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DEL.ICIO.USNotes from the GOP debate in Florida: On Fred Thompson and John McCain’s applause line.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Fred Thompson’s trip to Atlanta last week resonated during last night’s Republican presidential debate in Orlando.
Here’s the relevant portion of the transcript, via the New York Times:
[CARL] CAMERON [of Fox News]: Senator Thompson, earlier this week, you were asked about your lobbying, years ago, for Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider. And you were quoted as saying, That was private life, as if to dismiss the question.
CAMERON: Can you explain to us what you meant by that and why…
THOMPSON: No, I…
CAMERON: … it would make a difference?
THOMPSON: No, what I said — what I hope I said was that it was my private law practice, as opposed to my public service. I was a member of a firm, of counsel to a large firm. And it was their client. They asked me to do a little work on it. I made a few calls. And that was that.
Frankly, I’d forgotten about it. But they’ve come forward now, because I’m their worst nightmare.
After that happened, I went to the United States Senate and voted consistently against them on every bill that came up. Now they’re trying to defeat me.
Elsewhere in the debate, John McCain again got the largest round of applause. At this point, given his standing in the polls, it’s hard to say whether it matters.
In any case, here’s the AP description:
McCain said Clinton had recently tried to spend $1 million on a Woodstock Museum, commemorating perhaps the most famous counterculture event of the 1960s.
“Now my friends I wasn’t there. I’m sure it was a cultural and pharmaceutical event,” he said.
“I was tied up at the time,” he deadpanned, and the audience rose to applaud the reference to the five and a half years McCain spent as a prisoner of war during Vietnam.
Comments
By Will Jones
October 22, 2007 9:28 AM | Link to this
By his own admission: McCain threw his jet away and knew he could easily have avoided being shot down (“Faith of Our Fathers,” McCain). Was it a death wish to impress his father? He also was unfaithful to the mother of his children who waited for him, and is now “married to the Mob.” Do the research yourself if this is news.
More importantly McCain is Roman Catholic and has never, in any way, used his experience and knowledge to enlighten the American People as to the crime that was Vietnam in which 58,000 of our best died for Roman Catholic interests after the Roman Catholic CIA, with GHW Bush - the son of a member of the Knights of Malta (who “run” the Vatican) - and Richard Nixon (hired by the same Prescott Bush - the money conduit from Rome’s American Fifth Column to the author of “I Paid Hitler,” papal baron, and Knight of Malta, Fritz “The Rockefeller of Germany” Thyssen), murdered President Kennedy six weeks after his NSAM263 had ordered our military withdrawal from the papal colony of Indochina.
McCain works for the Roman Anti-Christ, not for the American People. His being vainglorious and winding up in the Hanoi Hilton is not to his credit.
But hey…Hillary works for the same evil. We need Obama or better. Bush did 9/11 and the Tory Oak is looking for some necks.
By Sam
October 22, 2007 10:46 AM | Link to this
Really mccain’s a roman catholic? Wikipedia lists him as a baptist, the church he attends is baptist, and he went to an espicopalian high school.
And shame on you, for implying that a soldier going into harms way is doing so for selfish purposes. McCain does have a family legacy in the navy and he took great pride in continuing it that hardly means he had a death wish.
By Anonymous
October 22, 2007 11:24 AM | Link to this
Sam, if you haven’t met him, Will Jones is our resident conspiracy nut. Everything—everything—is part of a vast “Rome and Rockefeller” conspiracy with him, sprinkled with “pervert” references.
Just ignore him and move on.
By Will Jones
October 22, 2007 11:55 AM | Link to this
Read his autobiography. I have. Do I need to give you the page numbers?
Homosexual draft-dodger W. calls himself a Methodist but he is a servant of Satan who committed 9/11: Read “The New Pearl Harbor.” If your citizenship isn’t worth the 12 dollars maybe you can check it out at the library. His father and grandfather called themselves Episcopalian but their membership was also Satan’s Church when they killed Kennedy and financed Nazism with Prescott Bush’s FELLOW Knight of Malta Fritz “The Rockefeller of Germany” Thyssen. German gave him the name because they knew the money he got from Bush was Rockefeller’s complements of the Roman Catholic Church’s collection plate and cashflow.
Skip the labels watch the action.
By Will Jones
October 22, 2007 12:00 PM | Link to this
P.S. America’s Founders were “Whigs.” Their historical analytical perspective holds that history unfolds as a conflict between Rome and everybody else. Thomas Jefferson, anointed by G-d Almighty to be Author of the Declaration of American Independence - and, given the context of the times, Our Founder, regarded Rome as “the real Anti-Christ.”
You reject him? Think him a fool? Or, perhaps it would serve your connection to my country to do a little reading and learn the truth of Rome’s Black Aristocracy and its Fifth Column fascist plutocracy in the process of trying to destroy Our Republic…whose creation, Mr. Jefferson noted, “ignited a volcano under the thrones of Europe.”
By Anonymous
October 22, 2007 12:31 PM | Link to this
See what I mean, Sam? It doesn’t take much to set WJ off on his preprogrammed rants about how everybody but him is a “traitor” who should be put to death.
By shane
October 22, 2007 2:32 PM | Link to this
Will, I think you lost me at “Homosexual draft-dodger W” - while the consonance rolls right off the tongue and the prose is somewhat eloquent, I’m having a hard time figuring out why it matters that W likes getting his fudge-packed. It seems to weaken your argument a bit. I’m interested in what you have to say, don’t get me wrong, but calling someone out for being a butt-pirate seems like a waste of time really.
By Apostrophe Jones
October 22, 2007 2:50 PM | Link to this
The Republican lineup of candidates is generally so good, any of them ( except Paul,a Libertarian)would be a fine President.If the public is so misguided as to bring back the Grifters (Clintons),then we deserve what we get.
By Will Jones
October 22, 2007 9:27 PM | Link to this
It only matters because of the hypocrisy/absence of integrity, and his “family upbringing.” If one of my infantry squad leaders happened to have the same affliction I couldn’t care less…if he were doing a good job and kept it private.
Compared to being from a family of known evil and affiliation with the historic forces known to Our Founders as the “real Anti-Christ;” getting us killed in false wars; assassinating our legitimate, accepted leaders; bringing pernicious, illegal drugs to sow destruction in Our Land; debasing the currency, and promoting illegal immigration on behalf of Rome’s pedophile priesthood, Bush’s “activities” with $200/hr homosexual prostitute James Guckert/Jeff Gannon certainly pales…sullying the People’s House, notwithstanding.
I’ve been in Atlanta for thirty years. My friends and acquaintances know I, like all good Atlantans (the future of America), am a classically liberal, tolerate, helpful, patriotic, and loving person. D.V.