The interview where he swapped the Steelers and Packers got headlines this week.
Considering what all Ron Reagan misremembered, McCain's gaffe hardly seems to be indictable.

This photo, however, is another matter altogether.
Here is healthy, smiling John McCain doing his homecoming routine in 1973.

So what happens in 1980 when he gets out of the Navy ?
For starts, McCain gets a disability that now pays him $58,000 a year tax free.
This for two claimed major disabilities connected to his service in Vietnam.

1. His right knee was "shattered" as he was ejected from his A-4 fighter/bomber

2. He was not able to raise his arms and he lacks full use of both  hands

Really ?
McCain has released his Navy medical records.
The "shattered knee" claim just doesn't make sense. NO INTERIOR SURGERY.
Where's any evidence showing more than a normally-mended cracked knee cap ?

More below the fold.

William "Bet A Million" Bennett would have us believe that Senator McCain is horribly injured. McCain did not invent this story.

"He can't raise his hands over his shoulders."

Maimed similar to Bob Dole.

Such is legacy. The Hero carries his wounds.  Ordinary folk are impressed by suffering. Then along comes this:

The Hero waving to a crowd AFTER VIETNAM. The local GOPpers-in-KOS-clothing are begging that its photoshopped....

William Bennett is a best selling writer on the subject of morals.  Conservative and corporate pundits support what he says.

Same for the Washington Post, Chicago Trib, New York Times, McCain's campaign, RNC. Honorable institutions. They say that aides comb The Hero's hair for him. But McCain's medical records do not support it.

Damn them lying eyes....

Or as Hillary must feel, damn that Bosnia videotape. Getting us to a nasty little thought: is McCain's arm-raising disability similar to Hillary's Bosnia trauma ?

Gee. What if two of the three finalists for the presidency share a problem ?

That is the mystery.

Here's all we have for photos of Carol McCain. Nothing but question marks for the last 30 years.

This is all we have on the First Wife.
Dumped by McCain when he was 42-years old. When a $100,000,000 family fortune became available after he had hooked up with 25-year old Cindy.

We know only that Carol McCain walked with assistance after a severe auto accident.

Is McCain's political career based root-and-stem on $$$$$ gained through disloyalty ???
And why is hiding or utterly erasing Carol McCain so critical ?

Amy's musical gift, together with her voice, make a unique contribution to jazz.
Her songs, so far, focus mainly on her own sorry love life.
If she survives, her gift could expand easily to other topics.
Unlikely....

The British medical system and their laws are apparently the single worst for industrialized countries for protecting the odd citizen.
Amy was poisoned into a coma with Ketamine last August 8th. The effects today are truly horrendous. Self-inflicted injuries:

Prior to that, a staph infection was allowed to get within hours of killing her.

Women's Wear Daily has out a special Scoop magazine that shows Amy -- same 24-hour day -- with this same infection covered with makeup, singing for the fashion crowd in Paris.
May God have mercy on their souls.

John McCain bases his campaign for the presidency on claims for mental strength and superior virtue. So far these claims have passed Talking Point gut-thinking.

-- Annapolis graduate in 1958 at 894th from a class with 899 graduates. His grandfather and father were both four-star Admirals.

-- McCain has never managed anything outside the Navy

-- Ross Perot: "After he came home, he walked with a limp. Carol McCain (his wife) walked with a limp. So he threw her over for a 25-year old poster girl with big money from Arizona, Cindy McCain, and the rest is history"

-- Mrs. Carol McCain's 1969 auto accident left her 4 inches shorter and on crutches.

After his 1973 return, McCain got spectacular medical care and full rehab. Carol McCain got dumped. John moved to his new honey's state and ran for Congress.

Do we learn ??? Book on Bush43 is that his Hindenberg act results from drug and alcohol-induced mental defect and innate narcissism. Hillary Clinton gets $$$ and votes despite living on Fantasy Island.

What's really under the hood with McCain ???

More below....

Amy's Gift is a vocal treasure. Soul into sound.
Artistic theory holds opening the Soul as an ideal, recalling great voices: Gigli, Piaf, Callas.
Cockney London gives us this tiny, barely educated, heroin addicted mess.
Terrible things have happened.
For Amy, life, itself, doesn't seem to matter.

A nasty criminal scheme in 2003 got her and a number of other girls addicted to heroin.
Relapse in 2007 and withdrawal brought blood-itch and infection.
Eye makeup applied over an active Staphyloccocus aureus infection.
Doing a $1,000,000 Fendi gig February 2008 came within hours of blinding or killing her.

A life mirroring the moment of death.

Brit tabloids treat Amy savagely. Sells papers.
Here's a doctored photo that ran in two major tabloids.
Amy's right leg shown as deformed with an extra Achilles tendon.

More below.

I ran this snark back August 6th last year. L'amour reprise....

Hillary Clinton comes across as the Democratic Party's version of Nixon.

This Hillary even looks like Dick Nixon. Same blank political face.

One "Nixon" is enough.

The poll is the core idea of the snark.

Who in history would be the best match with Hillary ?

BTW: first time results surprised me. 54% of DKOS voters put Hillary with Nixon, Hitler or Cleopatra. I'd included Hitler as a joke -- didn't expect him to get votes.

Cleo got more votes, first time around, than Bill. And yes, Baghdad Bob is a new option. Hillary was not that funny back in August.

Hillary Clinton would lose against John McCain.
The fatal pattern is that she lies to the burdens of war.

Hillary's Campaign-ending Lie (Updated)

"I certainly do remember that trip to Bosnia ... there was a saying around the White House that if a place was too small, too poor, or too dangerous, the president couldn't go, so send the First Lady. That’s where we went. I remember landing under sniper fire. ..."

Dkos "nitpicker" and "DHinMI" nail this as deceit.
Same difference for Northern Ireland.
Here is patterned dishonesty:

"I remember a meeting that I pulled together in Belfast, in the Town Hall there, bringing together for the first time Catholics and Protestants... having them sitting a room where they had never been before with each other...."

And then two faked Irish statements.

Hillary's "Irish Peace Meeting" and Fakery

Full fruits of the wicked tongue below.

Investigation opens doors to what Hillary Clinton did in Ireland.
No question, she made contacts and went in person 6 times.
Excellent First Lady.

Problems start when Mrs. Clinton prepared January 6th remarks for New Hampshire:

"I remember a meeting that I pulled together in Belfast, in the town Hall there, bringing together for the first time Catholics and Protestants from both traditions, having them sitting a room where they had never been before with each other because they don’t go to school together, they don’t live together and it was only... because I asked them to come that they were there..."

Then Hillary adds two perfect moment fabrications that elevate the lives of two Irish women.
A Catholic and a Protestant.
Drenched in fear.
Text below.

Facts are, Belfast events were at a café and the Women in Democracy conference at Waterfront Hall.
"Mrs. Clinton talked for 40 minutes of the rights and achievements of women."

Gals who spoke: Sue Tibballs from East London. Inez McCormick was President of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. Rosemary Raines spoke, too. Nobody spoke at the café.

Nothing like what Hillary says -- and says over and over.

Mrs Clinton started lying about what she did in Ireland in Nashua, New Hampshire on January 6th.
Now she has expanded to claims of important roles.
"I actually went to Northern Ireland more than my husband did," she said.  
Here's Hillary:

"I remember a meeting that I pulled together in Belfast, in the town hall there, bringing together for the first time Catholics and Protestants from both traditions, having them sitting a room where they had never been before with each other because they don’t go to school together, they don’t live together and it was only in large measure because I really asked them to come that they were there.

That's a lie. She didn't invite anybody. There was no such meeting.
She also made up Catholic and Protestant conversation.
Fully scripted. Below the line.

There is no record of any such meeting at Belfast City Hall.

The Belfast Telegraph reported next day that a café meeting was crammed with reporters, cameramen and Secret Service agents. Conversation "seemed a little bit stilted, a little prepared at times" and Mrs Clinton admired a stainless steel tea pot, which was duly given to her.
Gee, she scammed a tea pot.

Right Wing political activity extends beyond the Republican Party.
What you find out there is pretty rough in-fighting, testing legal bounds.

If you have been following along, you've met Socks the Cat.
Title: Hillary Left Me For Dead.
One tight, brutal piece -- meow a clef, if you will -- published at University College London with student ID "Harvey the Rabbit."

This is not American.
Mahar, Stewart and Colbert are pussies compared to Harvey.
Brit humor reads like their tabloids. No holds barred.

Worldwide it got 20,000 reprint pubs, 6,800 full text copies.

So, when search engine links disappeared, easy to guess Mrs. Clinton's people did it.
Oops....
Mark Penn's crew.
Oops...

Turns out the mass erasures came from the Far Right.
Link to one copy was left. www.imao.com, a wingnut site.
Other rightie sites are set to detect appearance of the text.
Plus, COPA/COPPA misuse and a bogus copyright claim for the IMAO copy.

Hillary Clinton is seeking the democratic nomination.
The piece is dishonestly blocked at search engines.
But Hillary is not to blame.

Who Killed Clinton's Dog ?
From KGB Agent Mickey Kaus.

"On Dec. 19, 2001 Clinton has a meeting in his Harlem office to discuss ways to repair his "battered" image. The meeting is described in the New York Times as having a "special urgency." An image-building speech on globalization at Yale has apparently not brought Clinton the expected public sympathy.

"Democratic leaders, Clinton is reported to have said, had not spoken up sufficiently on his behalf. They could not be relied on.
Present at the meeting was Bruce Lindsey, Clinton's secretive consigliere and the man entrusted with the Clintons' most distasteful tasks.

"Exactly two weeks later, Buddy was dead. As could have been predicted, Clinton benefited from a wave of public sympathy—sympathy he hadn't felt since at least Sept. 11. Clinton's office almost instantly issued a press statement saying the Clintons were "deeply saddened by Buddy's death." It's almost as if it had been planned all along."

Gawd... who knew ???????????????

More mini-roman a clef below the fold........

Surprise, surprise. From veterinary sources in 2002:
"The Clintons were not the animal lovers they appeared to be in those family photo ops...."
The powerful "first couple didn't allow Buddy or first cat Socks in the White House residence."

Surprise, surprise.
Barack Obama is a better person than I am.
I think ill of people who fake caring, who use pets as props.

Socks, famous for his postumous and Internet-erased interview "Hillary Left Me For Dead," was stored "down in the basement."

About like caucus voters, eh.
When you ain't of use to these people, its down to the basement fer ye....

Socks and the Clintons in his own words.

And do watch for the pro-Hill and pro-Hill sock puppets to trundle in, faking disgust at trivial background material.
Fact is that Mrs. Clinton described these pets living with the family. Did that hundreds of times. Wrote a book saying so. And it ain't true.

This is still going on unabated.
Test item is a 2001 snark piece set up as Peter the Rabbit interviewing Socks the Cat.
That... White House cat.

Title is "Hillary Left Me For Dead."

Back in the day 19,533 newspapers and magazines ran this piece and logged it on their sites.
Last fall I found 6,800 copies through google links.
Now there are two links, one at dailykos.

"America must know the truth about how Hillary tried to kill me."

"At first I really liked Hillary," Socks said. "she was cold, calculating, and utterly indifferent to the feelings of others. She was like a soulmate to me. But then she changed. Every time she was angry at Bill, she took it out on me."

Definitely sophomoric.
Still, free speech.
Dirty tricks + paranoia + narcissism == zero respect for political humor.

How big is this "Billary" Dirty Tricks project?
Who is running it? Who's the new Donald Segretti?
And who's the new John Mitchell coordinating it?

Tax returns, sure thing.
Full blown interference with Free Speech, not exactly trivial.

Socks the Cat returned to SNARK prominence last fall.
Socks's posthumous "interview" by Harvey the Rabbit appeared, here, and set records for nasty comments.
Now Socks is silenced.
Erased from the search engines.

Hillary's march to the White House will not be laughed at.
In 2001 this piece was open source echoed by AP.
19,593 newspapers and magazines ran it in 50 countries.
AT THIS DIARY DATE Google (was) rigged so Hillary Left Me For Dead (in quotes) top-lined a link (that relo'd to) hillaryclinton.com.

Billary do not like humor at their expense.

"America must know the truth about how Hillary tried to kill me."

"At first I really liked Hillary," Socks said. "she was cold, calculating, and utterly indifferent to the feelings of others. She was like a soulmate to me. But then she changed. Every time she was angry at Bill, she took it out on me."

"Cold and calculating" is not to be permitted.
Dirty tricks + paranoia + narcissism ???
Fact is, Socks's "$400 hair cut" tale on Hill got whacked.
Socks's "interview" had been first-page popular on google for "Hillary Clinton."
No more.
Test the search yourself; Socks is dead and gone.

That was HRC on Fox News.
AIDS signing for $31,000,000. Sure thing, maam.
And they got shares in the Brooklyn Bridge to sell us.

$31,000,000 up front.
A $3-billion uranium mining deal for Frank Giustra.
AIDS, the cover story of all time.

Think that needs explanation ??? $31,000,000 speaks for itself.

Kazakh's Nursultan Nazarbayev had been in power for 19 years.
He wanted some window dressing.
He bought it. He bought Bill Clinton.

So why are Democrats hanging back, over in the corner of the room like wallflowers at the dance ?
Teddy drove his car off the bridge. That was an accident.
This was no accident.

Cumm'on folks. No effin' accident.

And HRC's AIDS cover story ???? No accident either.
Using AIDS to cover a flat out lie.

HRC/WJC have tried carefully to conceal the donations to this foundation.
They knew what was in the hopper.
Where is morality where the problem is other Democrats ?

This $31,000,000 scam is worse -- on balance -- than anything that any of the 2008 declared presidential candidates have done.
The AIDS cover story on Fox News is a close second.

Friday brought an extraordinary public letter at the behest of William Rees Mogg, the Editor.
Text below the fold. Under the circumstances....
The Times is on its knees, begging its government to spare a life.

Amy was doing really well. Healthy. Clean. Typical smart-ass cockney.

BEFORE:

Then, evening of the 17th, Hell broke loose.
Her husband, Blake, is in grave legal trouble. Amy went over the edge.
Darn near a suicide attempt.
The medical fear is that Amy suffered micro-stroke injuries from crack cocaine.
Please, do not judge her.

AFTER:

Her father, Mitchell, tried to have her committed, seaking full medical treatment.
He was turned down.
A week later, rehab, but only voluntary treatment.
English law is decades behind the curve for dealing with drug poisoning.
The Times of London, now, speaks out, reflecting Jesus: "Whatever you do unto the least of these, you do unto me."
So, how should we treat our junkies ?

Prison statistics show America incarcerates 2,090,000 individuals.
This results from an incarceration rate of 714 per 100,000 population.

England & Wales show 142 per 100,000.
Northern Ireland goes at 72 per 100,000.
Their rates for crime are fractions of the U.S.

So, here is a medical approach to drugs.
"Wino" the druggie. Right side, the heroin addict.

Place a legal online bet on when Amy dies. But now....

-- New team of doctors with physically-based treatment. Blocker

-- Mental strength is enhanced with patient activity

-- Full security team, 24/7. Eliminate criminals

Amy looks like she did at 20-years old. Clean. Effective sleep. Gained 10 pounds. Her family are delighted.

A miracle. Modern medicine instead of prison.
400,000 drug busts. 600,000 drug related.
We could do this for a 1,000,000 people in America.