Maverick McCain exploits loophole to fly cheaply on Cindy's plane
By SilentPatriot Sunday Apr 27, 2008 5:00pm
McCain again gets exposed as the double-talking hypocrite he really is.
NYTimes: (free subscription req'd)
Given Senator John McCain’s signature stance on campaign finance reform, it was not surprising that he backed legislation last year requiring presidential candidates to pay the actual cost of flying on corporate jets. The law, which requires campaigns to pay charter rates when using such jets rather than cheaper first-class fares, was intended to reduce the influence of lobbyists and create a level financial playing field.
But over a seven-month period beginning last summer, Mr. McCain’s cash-short campaign gave itself an advantage by using a corporate jet owned by a company headed by his wife, Cindy McCain, according to public records. For five of those months, the plane was used almost exclusively for campaign-related purposes, those records show.
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HeadzUp has a good one on this right now.
All aboard the double-talk express!
I thought he flew coach and carried his own luggage!
Mc10yearwar = private plane flying elitist.
Just imagine the fake outage from the reich-wingers if Obama was flying around the country in his wife's private jet.
Dr. Hussein Matt @ 4:
I didn't know Obama's wife had a private jet! He is elitist after all!!
IOKIYAR !!!1!
Sheesh, people; read your bibles!
Who needs rules when your a Republican.
McCain sure is lucky that his wife's daddy was good at the beer-distributin' business. Kinda like how he was lucky that his daddy and grandaddy were admirals.
McNepotism
Pay no attention to the personal jet! Ignore the personal wealth of tens of millions. Just remember Obama can't relate to poor people. Okay?
Bob @ 5:
She doesn't have one. Why do you think she's after Senator Hopey to become POTUS. Then she can flit around on AirForce One and rub her
girl pals noses in it.
'I'm on Airforce One! I am so fuckin' cool....and my hubby? He got game!'
moondancer @ 9:
And he can't bowl.
Photo caption - "Nice ass Cindy, hope your jet is packin' the Viagra tabs!".
But he did bring his own coffee on the plane .
A two-faced, lying, HYPOCRITE conservative. Is this some sort of rare species? Laws don't apply to republican's, because they are part of the nobility. Support democracy, deport republican's!
So are all private jets owned by corporations? Is this a tax break for the mega wealthy? I'd hate for them to have to pay something like sales tax on a private jet. Or do people do it to avoid liability?
Has McCain ever worked for a living, even before he went to Vietnam or after he returned. I mean has the guy had to really rely on a paycheck? How about Cindy, did she ever have to sweat the next paycheck? Oh yeah, these two are really going to be able to identify with poor people. I'm guessing poor people may be a rare view for them.
What luck! He has crap for campaign money and his wife just happens to lend him the family jet. What are the odds of that happening to a candidate?
zugzug @ 15:
They have all kinds of loopholes and privileges and advantages over the unwashed masses.
More then you can imagine.
pissed off patricia @ 16:
The only two ways you can get into this super-elite group of families that make up the ruling class in the U.S today is:
1) you're born or marry into a family that's already in this group
2) you know someone who is good friends with a family in this group
Republican code:
"Do as I say, not as I do and if you're not a wealthy white person... well, go fuck yourself."
Think about who your supporting every time you crack open a beer.
Beer Revenues will pay for John and Cindy's travels.
If McCain should win the election, I have a feeling sales of all sorts of alcohol will soar, especially with members of the Democratic party.
why is the word 'maverick' not in quotes, or do you guys now believe he's a maverick. tell a lie enough times it becomes true.
With the moderator's permission,
just a fun blog with some curious stories to lighten the day!
http://pabulumadnauseam.blogspot.com/
WOW, nitpicking much?
So, what was all this shit before he started doing well in the primaries, where he was shlepping his own luggage on commercial planes. Gosh, you don't think it was a well crafted pity ploy, do you?
miguel @ 24:
It's not nitpicking. It's mentioning casual observances.
iraqhusseinconcilable @ 13:
it was probably starbucks - certainly not foldgers.
mac @ 23:
Not a maverick, rinse and repeat, NOT a maverick.
heard a funny on sam seder show yesterday...
a blogger on his site, CharlieNine, came up with a great name for the plane:
TROLLOP ONE
pass it on...
pissed off patricia @ 22:
Your probably correct. It's the only legal way to numb out reality. And since right wingers own most of the alcohol industry, they'll be whistling again all the way to the bank.
L.A. Confidential @ 20:
I got news for you--Anheuser-Busch products aren't beer.
Slaw @ 32:
Equine urine?
pissed off patricia @ 33:
Refreshing carbonated malt beverages for mass consumption by frat boys, rednecks and mulletheads.
goat hussein sage @ 12:
Sure am honey, I still have that 50 ct bottle I lifted out of Limbaugh's nightstand drawer when I was over there trying to convince him you weren't all that bad.
goat hussein sage @ 34:
Both true. They're also a low-cal, low-taste alcohol delivery vehicle.
Is McCain a "kept man" ?
McCain Kicks Off Health Care Tour At Children’s
Hospital That Supported SCHIP Expansion He Opposed
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/28/mccain-children-hospital/
McCain wealthy: Latte sipping, east coast enclave, private airplane elitist on the way to another of his wife's multiple Million dollar estates? Who could have predicted?
It's like when the press described the BBQ he hosted for them at his wife's estate (one of nine(!?) homes she or they own) in tony Sedona as a "rustic cabin" or a "weekend cabin" (click my name for some images ala Digby and MMFA).
You can't buy that type of treatment. It's reserved for the wealthiest of the wealthy.
Now that's McCain wealthy!
rules and fair play are for dumbasses
Who are these creatures who say mcfly is trustworthy?
Robin @ 37:
Yep, by his nurse.
You know, to be reasonable, upon watching the video again of the BBQ spread on the 1,000 square foot deck* of the 4,000 square foot main house*, it is clear that the chaffing dishes were...
~ How can I put this politely to allow the McCains to retain maximum dignity? Perhaps it's simply best to state the unvarnished, shocking truth without calling too much attention to it. ~
...rented.*
Therefore, I take back my earlier post about the cabin being "rustic" as I was clearly mistaken.
*(as appears in the video - not verified!)
Chimpy Mc Fuckup was using Air Force One as his private campaign bus too. Just made sure there was some lame Presidential photo op or something planned on trip to justify it.
Rules only apply to Non Rescumlicans.
A.Citizen @ 10:
The above is about as close to being accurate as the Chimpy administration's daily descriptions on the happenings in Iraq.
Michelle Obama is 1 milion times the woman that McStupid's empty-headed drug addicted turd wife is or ever will be...........
miguel @ 25:
Yeah
We need to "focus" on real pertinent topics ; like someone's pastor and his stances on the issues ................
Not a big deal using the manikin's plane but the so called Maverick has set his principles and ethics aside to become a " yes sir " man of the whacko Bush / neocon far right .
McCain's rigorous (perhaps intentionally) mind numbing ethnographic collage of disjointed people, places, ideas, and excuses disguised as discoveries, collectively encompass humanity's innate desire for escapism, commutation, and euphoria, as it is ironically rumored he secretly prays for and yearns for damnation, an implicitly tragic reunion with the checkered demons of his lost humanity, who led him internally most of his inutile adult life in a fog of substance abuse and denial (he still won't cop to the anal rape incident in prison).
It affords him nowhere to hide existentially, so the pathetic buggerer hides beneath his wife's skirt. The question is how low is he willing to go for "victory" or, for that matter, can he go lower? Will he end up a pasty Reagan-like figure, hopelessly trying to gain some semblance of integrity and significance selling spoiled meat in cans, or will he obssess creep-like on pseudo-projections of female pudenda as it relates to overgrown "bush" in some backwater pisshole in Texas, no longer concerned nor troubling himself with how far he has fallen, like the current dickless moron presently residing in the dank and primordial swamp.
Is this the same plane that he called her that name on?
I heard on the radio that some are calling the plane "Trollop 1"
I wonder if mcnotclaim is a member of the mile high club.
L.A. Confidential @ 21:
cindy will write it off as a business expense.
It's the old "Don't do as I do--Do as I tell you to do"--Ya' know the REPUBLICAN FIGHT SONG !!!!!!
And she looks dizzy as hell.
Airhead, kneepadder.
The hypocrisy of the mainstream media is astounding. During his presidential campaign, John Kerry always flew on his wife private jet. Where was the media criticism of Kerry back then?
LibertyLover @ 49:
bitter hussein katy @ 30:
Dr. Hussein Matt @ 4:
You mean Mc100year war="Fly Me! I'm Cindy!"
Yup.
I work in the field of general aviation, which includes corporate aviation. I can tell you that there's lots of this sorta thing going on. You've got to be pretty damn wealthy to own even the "cheapest" private jet. And those boys that do own these types of aircraft...they're not shy about making them available for lobbying purposes. It's a real power perk that causes everyone's chest to puff out...
When Stephen Cobert made his campaign run his sponsorship by Doritos was called illegal. So now McCain can be sponsored by his wife's company and get away with it? Lovely.
i bet that plane has its own private plastic surgeon and starbucks
He's called "straight talk" because he talks out the back of his head as well as the front.
Maverick McCain exploits loophole to fly cheaply on Cindy’s plane
Maybe Cindy's cheap too.
So which stupid people believed that John “the republican” McCain was going to follow the rules…
Can signing statements be far behind?
Vote Democrat and Vote Often…
You can cry all you want to cry….
OR YOU CAN GET YOUR FRIENDS TO REGISTER TO VOTE BY MAIL AND AVOID THE POLLING PLACE BULLSHIT…
I have verified that my neighbors and children are registered and ready to vote…. We cannot always control the count--- but if the numbers are large enough (as in 2006) the truth will override the bastards.
SUGGESTION--- have a voting party…. Tell all your friends to come over for a party--- entrance fee…. Any form of proof of voting
The GOP hates a big turnout…. The pyramid is VERY LARGE at the bottom
Is that a LATTE in his hand?
I agree with Senator McCain. His wife is a c*nt.
She was just on her way to rehab and gave hubby a ride. No need to be arrested to get into rehab if you own a jet (or a Senator).
Definitely a Latte drinking, limo riding, jet-setting NeoCon War Pig.
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