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Sen. John McCain of Arizona chats Wednesday with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on a helicopter tour over Los Angeles.

Los Angeles Times (Via Hugh Hewitt): McCain slams Bush on global warming, Iraq policy

Republican presidential candidate John McCain was anything but subtle Wednesday as he took swipes at the Bush administration during a meticulously staged appearance with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on the bustling docks of Los Angeles Harbor.

President Bush’s record on global warming? “Terrible,” McCain declared. His pursuit of the Iraq war? “A train wreck.”

If the point of the Arizona senator’s visit was to put distance between himself and his party’s unpopular president, McCain was following a pattern set by Schwarzenegger in his reelection campaign. For McCain, the task is especially important because his vocal support for Bush’s recent troop buildup in Iraq threatens a voter backlash.

In what was billed as a nonpolitical event to call for tougher federal action to stop global warming, McCain joined Schwarzenegger for a hazy morning helicopter tour of the Long Beach and Los Angeles ports. The Republican duo flew over the future site of a hydrogen power plant that would pump carbon dioxide into the ground instead of the air

Sounds like the BLAME GAME to Flap. At least McCain did not go this far.

A couple of Flap observations for Senator McCain:

1. Where have you been since President Bush was elected in 2000?

Answer: The United Senate and until January a part of the Senate Majority.

2. You are not running against ultra-Lib Phil Angelides like Arnold but in a primary GOP campaign against peers who take responsibility for THEIR policy decisions.

Can’t vote for you Senator…….

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Editor and Publisher: Maureen Dowd Column Incites Hillary-Obama War of Words

Previously……..

David Geffen’s Quotes (Via Maureen Dowd):

“Everybody in politics lies, but they [the Clintons] do it with such ease, it’s troubling,”

“God knows, is there anybody more ambitious than Hillary Clinton?” and “Obama is inspirational, and he’s not from the Bush royal family or the Clinton royal family. Americans are dying every day in Iraq. And I’m tired of hearing James Carville on television.”

“I don’t think anybody believes that in the last six years, all of a sudden Bill Clinton has become a different person,” Mr. Geffen says, adding that if Republicans are digging up dirt, they’ll wait until Hillary’s the nominee to use it. “I think they believe she’s the easiest to defeat.”

She is overproduced and overscripted. “It’s not a very big thing to say, ‘I made a mistake’ on the war, and typical of Hillary Clinton that she can’t,” Mr. Geffen says. “She’s so advised by so many smart advisers who are covering every base. I think that America was better served when the candidates were chosen in smoke-filled rooms.”

Once, David Geffen and Bill Clinton were tight as ticks. Mr. Geffen helped raise some $18 million for Bill and slept in the Lincoln Bedroom twice. Bill chilled at Chateau Geffen. Now, the Dreamworks co-chairman calls the former president “a reckless guy” who “gave his enemies a lot of ammunition to hurt him and to distract the country.”

They fell out in 2000, when Mr. Clinton gave a pardon to Marc Rich after rebuffing Mr. Geffen’s request for one for Leonard Peltier. “Marc Rich getting pardoned? An oil-profiteer expatriate who left the country rather than pay taxes or face justice?” Mr. Geffen says. “Yet another time when the Clintons were unwilling to stand for the things that they genuinely believe in. Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it’s troubling.”

And NOW from James Carville – THE SMACKDOWN:

James Carville, on David Geffen: “A Hollywood guy like that, you try to get him to open his wallet and shut his mouth, because, inevitably, he gets around Maureen Dowd, he’s going to make a fool of himself.”

Carville, on Geffen saying he’s tired of hearing him on TV: “I will tell you what, Mr. Geffen. You can have my TV time. I will take your money” (“Situation Room,” CNN, 2/21).

Ouch…..

Flap suspects that it is NOT over.

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Republican presidential hopeful, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, center, autographs books after holding a campaign rally with first responders at the North Spartanburg Fire Department Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2007, in Spartanburg, S.C.

Palm Beach Post: Giuliani bringing campaign to Delray

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani brings his Republican presidential campaign to a diner in Delray Beach on Thursday.

Giuliani will be at the Lox Around the Clock diner at 13800 S. Jog Road at 4:30 p.m. to mingle with customers. The event is open to the public.

Giuliani will also attend a private cocktail party at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Palm Beach home of Bill Diamond and Regine Traulsen. The price is $2,300 per person, the maximum that an individual can contribute to a presidential campaign.

Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani speaks during a campaign rally with first responders at the North Spartanburg Fire Department Wednesday.

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