Profile in Courage: McCain urges Sudan divestment - as Cindy dumps Hers
Cindy McCain has pulled $2 Million from two investment funds with business in Sudan after her hubby John urged Americans to flog any investments they have in Sudan. It's all a bit embarrassing for the foreign policy expert, who was put on the defensive by media reports that his billionaire wife had invested millions in funds owning stock in firms doing business with Sudan.
It's not like the Sudanese role in arming and supported militias responsible for killing, raping and torturing hundreds of thousands of civilians in the country's Darfur region is a secret. The US State Department has even branded it as genocide.
"I would hope so," McCain said yesterday, "because I think that government obviously is one that has done virtually nothing to prevent the genocide that is taking place in Darfur."
Cindy took $2 million from funds with shares of Indian and Chinese oil companies doing operating in Sudan but only after a reporter queried the campaign about them on Wednesday.
"We found out about it, they found out about it and fixed the problem," McCain said lamely.
Cindy's fortune remains a closely guarded secret and is estimated to be in the $100 million range. She recently cancelled a planned memoir with Viking due to the "various humanitarian trips she has planned this summer."
None to Darfur we can safely assume.
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Here's an amazing fact that nobody ever talks about in this race.
McCain is a torture survivor. Any competent mental health professional will tell you these things about torture:
torture is horrible
torture is sick
torture is an intl. war crime
(you get the idea)
Now a torture survivor says he supports torture. That's interesting. I wonder if all of the other POW's from Vietnam agree with him? If this is such a brilliant idea, how come there are no pro-torture McCain ads?
The answer is this. It's a rerun of the sick, twisted Bush Jr. being desperate to please Mom and Dad so he's seen as a real man, success, whatever. Imagine someone who's entire life is wrapped around being President. This person will literally sell his own wife and kids for this. And on top of that, you have this percentage of the U.S. population that will blindly do what they're told. Torture is ok. All right. Obama is a lying Muslim that wants to destroy America. Whatever you say. And various other racist rubbish.
And there's another 5 months of this to go. Unless the U.S. attacks Iran. Which would mean riots in the streets, martial law, filling up Halliburton concentration camps. All perfectly legal under current U.S. Executive Orders, the Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Act.
Posted by: Tom | 23 May 2008 at 05:59 AM
Is there an echo here?
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"We found out about it, they found out about it and fixed the problem," McCain said lamely. "Am I meant to keep track of her every last cent, goddammit?" he added, sotto voce.
Hey, a million here, a million there -- pretty soon you're talking about real money. Money those warlike Sudanese wouldn't have any idea what to do with. And don't forget, you hypocrites, McCain's brownest opponent is a friggin' elitist -- he *knows* where he puts his money!
Posted by: Macander | 15 May 2008 at 09:50 PM