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Title: John McCain's Navy Flight Instructor Weighs In
Source: Dump McCain
URL Source: http://www.dumpmccain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=25
Published: May 27, 2008
Author: Ret. CDR Jerry Loeb, USN
Post Date: 2008-05-27 21:42:12 by X-15
Keywords: None
Views: 143
Comments: 5

Greetings!

I was John McCain's Navy Flight Instructor --- in formation tactics and air-to-air-gunnery. I could write a book about this man. Suffice to state, I shudder (and I'm fearless) at the nightmare thought of this man becoming our next President and Commander in Chief. I am not alone as to this man's former shipmates, instructors and senior officers --- as to who and what this man is really all about. Although politics is really theater and the best performing actor gets to stay on the main stage --- sorta like American Idol only much more dangerous to all living things --- the performance and the make-over (re-invention) of this man is currently matched only by that of former LTC Oliver North, USMC (Ret.). Together on the same ticket, these two clowns would be real crowd pleasers in this sorry day and age of liars, banal dummies and limp-headed performers.

Thanx for having the guts to put the real deal information on the site re: John Sidney McCain III --- since the mainstream media is much too lazy to put the real story on McCain out there for the rest of their lazy consumers.

Best regards,

CDR Jerry K. Loeb, USN (Ret.) Palm Desert, CA

Author - ANTHEM (2004)

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#1. To: X-15 (#0)

that's pretty damning. seriously, i don't know anyone that is for this guy, but diebold will take care of that.

christine  posted on  2008-05-27   23:16:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

but diebold will take care of that.

I've not seen any McCain bumper-stickers, yard-signs, nothing really except a couple of local knuckleheads saying they'll vote for him just to defeat Hitlery/Obama. Even at the local precinct caucuses, nobody has (reportedly) supported McCain, but aside from Paul-tards, nobody else showed up.

CadetD  posted on  2008-05-27   23:28:49 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

but diebold will take care of that.

Sad but true. The party leaders will make it seem legit.

farmfriend  posted on  2008-05-27   23:28:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

I've not seen any McCain bumper-stickers, yard-signs, nothing really except a couple of local knuckleheads saying they'll vote for him just to defeat Hitlery/Obama. Even at the local precinct caucuses, nobody has (reportedly) supported McCain, but aside from Paul-tards, nobody else showed up.

Nobody showed up for McCain because they were too busy posting at freeper republic and lucianne. Ha!

But who cares anyways - McCain or Obama or Hillary - they're all interchangeable pawns of special interest groups. We lose no matter who Diebold picks.

scrapper2  posted on  2008-05-28   0:30:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

In McCain Campaign, a Lobbying Labyrinth

"Mr. Davis’s involvement with one of his lesser-known lobbying clients, an Israeli company, Imagesat, which sells satellite imagery."

25 May 2008 // Rick Davis, the manager of Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign, is a typical Washington insider in many ways, having long worked as both a lobbyist and a political operative along the intersection of politics, policy and money.

Now Mr. Davis is overseeing new lobbyist-related guidelines that the campaign has issued in an effort to safeguard Mr. McCain’s reputation as an opponent of special interests. The plan, among other things, bars “registered” lobbyists, those who must file disclosure reports listing their clients, from working on the campaign.

Mr. Davis, who last worked as a registered lobbyist in 2005 and took a leave from his lobbying firm in 2006, appears to meet those guidelines. Still, his own business dealings in recent years — roles that include consultant and investor — extend beyond lobbying and illustrate the limits of the guidelines in defining what it means to be selling expertise and helping to provide access.

Take Mr. Davis’s involvement with one of his lesser-known lobbying clients, an Israeli company, Imagesat, which sells satellite imagery. Along with lobbying for it, Mr. Davis became a consultant to a private investment firm that had a financial stake in it. That connection opened the door for him to get in on the ground floor of other investments made by the firm, Pegasus Capital Advisors.

The subject of one of Pegasus Capital’s investments also may have come up between Mr. Davis and a controversial Russian industrialist in 2006, around the time Mr. Davis helped arrange a social gathering at which the businessman met Mr. McCain.

Lobbying experts also say there are other gaps in the campaign’s lobbying guidelines. Lobbyists can try to influence lawmakers on behalf of corporate and other clients without registering, as long as the time they spend doing so does not exceed a specified threshold. They are also often not required to register if lobbying overseas on behalf of foreign politicians or companies.

“Influential people with fat Rolodexes can in effect lobby without having to register,” said Sheila Krumholz, the executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan center that studies money in politics.

In recent years, for instance, Mr. Davis’s business partner, Paul J. Manafort, has met with the United States ambassador in Ukraine, a time when he was advising Viktor Yanukovich, that country’s onetime prime minister, a State Department official said. Mr. Yanukovich’s party was opposed by both the Bush administration and Mr. McCain because it was closely tied to Vladimir Putin.

If Mr. Manafort had met with United States officials in this country on behalf of the Ukrainian politician, he would have had to register. But some meetings abroad are not covered, several legal experts said.

Mr. Davis, who worked as deputy campaign manager in Bob Dole’s 1996 presidential campaign, has been a registered lobbyist for telecommunications companies like SBC Communications, Comsat and Verizon. Some of his other registered clients have included Deutsche Post World Net USA, the giant cargo concern, and GTech, a worldwide lottery firm.

Mr. McCain’s campaign said Mr. Davis still retains a stake in his lobbying firm, Davis Manafort, but is not receiving profits from it.

But a look at Mr. Davis’s activities surrounding Imagesat shows how the business ties and financial interests of lobbyists can be complex.

Back in early 2004, Mr. Davis and Mr. Manafort started discussing becoming consultants with Pegasus Capital, based in Cos Cob, Conn. Not long afterward, the two men were providing advice to Pegasus about governmental matters that might affect companies in which the firm had invested and also suggested investment targets. The firm has never retained Davis Manafort as a lobbyist.

In late 2004, however, Mr. Davis became a registered lobbyist for Imagesat. He gained the account through a recommendation from Pegasus, which holds a stake in the company, said a person knowledgeable about the investment firm who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Mr. Davis said he found the firm without Pegasus’s help.

Davis Manafort received $120,000 from late 2004 to mid-2005 to lobby for Imagesat on both defense and domestic security issues. Mr. Davis and Christian Ferry, now Mr. McCain’s deputy campaign manager, were the two lobbyists on the project, the records show.

Early in 2005, Mr. Davis tried to develop another relationship with Pegasus when he and two other men suggested that it help bankroll a proposed new private equity firm. That firm was to focus on investments in domestic security companies, including those that vied for federal contracts, the person knowledgeable about Pegasus said.

A draft proposal for the new firm described Mr. Davis as a power player among Washington influence brokers.

“For the last three decades in the White House, Congress, federal agencies and politics both here and abroad Rick has operated at the highest level of decision and deal making,” according to a copy of that proposal reviewed by The New York Times.

Along with his work as a lobbyist, Mr. Davis at the time was also drawing a salary as the part-time president of the Reform Institute, a Washington group that Mr. McCain helped found to reduce “the influence of special interests” in politics and government.

The proposed firm never took off. But Pegasus also offered another opportunity to advisers, like Mr. Davis and Mr. Manafort, who worked with it — the chance to get in on some of its investments. In November 2005, Pegasus bought a stake in a company called Traxys, which trades in industrial metals.

In January 2006, just two months later, the subject of metals trading came up in association with a social meeting Mr. Davis helped arrange near Davos, Switzerland. At that meeting, first reported by The Washington Post, Mr. McCain met the Russian aluminum magnate, Oleg Deripaska, who has been barred from entering the United States apparently because of alleged criminal ties.

After the event, Mr. Deripaska sent a brief thank-you note to Mr. Davis and Mr. Manafort. In it, he said, “Please will you send me the information on the metals trading company we discussed and would be happy to see if I can do anything to help.”

In written responses to questions, Tucker Bounds, a spokesman for the McCain campaign, said that “Mr. Davis did not approach Mr. Deripaska” about any metals trading company. Mr. Bounds said Mr. Davis retained investments he made during the time he advised Pegasus, a relationship that ended in 2006. He said Mr. Davis declined to disclose whether Traxys was one of them because he considered the investments a private matter.

A spokesman for Pegasus said it was unaware of the letter from Mr. Deripaska and had had no business dealings with him. A spokesman for Mr. Deripaska said he had never hired Davis Manafort. Mr. Manafort did not return phone calls.

Davis Manafort has worked for other overseas clients for whom it did not have to register, including the richest man in Ukraine, Rinat Akhmetov. One Mr. Akhmetov’s companies, SCM Holdings, hired the firm to help it develop a corporate communication strategy, a spokesman for Mr. Akhmetov said. That relationship lasted until September 2005.

Mr. Akhmetov was the principal financial backer of Mr. Yanukovich, the Ukranian politician for whom Davis Manafort has also worked.

citizensforethics.org/node/31835

A Primer On Five Of McCain's Top Lobbyist Cronies

Charlie Black Black's Firm Involved "Pushing for the War.

Beginning in 1999 and continuing throughout the years leading up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Charlie Black's lobbying firm represented Ahmed Chalabi and his Iraqi National Congress (INC), the most vocal Iraqi group calling for regime change [Los Angeles Times, 7/14/04]. Chalabi clearly had a lot to gain personally from a U.S. invasion. Living in exile from his homeland and viewed by many in Washington "as a possible successor to Saddam Hussein," regime change would allow him to return home and take a leadership role in rebuilding Iraq [BBC, 10/3/02]. Charlie Black's lobbying firm pushed Chalabi's interests in Washington and allowed him to gain access to the highest levels of government. Nothing illustrates this more clearly than the fact that Chalabi was meeting in the Pentagon with high-level officials pushing for an invasion of Iraq nine days after 9/11 [New Yorker, 6/7/04]. It has since come to light that Chalabi helped engineer the claims that Saddam Hussein had W.M.D. and is very much responsible for helping bring about the U.S. war in Iraq. He has also been accused of passing American secrets to Iran. Chalabi Helped Engineer WMD Claims and Pushed Bush Administration to Attack Iraq.

mccainsource.com/corruption?id=0005

McCain & Boeing

McCain Prevented Contract From Staying In America

McCain’s Interference Cost U.S. Workers An Estimated 19,000 Potential Jobs.

McCain “Nearly Single Handedly” Killed Boeing’s Chances of Obtaining Tanker Contract

McCain’s “Laser-Like Probe” and “Unrelenting Criticism” Killed The Boeing Deal.

McCain Was Forced To Defend His Role In The EADS Tanker Deal.

McCain Has Received $14,000 From EADS Employees, More Than Any Member of Congress.

McCain Wrote The Law That Allows Defense Contracts To Be Awarded To Foreign Companies.

McCain Voted Against Encouraging Defense Contracts To Be Executed In The United States.

Seven Of McCain’s Advisers And Fundraisers Have Lobbied For EADS.

McCain Hired Lobbyist John Green.

EADS Has Paid Green’s Firm $1,080,000 Since 2003.

EADS Paid Green’s Firm To Lobby On Fuel Tank Procurement Deal.

McCain Has “Never Believed” Defense Contracts Should Create Jobs.

mccainsource.com/corruption?id=0004

Same Old Washington Corruption: McCain Ties To The Same Special Interests He Decries

mccainsource.com/corruption?id=0001

Much more at the above links. Worth taking the time to read. McCain = bush on steroids.

bush_is_a_moonie  posted on  2008-05-28   0:36:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

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