AMERICAblog: McCain's Night at Foxwoods Casino: A tale of how the gambling industry came to love McCain and all of his lobbyists.
KarenMrsLloydRichards
· 1 year ago
Obama: cool poker player who uses artful bluff and good luck in equal measure to win the kitty.
McCain: sweaty, cursing Vegas craps shooter, throwing the dice just that one last time in order to get the family car out of hock to drive the family back to Ohio.
unrepentant_expat
· 1 year ago
No real problem there. He still has twelve more cars to choose from.
unrepentant_expat
· 1 year ago
PS... it's your money he's betting
KarenMrsLloydRichards
· 1 year ago
Meanwhile, back at the off-Strip no-tell motel, the wife and kids are waiting for her father to wire getting-home money through Western Union.
tlsintx
· 1 year ago
heckuva candidate you got there, Doctor Dobson...
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
Psst.....Crazy Old Man.
You crapped out with Palin.
An_American_Karol
· 1 year ago
It's like all the premarital sex going on in the Palin household. The religious right will ignore, explain, and excuse it away for the better good of bringing an end to Roe v Wade and introducing Creationism into our public schools. It's a price the fundies are willing to pay.
Ben Dover
· 1 year ago
I keep thinking that if lil Bristol had used a condom instead of Captain Morgan's rum she most likely wouldn't be pregnant. From the pictures that I've seen posted of the Palin household, liquor was an integral part of their daily lives. They just kept the liquor on the kitchen counter to make it easier for lil Bristol and Justin to use for their MySpace posed pictures. So, either the kids were stealing the booze, or Palin was allowing underage drinking to take place. Either way it's still piss poor parenting and highly indicative of the Palin's priorities of office over family. Caribou Barbie is a failure of the lowest quality.
And good morning to you!
KarenMrsLloydRichards
· 1 year ago
It gets dark up there at 3 in the afternoon, gotta fill up those long nights any old how... Come home from school. Make snack. Fuck boyfriend. Help mom make dinner when she gets in.
Fireblazes(CheetohsandCatfood)
· 1 year ago
(there are a couple of Tuckers on the McCain campaign).
No, they are all a bunch of mother tuckers, especially McCain.
sic_transit
· 1 year ago
There are a number of references online concerning the relation between military service/trauma and problematic gambling addiction.
Here's one for example:
"Military: Pathological gambling is significantly more prevalent among military veterans than in the US general population and has been associated with combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder. Studies have shown that 20% of veterans have problematic gambling." http://www.officer.com/web/online/Police-Life/P...
munjoyfan
· 1 year ago
good article. and now if we can just have some pictures, please, of McCain gambling that can be used to give this story some legs. Wouldnt a tv ad with clips be great?
And when will we see a You Tube clip of McCain's performance on This Week this am? I don't understand why his cheek is swollen from surgery--how long ago was it? Is he receiving injections at the site? And does he have some facial nerve damage or palsy?
Let us remember his father died young. McCain may have inherited his mother's constitution. But we just don't have the information we need.
munjoyfan
· 1 year ago
good article. and now if we can just have some pictures, please, of McCain gambling that can be used to give this story some legs. Wouldnt a tv ad with clips be great?
And when will we see a You Tube clip of McCain's performance on This Week this am? I don't understand why his cheek is swollen from surgery--how long ago was it? Is he receiving injections at the site? And does he have some facial nerve damage or palsy?
Let us remember his father died young. McCain may have inherited his mother's constitution. But we just don't have the information we need.
Fireblazes(CheetohsandCatfood)
· 1 year ago
I can hear it now, McCain says come on 7-11 papa needs a new pair of farragamos.
munjoyfan
· 1 year ago
PS when is McCain going to stage a Bristol Palin wedding to distract the campaign once again?
KarenMrsLloydRichards
· 1 year ago
I'm layin' odds on Thursday.
Fireblazes(CheetohsandCatfood)
· 1 year ago
I can't wait to see the SNL Bristol wedding skit.
Fireblazes(CheetohsandCatfood)
· 1 year ago
If they rigged the game for me like they did for McCain I would gamble every night at a Native American casino.
An_American_Karol
· 1 year ago
Along these same lines, 30 ministers across the country will step over the line separating Church and State today by openly endorsing McCain from the pulpit. This is an orchestrated effort to overturn the federal tax law. If the Fed’s do not pull these churches tax free status, we will lose another piece of the Constitution. http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/...
An_American_Karol
· 1 year ago
Next they will be passing the plate to buy political ads - tax free.
grandma
· 1 year ago
Here's a question: did Rick Davis tell John McCain about his arrangement with Freddie Mac before last week? If not, then I would expect Davis to be fired within days: you just don't keep information like that from your boss and expect to keep your job. But if Davis did tell McCain, then when McCain approved his ad slamming Obama for supposedly having an advisor who had been the chairman of Fannie Mae -- though both he and the Obama campaign deny that he advised them, and his connection to Obama would have been tenuous in any case -- McCain knew that his own campaign manager had been retained by Freddie Mac until it was taken over by the government. That would be dishonorable, though not, unfortunately, surprising.
I wonder how many free games he got to play, staked by the house so he could have FUN, and other non-reported-as-gifts stuff? Free show passes for Steve and Edie?
WordSmith
· 1 year ago
Any mention of hanging out with Bill Bennett?
An_American_Karol
· 1 year ago
Long time, kiddo.:)
WordSmith
· 1 year ago
Well, I'm slumming a bit. this is the 2nd weekend I've not had to go much in the dealings with my father's dementia entanglements. I'm supposed to be cleaning (cheesy grin!)
An_American_Karol
· 1 year ago
You're the strongest person I know. Take some time for yourself.
Stupid people, voting against their own interests! President Hussein Obama could secure affordable dental care for them!
Steve_in_CNJ
· 1 year ago
excellent.
WordSmith
· 1 year ago
Mashantucket Pequot
Well now that's interesting. One of the attorneys for the Mashantucket Pequot (a white guy) testified last week at a hearing in front of Dorgan's Indian Affairs committee. I'll dig it up to see if any connection.
With any luck you might get it before the election. I finally just made my own.
grandma
· 1 year ago
I've been waiting for a month for bumper stickers....
Noticed my neighbor has a home-made yard sign.
Kansaskitty
· 1 year ago
My bumper stickers and yard signs came Friday at long last! I ordered them as soon as they were available. Your bumper stickers should be getting to you soon I would think!
grandma
· 1 year ago
Kansaskitty....thanks ...I hope so !
lucky hussein
· 1 year ago
the right will never talk about this. they are hypocrites - have we forgotten? besides, god must want palin to be vp or he woudn't have put here there, so it's god's plan now and don't question it. sick, but true (imo)...
how I wish someone one just nail these freaks in the national media.
ckerst
· 1 year ago
All he has to do is pretend that he now is against gambling. The repugnacans don't care about the truth. If you try to engage them in an intelligent conversation about the issues the minute you disagree with their position they resort to name calling. Any evidence you present is from a biased source. It's not even worth the effort to talk to anyone calling themself a conservative.
ThingsComeUndone
· 1 year ago
Gambling is a great way to launder money and contribute to McCain all you need to do is arrange for McCain to win. Any numbers on McCain's win they should be in his tax records if he won enough I think.
IAmATVJunkie
· 1 year ago
This story is a must read. It really shows you how a call to McCain pal Wes Gullet makes it a lot easier to get what you want out of the Indian Affairs committee.
And, it describes a favor done for Lieberman that looks very, uh ... untoward.
But is there too much nuance to explain in this story for it to make an impact?
gumbygirl
· 1 year ago
I worked at Foxwoods in the early nineties. I always thought it was hilarious how the Mashantucket Pequots got their casino. There are only a few hundred of them, and they were scattered-most of them didn't even know the name of the tribe they belonged to, or any of their history. A bunch of Chinese gangsters got the Mormon's to do the geneological research to find them, so they could apply for tribal status. The Mormon's got totally suckered-they didn't know the ultimate plan was to open a casino, which these Chinese guys have a huge financial stake in. You have to laugh...
All Comments
McCain: sweaty, cursing Vegas craps shooter, throwing the dice just that one last time in order to get the family car out of hock to drive the family back to Ohio.
You crapped out with Palin.
It's a price the fundies are willing to pay.
From the pictures that I've seen posted of the Palin household, liquor was an integral part of their daily lives. They just kept the liquor on the kitchen counter to make it easier for lil Bristol and Justin to use for their MySpace posed pictures. So, either the kids were stealing the booze, or Palin was allowing underage drinking to take place. Either way it's still piss poor parenting and highly indicative of the Palin's priorities of office over family. Caribou Barbie is a failure of the lowest quality.
And good morning to you!
No, they are all a bunch of mother tuckers, especially McCain.
Here's one for example:
"Military: Pathological gambling is significantly more prevalent among military veterans than in the US general population and has been associated with combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder. Studies have shown that 20% of veterans have problematic gambling."
http://www.officer.com/web/online/Police-Life/P...
And when will we see a You Tube clip of McCain's performance on This Week this am? I don't understand why his cheek is swollen from surgery--how long ago was it? Is he receiving injections at the site? And does he have some facial nerve damage or palsy?
Let us remember his father died young. McCain may have inherited his mother's constitution. But we just don't have the information we need.
And when will we see a You Tube clip of McCain's performance on This Week this am? I don't understand why his cheek is swollen from surgery--how long ago was it? Is he receiving injections at the site? And does he have some facial nerve damage or palsy?
Let us remember his father died young. McCain may have inherited his mother's constitution. But we just don't have the information we need.
If the Fed’s do not pull these churches tax free status, we will lose another piece of the Constitution.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/...
Dishonorable? McCain?
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily...
http://glumbert.com/media/drunkpolitics
Well now that's interesting. One of the attorneys for the Mashantucket Pequot (a white guy) testified last week at a hearing in front of Dorgan's Indian Affairs committee. I'll dig it up to see if any connection.
https://donate.barackobama.com/page/contribute/...
just send $15 or more.
Noticed my neighbor has a home-made yard sign.
how I wish someone one just nail these freaks in the national media.
And, it describes a favor done for Lieberman that looks very, uh ... untoward.
But is there too much nuance to explain in this story for it to make an impact?