Another Bad Week for Senator McGaffe

By Baxter

Gee, John McCain has had a bad week, and it's only Wednesday. Joan Walsh, over at Salon, may feel sorry for him — but we cats sure don't.

The presumptive Republican Presidential nominee has resorted to whining (Phil Gramm, please take note) about the media's coverage of Senator Obama's overseas trip. McCainiacs, we hate to break it to you, but Senator Obama is actually making news over there.

As opposed to you, that is. Submitting a New York Times op-ed piece that only repeats Republican talking points and platitudes isn't exactly news. Holding a badly staged town hall meeting in New Hampshire doesn't really compete with King Abdullah flying all the way back to Jordan from the U.S. for dinner and then, himself, driving Senator Obama to the airport.

But wait, there's more.

On top of everything — the Obama trip, Prime Minister Maliki's endorsement of Senator Obama's Iraq timeline, the three-point basketball shot in Kuwait, McCain's many recent verbal goofs, and Ron Paul's upcoming "counter-convention" in Minneapolis — Senator McCain now also has to contend with a shady donor.

The Washington Post reports today that the McCain campaign has had to give $50,000 in donations from one Mr. Craig Berkman to charity.

Why? Because Mr. Berkman is the subject of a civil fraud lawsuit — brought by fellow investors who are furious he gave top-dollar contributions to McCain for President before he paid them the $28 million he owed them first.

As The Post's story pointed out, "...[T]he jilted investors... said they found it disturbing that political leaders eagerly took donations from a man they knew so little about. '[Berkman] used political donations and the doors those opened to build a web like a spider,' said Jordan Schnitzer, the head of an Oregon investment firm who says Berkman duped him. 'Someone should ask John McCain, "With all these folks in your campaign, you couldn't put his name into Google?"'"

Well, we cats have news for you, Mr. Schnitzer. John McCain doesn't know how to use Google. We can't speak for whether his staff does or not. What we do know is that we don't want a President who doesn't know how to visit us and write a rebuttal to our posts.

Oh, well, as we said — it's been a bad week for Senator McCain. And we'd join Ms. Walsh in feeling sorry for him, if he weren't the sort of person who makes bad jokes that disparage whole groups of people. HISS!