Who is Eldon Smith?

[TexasTiger 13,556]

The Republican nominee's alias:

The GOP's 2008 nominee is...Eldon Smith?

It turns out that this isn't the first time the issue of John McCain's lavish multiple residences has emerged in the heat of a campaign.

In 1986, when then-Rep. McCain was running for the Senate seat vacated by Barry Goldwater, he quietly began remodeling a $500,000 house in central Phoenix owned by his wealthy father-in-law James Hensley. The $225,000 project -- which included the construction of a 4,000-square-foot addition, swimming pool, jacuzzi, cabana and barbecue -- held political peril for McCain, who was already fighting charges that he was as an opportunistic carpertbagger.

The new house was located in Phoenix's fourth congressional district -- outside of the first district in Tempe which he represented at the time.

AP caught wind of the work at 7110 North Central Ave. shortly before the general election and dispatched a reporter to examine blueprints at the planning department. They found the permit applicants were listed as Hensley and a mysterious "Mr. Smith."

The reporter tracked down McCain's plumber, who told him he'd been told Mr. Smith's first name was "Eldon."

Eldon Smith, it turned out, was John McCain.

When confronted with the blueprints, McCain's spokeswoman didn't deny that the renovation was being done for McCain and his wife Cindy -- and suggested that Smith was Cindy's mother's maiden name. She didn't explain why Marguerite Hensley might have been listed as "Mr. Smith."

Later, McCain released a statement attributing the choice of Smith's name to his architect. Use of the alias didn't violate the law, he claimed, because it appeared only on blueprints and not on official permits.

"Like most architectural firms, Sheiner Day Kunz Associates uses a generic name on blueprints when working for a well-known client," he said, adding that he and Cindy had been "very open" about their plans to move out of his congressional district.

Alas, local planning experts didn't quite agree.

"Gabor Lorant, head of the Phoenix-area chapter of the American Institute of Architects," the AP reported on Oct. 31, 1986, "said that in his 29 years of work here he had never heard of a blueprint practice such [as the one] McCain described as common practice."

http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecrypt/080...ldon_Smith.html

[Magnum Opus 0]

Eldon Smith, it turned out, was John McCain.

WHOA! That's a zinger! I'm changing my vote right now to Barack Hussein Obama, the man of color. The color being RED of course. Not really, I would sooner slit my own throat as vote for that communist influenced socialist bastard (appellations easily verifiable). Of course voting for Obama is metaphorically slitting one's throat any way, I just lack the nihilistic suicidal tendencies of leftists and Dimocrats.

[arnaldoabru 11]

Eldon Smith, it turned out, was John McCain.

WHOA! That's a zinger! I'm changing my vote right now to Barack Hussein Obama, the man of color. The color being RED of course. Not really, I would sooner slit my own throat as vote for that communist influenced socialist bastard (appellations easily verifiable). Of course voting for Obama is metaphorically slitting one's throat any way, I just lack the nihilistic suicidal tendencies of leftists and Dimocrats.

Republican talking points count

"communist" -1

"socialist"-1

not sure about "bastard", but I hear they are handing out afro picks next week in Minnesota.

[autigeremt 6,970]

Love this.....

It's dems as usual. Sit on the hill in there high priced homes and bash the other side for having.............high priced homes.

All this is doing........is proving dems want Americans to be poor and never aspire to be anything but dependent on the government.

[TexasTiger 13,556]

Love this.....

It's dems as usual. Sit on the hill in there high priced homes and bash the other side for having.............high priced homes.

All this is doing........is proving dems want Americans to be poor and never aspire to be anything but dependent on the government.

Funny how you skip right over the lying and deception part-- which was the whole point of the post.

[autigeremt 6,970]

Much like the Obama associations with Aires and others?

Ya'll are digging for straws. Obama was hit hard at Saddleback, and he's headed downward. All he can come up with is McCain and his houses?

HAHAHAHA! CHANGE has begun.