Wait a minute - wasn't McCain in a scandal for Boeing/Airbus defense contracting. nt

[Muttocracy]

[The empressof all]

1. I don't know what he's talking about with folks going to Prison

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

[Muttocracy]

2. I can't even believe some of the stuff McCain is bringing up (Miss Congeniality,

refueling plan, earmarks (Miss Moose's bridge)...

[Coventina]

3. I know there's a lot of confusion about this whole deal

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.

[The empressof all]

4. So McCain was confused again

Obama was referring to the recent contract that Boeing lost due to McCains interference.

[Coventina]

5. Possibly. I didn't hear Obama's part of the exchange

only McLame's