The real story of the McCain scandal is the possibility that McCain traded favors for ... favors. It explains how Vicki Iseman, an lowly Education major from Indiana University (the one in Pennsylvania)got a job as a secretary in Washington DC and then in a few years rose to partner in a lobbying firm. She is the youngest partner at the lobbying firm of Alcalde. Her clients included PAXtv, Religious Voices in Broadcasting, Telemundo, the Hispanic Broadcasting Corporation, and Computer Sciences Corporation. She was obviously plugged in (or vice versa) to the power of Capitol Hill.
As far as his love life is concerned, I don't really care if McCain wants to divorce his current wife and marry a younger woman (again)... But if he keeps this up, we will soon see (in another 7 years) the strange picture of an eighty-year-old man marrying a 28-year-old girl.
As the news coverage unfolds about McCain and the story in the New York Times, it is becoming obvious that someone friendly to McCain's campaign (and probably the guy who is making the rounds of the cable news programs) is the key to this story. The NYT has obviously been working on this story since October, and the McCain campaign decided to lance this boil at this time, after McCain has essentially cinched the nomination and before the Republican Convention and the general election.
It was probably fairly easy to interest the New Republic in covering the story, and it served the purpose of forcing the NYT to publish the story as soon as possible.
Friday, February 22, 2008
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