It was only a matter of time.
And, personally, I thought that when it hit, it would hit Obama first.
And, personally, I thought that when it hit, it would hit Obama first.
I realize now that I forgot to take into account the “put on a pedestal” factor.
Obama and Hillary are still battling it out to see who gets to step up on the Democratic side.
John McCain pretty much has a lock on the Republican side.
Which makes him the presumptive GOP nominee for President.
And, obviously, our first contestant, Johnny, as we begin another exciting round of the game that has been a crowd pleaser since the mid seventies….yes, it’s time to play….
“GOTCHA!”
TOLEDO, Ohio (CNN) – Sen. John McCain denies assertions The New York Times published that McCain once had a close relationship with a female lobbyist whose clients had business before his Senate committee.
"I'm disappointed in The New York Times piece. It's not true," he told reporters in Ohio on Thursday.
He added that he has never "done anything that would betray the public trust or make a decision" that would in favor a particular group.
The New York Times told CNN on Thursday it stands by its reporting and that the story speaks for itself.
The newspaper reported in its online edition Wednesday that aides to McCain's 2000 presidential campaign were so worried about the relationship that they confronted McCain and the lobbyist, Vicki Iseman.
Also, some McCain advisers were concerned in 2000 that his relationship with Iseman had become romantic, The New York Times reported.
"A former campaign adviser described being instructed to keep Ms. Iseman away from the senator at public events, while a Senate aide recalled plans to limit Ms. Iseman's access to his offices," the paper reported.
McCain said in a news conference Thursday that he never had discussions with any staffers about an inappropriate relationship with Iseman. He also denied having a romantic relationship with her. If staffers had such concerns, McCain told reporters, they never conveyed them to him.
I don’t know whether any of the “assertions” are true or not.
And I suppose that I should care.
But I really don’t.
And I shouldn’t speak for you, but I cant help but feel like the odds are that, for the most part, you don’t care either.
You care about how you’re going to pay for your kids’ college education. You care about how you’re going to get health care. You worry about how you’re going to sell your house in an economy that is turning to shit. You care about how you’re going to pay for your groceries AND your light bill AND gasoline for your car. You care about how to make it safe for your kids to play outside. You care about how to protect yourself and your family from the wack jobs who proclaim God is great as they fly loaded passenger jets into buildings. You care about how to just get through the day without being scared about what you’re going to have to do to just get through the day.
And you care about me and how much I wish things were different with….
Well, okay, that’s gratuitous sympathy solicitation, but I figure, what the hell, as long as I’m making a list…
I’m going to go out on the limb here and guess that you really do care about 99% of those things I just mentioned (and if my thing is included for you, then thank you for your warmth and reaching out)…
But I’m also guessing that you have less than the slightest interest in this “breaking news” that the New York Times offers.
For the record, I don’t condone infidelity. I don’t endorse deception or corruption or abuse of power or any of the other twenty six hundred or so odd things that we mere mortals are capable of in our darker moments.
But I really think a lot of us can agree that it’s time that “they” understand that we are looking to elect people to office that will DO something about the things that we need done.
And we don’t want to hear what the New York Times has to say about some lady that John McCain maybe knew who maybe was connected to other people that maybe he knew that maybe might have created a situation that maybe was…ENOUGH ALREADY!
We’re human and we have faults.
Trying to choose a leader without faults is like fighting the Borg.
Resistance is futile.
The game of GOTCHA has been around since 1974 when Nixon’s presidency collapsed under the weight of its lies and deceptions, those lies and deceptions brought to light by two young reporters who smelled a hell of a story and made their careers by seeing that story through to the final galleys.
And triggered the changing of an industry of fact finding and reporting into an industry of sensationalism seeking and innuendo proclamation.
I don’t want to knowingly choose someone for high office that I can’t trust.
But trust is, like love, never black and white.
Do you trust Bill Clinton? No? Well, yes and no?
Well, would you vote for him again?
Damn straight. Because you know what our lives were like when he was in the White House.
We want to read about how John McCain or Obama or Hillary are going to make our lives and lives of our families happier, safer, better.
We don’t want to read about who’s possibly, maybe, could be, might not be, zooming who.
New York Times? And every other paper, news show, website that panders to the lowst common denominator and fills up space with gossip and crap?
Don’t kill the messenger.
And Woodward and Bernstein certainly didn't mean to start the ball rolling on all of the aformentioned pandering.
But just like Lennon and McCartney, who cant be rightly blamed for whatever crap pop music turns out today, evolved from the changes to the industry they caused, Bob and Carl have somethng in common with John and Paul.
It's not their fault.
But they started it.
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