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<title><![CDATA[DC Madam Predicted She Would Be Suicided]]></title>
<link>http://noworldsystem.com/2008/05/03/dc-madam-predicted-she-would-be-suicided/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 05:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[DC Madam Predicted She Would Be Suicided&#8220;Rape, beating, maiming, disfigurement and more than l]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><font size="4">DC Madam Predicted She Would Be Suicided</font><br /><span class="subhead"><font face="arial" size="2">&#8220;Rape, beating, maiming,              disfigurement and more than likely murder disguised in the form of              just another jailhouse accident or suicide would await me,&#8221; Palfrey              wrote &#8211; Time Magazine curiously quick to re-affirm suicide story</span></p>
<p><em>Paul Joseph                Watson</em><br />               <a href="http://prisonplanet.com/articles/may2008/050108_madam_predicted.htm" target="_self">Prison Planet</a><br />May 1, 2008</font></p>
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<p><font face="arial" size="2"><font face="arial" size="2"><font face="arial" size="2"><font face="arial" size="2"><font face="arial" size="2"><font face="arial" size="2"><em><span class="headlinenew"></span><img src="http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/5299/sbe2ln3sk5vy4.jpg" style="width:280px;height:172px;" align="left" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5"></em></font></font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p class="subhead" align="left"><strong><a href="http://prisonplanet.com/audio/010508palfrey.mp3">Click          here</a></strong> to listen to Palfrey clearly state that she would not          commit suicide.       </p>
<p class="subhead" align="left">DC Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey predicted          she would be &#8220;suicided&#8221; on several occasions both recently and          as far back as 17 years ago &#8211; comments that now appear ominous in light          of the announcement that the former head of a Washington escort service          allegedly killed herself today.        </p>
<p class="subhead" align="left">&#8220;If taken into custody, my physical          safety and most probably my very life would be jeopardized,&#8221;<a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/04/01/MNGMROV27G1.DTL&#38;type=printable" target="_blank">          she wrote in August 1991 following an attempt to bring her to tria</a>l,          &#8220;Rape, beating, maiming, disfigurement and more than likely murder          disguised in the form of just another jailhouse accident or suicide would          await me,&#8221; said Palfrey in a handwritten letter to the judge accusing          the San Diego police vice squad of having a vendetta against her.</p>
<p class="subhead" align="left">During several recent appearances on The          Alex Jones Show, Palfrey also said that she was at risk of being killed          and that authorities would make it look like suicide. She made it clear          that she was not suicidal and if she was found dead it would be murder.        </p>
<p class="subhead" align="left">Palfrey had threatened to release the names          of well-known clients of her upscale call girl ring in the nation’s capitol,          and had indicated that Dick Cheney may be one of them.        </p>
<p class="subhead" align="left">&#8220;We now know it goes at least as high          as a United States Senator,&#8221; Palfrey told The Alex Jones Show, &#8220;I’m          hearing rumors now from other people that there are other possibilities          in that stratosphere so to speak, on that level.&#8221;       </p>
<p class="subhead" align="left">&#8220;No I’m not planning to commit suicide,&#8221;          Palfrey told The Alex Jones Show on her last appearance in March, &#8220;I’m          planning on going into court and defending myself vigorously and exposing          the government,&#8221; she said.        </p>
<p class="subhead" align="left">&#8220;Blanche Palfrey had no sign that her          daughter was suicidal, and there was no immediate indication that alcohol          or drugs were involved, police Capt. Jeffrey Young said,&#8221; <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080501/ap_on_re_us/escort_list" target="_blank">according          to an AP report</a>.       </p>
<p class="subhead" align="left"><strong><a href="http://prisonplanet.com/audio/010508palfrey.mp3">Click          here</a></strong> to listen to Palfrey clearly state that she would not          commit suicide.       </p>
<p class="subhead" align="left"><strong><a href="http://www.infowars.com/media/230707palfrey.mp3" target="_blank">Click          here</a></strong> to listen to the entirety of a July 2007 interview with          Palfrey.        </p>
<p class="subhead" align="left">UPDATE: In an almost uncanny development,          as soon as this article started to go viral on the Internet, <a href="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1736687,00.html" target="_blank">Time          Magazine released a story</a> claiming that Palfrey told author Dan Moldea          that she would rather commit suicide than go to jail. What a funny coincidence!</font></p>
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<div style="text-align:left;"><span class="headlinenew"><font size="4">Eerie Flashback: DC Madam said ’I’d never want          my life to end in suicide’</font><br /></span><font face="arial" size="2">Palfrey rejected suicide in May 2007 interview
<p><span class="mediumtext1"> <a href="http://www.examiner.com/blogs-73-yeas_and_nays%7Ey2008m5d1-Eerie-Flashback-DC-Madam-said-Id-never-want-my-life-to-end-in-suicide">Examiner.com</a><br />May 2, 2008</span></p>
<p class="subhead">When Deborah Jeane Palfrey (aka the &#8220;DC Madam,&#8221;              who was found hanged in Tarpon Springs, Florida on Thursday) sat down              in May 2007 for an interview with Carol <span class="subhead">Joynt,              host of the Q&#38;A Cafe interview series, most everything was up              in the air: Palfrey faced a criminal indictment on prostitution charges              and was fighting courts over how to handle thirteen years of phone              records which contained the phone numbers of many clients of her escort              service.</span></p>
<p class="subhead">But, for Palfrey, one thing was crystal clear during              that interview: She would never end her life by hanging herself.</p>
<p class="subhead">Joynt brought up the subject of Brandy Britton, a              Baltimore prostitute whom had occasionally worked for Palfrey and              whom had hanged herself in January 2007, only days away from facing              prostitution charges.</p>
<p><span class="headlinenew">P</span>alfrey told Joynt in no uncertain terms: &#8220;I              don’t want to be like her. I don’t want to end up like her.&#8221;
<p class="subhead">In the months following the interview with Joynt,              Palfrey’s fortunes took a turn for the worse. In April, a federal              jury convicted Palfrey of running a prostitution ring and she awaited              her sentencing on July 24, where she faced up to six years in prison.</p>
<p class="subhead">In the end, Palfrey’s proud and defiant statements              about Britton’s tragic end couldn’t stop her own sad conclusion, and              it all too closely tracked the final days of her former employee:              A woman caught up in an illegal world of sex and money, and for whom              the pressure ultimately became too much to bear.</font></p>
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<div style="text-align:left;"><img src="http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/2974/240707palfreypi7.jpg"><br /><font size="4">Palfrey Considered Call Girl’s &#8220;Suicide&#8221; Possible Murder</font><br /><span class="subhead"><font face="arial" size="2">DC Madam employee also found              hanged despite family’s insistence she was upbeat, positive</span>                                             </p>
<p><em>Paul Joseph                Watson</em><br />               <a href="http://prisonplanet.com/articles/may2008/050108_possible_murder.htm" target="_self">Prison Planet</a><br />May 1, 2008
<p class="subhead" align="left">DC Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey,          who was found hanged today in what authorities claim was a &#8220;suicide,&#8221;          not only asserted that she would never commit suicide, but also thought          the alleged suicide of one of her former call girls was possibly murder.        </p>
<p class="subhead" align="left">Brandy Britton was an employee of Palfrey          before the D.C. Madam’s prostitution ring was busted. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/29/AR2007012900654.html" target="_blank">She          was found hanged after allegedly committing suicide </a>in January 2007          days before she was set to go to trial.        </p>
<p class="subhead" align="left">Asked if the suicide was in fact murder,          Palfrey told the Alex Jones Show in July last year, &#8220;Well we don’t          know about that, there’s two schools of thought &#8211; one says yes one says          no,&#8221;        </p>
<p class="subhead" align="left">Asked what the circumstances were that made          people question the alleged &#8220;suicide&#8221; of her former call girl,          Palfrey responded, &#8220;People say that she was a very upbeat person,          a very positive person that she was going into court, she was ready to          fight them, that she absolutely was not going to give in and all of a          sudden a few days before she was to go to trial she committed suicide          and her family members and friends say this was extremely abnormal.&#8221;</p>
<p class="subhead" align="left">&#8220;She was not in a frame of mind to          commit suicide, you know perhaps she knew something, there’s been a lot          of speculation about that,&#8221; said Palfrey, &#8220;She had very little          to lose, she wasn’t going to go to jail, she’d been charged on a prostitution          case,&#8221; added Palfrey, noting that individuals involved in the call          girl scandal possibly thought Britton was about to name names.</p>
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<p class="subhead" align="left">According to a <a href="http://www.postchronicle.com/news/original/article_212145197.shtml" target="_blank">Post          Chronicle report</a>, Palfrey and Britton’s alleged &#8220;suicides&#8221;          bear similar hallmarks.        </p>
<p class="subhead" align="left">During several recent appearances on The          Alex Jones Show, Palfrey conceded that she was at risk of being killed          and that authorities would make it look like suicide. She made it clear          that she was not suicidal and if she was found dead it would be murder.        </p>
<p class="subhead" align="left">&#8220;No I’m not planning to commit suicide,&#8221;          Palfrey told The Alex Jones Show on her last appearance in March, &#8220;I’m          planning on going into court and defending myself vigorously and exposing          the government,&#8221; she said.        </p>
<p class="subhead" align="left">&#8220;Blanche Palfrey had no sign that her          daughter was suicidal, and there was no immediate indication that alcohol          or drugs were involved, police Capt. Jeffrey Young said,&#8221; <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080501/ap_on_re_us/escort_list" target="_blank">according          to an AP report</a>.        </p>
<p class="subhead" align="left"><strong><a href="http://prisonplanet.com/audio/010508palfrey.mp3">Click          here</a></strong> to listen to Palfrey clearly state that she would not          commit suicide on two separate occasions, as well as discuss the case          of Brandy Britton.</font>        </p>
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<div style="text-align:center;"><font size="4"><span style="color:#ff0000;">Corporate Media Ignores Palfrey’s Statement She Would Not Commit Suicide</span></font><br /></font><a href="http://prisonplanet.com/articles/may2008/050208_tape_ignored.htm" target="_self">http://prisonplanet.com/articles/may2008/050208_tape_ignored.htm</a></p>
<p><div style="text-align:center;"><font size="4"><span style="color:#ff0000;">D.C. Madame: &#8220;Big Names&#8221; May Be On Client List</span></font><br /></font><a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2007/240707bignames.htm" target="_self">http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2007/240707bignames.htm</a></p>
<p><div style="text-align:center;"><font size="4"><span style="color:#ff0000;">DC Madam &#8220;commits suicide&#8221; in Tarpon Springs</span></font><br /><a href="http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=6439948&#38;version=5&#38;locale=EN-US&#38;layoutCode=TSTY&#38;pageId=1.1.1" target="_self">http://www.myfoxtampaba..ode=TSTY&#38;pageId=1.1.1</a></p>
<p><div style="text-align:center;"><font size="4"><span style="color:#ff0000;">DC Madam Supposedly Commits Suicide</span></font><br /><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D90D13600&#38;show_article=1" target="_self">http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D90D13600&#38;show_article=1</a></p>
<p><div style="text-align:center;"><font size="4"><span style="color:#ff0000;">Death of ’D.C. Madam’ Becomes Rich Ground for Conspiracy Theory</span></font><br /><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,353876,00.html" target="_self">http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,353876,00.html</a></p>
<p><div style="text-align:center;"><font size="4"><span style="color:#ff0000;">Forget Spitzer, What About Cheney’s D.C. Mistress?</span></font><br /><a href="http://noworldsystem.com/2008/03/12/forget-spitzer-what-about-cheneys-dc-mistress/" target="_self">http://noworldsystem.com/2008/03..t-about-cheneys-dc-mistress/</a></p>
<p><div style="text-align:center;"><font size="4"><span style="color:#ff0000;">McCain Sex Scandal Blonde Missing</span></font><br /><a href="http://noworldsystem.com/2008/03/06/mccain-sex-scandal-blonde-missing-day-12/" target="_self">http://noworldsystem.com/2008/..candal-blonde-missing-day-12/</a></p>
<p><div style="text-align:center;"><font size="4"><span style="color:#ff0000;">Dominatrice Who Claimed to Have S&#38;M Sex with Bush Is Said to Be Missing</span></font><br /><a href="http://noworldsystem.com/2007/11/18/dominatrice-who-claimed-to-have-sm-sex-with-bush-is-said-to-be-missing/" target="_self">http://noworldsystem.com/2007/11/18/do..with-bush-is-said-to-be-missing/</a></p>
<p><div style="text-align:center;"><font size="4"><span style="color:#ff0000;">NY Times: McCain had possible sexual relations with Female Lobbyist</span></font><br /><a href="http://noworldsystem.com/2008/02/22/ny-times-mccain-had-possible-relations-to-female-lobbyist/" target="_self">http://noworldsystem.com/2008/..lations-to-female-lobbyist/</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[McCain the McLiar]]></title>
<link>http://nomoreofthemcsame.wordpress.com/2008/03/08/mccain-the-mcliar/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[According to John McCain, he acted completely appropriately in a dispute involving the FCC because a]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">According to John McCain, he acted completely appropriately in a dispute involving the FCC because as he noted there was no &#8220;formal opposition&#8221; to the matter.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Funny how the formal opposition begs to differ. <a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080317/starr">Here is an article</a> contesting McCain&#8217;s version of events.  </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Among other points made:</span></span></p>
<blockquote><p>  As reported originally in the <i>New York Times</i>, McCain wrote two letters late in 1999 to each of the five FCC commissioners demanding that they advise him by December 15 whether they had voted for or against Paxson&#8217;s petition. McCain continues to insist that his letter&#8217;s disclaimer that he was not calling for a particular outcome exonerates him of charges of interference. However, Steve Labaton of the <i>New York Times</i> plowed through 2,000 pages of McCain office correspondence and found that almost all of his letters included this &#8220;boilerplate&#8221; disclaimer. Moreover, in &#8220;the vast majority of these regulatory cases where McCain himself sent the letter, the interested parties had contributed to his presidential campaigns.&#8221;</p>
<p>As our attorney, Georgetown&#8217;s Angela Campbell, advised ABC News: &#8220;The timing of the letters was clearly in Paxson&#8217;s interest.&#8221; Paxson&#8217;s contract with all parties was due to expire December 31 and there were clear indications that Cornerstone would withdraw from the deal. The Commission still was undecided and had the option to refer the case for public hearing so that community sentiment could be measured. Short of outright denial, this was our wish. Miles acknowledged to the press at the time that had this happened, the deal would have been &#8220;dead in the water.&#8221;</p>
<p>Back then, after extensive interviews with DC lobbyists and FCC staff, the <i>Boston Globe</i>, <i>New York Times</i>, <i>Washington Post</i> and others concluded that McCain&#8217;s letters were &#8220;highly unusual,&#8221; &#8220;crossed a line&#8221; and &#8220;were widely interpreted to favor the complicated transfers.&#8221;</p>
<p>At the time, McCain&#8217;s staff said to the press that his intervention was appropriate because &#8220;there was no formal opposition.&#8221; Our opposition had been formal for years. Our board of directors included such community leaders as the president of the Pittsburgh City Council, a monsignor in the Pittsburgh Catholic Archdiocese and a state legislator (who sat on WQED&#8217;s board but could not abide the sellout). Our supporters included scores of unions with up to 150,000 members, more than forty public interest groups, hundreds of educators, clergy and other professionals and, thanks to Working Assets, up to 40,000 letters urging the FCC to deny the transfer of Pittsburgh&#8217;s public station to Cornerstone.</p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">If you read the entire article, it is pretty clear that McCain&#8217;s version is little more than a McFantasy. Kind of like the idea that he would be a good president.</span></span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[McCain Scandal Reignites The Issue Of Political Favors]]></title>
<link>http://newscoma.com/2008/02/21/mccain-scandal-reignites-the-issue-of-political-favors/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>newscoma</dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>So the John McCain story hit last night and as the blogosphere hashes it out as well as mainstream news, I&#8217;ve had all night to think about it.</p>
<p>This isn&#8217;t a titillatingly story about infidelity or anything of that nature I don&#8217;t think. I could be wrong but I just don&#8217;t think it is.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s actually more complex than that. This is more about a relationship between a senator and a lobbyist and if that friendship helped her firm out in passing, and stifling, legislation. The realist in me says this is what lobbyists do. The political junkie in me says &#8220;What&#8217;s New? This crap happens all the time.&#8221;</p>
<p>And then I&#8217;m like, damn, I&#8217;m so tired of all of this because we are being governed by people whose agenda are swayed by the few.<br />
But there are a few issues. First of all, the NYT&#8217;s story has little meat to it and not much gravy. There are too many unanswered questions in the bulk of the story. The timing of the release is also suspect and as <a href="http://newscoma.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/john-mccain-whoa/#comments">Ginger</a> stated in the comments of my last post, this could be the reason that Huckabee has stuck around. But in this generation&#8217;s news cycle that is so different than, let&#8217;s say Watergate or even the Iran-Contra scandal, this could be old hat by Saturday morning. Just opining here.</p>
<p><a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/179402.php">Josh Marshall</a>, who just received the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polk_Award">George Polk Award </a>for his series on the US Attorney Firings (yep, a blog won. Welcome to the new world) writes this:</p>
<blockquote><p><b>This is an odd story for a couple reasons. We know that the McCain Camp went to the mattresses to get this story spiked back in December. And some heavy legal muscle was apparently brought to bear. When a story has to go through that much lawyering it often comes out pretty stilted and with some obvious lacunae. And this one definitely qualifies. Reading the <i>Times</i> piece it struck me as a bit of a jumble. The reference to a possible affair is there in the lede. But then most of the piece is a rehash of a lot of older material about McCain&#8217;s record before getting back to the relationship with Iseman. </b></p></blockquote>
<p>You see, the story has to do with the persona of McCain and not so much with the issue of impropriety of an intimate nature. And McCain tried to bury it. He&#8217;s been in a scandal before, you know. Let&#8217;s take a <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23263742/">walk through history</a>, shall we?</p>
<blockquote><p><b>Mr. McCain, 71, and the lobbyist, Vicki Iseman, 40, both say they never had a romantic relationship. But to his advisers, even the appearance of a close bond with a lobbyist whose clients often had business before the Senate committee Mr. McCain led threatened the story of redemption and rectitude that defined his political identity. </b></p>
<p><b><span></span>It had been just a decade since an official favor for a friend with regulatory problems had nearly ended Mr. McCain’s political career by ensnaring him in the Keating Five scandal. In the years that followed, he reinvented himself as the scourge of special interests, a crusader for stricter ethics and campaign finance rules, a man of honor chastened by a brush with shame.</b></p></blockquote>
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<p> Here&#8217;s a breakdown for you younguns who might not remember the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Five">Keating Five.</a></p>
<p>So the question is more about political favors than it is anything else. And it doesn&#8217;t surprise me that McCain tried to squash it. Any politician would do that no matter what party they are affiliated with.</p>
<p>So the other question is why did the New York Times play along for awhile and is there anything<a href="http://newscoma.wordpress.com/files/2008/02/iseman.jpg" title="iseman.jpg"><img src="http://newscoma.wordpress.com/files/2008/02/iseman.thumbnail.jpg" alt="iseman.jpg" align="right" /></a> significant about the release of these allegations. <a href="http://rawstory.com/news/2008/NY_Times_Did_McCain_have_intimate_0220.html">And did the LA Times squash it completely.  </a></p>
<p>This honestly isn&#8217;t going to help McCain but the reality is that the backlash may hurt the newspapers for a variety of reasons.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.attytood.com/2008/02/mccains_lobbyist_friend_a_view.html">And Iseman is well-connected.</a></p>
<p>You know, it never ceases to amaze me that everyone loves a good sex scandal but I don&#8217;t think you&#8217;re going to find that here.</p>
<p>The real story is about political favors.</p>
<p align="right">Photo <a href="http://www.attytood.com/2008/02/mccains_lobbyist_friend_a_view.html">credit</a></p>
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<description><![CDATA[What are the Republicans going to do now?  They have selected their candidate &#8211; John McCain.  ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>What are the Republicans going to do now?  They have selected their candidate &#8211; John McCain.  Their candidate is now about to become engrossed in a sex scandal where he cheated on his wife with a Washington lobbyist &#8211; Vicki Iseman!  <a target="_blank" href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article3407188.ece">Times Online</a> has the story.  [Of course you can always read <a target="_blank" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/21/us/politics/21mccain.html?pagewanted=1&#38;ei=5087&#38;em&#38;en=7a40f291eb0a6a22&#38;ex=1203829200">The NY Times</a> story too.]  Here&#8217;s the first paragraph:</p>
<blockquote><p>John McCain forced to deny romantic link with lobbyist<br />
February 21, 2008<br />
Tim Reid in Houston Tim Reid in Austin, Texas<br />
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John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, was last night romantically linked to a 40-year-old female political lobbyist and accused of granting her clients political favours.</p></blockquote>
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<div style="text-align:center;"><img src="http://beertap.wordpress.com/files/2008/02/vicki-iseman-1.jpg" alt="vicki iseman" /><img src="http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/12341/thumbs/s-ISEMAN-large.jpg" /></div>
<p align="center">Vicki Iseman</p>
<p>Vicki Iseman&#8217;s Bio: <a target="new" href="http://www.alcalde-fay.com/meet_the_firm/BiosDetail.cfm?id=44">http://www.alcalde-fay.com/meet_the_firm/BiosDetail.cfm?id=44</a></p>
<p>The Huffington Post has a copy: <a target="new" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/20/vicki-isemans-bio-pulled_n_87698.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/20/vicki-isemans-bio-pulled_n_87698.html</a></p>
<p><strong>Poll: Does McCain still love Iseman?</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a target="_newWin" href="http://www.gfxpoll.com/pollvote/1813.html">No, he loves his wife.</a></li>
<li><a target="_newWin" href="http://www.gfxpoll.com/pollvote/1814.html">Maybe, he can love two people.</a></li>
<li><a target="_newWin" href="http://www.gfxpoll.com/pollvote/1815.html">Yes, he&#8217;ll love her always.</a></li>
<li><a target="_newWin" href="http://www.gfxpoll.com/pollvote/1816.html">Hell yeah! They&#8217;re still together!</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Status:</p>
<p><img src="http://www.gfxpoll.com/pollgfx/423.png" /></p>
<p><strong>UPDATE</strong>: Billyblog writes a great comment that has to be shared:</p>
<p>Matt asks: “How did we get to the point where sexual misadventures are practically the only thing that can sink a politician’s career?”</p>
<p>Well, could it be because “principled” politicians such as John McCain joined the dog pack to impeach Bill Clinton for his sexual peccadilloes?  And you can look it up <a target="new" href="http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/02/12/senate.vote/">here</a>.  Oh yeah, right, it was for perjury and had nothing to do with sex.</p>
<p>billyblog &#8211; February 21, 2008 at 8:32 am</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-</p>
<p>Thanks Billyblog.  John McCain, one of the infamous KEATING 5 &#8211; what a horrible scandal &#8211; voting for impeachment of a president over sex.  A man who seems to have cheated on every wife he&#8217;s had and is giving out government favors to his lobbyist mistress.  If the GOP doesn&#8217;t change nominees at the convention they&#8217;re going to lose in November&#8230;which is ok with me.</p>
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