We must make "Marie the Flame of Florida" a household name ...

[Alhena]

or at least as well known as Bill Ayers:

He first met Carol in the Fifties while he was at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis. He was a privileged, but rebellious scion of one of America’s most distinguished military dynasties – his father and grandfather were both admirals.

But setting out to have a good time, the young McCain hung out with a group of young officers who called themselves the ‘Bad Bunch’.

His primary interest was women and his conquests ranged from a knife-wielding floozy nicknamed ‘Marie, the Flame of Florida’ to a tobacco heiress.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1024927/The-wife-John-McCain-callously-left-behind.html

Seriously, between his womanizing and wife-abandonment in his personal life and his Keating Five activities in his public life, we've got some very good retaliatory e-mails we can make when the Republicans start up with their Wright and Ayers e-mails. We can send e-mails too, and we should.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. I'm ready to write an email about McCain's morals

to post if any emails come my way blasting the morals of Obama or other Dems.

I'm ready to write an email about how McCain doesn't support the troops at all in case anyone is foolish enough to send me an email that says otherwise.

But I won't start emails like this. I will start emails detailing the Dem's plans for the future, and what Obama will do when president. I feel sending out a positive initial message is the best thing to do.

[Berry Cool]

2. There are many problems with this.

First, it focuses on the long-ago past.

Second, it makes McCain sound like a rebellious James Dean-type figure. A rebel without a cause, the kind of "bad boy" every woman secretly supposedly wants and every man secretly supposedly wants to be. That only serves to burnish his image further. Combine an attractive, rebellious skirt-chasing youth with his later reputation as a POW and a war hero, and you essentially create an American icon. What a story! James Dean in his youth, John Wayne in his maturity!

Third, if you honestly think the voting public is turned off by candidates who spent the early part of their lives being lazy, ungrateful rich kids living a life of hedonism with no thought to the future, explain to me how we got our current occupant for eight years. Besides the stolen votes, of course.

[blogslut]

3. I got a better name

The Committee for the Liberation of Iraq

The Committee for the Liberation of Iraq (CLI) was described as a "non-governmental organization" which described itself as a "distinguished group of Americans" who wanted to free Iraq from Saddam Hussein. In a news release announcing its formation, the group said its goal was to "promote regional peace, political freedom and international security through replacement of the Saddam Hussein regime with a democratic government that respects the rights of the Iraqi people and ceases to threaten the community of nations." It had close links to the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) and the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), important shapers of the Bush administration's foreign policy.

The Washington Post reported in November 2002 that "the organization is modeled on a successful lobbying campaign to expand the NATO alliance. Members include former secretary of state George P. Shultz, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and former senator Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.). ... While the Iraq committee is an independent entity, committee officers said they expect to work closely with the administration. They already have met with Hadley and Bush political adviser Karl Rove. Committee officers and a White House spokesman said Rice, Hadley and Cheney will soon meet with the group." <1>

With the successful removal of Saddam Hussein, the committee appears to have disbanded, and its once-prominent website no longer exists. However, its offices still remain on Pennsylvania Avenue and 10th Street.

The film Syriana portrays a similar group, using the same initials, but bearing the name 'Committee for the Liberation of Iran'.

link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_for_the_Liberation_of_Iraq

John McCain was always for the Iraq War. He is as responsible for this horrid mess as Bush.