The United States has reached another sad milestone in George Bush’s folly in the middle east: 4 thousand dead service men and women. (Click the image above to see their faces.) Four thousand. That’s equivalent to the population of an entire high school in any large metropolitan city in America. Think about it. How outraged would we be if something wiped out every student in an entire high school? And yet, this horrific number of dead Americans—most of whom were barely out of high school—was scarcely mentioned in the mainstream, so-called “liberal” media. Why do you suppose that is?
And Jesus families across America wept, while the wanking chimp furiously brought himself to orgasm.
Four-point-four million. That’s the amount, in dollars, that John “Hundred Years in Iraq” McCain has exceeded the spending limit imposed by the FEC in regards to accepting funds from the public campaign finance system.
The Boston Globe lays it out:
John McCain has officially broken the limits imposed by the presidential public financing system, according to spending reports filed last week by the campaign.The senator from Arizona has spent $58.4 million on his Republican primary effort. Those who have committed to public financing can spend no more than $54 million on their primary bid.
McCain’s lawyers contend that the spending cap no longer applies. The senator was certified to enter the matching-funds program last year when he was starved for cash. But once he started to win, he decided to hold off. On Feb. 6, after his Super Tuesday victories, he wrote to the Federal Election Commission to announce he would withdraw. His lawyers said that gave him freedom to spend as much as he wanted.
But David Mason, chairman of the commission, wrote to McCain’s campaign last month to alert him that the commission had not yet granted that withdrawal request, and that the commission would first have to vote on the matter. One snag is that the commission has four vacancies and therefore lacks a quorum to consider the matter.
Except that John McCain doesn’t get to decide if he’s out of the FEC system. The FEC decides. And, it will evaluate McCain’s scam. Don’t forget, as the Washington Post reported, it’s a crime:
Knowingly violating the spending limit is a criminal offense that could put McCain at risk of stiff fines and up to five years in prison.
Unfortunately, you and I both know that will never happen. If it’s not completely forgotten within a week’s time, there may be a some kind of sham investigation replete with wringing of hands and sternly worded pronouncements, but there will be no conviction, no fines, and most certainly no prison sentence. That sort of thing after all, is only reserved for Democrats.
Nothing will happen to McCain, and this, like every single other one of the many scandals he’s been involved in, will be buried. The rich and powerful in America and the corporate-owned media will make that happen.
Just look at the lobbyist-affair scandal. That dropped out of the news in less than a week’s time. If it had been Clinton or Obama or any other Democrat it would have ended their careers.
Need I even bring up the fact that no one seems to remember that McCain was one of the Keating 5?
Considering the incredible photo melange: It’s not just the horror of 4000, but the fact that it’s only the minimum number of dead. A soldier must die right then and there on IRAQI SOIL to be counted. We will never know all who were lost since the asses of evil have thoroughly hidden the information.
travis: That’s a very important point. Also, mercenary deaths are not counted. Neither are soldier suicides nor vet suicides.