Muttocracy
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Fri Sep-26-08 08:30 PM
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Wait a minute - wasn't McCain in a scandal for Boeing/Airbus defense contracting. nt |
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Fri Sep-26-08 08:33 PM
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1. I don't know what he's talking about with folks going to Prison |
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Boeing was totally shafted in this deal btw and he tried to get the contract to go to Foreign owned company. Boeing fought it and won and I believe the govt is resubmitting the Request for Proposal
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Fri Sep-26-08 08:35 PM
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2. I can't even believe some of the stuff McCain is bringing up (Miss Congeniality, |
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refueling plan, earmarks (Miss Moose's bridge)...
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Fri Sep-26-08 08:39 PM
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3. I know there's a lot of confusion about this whole deal |
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The instance McCain was referring to was a few years ago, with a real shady deal between Boeing & the lease of airplanes from them to the gov't.
It was a real bizzare deal, where the gov't agent inked the deal after receiving a cushy job offer from Boeing.
McCain was part of exposing the whole corrupt deal, which damaged Boeing considerably.
The irony, is that Boeing has a big presence in AZ (Mesa - the Apache helicopter program) & everyone was hating his guts there. But of course they're now all going to vote for him because he's the Republican nominee.
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Fri Sep-26-08 08:58 PM
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4. So McCain was confused again |
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Obama was referring to the recent contract that Boeing lost due to McCains interference.
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Fri Sep-26-08 09:05 PM
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5. Possibly. I didn't hear Obama's part of the exchange |
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