Why long-term Senators shouldn’t run for President

Posted on October 23rd, 2008 by ecthompson md

When you are a Senator you say a lot of stuff. You say a ton of stuff on the floor of the Senate. It is all recorded somewhere and can be retrieved. (Remember that Sarah Palin has just spent $150,000 for clothes)

Senator McCain (1993):

I want to emphasize I will be citing some examples of how campaign funds have been used which are extremely egregious, but I want to point out they are not illegal, and the purpose of this amendment is to restrict the use of those campaign funds because, if we are truly going to have campaign finance reform, I do not believe that campaign funds should be used for such things as country club dues, tuxedos, vacations, and other purposes for which they are now almost routinely used by certain Members of both bodies.

Oops. Keith Olbermann has more (see video below). (BTW, congratulations to Keith Olbermann for beating O’Reilly in the ratings, again.)

Tags: Countdown, Election 2008 // 3 Comments »

  • http://oxypolitis.wordpress.com oxypolitis

    I really enjoy reading your blog. It’s refreshing to read and doesn’t lean to far in either direction politically (as mine deliberately does). I do disagree with the premise of your blog however, “outrage over Bush”. Surely you have more to express that focusing on that narrow topic, and besides he’ll soon be gone.

    Rarely will you ever know the full impact of a presidency from reading and watching the current news. Years from now, when internal presidential documentation is declassified I believe that we will all have a different picture of who George W Bush was and why he did what he did.

    Once in a while some news escapes that reveals the persons character. I don’t know if you caught this article when it came out, take a read, I think you’ll be surprised.

    http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1717934,00.html

  • http://www.whereistheoutrage.net ecthompson

    :-)

    thanks for your kind comments. My blog was started as a forum to discuss Bush. You are right, I need to change the subtitle.

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