[MLUG - DISCUSSION] [POLITICS] Obama/Clinton/McCain/etc.

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith]

Vern Green wrote:
> 
> 
>     This sounds very serious to me.  It will be a cloud over his
>     campaign for
>     months if he ever overcomes it.  Reporters will be reviewing his
>     votes on
>     the commerce committee that may have helped the telecommunications
>     companies she represented.
> 
> I have actually read about this as well. What they will find is that at 
> least on one occasion, he told her and her clients no and voted against 
> their wishes. The key thing here, is if he had been working with someone 
> who is of the male persuasion, this would have not even been brought up.

This point is made towards the end of the NY Times article:

"The McCain aides said the senator sided with Ms. Iseman’s clients only 
when their positions hewed to his principles."



On the face of it, this seems like a rather weak and uninteresting 
story.  When you get involved in politics, it is impossible to always 
avoid the appearance of being unethical, especially when you have other 
people hounding you looking for just that kind of thing, or there are 
people trying to trap you.

I did not know that McCain was involved in the Savings and Loan scandal. 
  From the article, I get the strong impression that McCain was 
genuinely fooled, that it is something he feels really badly about, and 
that he has really tried to make up for it with introducing ethics bills.

Frankly, he comes across in the article as an extremely honest man, who 
makes those kinds of mistakes that we all make, except that in his case 
it is periodically dug up again for all to see.

Stephen