The coordinator of the GOP convention resigns after Newsweek report on his firm’s ties to Myanmar junta (o boy!). Doug Goodyear picked by the John McCain campaign to head the 2008 Republican National Convention resigned Saturday when Newsweek reported online that his lobbying firm, DCI Group, used to represent the Myanmar junta (can you believe?). Well, at least they caught this before the convention. Only remaining question is why is McCain’s campaign using a lobbyist of the 527 kind when that’s one of the things McCain has been denouncing for years in his battle for campaign finance reform? What is wrong with this picture? Someone didn’t have their Thinking cap on.
Fair & balanced reporting by Chris Amos, Navy Times
What’s regrettable about the story of Vice Adm. John Stufflebeem’s fall from grace is that after he was caught lying be began a campaign to discredit the woman he had the affair with indicating that she was lying. He further tightened the noose by replying with a false (official) statement that he “would not knowingly give false or misleading testimony, as it would run counter to the primary ethical value and character by which I have lived throughout my career as a Naval Officer.”
The arrogance and audacity of Stufflebeem’s rebuttal to the truth is astonishing for such a professional man although not uncommon for the New Moral Man found lying through his teeth. It’s the audacity at which these fallen men (and women where appropriate) think they can deflect blame onto someone else other than themselves that’s so galling.
This flaw in the New Moral Man is something to be reckoned with, the least of which is making them accountable for their actions by firing them. Then it’s up to the moral and religious leaders to tackle this problem head-on in the public forum along with condemnation of unethical behavior as a whole. The next step is to address unethical behavior in the school system and in the home - starting with the parents.
Is it just me or does it seem like every week another Illustrious Leader is caught doing something wrong? These are our role models, folks. Top down morality brought to you by top hypocrites. Tonight, Republican Rep. Vito J. Fossella’s secret love-child was revealed; this, after being stopped last week for drunken-driving arrest. Here he is, a married man, father of 3 children, who now has to explain to his children the shame he’s brought upon them. Mind you, he just declares “My personal failings and imperfections have caused enormous pain to the people I love and I am truly sorry,” and goes about his world - impervious to the absolute devastation he’s caused those he purports to “love” - those loved ones who live in the fishbowl of political arena - and absorb the brunt of any parental wrong-doing under the public eye. What man would do this to his own children? Is this the kind of man you want representing your best interests? I’m sorry to have to rock your world with my angst bellow but isn’t it time we clean house and get rid of those who sully American values? O, by the way, did I say he was Republican? (/rant)
Once again, long after their usefulness, documents suddenly appear and “the truth will out.” Democrat Sam Dash who served as ethics adviser to Whitewater Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, donated, upon his death in 2004, his documents from the Whitewater investigation to the Library of Congress. And guess what? These documents spell out the untruthiness of our presidential candidate - SURPRISE!!!
NOT.
Many of us who followed the whole excruciating Whitewater investigation could point out inconsistencies, question the convenience of lost documents and billing records (of which were “found” in the White House 2 years after the investigation), and her denial in having had anything to do with the failed Madison project known as Castle Grande. BZZZT! Wrong. Of course she did. Funny how putting several documents together regarding several key players of this “what? Another cover-up?” foolishness might find ya. And may I just remind people that Independent Counsel Robert W. Ray, who took the reins from Starr, said at the end of his investigation that he chose not to indict as was his prerogerative. He said at the time there was reason to press charges for lying under oath. You chose to go into denial. And all the players scurried to bury this story and exalt the Clintons. For shame. Makes ya want to scream. :O
A.G. Marc Dann rolls up his sleaze to get back to work… [The way things have been going these days, the A.G. will probably captcha a Metal of Honor, the victim offs herself, and the A.G. goes back to sniffing chair seats.]
First of all, what’s up with this crap? Why do elected officials refuse to step down when they’re caught doing wrong? A.G. Marc Dann, when asked to resign by the Governor replied, “I am in the office, have rolled up my sleeves and am working on behalf of the people of State of Ohio. Our work is too important to do anything but our jobs today.”
Oh yeah? How about carrying out the duties of your office with professionalism, honesty and dignity? Oh, that’s right. It’s already been shown that you can’t manage that - by your repulsive behavior. Nothing is more important than your state to insist on integrity and behavior beyond reproach. Did it ever dawn on you, A.G., that people vote for elected officials with the idea in mind that their candidate represents their best choice (from a barrel of oinkers) given available facts? Now, the fact that a lot of Illustrious Leaders keep their dirty secrets from fresh air and disinfection by sunshine only means that if the People catch you doing something they don’t approve of, they expect you to blush with shame and then l.e.a.v.e. so someone with more professional behavior and moral integrity can replace you. What is so hard to understand about this expectation from the People you signed up to serve??
An Air France pilot terrified 143 passengers while allegedly showing a boy in the cockpit (thought this was a no-no post-9/11) how to roll plane side-to-side, then needs to climb 10,000 ft to miss hitting oncoming plane.
If this story is proven to be true, then this is another example of how people, professional no less, have stopped using their minds and have let the amoeba in them take over, truly.