George Herbert Walker Bush endorsed McCain this week. Bush's father helped build the Nazi state through his invenstment banking both before and during the war.

From the Guardian, September 25 2004:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar

How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to powerRumours of a link between the US first family and the Nazi war machine have circulated for decades. Now the Guardian can reveal how repercussions of events that culminated in action under the Trading with the Enemy Act are still being felt by today's president.

George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany.

The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism.

His business dealings, which continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy.

The evidence has also prompted one former US Nazi war crimes prosecutor to argue that the late senator's action should have been grounds for prosecution for giving aid and comfort to the enemy.

The debate over Prescott Bush's behaviour has been bubbling under the surface for some time. There has been a steady internet chatter about the "Bush/Nazi" connection, much of it inaccurate and unfair. But the new documents, many of which were only declassified last year, show that even after America had entered the war and when there was already significant information about the Nazis' plans and policies, he worked for and profited from companies closely involved with the very German businesses that financed Hitler's rise to power. It has also been suggested that the money he made from these dealings helped to establish the Bush family fortune and set up its political dynasty.

Too much wiggle room in this piece - the adultery angle actually weakens the rest of the piece. But this will be the only part people will talk about. By November it will be all but forgotten. If it comes up again it will be painted as discredited. McCain will get a pass on it. Just like the National Guard and Bush.

No one is paying attention to the rest of the story - McCain's questionable ethics.

That's offensive, uncalled-for and completely unsubstantiated.

If this sort of crap is the only thing the press talks about it becomes the story. But its not the real story. I can imagine its funner to call a mud wrestling match than to actually do real work like reading policy positions and listening to speaches. You know, informing people.

Why not just turn all reporting duties to the TMZ. Maybe we'll get the real answers to weather Obama likes brown or blue, or is Michelle's hair is real. Or the paparazzi "catch" Cindy McCain stepping out of a Lamborgini with no panties on.

Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hang on to.

I love the line, and in the movie it connotes doing what it takes to get things done. And maybe Tina Fey is trying to "own" the word that has been used against women,carrying on a fine tradition in this country dating back to Yankee Doodle Dandy. I laughed during her segment of Weekend Update and during the Annaule skit. Otherwise I found the show ho hum.

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If anyone thinks I should back McCain for the election so that he will lose, I have thought of it.

I have thought the same thing. I seem to vote for the loser in so many elections. If voting for the Republicans will put them on a losing streak then I am happy to do it.

He's freer than ever - for all intents and purposes he has no political futre. I say ride it out, and go after the job with zeal woithout having to worry about pandering to anyone.

This is a rescue plan for the wealthy. The dollar will continue to sink, oil prices will rize and inflation will grow. I figure till will all come apart about January of next year. I hope Bernanke knows he's been set up as the fall guy.

The coffee shops in New Haven are filled with Yalies on their laptops and talking on their cellphones. Whatever happend to the library? I can't imagine you can get much good studying done in a coffee shop, especially with all those people talking on their cell phones. It always makes me wonder - its as if they want to be seen and interact, just not with the people sitting near them.

Probably they have their own lobbyists to protect these income streams.

Wouldn't that be Guiliani Associates? Bernard Kerik?

I'll agree he's being set up as teh fall guy, but the role of the Federal Reserve, by design, is too limited to be reponsible for the whole economy. And who says a recession is the worst thing in the world? It seems to me many of the problems we are facing now are the result of tryin to avoid earlier recessions or problems.

This notion that the economy can never contract is rediculous.

Too bad he had to drop out. And I guess no more surprises at TC.

I doubt it. Fox will stop pounding on the story when they see their ratings drop, otherwise they will keep it up. Its already got traction if your talking about it.

Enough already. Half the priests that I listened to as a child are now in prison, so was everything they said a fraud?

My understanding is he is boycotting the Fox News Channel because of the madrassa story they "broke" and have refused to retract.