John McCain's 70th birthday bash held on boat of Russian tycoon

[godai]

John McCain's campaign is trying to make political hay out of the conviction of Chicago tycoon Tony Rezko, a one-time fundraiser for presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. However, the McCain campaign wants to bury the story of McCain's 70th birthday bash held on board the yacht of a Russian aluminum tycoon in the Adriatic Sea. The party was held on August 29, 2006, McCain's birthday and followed a congressional junket by McCain and five other GOP senators to the Republic of Georgia.

The host for McCain's yacht party off the coast of the Republic of Montenegro was, according to WMR sources with close links to the Republican Party, Oleg Deripaska, one of Russia's most powerful tycoons who made his billions in cornering Russia's aluminum market in the 1990s.

The 70th birthday bash was reportedly a promise of huge cash donations to McCain's forthcoming presidential campaign, another indication of violations of law prohibiting donations from foreign sources. The quid pro quo for Derpaska was that McCain and his top lobbyists were pushing the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company (EADS) and its Airbus subsidiary to receive the lucrative US Air Force contract to replace the Air Force's fleet of refueling tankers. The reported source for the aluminum in the Airbus tanker aircraft is Deripaska's Russian Aluminum Company (RusAl).

Some two weeks after the McCain birthday bash in Montenegro, the Russian state-owned Vneshtorgbank announced that it was acquiring more than 5 percent of EADS.

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_3364.shtml



and, of course, there's the 69th bithday 'celebration' during Katrina:
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/24/flashback-as-katrina-raged-mccain-celebrated-69th-birthday-with-bush/

[Tinksrival]

1. YOO-HOO

MSM?????? HELLO? LOOK OVER HERE you asswipes!

[Median Democrat]

2. Well, the Wash Post Mentioned It In January Before McCain Got The Nomination

However, I would rather see a campaign commericial about McCain's comments on health insurance next week during the GOP convention.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/24/AR2008012403383_pf.html

[lurky]

3. Ooh, this guy is straight out of Central Casting!

:wow:

[Canuckistanian]

4. "Vassily, kill him! Olga! More caviar and vodka!"

Yeah, I can see a James Bond movie with this guy.

[lurky]

8. "Ve must kill Jason Bourne before he destroy our plan..."

Perfect KGB/mobster thug!

[bushisanidiot]

5. K&R

!!

[Fleshdancer]

6. well well well...I guess we're not all Georgians after all

Looks like all you need is a huge bank account to get George McCain's attention.

[PATRICK]

7. For the usual suspects

it is not about democracy but installing corporate plutocrats over struggling oil nations and all competition where money is involved. McCain is a minor tool with dangerous incompetencies.