It was atrocious enough when the New York Times came out with their “just wondering” story in March about John McCain’s past bouts of cancer and whether it could return. Now, with 17 days to go till the election, the Washington Post does them one better. Questions Linger About McCain’s Prognosis After Skin Cancer

In May, the presidential campaign of 72-year-old cancer survivor John McCain tried to put to rest doubts about his health by allowing a few reporters to inspect his medical records, but the effort has failed to quell questions about his odds of surviving an eight-year tenure in the White House.

One loosely organized group of physicians has been claiming in Web-based videos, op-ed columns and newspaper ads that McCain’s risk of dying from a recurrence of the skin cancer he had treated eight years ago may be as high as 60 percent.

However, data on cancer survival rates compiled by the federal government suggest that people in McCain’s situation have no more than a 10 percent chance of dying from melanoma over the next decade.

Yet, questions linger. Say, I wonder when the WP will do a story on the potential for Barack Obama to get lung, throat, and/or mouth cancer from his smoking?

You remember the New York Times “just wondering if McCain had an affair” story from February, right? It got picked up by all the other news sources immediately after. Let’s refresh

In one of the most sensational stories of the presidential campaign, The New York Times published a 3,000-word, front-page article in February suggesting that a little-known telecommunications lobbyist named Vicki Iseman had an affair with Sen. John McCain during his first run for the White House in 1999. The story did not provide any evidence of an affair, but said that McCain’s top aides became convinced that the relationship was romantic and took steps to keep McCain and Iseman apart.

The story generated massive publicity, and media and political critics accused The Times of publishing a salacious and unfair story. The Times‘ own public editor joined the chorus of criticism saying, “Although [the newspaper] raised one of the most toxic subjects in politics — sex — it offered readers no proof that McCain and Iseman had a romance.”

McCain, now 72, hotly denied a romantic tie to Iseman and accused The Times of “a hit-and-run smear campaign.”

Iseman had refused to be interviewed by the Time, but did have email exchanges, and had flatly denied the allegations. She says she answered every question the Times put to her. And she has sat down with National Journal Magazine to answer their questions

“I did not have a sexual relationship with Senator McCain,” she said in a three-hour interview last month in a seventh-floor conference room in the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center. “I never had an affair or an inappropriate relationship with Senator McCain, and that means I never acted unethically in my dealings with the senator.” Iseman, a partner in the lobbying firm of Alcalde & Fay, where she has worked for 18 years, adds, “I have never even been alone with Senator McCain.”

Iseman says she answered every question put to her by The Times, but that the newspaper “chose to disregard” many of her answers. “The New York Times set out to write a story about a ‘romantic relationship’ in exchange for legislative favors…. Make the lobbyist a prostitute — pretty heady stuff. The only problem was, they were wrong on all counts.”

But, it’s OK that the Times investigated the possibility of an affair between a man who was probably going to be, at the time, the GOP presidential nominee, because, hey, they are working hard to investigate rumors of an affair between Barack Obama and Vera Baker. And y’all remember how hard the media worked to investigate the rumors of an affair by presidential contender John Edwards which supposedly led to a baby, right? And they are working hard to investigate Tim Mahoney (D-Fla) and his affair(s).

Anyhow, rather then provide lots of excerpts, read the whole story. Kinda long, but, well worth it.

What kind of cheese should we send to the New York Times? Court Ruling May Impede Thousands of Ohio Voters

More than 200,000 registered Ohio voters may be blocked from casting regular ballots on Election Day because of a federal appeals court decision on Tuesday requiring the disclosure of lists of voters whose names did not match those on government databases, state election officials and voting experts said.

In other words, who the hell are these people? Do they live in Ohio? Are they Ohio residents? Do they appear on voter roles in other states? Do they even exist?

The court decisionrequires Jennifer Brunner, the Ohio secretary of state, to provide the names to local election officials by Friday. Once the local officials have the names, they may require these voters to cast provisional ballots rather than regular ones, and they may ask partisan poll workers to challenge these voters on Election Day. Both possibilities could cause widespread problems when the voters show up at the polls.

If she had done her job in the first place…. And now an appeal of the decision has gone to the Supreme Court, saying Republicans had 2 years to challenge. Perhaps the Ohio GOP thought the Ohio Sec of State would do her job and follow the law

Federal law requires states to verify voter registration applications with a government database like those for driver’s licenses or Social Security cards. Names that do not match are flagged for further verification. Since Democrats have been more aggressive at registering new voters this year, the decision will probably affect their party’s supporters disproportionately. Polling in the state shows Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee, with a slight lead on his Republican challenger, Senator John McCain.

Social Security data indicate that Ohio election officials found more than 200,000 names that did not match this year; state election officials say their analysis of the data indicates that most of these are individual voters, not duplicate registrations. But Ms. Brunner said that problems with the databases could very well be why the names did not match.

So, do your job and investigate. Why do Democrats always think that the law doesn’t apply to them?

Expect the usual suspects on the left to call this “GOP voter fraud.” When it is ACORN registering Mickey Mouse and the starting offensive lineup of the Dallas Cowboys, eh, no big deal, they haven’t voted, but, unknown people who will probably vote Dem being forced to possibly use a provisional ballot? FRAUD! I wonder how many of those 200K will actually show up?

The Ohio Republican chairman, Robert T. Bennett, called the court ruling “a victory for the integrity of Ohio’s election.”

“Once again, Jennifer Brunner has wasted valuable taxpayer dollars only to have her partisan agenda rejected by a court of law,” Mr. Bennett said.

Yeah, but, somewhere in Liberal World, it is the Republican’s fault for bringing this issue to light.

My God, what has the world come to!!!!!!! Exclusive: Verizon and AT&T Provided Cell Towers for McCain Ranch

Early in 2007, just as her husband launched his presidential bid, Cindy McCaindecided to resolve an old problem — the lack of cellular telephone coverage on her remote 15-acre ranch near Sedona, nestled deep in a tree-lined canyon called Hidden Valley.

By the time Sen. John McCain’s presidential bid was in full swing this summer, the ranch had wireless coverage from the two cellular companies most often used by campaign staff — Verizon Wireless and AT&T.

Verizon delivered a portable tower know as a “cell site on wheels” — free of charge — to Cindy McCain’s property in June in response to an online request from Cindy McCain’s staff early last year. Such devices are usually reserved for restoring service when cell coverage is knocked out during emergencies, such as hurricanes.

In July, AT&T followed suit, wheeling in a portable tower for free to match Verizon’s offer. “This is an unusual situation,” said AT&T spokeswoman Claudia B. Jones. “You can’t have a presidential nominee in an area where there is not cell coverage.”

No, seriously. The Washington Post is making a bid deal out of this…um….trying to think of a nice word since this will be cross posted at Stop The ACLU. And the WP is trying to make it out to be some sort of big ethical thing. I mean, the Post barely touches Ayers, Pflager, Jeremiah Wright, and anything that might put Obama in even a mildly negative light, but, this is IMPORTANT! I mean, heck, the WP gives Tim Mahoney (D-Fla) the massive benefit of the doubt, putting the stories on the “I might get around to read them later” pages. Cell towers for a presidential candidate, and, not to mention, a very rich wife? BIG NEWS!!!!

Let me tell you, I work in the industry. It is not that big of a deal. It doesn’t cost that much for these types of towers, and, yeah, it does get good will from a sitting US Senator. There are all sorts of little towers that can be put in to give small range coverage, and, there are lots and lots of towers that barely cover anyone. Think about highways: a good chunk of those towers are money losers. Not much traffic on them. I could discuss an area where HSDPA has been put on towers in an area where a few years ago you were lucky if you got service, but, it serves the people coming to play in this area.

Really, this is much ado ‘bought nuttin’ from the same people who thought that an affair by a sitting US president, along with perjury in front of a federal grand jury, suborning testimony, a credible rape charge, a credible sexual harrassment charge, and witness tampering was no big deal. And who still do not bother covering Obama’s radical associations.

I mean, sheesh, AMERICAblog had a total meltdown over this, as do many other on the Left, courtesty of Memeorandum. Not surprising, of course. The only thing they know about mobile towers is that they need this.

Of course, we have all heard the Obamazombies talking points: bad voter registrations are not voter fraud, because they haven’t voted yet. It’s not disenfranchisement, because no one is being stopped from voting. So, they see nothing wrong with all the fraud going on through ACORN. Perhaps we should just call it election fraud, to satisfy the Left’s sense of proper naming

A federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered Ohio’s top elections official to set up a system by the end of the week to verify new voters’ eligibility and make it available to Ohio’s 88 county election boards.

The full 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati upheld a lower court’s ruling that Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner must use other government records to check the thousands of new voters for registration fraud.

A three-judge panel of the 6th Circuit had disagreed last week, but the full court’s ruling trumped the panel’s decision.

Finally, some sanity. Of course, you know the Left will not like this very much, despite their constant calls for election reform since they lost in 2000.

Allahpundit has it covered, and has some video showing how the ACORN narrative has finally broken through to the regular MSM.

Related, Barry brings up the “D” word

“But this isn’t a situation where there’s actually people who are going to try to vote ’cause these are phony names,” Obama said. “And, it’s doubtful (Dallas Cowboys quarterback) Tony Romo (whose name has been fraudulently submitted) is gonna show up in Ohio to vote. So this is another one of these distractions that gets stirred up in the course of a campaign.

Uh huh. And, if this was a non-partisan group that happened to be registering primarily Republicans, would you be so blase’ about it, Barry? As Powerline points out, Barack is completely indifferent to the election fraud. And, sure, someone who registers as Mickey Mouse is not going to show up. But, the very fact that ACORN dupes are going there shows the lengths they will go to perpetrate other election fraud, such as registering people who aren’t legally eligible to vote, registering dead people, registering people in multiple states and voting precincts, and then the people do go and vote.

Joe Biden goes down the wacky distraction avenue, as well.

I guess it is all a distraction when out of state Obama activists are registered in Ohio in violation of the law, ie, they do not reside in Ohio. Who wants to bet that they have absentee ballots in for their home states, too?

Which side keeps bringing up race?

Ron Havens has a reputation for provocative Halloween displays that reflect his strong political views.

But even Havens was pretty sure his latest effort was over the top. That didn’t stop him from setting it up in plain sight anyway.

Havens, who lives on Schuyler County Route 15 (Ridge Road) just south of Odessa, this week set up a Halloween display featuring mannequins that look like Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and Republican rival John McCain.

But the Obama figure looks like he is running, and the McCain likeness is dressed in the hooded robe of the Ku Klux Klan and is carrying a baseball bat.

Havens is quick to point out he is a liberal and a big supporter of Obama, and that the scene is meant to provoke thought about the way he believes Obama has been unfairly treated by the McCain campaign.

Reality based, ya know!

How about some more Halloween Kool Aid from the Obamazobies? Seriously, these people need to lighten up. They are a wee bit too serious about their candidate. Who they know virtually nothing about.

It’s just so terrible!

As the crowd cheered at a Sarah Palin rally this morning in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a man in the audience grinned as he held up a stuffed monkey doll with a Barack Obama bumper sticker wrapped across its forehead.

The incident came at a time when McCain and Palin’s events have increasingly been fueled by angry crowds, since Palin began drawing a connection between Barack Obama and 1960s radical William Ayers, claiming that the Democratic nominee has a history of “palling around” with a terrorist.

Yawn. Nothing from CBS about the assassination chic of the Left.

Or how they call President Bush a terrorist. You would think that one of them might notice this 24/7 since Reagan became president display outside the White House

I guess it is OK to call Bush a monkey, though

CBS and the other lefty media, and lefties, pitch hissy fits (shocka!) about a few folks. Meanwhile, I look over and see Michelle M. has re-documented the massive hypocrisy and unhingedness of the Left.

Well, it’s a start

John McCain’s campaign alleged today that Barack Obama is tied to a liberal activist group that has come under scrutiny for its voter registration work.

In a conference call with reporters, campaign manager Rick Davis said Obama’s ties to ACORN, known formally as the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, should be investigated. He said that the Obama campaign gave an ACORN affiliate $832,000 to get out the vote during the primaries and that Obama has other ties to the organization.

“Questions remain about what Barack Obama’s relationship is and has been with ACORN,” Davis said. He argued that Obama has been inconsistent in describing his relationship with the group.

Many questions remain, such as why all the Lefties who have been whining about stolen elections and election fraud since Gore lost in 2000 are suddenly A-OK with obvious and blatant fraud by a group which is supposedly non-partisan, but tends to register people as Democrats and, surprise surprise! has endorsed Barack Obama. All of a sudden, those on the Left have forgotten their complaintsand 8 years of pathetic whining and say that it has been Republicans who have been the ones complaining for 8 years. We could probably go through all the idiotic, juvenile, and amnesia based rants of these writers, but, too what point? They have been discussed ad nauseum.

They certainly have no problems with government money being used to support fraud by ACORN, a group which states they take no government money.

Isn’t it funny how all the problems with ACORN seem to be occurring in swing states and states that can be flipped, such as North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Mexico, and Missouri, among others? Why do we not hear about abnormal registrations in solid Blue states such as California, New Jersey, and Massachusetts?

And now the Leftists have changed their call of voter fraud. In 2000, it was MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD because Democrat voters were too dumb to use a ballot in Florida in 28 voting precincts, 27 which were run by Democrats. In 2004 it was MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD when Democrats had to wait in long lines to vote in precincts run by Democrats in Ohio. In 2008, if a group is being found to be involved in all sorts of irregularities, it isn’t voter fraud. I’m not sure what they think it is, but, they sure don’t think it is voter fraud. Not sure they even consider it attempted fraud. Not sure if they really even care as long as their guy is ahead in the polls.

If Obama loses, who wants to bet the Lefties change their tune?

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