Mark Warner’s Macaca Moment: Calls Christians, NRA Members And Home-Schoolers A ‘Threat To America’

You know, I believe in the right to keep and bears arms just as the Supreme Court ruled the Second Amendment says. I believe the Judeo-Christian Faith is what allowed America to grow into the nation it is today. I believe people should have the right to educate their own children when public schools fail due to teachers indoctrinating rather than educating students.

And Mark Warner has the unmitigated gall to call me a “threat to America?”

Does he not see his own presidential candidate, the one he has pictures of in his own ads, palling around with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers and not see that as a threat? Does he not see Obama’s thugs trying to silence criticism through the use prosecutors and law-enforcement officials and not see that as a threat?

No, he sees people like me, people who believe in the rights guaranteed under the first ten amendments, as a threat to America.

He might as well have just called me and millions like me a “macaca.”

You can access the audio of him saying these things here:

You Tube Video

Or you can access it on-line here:

Warner Attacks The NRA And Other Groups
YouTube.com
July 22, 2008

Keating Five Investigator Robert S. Bennett On John McCain’s Involvement

Seems to be alot of misinformation being spread around by the Dems concerning John McCain’s involvement with the Keating Five. Well, the best place to look for the truth of the matter would be from the man who actually conducted the investigation and submitted his report to the Senate Committee.

That would be Robert S. Bennett, a Democrat who wrote about his experiences in a book entitled In The Ring: The Trials Of A Washington Lawyer which was published by Random House in 2008. Here is the relevent excerpt from pages 133-134:

“At the completion of my investigation, I filed my report with the committee. I recommended that no further action be taken against Senators McCain and Glenn principally because once they learned that there was a criminal referral, they stopped aggressively doing Keating’s bidding with the regulators.” “After reviewing my report, the committee voted on October 23, 1990, to hold a public adjudicatory fact-finding hearing in the matter as to all five senators. This was perhaps the first time the recommendation of a special counsel not to charge a senator was rejected. This was pure politics as the Democrats on the committee did not want to cut McCain loose so that only Democrats would remain in the proceedings. If Senator McCain was not going to be cut loose, in retaliation the Republicans were going to keep Senator Glenn in the proceedings. McCain was the victim of politics, and poor Glenn was held captive to the decision on McCain. So much for nonpartisanship.” “Although the public airing of the factual details helped confirm why Senators McCain and Glenn should be exonerated of ethics charges, it hurt DeConcini, Cranston, and Riegle.”

So, for those of you clinging onto the lie that Sen. McCain was never exonerated for his involvement, the truth is that Bennett himself, the man who investigated the whole thing, said: “Senators McCain and Glenn should be exonerated of ethics charges.”

Also note that two of those former Senators, Riegle and DeConcini, have now endorsed Obama.

You can access the complete on-line entry here:

Democratic Counsel Robert Bennett On John McCain And Keating Five: ‘Pure Politics’
Standard NewsWire
October 6, 2008

Governor Palin Attacks Obama-Ayers Connection, Obama Campaign Responds With Misleading Smears

For weeks now, the Conservatives and Republicans have been telling John McCain to take the gloves off. Well, Governor Sarah Palin did just that this past weekend and revived the debate over Barack Obama’s association with domestic terrorist William Ayers. The association is real and deserves to be looked into. But the Obama campaign came out with a response that was nothing short of misleading, if not completely irresponsible.

Here is what Rep. Rahm Emanuel, said in response on CNN:

“If we are going to go down this road _ you know, Barack Obama was eight years old, somehow responsible for Bill Ayers,” he said. “At 58, John McCain was associating with Charles Keating.” “If we really want to talk who is associating with who, we will,” Emanuel said. “The American people will lose in that transaction.”

No, we will not lose. We will gain a clear understanding of exactly who Barack Obama is and what his true beliefs are.

William Ayers is an unrepentent terrorist who planted bombs at the Pentagon and local Police Stations back in the 70′s with a domestic terrorist organization called the Weathermen. That is a fact.

Barack Obama worked with Ayers in the Chicago Annenberg Project and even launched a political campaign from Ayer’s living room but still refers to him as “just a guy in my neighborhood.” We need to know more about the relationship between the Democrat Presidential Candidate and his domestic terrorist friends. Obama’s actions as an adult cannot simply be chalked up to the ignorance of an 8-year-old.

As for John McCain’s role in the Keating scandal, he was exonerated of any wrong-doing. Who says so? The New York Times said so back in 1999:

Three other members of the Keating Five were more seriously rebuked by the ethics panel and all of them retired rather than face difficult re-election battles. John Glenn of Ohio, who was exonerated with Mr. McCain, was also re-elected in 1992, but retired in 1998.

Don’t you find it rather interesting that Rahm Emanuel neglected to mention the fact that McCain was exonerated by a Democrat lawyer who was investigating the whole scandal?

Yes, I agree. The omission is not only misleading, it is irresponsible.

You can access these stories on-line here:

Senate Inquiry In Keating Case Tested McCain
Jill Abramson and Alison Mitchell
The New York Times
November 21, 1999

Obama Ad Links McCain To Keating Scandal
Charles Babington
Associated Press
October 5, 2008