Boeing Supporters Want To Lynch McCain

Angry Boeing supporters are vowing revenge against Republican presidential candidate John McCain over Chicago-based Boeing's loss of a $35 billion Air Force tanker contract to the parent company of European plane maker Airbus.

McCain Pushed Airbus

But Boeing supporters in Congress are directing their wrath at McCain, the Arizona senator and presidential nominee in waiting, for scuttling an earlier deal that would have let Boeing build the next generation of Air Force refueling tankers. Boeing now will miss out on a deal that it says would have supported 44,000 new and existing jobs at the company, and suppliers in 40 states.


 

It Should Have Gone To Israel

"Having made sure that Iraq gets new schools, roads, bridges and dams that we deny America, now we are making sure that France gets the jobs that Americans used to have," said Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill. "We are sending the jobs overseas, all because John McCain demanded it."
 

Bush And His Zionist Pals

There are other targets for their ire - the Air Force, the defense secretary, and even the entire Bush administration.

 

Barack To The Rescue

Rep. Todd Tiahrt, a Kansas Republican, whose district includes a Boeing plant that could have gained hundreds of new jobs from the tanker program, said McCain's role in killing the earlier deal is likely to become an election issue.

Both of the leading Democratic candidates for president, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, have criticized the Air Force decision.