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Friday, February 22, 2008 12:00 AM

Newsweek catches McCain in a serious contradiction

McCain's own deposition testimony squarely negates key parts of his denial of the NYT story.

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  • Friday, February 22, 2008 02:09 PM

    OMG..I agree with Shooter on something!!!!

    Lordy, you people are petty.

    You're all wound up about a letter to a bureaucrat to get on with it? That's the best you can do?

    How about the Keating Five, or not willing to vote for his own immigration bill? Then there's my favorite, wanting to be exempted from the campaign finance law he authored.

    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/22/MNMCV6H8C.DTL

    -- shooter242

    Well, not the "petty" part...Shooter, we actually agree- that McCain is a well-marketed hypocrite, who is as corrupted as any beltway insider, yet somehow has "branded" himself as the incorruptible rebel against the system.

    The point, however, that this is a situation where the public might actually "get it" for a change, provided the spinning of the story into a sex scandal doesn't fly...

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