation from ABC commentator:
Journalist questions [2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack]
Obama's vacation in 'foreign' destination." ... "A group called Asian Americans
for Obama sent out a media alert yesterday with the headline, "BREAKING:
Hawai'i is a State," as U.S. [Unisted States Hawaii Democratic Senator]
Sen. Daniel Akaka and others defended U.S. [Illinois Democratic Senator]
Sen. Barack Obama's decision to spend a weeklong vacation in the Islands."
... "Obama had another casual day yesterday: Visit his grandmother at her
Makiki apartment again, watch a movie at the Ward Complex theaters and
go to dinner. But his choice of vacation destinations — his hometown of
Honolulu — prompted [Disney TV's] ABC News' Cokie Roberts to twice call
Hawai'i a "foreign" and "exotic" vacation destination for the man who wants
to be president." ... ""I know his grandmother lives in Hawai'i," Roberts
said on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos. "And I know Hawai'i
is a state. But it has the look of him going off to some sort of foreign,
exotic place. He should be in Myrtle Beach if he's going to take a vacation
at this time."" ... "But Akaka didn't see any humor in Roberts' comments."
... ""Saying our 50th state is somehow 'foreign,' does a great disservice
to the hardworking, patriotic Americans who call Hawai'i home," Akaka said.
"For months, people have been asking me, 'When is Sen. Obama going to come
home?' I'm so glad he found time to visit his sister and his grandmother,
and for him and his family to bond and recharge in his home state. Hawai'i
is a great U.S. destination; just ask the 5.5 million Americans who visited
last year for business and pleasure."" ... "Akaka's press secretary, Jesse
Broder Van Dyke, wants Roberts to see firsthand evidence of Hawai'i's history
and its role in the country's future." ... ""I would love to take Ms. Roberts
on a tour of O'ahu, with stops at the Arizona Memorial and Punchbowl, followed
by a visit with Hawai'i Army National Guard soldiers training for their
second deployment to the Middle East," he said. "Then I would take her
to Eastside Grill to watch Team USA women's volleyball and Bryan Clay.
I would introduce her to Hawai'i residents so she could witness our diversity
and learn about the aloha spirit. Part of what makes America great is the
unique contributions of all 50 states. Sen. Obama has every right to come
home and visit his sister and grandmother."" -By Dan
Nakaso -HonoluluAdvertiser.com
20080810
 John
Edwards - John
McCain - Media
- Politics
- 2008
Election - Obama
- Family
-  People
- Money
- History
"Catching
the Wrong John: Why Are the Media Talking about John Edwards' Infidelity
If They Aren't Going to Talk about John McCain's?"
... "If John Edwards' infidelity is news, and he's not a candidate for
anything, why isn't [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate] John
McCain's? He reportedly had numerous affairs in the years after returning
home from Vietnam to a beautiful wife who had been disfigured in a car
accident, and ultimately, by his own reports, he zeroed in like a laser
on beautiful a 25-year-old heiress upon meeting her one evening in 1979
while he was still married, promptly lied to her about his age, and almost
as promptly left his wife for her. We all extol John McCain for enduring
5 years of extreme hardship in Vietnam. But aren't his first wife's circumstances
much like Elizabeth Edwards'? After all, the first Mrs. McCain waited in
agony (and presumably fidelity) during those five long years for her beloved
husband to return from Vietnam, raising their children while he was away
and undergoing dozens of painful operations herself, only to be repaid
by a philandering husband who ultimately left her for a younger woman."
... "Now personally, I don't think anybody's sex life has any bearing on
a campaign, except to the extent that the candidate runs as a hypocrite,
extolling family values, fighting gays while fighting his own gay demons,
etc. But John McCain is increasingly making this campaign about character,
and his actions over many years suggest some worrisome patterns that fly
in the face of the entire story he tells about himself. Setting aside his
cheating on his first wife, what about his attending to something other
than the people's business as a member of the Keating Five (and ultimately
contributing to a bailout that cost middle class American taxpayers the
equivalent of nearly half a trillion in 2008 tax dollars -- imagine the
middle class tax break we could offer if we weren't still paying off the
principal and debt on that boondoggle); or hiring the most dishonest, amoral
campaign team money could buy in 2008; or generating one fabricated or
grossly misleading charge after another against [2008 Election Democratic
Presidential Candidate Barack] Obama in the last three weeks (as in his
sleazy new tax ad where, for example, he says Obama would raise taxes on
small businesses when Obama has never proposed anything of the sort)? Like
[Republican] George W. Bush, he doesn't seem like a man who once was lost
but now is found. He [McCain] seems more like a man's whose principles
are soluble in self-interest." -By Drew Westen
-HuffingtonPost.com
20080808
John
McCain - John
Edwards - Family
- People
- 2008
Election - Politicians
"How
is John McCain's Affair Different than John Edwards'?"
... "We have this weird notion in America now that if a politician is caught
in an affair that his career is done. We seem to be saying that what he
did in his private life effects his policies or how he governs. But we
all know that isn't true. We know that because almost all of our great
presidents, and great leaders throughout history, have had numerous affairs.
Obviously it didn't hurt how they governed at all." ... "Now, we get to
the most relevant question - if [former 2008 Election Democratic Presidential
Candidate] John Edwards' political career is done, why isn't John McCain's?
[2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate] John McCain had a well-documented
affair on his first wife, with his current wife. He has admitted in the
books he has written about his life that he ran around with several different
women while still married to his first wife. And don't forget that he left
her for a younger, richer woman - multi-millionaire Cindy Hensley who is
now Cindy McCain - after she had been severely hurt in a car accident."
... "So, why are McCain's actions any more excusable than Edwards'? Because
it was thirty years ago? Does that wash it away? Will we be fine with Edwards
running for office again in a couple of years because then it will all
be in the past? What is the statute of limitations on an affair?" ... "Remember
Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reagan and Ross Perot were so upset with how John
McCain dealt with his first wife that they didn't forgive him for a very,
very long time. Perot still hasn't forgiven him. In fact, he said recently
about McCain dumping his first wife for Cindy, "McCain is the classic opportunist.
He's always reaching for attention and glory."" ... "So, I want every pundit
who condemns John Edwards today to tell me what the difference between
him and McCain is and why John McCain shouldn't also be run out of politics
for his adulterous affairs and what he did to his first wife."
-By
Cenk
Uygur -HuffingtonPost.com
 Elizabeth
Edwards - John
Edwards - Family
- 2008
Election - Politics
"Today."
[By Elizabeth Edwards] ... "Our family has been through a lot. Some
caused by nature, some caused by human weakness, and some – most recently
– caused by the desire for sensationalism and profit without any regard
for the human consequences. None of these has been easy. But
we have stood with one another through them all. Although John believes
he should stand alone and take the consequences of his action now, when
the door closes behind him, he has his family waiting for him." ... "John
made a terrible mistake in 2006. The fact that it is a mistake that
many others have made before him did not make it any easier for me to hear
when he told me what he had done. But he did tell me. And we began a long
and painful process in 2006, a process oddly made somewhat easier with
my diagnosis in March of 2007. This was our private matter, and I
frankly wanted it to be private because as painful as it was I did not
want to have to play it out on a public stage as well. Because of
a recent string of hurtful and absurd lies in a tabloid publication, because
of a picture falsely suggesting that John was spending time with a child
it wrongly alleged he had fathered outside our marriage, our private matter
could no longer be wholly private." ... "The pain of the long journey since
2006 was about to be renewed." ... "John has spoken in a long on-camera
interview I hope you watch. Admitting one’s mistakes is a hard thing for
anyone to do, and I am proud of the courage John showed by his honesty
in the face of shame. The toll on our family of news helicopters
over our house and reporters in our driveway is yet unknown. But
now the truth is out, and the repair work that began in 2006 will continue.
I ask that the public, who expressed concern about the harm John’s conduct
has done to us, think also about the real harm that the present voyeurism
does and give me and my family the privacy we need at this time." -By
Elizabeth
Edwards -DailyKos.com
20080806
Barack
Obama - John
McCain -  Oil
- Companies
- Politics
- 2008
Election -  Ohio
- Arizona
- Working
- Families
"Energy
wars continue on trail." ... "In Youngstown [Ohio],
[2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack] Obama said that
[2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate John] McCain has "proposed
an energy plan that’s nothing but four years more of the same," and that
helps oil companies and not consumers, according to excerpts provided by
the Obama campaign." ... "Obama says that "under [Arizona] Senator McCain’s
plan, the oil companies get billions more, we don’t pay any less at the
pump, and we stay in the same cycle of dependence on oil that got us into
this crisis. The oil companies have placed their bet on Senator McCain,
and if he wins, they will continue to cash in while our families and our
economy suffer and our future is put in jeopardy.That’s the choice we face
in this election. We can choose four years more of the same failed policies
that have gotten us where we are. Four years more of oil companies calling
the shots while hard working families are struggling. That’s what Senator
McCain is offering."" ... "Obama then promotes his own plan for alternative
energy and green-collar jobs." ... "Trying to reinforce Obama's point about
McCain't ties to Big Oil, the Democratic National Committee posted a web
video that shows McCain as a puppet whose strings are being pulled by oil
company lobbyists." ... ""Big Oil in the White House. We've seen this show
before," the video concludes. " -By Foon Rhee
-Boston/Globe
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