Sort by Think Progress (Free subscription) - 06/25/2008 - YouTube
John McCain's chief adviser, lobbyist Charlie Black, worked for some of the world's worst dictators -- mass murderers, terrorists, and tyrants. McCain...
Sort by Think Progress (Free subscription) - 06/25/2008
In a new Fortune magazine article, Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) chief strategist Charlie Black claimed that another terrorist attack on U.S. soil would be “a big advantage” for their campaign. On Dennis Miller’s radio show today, former top McCain strategist Mike Murphy attempted to explain away the gaffe with a crude joke: MURPHY: Well, he’s an [...]
Sort by The Liberal Blog Network (Free subscription) - 05/16/2008
Sort by First Read (Free subscription) - 05/16/2008
From NBC/NJ's Carrie Dann With a busy news morning, the McCain campaign is swatting out responses to enough dust-ups to fill a vacuum cleaner bag. But here's one of the latest… MoveOn.org is out with a new web video that calls on McCain to fire top advisor Charlie Black, whose lobbying deals it links to a series of rogue leaders. The ad features haunting black-and-white photos of the consequences...
Sort by Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) - 06/24/2008
Well, since this guy’s job is to get John McCain elected at all costs, is it a stretch to wonder whether he’s actually hoping for one? It wouldn’t be the first time someone mused about that being a good idea. Fortune: On national security McCain wins. We saw how that might play out early in [...]
Sort by Daily Kos (Free subscription) - 05/17/2008
John McCain talks straight, but he acts crooked. Mr. Reform strays from the straight path by following crooked lobbyists for their money, money that comes from corporations and brutal foreign governments. McCain's been embarrassed several times the last few weeks by lobbyists connected to his campaign. Last week he was forced to fire two lobbyists who had worked for the brutal military junta in Burma/Myanmar,...
Sort by Marc Ambinder (Free subscription) - 05/17/2008
"I'm not ashamed of anything the firm did," McCain adviser Charlie Black says of his days as the principle in one of Washington's most influential lobbying firms. "If they want to use it to fire up the left wing, well, that's fine." Black is referring to a campaign by liberal watchdog and political groups to pressure McCain into dumping Black, now a top McCain campaign strategist. Today, MoveOn's...
Sort by Firedoglake (Free subscription) - 05/19/2008
The WaPo placed the news that Tom Loeffler, McCain's Fundraising Chair, has left the campaign because he was unwilling to give up his lobbying gig, on A1. Tom Loeffler, the national finance co-chairman for Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign, resigned yesterday because of his lobbying ties, a campaign adviser said.
Sort by Washington Wire (Free subscription) - 05/16/2008
Susan Davis reports on the presidential race. Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign is vetting its own staff members' lobbyist connectionsscurrilous or otherwiseafter two aides recently left the campaign when questions arose over their prior lobbying work for Myanmar's military junta. The Atlantic reported Thursday night that campaign manager Rick Davis, himself a former lobbyist, is asking [...]...
Sort by AMERICAblog (Free subscription) - 05/16/2008
MoveOn's new ad is about one of John McCain's top advisers, who also has advised Ferdinand Marcos, Mbuto in Zaire, and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi. Then again, John McCain's filthy rich wife, whose corporate jet McCain flies on for his campaign, had $2m in investments dealing with the nasty folks in the Sudan. Anyone else seeing a pattern? Watch it, it's good .
Sort by Obsidian Wings (Free subscription) - 05/18/2008
by hilzoy Politico: "Former Rep. Thomas G. Loeffler, a Texan who is among the McCain campaign's most important advisers and fundraisers, has resigned as a national co-chair over lobbying entanglements, a Republican source told Politico on Sunday. It's at least...
Sort by HorsesAss.Org (Free subscription) - 12/08/2007
Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA) gives FCC Chairman Martin hell : (This and some seventy other media clips from the past week in politics are now posted at Hominid Views .)
Sort by Kicking Ass (Free subscription) - 05/16/2008
How many lobbyists does John McCain have running his campaign -- even at the very highest levels? So many that he lost count. Yes, with resignation after resignation and controversy after controversy about John McCain's connections to lobbyists -- which, by the way, have done their lobbying work inside of the campaign bus -- he's now being forced to re-vet his entire campaign staff : After a series...
Sort by D-Day (Free subscription) - 05/16/2008
This is a great ad by MoveOn. You could actually fill about 5 more with all the slimy characters Black has associated with - including Blackwater, the dictator of Equatorial Guinea, etc., etc., etc. MoveOn is able to do this in a way that Barack Obama can't. They can be stronger and more hard-hitting than the guy running for President. It's an amplifier and a motivator. It puts major pressure on McCain....
Sort by Main St. USA (Free subscription) - 05/25/2008
Charlie Black is the banality of evil. He's all button-down and corporate, while he's being paid by military juntas and dictators to lobby for them in Washington. His wife is a lobbyist, too. What a pleasant couple. WaPo: McCain's Rules on Lobbying Face Test Power Couple Working on Campaign [Charlie Black's] wife, Judy Black, is a national co-chair of the fundraising group "Women for McCain,"...
Sort by Hominid Views (Free subscription) - 11/10/2007
Britt Hume is Worst Person in the World ! The Impeachment Indictment: Rep. Dennis Kucinich offers a resolution (via OneGoodMove ). Headzup: Democrats on impeaching Cheney . Olbermann: VPeachment . Headzup: The impeachment question for 10 Questions . Hardball: Sen. Barbara Boxer on White House abuses and silencing scientists . Rudy gettin’ tough on Hillary over driver’s licenses for aliens : Glenn...
