Gerald Posner: Perot told him that Cindy once had to bail McCain out of a big gambling debt.

[gauguin57]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gerald-posner/the-questions-for-perot-a_b_130277.html

The Questions for Perot about McCain and Gambling

Yesterday's New York Times front-page investigative story about John McCain's long time ties to the nation's gambling industry ("For McCain and Team, a Host of Ties to Gambling"), jogged my memory about an unsettling bit of information I was given by Ross Perot in 1995. …

… I am only reporting now Perot's rumor/information about McCain because of today's New York Times story. Perot told me that McCain had a gambling problem and he had uncovered details that McCain was bailed out in the late 1980s from a big gambling debt by his wife, Cindy.

If true, it raises a question as to whether McCain's gambling might ever have put him in a situation where he was pressed to repay his debt through Senatorial favors.

An enterprising reporter has to ask Ross Perot if he will acknowledge what he shared with me 14 years ago, and if so, if he will now provide the evidence to back up the assertion. Perot hasn't talked to me since I published my unauthorized biography, so unfortunately, I am not the person to ask. And some reporter should ask McCain, directly, if he has ever had a gambling debt that his wife had to pay off. American voters have a right to know. ...

[Lint Head]

1. Hey! She can bail out Wall Street! What a plan man!

Quick! Call the McCain/Palin folks. it's a sure winner. :dem:

[gauguin57]

2. Hadn't thought of that. Cindy, you can be the hero here!

And your doofus husband could get all the credit. Fork over some of that beer money, Robot Barbie! Or sell your $300,000 outfit!

[Vanje]

3. Addicted to gambling

McCain is a crap shoot

[DefenseLawyer]

4. Perot hates McCain

because McCain wouldn't back his POW/MIA nonsense back in the 80's. That is not to say that it isn't true, only that Ross Perot is a nut and certainly not an unbiased source.

[Raineyb]

8. I'd read that Perot paid the first Mrs. McCain's medical bills

And his disdain has to to with his treatment of his former wife.

But I could be wrong. I tend to mix up my reading sources on occasion.

Regards

[tridim]

5. Bizarro Big Lebowski.

[mitchum]

6. It is not often that I feel pity for an heiress, but McCain really does appear...

to have a very long history of using and abusing the woman

[gordianot]

7. Posner is scum. I am sure McCain (Scum) and Posner (Scum) are attracted to each other on some level

[amborin]

9. McCain has big ties to big Las Vegas casinos

and clearly demonstrates fondness for risk-taking behaviors

ties in with his rash, irrational decision-making

UNFIT