McCainia

Ouch!

John McCain's choirboy, Joseph Lieberman, who tags along behind him singing his praises and feeding him lines when McCain's ignorance shows or memory fails, has a stepson.

Ethan Tucker is the son of Joseph Lieberman's wife, Hadassah. Ethan Tucker is a rabbi. Rabbi Tucker has concluded that his stepfather knows not whereof he speaks.

Thus Rabbi Tucker is planning to vote for Senator Barack Obama for president.


Bitter medicine

McCain has promised for some time to release his medical records. In spite of what you might have read in the MSM, he still has not done so. What he has done was allow some reporters to look at some of his records for a very brief period of time.

According to the Los Angeles Times, "The [McCain] campaign will allow television reporters and three news services -- Bloomberg, Reuters and the Associated Press -- to review the records, in addition to the two newspapers. The reporters will have three hours to view about 400 pages and will not be allowed to photocopy them. Other news organizations will have access to a 90-minute conference call with McCain's physicians and online summaries of the records."

Consider: No records from before 2000 were released. The actual number of pages released varies depending on the source - from almost 1,200 to 1,500.

It is amusing to read the stories in the MSM about McCain's health, now "verified" by his medical records. The truth is we know no more about his "health" than we did before. There was simply too much information and not enough time to begin to review that information. Even medical experts could not have come to satisfactory conclusions under those conditions.

The Minnesota Monitor quotes a local doctor and writer, Craig Bowron: "I would just be shocked if they'd be able to make any progress in 90 minutes. If they haven't gone through charts before, they won't know what to look for to begin with. Sometimes, for instance, when someone gets transferred from an outside hospital, they'll have a stack of papers that are half an inch to an inch thick. It's ... mostly junk. Stuff you don't really need to know. If you don't know what you're looking for and don't have a particular question in mind, I think it would be pointless."

Furthermore, one of the major questions, and a question that would require medical records from his Navy days, has to do with his mental health. In other words, how did his experience as a POW in Vietnam impact his psyche? We know he sometimes jumps when he hears the sound of keys. Is he liable to wake up in the middle of the night, raving about the "savages," and push the button?

McCain did not release any of those records!

So, we still don't have a clue...or maybe we do. Remember the temper for which McCain is famous?


Does he or doesn't he - support a Constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriages?

The Associated Press reported recently that John McCain is opposed to amending the United States Constitution to ban same-sex unions. That is not true.

Media Matters for America has pointed out that when McCain appeared on Fox News' Hannity & Colmes on March 13, he said that he believes "that the states should make these decisions on the marriage amendment. [In 2006, McCain supported an attempt to bad same-sex unions in Arizona]. ... But," McCain continued, "if it is overturned by a superior court, I will then obviously support the other path [an amendment to the U.S. Constitution]."

You just can't trust much of what the MSM puts out these days!