McCain press conference on CNN on the hour. 9 EST.

[trof]

Should be interesting.
Bet he's in full 'righteous indignation' mode.

[saltpoint]

1. My friends, I won't be tuning in to McCain's presser.

Thank you, and God Bless America.

[LiberalinNC]

2. "it's not true"...I'm sold!

:nopity:

[Jeanette in FL]

3. He has the wife with the adoring gaze

I just love the way Republican wives can just stand there and look so lovingly at their sleazy husbands.

[LiberalinNC]

6. She looks like a "deer in headlights"!!!

[WinkyDink]

To me, she looks PO'ed. Could those eyebrows be any more arched?!

[tishaLA]

40. that's a brow lift

her face is pulled as tight as a drum

[saltpoint]

36. Yes. It's the eyes. They have the look of someone who was sent from

the 9th rung of hell to bring darkness into the world.

Unmerciful and remote.

[chelsea0011]

17. She has experience to once being the other woman

[Jeanette in FL]

25. Why do women think things will change

When they have once been the other woman, what makes them think that now the husband will remain faithful to them. That always amazes me.

[ecstatic]

23. Why is she smiling? There is nothing amusing about this situation

poor gal.

[Hepburn]

44. Ummmmmmm....

....percodan, vicodin....or both. That's my guess as to why Cindy is smilin' at her POS cheating spouse.

[my2sense]

4. He seems to be on

sedatives or something....

[Fleshdancer]

7. he looks tired

then again, he probably had to stay up pretty late to figure out what he was going to say this morning.

[habitual]

9. nah, he's known for months this was coming, plenty of time to prepare. n/t

[Mike Daniels]

76. He already addressed this in December when Drudge posted it

McCain's probably pissed that he's having to deal with it again but on a bigger scale since I imagine the NYT has a slightly bigger reach than Drudge's site.

[spanone]

5. i'm not your friend, senator

[ecstatic]

8. What the hell does his military service "since 17" have to do

with the accusations?! Did anyone catch how he opened with yet another story about his military service as if that somehow exempts him from the rules?

[TwilightGardener]

10. He thinks being a war hero POW gives him a pass on everything.

[w13rd0]

11. Does it explain...

...his divorcing his first wife that dutifully waited for him while he was in captivity for a wealthy youngin that could finance his first run for office?

[LiberalinNC]

It's his "9/11"!

[my2sense]

19. Seems he thinks we'll over look it because of his service

:rofl:

[KharmaTrain]

12. This Is Brutal...

There's the stepford wife with a prozac-induced gaze...there's something I don't trust about a woman that "dolled-up" at 9am.

He still didn't deny his relationship...just suffering from typical GOOP memory lapse or overload.

[my2sense]

24. She is a robot

I don't think I've ever seen a smile painted on someone's face like this before. I wonder if she's feeling PROUD of her husband this morning.

[KharmaTrain]

35. How Many Of These Have We Had To Endure???

There was Vitter and his "loving wife" and then Larry Craig and his "loving wife"...and now this...

I can't see how any self-respecting woman can stand there and be used as a prop to "smile away" another GOOP scandal...but then I'll bet it sure beats working at the Pancake House.

[my2sense]

52. Senate Stepford Wives

Maybe they sign some type of oath saying they'll stand by their man, grinning and nodding at all cost.

[chelsea0011]

13. I did not have sex with that woman

[WinkyDink]

14. TWO points: "Never betrayed the PUBLIC trust." "Not a ROMANTIC relationship."

What about:

PRIVATE trust?

SEXUAL relationship?

It's admission by omission, IMO.

Not to mention McCain's tone is uncharacteristically mild and conciliatory.

[BeyondGeography]

15. Whatever happened to the Straight Sex Talk Express?

[ecstatic]

20. I hope they ask his stepford wife a question

Why did he force her to be up on stage with him?

[rocktivity]

27. Here's what happened to the Straight Sex Talk Express

:rofl:
rocknation

[tishaLA]

16. they are hardly pressing him

come on! you can get him to lose his temper at the drop of a hat. press the fucker.

[Fleshdancer]

18. wait, did I hear that right? He called the editor of the NYT

and that it wasn't a polite discussion?

I need to turn the volume up. His voice is unusually soft this morning.

[WinkyDink]

22. He tried to get the story quashed. And yes, ain't he the Non-Feisty McCain, eh? Fishy.

[Hepburn]

54. That his me wrong, too....

...this demeanor on display this AM from McCain is all wrong for him. It's like he is trying to smooth it over because only the tip of the ice berg is out there.

Something is REAL off about the way he is acting, IMO.

[ecstatic]

67. Well since he's known to have a temper, it's possible he had to take

medication to stave off any possible temper explosions. :shrug:

[saltpoint]

21. It might be refreshing for McCain to ADMIT the affair, and then go on to

describe some of its most erotic highlights in a Penthouse FORUM-like play-by-play.

"I always thought hot female lobbyists wouldn't look twice at a corpse-like dullard such as myself, until one day, in the cloakroom of the Senate building..."

[WinkyDink]

26. Scooter and Lynne Cheney could be his ghost-writers.

[saltpoint]

41. LOL!

[MuseRider]

62. Oh my!

Now THAT is funny. :hi:

[saltpoint]

64. Hey there! It's a grim world. We have to stay absurd to live in it!

Hope all's well your way.


:hi:

[MuseRider]

71. True, very true

and I depend on people like you with a quick wit to make me laugh now and again!

I am great, hung over but great. We had a major victory yesterday and my friend and I shared two bottles of the bubbly last night, I feel icky but very proud. ;)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=221x65449

So how are things your way? My only complaint is that it is freaking snowing again! Have you all had a wetter than ever winter? I can't remember the last time it was like this. Not very cold but snow cover for much of the winter.

You working campaigns?

[saltpoint]

73. Well you rest up after that celebration. I sure do appreciate the work

you've done on a very good cause. Good for you, good for Kansas, good for future generations. Hat's off to ya, madam.

Cold? You bet. Snow and ice and cold. Folks are hunkered down in their woolen jammies waiting and hoping for that first crocus!

[MuseRider]

74. This year

the crocus need titanium helmets to burst through the ice!

It is a good cause and I think if I died today I could do so knowing that I actually did something that is meaningful. Feels great, except today...ewwwwww. :)

[saltpoint]

75. Keep at it. There's people you and I don't know yet who will

be the chief beneficiaries of just that kind of work.

"titanium helmets" LOL!

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

28. He just said that one of his advisors is a former head of the FEC.

Does anyone know more about this?

[my2sense]

29. What the hell is up

with her eyes.....

[WinkyDink]

37. It's called a "face-lift".

[spanone]

30. cindy is disappointed in the new york times...not john, the messenger

[Jeanette in FL]

39. "John would never do anything to betray this family"

That is not what his first wife said. Boy she does not have a grasp on reality.

[Fleshdancer]

43. meanwhile, John has a track record of replacing his wife with a younger woman

That's how Cindy got him.

[qanda]

47. They should ask her if she ever met Ms. Iseman

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

31. Was he just asked if he's seen Iseman and he said that he hasn't been in Washington for sometime, so

he hasn't seen her? Did I hear that right?

[spanone]

33. yep

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

48. So it seems he is still "acquainted" with her??? Didn't he vote for torture after he voted against

it, this month?

[WinkyDink]

42. Interesting qualification. Like SHE can't travel? How far IS Virginia, anyway? ;)

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

63. If one wants to take this further, it's saying he knew that she was in Washington. :)

[qanda]

32. What's up with the audio

It's very hard to hear.

[qanda]

38. wrong spot

[WinkyDink]

34. Wifey disgustingly mentioned their CHILDREN. Even HRC never mentioned Chelsea.

Oh, she's "disappointed in the NYT"---ONLY the paper of record.

Odd, they never minded when the NYT used Judith Miller to LIE ABOUT IRAQ.

[trof]

45. Looks like he upped his meds for this.

All soft spoken and calm and laid back and laughy.

[ecstatic]

46. Yes. You have a record of leaving your wife for younger women

Ha!

[WinkyDink]

51. As if his PUBLIC record is at all relevant. He's trying mightily to make this ONLY a "lobbyist"

story.
He cheated. Face it, Cindy. He knows how to get away with it.

[Fleshdancer]

53. JINX!

:rofl:

I wrote the same thing up thread at the exact time you did. Fun times! :D

[chelsea0011]

49. So what was The Straight Talk Express doing in a bathroom stall

with a fake blond lobbyist 30 years his junior. I'm confused.

[DainBramaged]

50. "Look at my entire record"

Oh really, just say it isn't so, then maybe we'll move on.

NOT

[WinkyDink]

57. "I've voted so many times! It's on the record! How could I ever have slipped away for an hour?!"

Bwahahahahaha!!!

[DainBramaged]

He needs an HOUR??????

Then he's a better man than 99% of red blooded Repukes.

[WinkyDink]

59. Counting travel time. :)

[ecstatic]

55. All soft ball questions. Were they afraid he'd have a heart attack? nt

[WinkyDink]

58. Afraid of Cindy's death-stare.

[spanone]

56. either mccain is lying or his staff is lying

scarborough and matthews are excoriating the times.....

[Doctor_J]

60. Alot of indies/undecideds will see this and remember what McCain's

party did to Clinton over the same thing. This is not going to help the old fossil at all.

[WinkyDink]

66. Karma. She's a b***h. But ya gotta love her!

[trof]

61. Great that they follow with Bill 'The Gambler' Bennett to refute.

Quelle surprise.

[spanone]

65. bill bennett

[trof]

72. Woops. Thanks. Senior Moment.

[WinkyDink]

68. MSNBC has Tweety, JoeS, and MikaB. JoeS just laughed at David Gregory's

suggestion it could be a "platonic" relationship.

Mika keeps going after "unnamed sources"; DG said they aren't in the business of criticizing the deliberations of other newspapers.

The "H" word---"hypocrite"---has been broached.

[Virginia Dare]

69. Mr. Ethics himself..

what a dooch he is.

[WinkyDink]

70. You know the NYT has vetted this story inside out. THAT is why it's not in the National

Enquirer FIRST.
This story went right to the official top of the journalistic heap. It's the truth. PERIOD.

[Mike Daniels]

77. It was on Drudge in December (so much for going straight to the top, huh?)

[WinkyDink]

79. Drudge has excellent sources. And that supports my point of its being well-vetted.

Besides, Drudge is not print media. I think you know precisely what I meant.

[kskiska]

78. Compare this to the John Kerry "girlfriend" allegation

The media ran with the story and stalked Alexandra Polier to Africa where she joined her fiance.

(snip)

The Philadelphia Daily News reports that several news trucks and assorted gawkers have been loitering outside the Malvern, Pennsylvania home of the parents of 27-year-old Alexandra Polier after her dad was quoted in a British tabloid that Senator Kerry was "a sleazeball" who had shown an interest in his daughter.

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