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Saturday, November 18, 2006
Robert Novak :: Townhall.com Columnist
Steele speaking out
by Robert Novak
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MCCAIN'S PARTY

Immediately after the midterm elections, major contributors to George W. Bush's campaigns received invitations from prospective presidential candidate John McCain for an expensive Christmas party at the Corcoran Gallery in downtown Washington.

The invitation from Sen. and Mrs. McCain is for "a holiday reception" from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m., with "cocktail attire" specified. A free party at the Corcoran, providing valet parking, requires big bucks.

At about the same time that night a few blocks away, House members will be attending their annual White House Christmas party. Thus, Bush and McCain will be on receiving lines at the same time, one beginning a walk out of power and the other trying to start his way in.

DELAY'S SUCCESSOR

The last remnants of the resigned Tom DeLay's once powerful congressional staff on Tuesday walked out of the office of his temporary successor, Rep. Shelley Sekula-Gibbs, because of exasperation with her. Sekula-Gibbs, a Houston City Council member and physician, was elected to serve in the lame-duck session but was defeated in a write-in for a full term.

The last straw for the DeLay alumni was when they were instructed by Sekula-Gibbs to make sure President Bush and Vice President Cheney were seated in the gallery for her swearing-in. The word on Capitol Hill is that she must have been really obnoxious for staffers to give up two months of easy pay.

Sekula-Gibbs's conduct raises doubts whether she will be the Republican nominee whose name will appear on the 2008 ballot in the strongly GOP Texas district.

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Reply # 1
Date: Nov 21, 2006 - 3:37 PM EST
steele speaking out
I would definitely vote for Steele/Powell/Rice to run the executive
branch of our country. We need true-to-
heart black leadership instead of black democrats who are paid
by white democrats to incite racism,invoke false hysteria,and run to rob their own people blind. Republicans have always supported civil rights, equality and justice while Dems take the credit.
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Reply # 2
Date: Nov 19, 2006 - 6:26 PM EST
buck
What actions of McCain needed to be 'defended'?

I defend his actions as a prisoner of war, and I emphasize "only" as a prisoner of war. As a politican, I am no fan of John McCain.

Among other things, he has been called a traitor and a hero to the North Vietnamese with a statue in his honor.

These is a plaque regarding John McCain, but it praises the NVN who shot him down -- not John McCain -- and can't even get his service branch correct. He was Navy, the plaque said Air Force.

Did he talk? Yes, as well as all other POWs, yet he and virtually every other POW resisted to the best of their ability, according to the Code of Conduct. There were a few who towards the end of the war did cooperate with the NVN, but John McCain is not one of those.

One method of torture seems to me to be impossible to resist. The NVN would lay the POW on his stomach and tie his feet together, then tie his arms together at the wrists behind his back. Then they would take a long piece of rope and wrap it around his arms pulling his elbows closer together and continue this until the elbows were tied together. (Try touching your elbows behind your back) Then the remainder of the rope would be thrown over a beam and the body lifted up and tied to the man's legs. They would let him hang until he agreed to talk -- or whatever the NVN wanted him to do.

To put it simply, John McCain and the vast majority of American prisoners of war in NVN did nothing to be ashamed of.

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