McCain: ‘I’m proud’ of adviser’s lobbying connection.
By on Aug 18th, 2008 at 9:47 am
McCain: ‘I’m proud’ of adviser’s lobbying connection.
In an interview with USA Today, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said he had no problem with his senior adviser Randy Scheunemann’s close lobbying ties to the Republic of Georgia:
“I’m proud to have supported them,” McCain said of Georgia in an interview on the campaign plane. “And I’m so proud that so many of my friends have done so, who also believe in freedom and democracy.”
Scheunemann had been employed as a lobbyist for Georgia at the same time he was providing foreign policy advice to McCain, lobbying McCain himself nearly 50 times between 2004 and 2007.
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This demonstrates that a McCain administration wouldn't have the least notion of the concept of conflict of interest.
The USA Today article mentions other prominent advisors with close connections to (among other places) Taiwan. Do we really want a "let's stir the pot! - and get paid to do so" administration fomenting strife around the world????
The guy is SCARY!
August 18th, 2008 at 10:01 amYou know, the more I listen to McNumbNuts and Obama, the more I realize how prejudiced I am. I hate to admit it. It's kind of embarrassing. But my prejudice will definitely influence my vote in November.
You see, I hate st-o-o-o-o-o-pid people.
I will be voting for President Obama.
August 18th, 2008 at 10:02 amBush: No billionaire left behind.
McCain: No billionaire or lobbyist left behind.
August 18th, 2008 at 10:03 amThe article also mentioned that Scheunemann was an official with the Project for a New American Century after McCain's 2000 campaign.
So, a the foreign policy of a McCain administration would essentially be Bush WITHOUT Colin Powell and Brent Skocroft.
"... Bomb, bomb, bomb, ... bomb, bomb Iran - heh, heh."
This is NOT a joke, folks! Read up on PNAC if you haven't heard of it.
August 18th, 2008 at 10:08 amAs long as lobbyists keep lining McCain's pockets he will enthusiatically support them. That proves the only issues he backs are from the highest bidders. Which have nothing to do with democracy and freedom.
August 18th, 2008 at 10:10 amSee, this is where Obama needs to be attacking and attacking very hard. Nothing, nothing has been made out of the money paid to the big S. This should be a constant refrain. McCain will get away with the dodge that he supports the cause and thus there is nothing wrong with the lobbyist as his adviser.
August 18th, 2008 at 10:11 amMcCain is so proud of his corruption. That's our republicans.
August 18th, 2008 at 10:14 am#4, I know all about them noecon freaks at the PNAC and they all should be locked up, these people will say and do anything to win the W.H. for their party to further their cause of shoving democracy down people throats with the barrel of a gun and not mention their neoliberal economics, if they aren`t stopped WWIII is eminent and the Imperial Presidency will continue.
August 18th, 2008 at 10:16 amOn Friday, Ruth Marcus was on as the leftward side of the political analysis that is usually Mark Shields spot. And she said that no one who knows John McCain would ever think he could be influenced by a lobbyist. And Jim Lehrer and the other analysts all laughed congenially together.
This is why McCain will win. Journalists of stature think they know all they need to know about John McCain. He's been around for 3o yers and they permananetly made up there minds that he has honor and integrity some time ago and they view everything he says and does through that template and nothing will change that. All the voters who have never heard of the Keating Five or never heard that McCain was a womanizing adulterer or don't know of his astongishing wealth or that he dumped his disabled wife will never hear of these things on TV or in a general news paper, because the press is confident that they know their man.
It is truly horrifying.
August 18th, 2008 at 10:18 amI'd like them locked up, too, Christopher,
However, I don't buy that it is 'democracy' that PNAC is trying to shove down the throats of foreign countries, but rather lessez-faire crony capitalism. The essense of PNAC is using the US Military to benefit foreign billionaires and millionaires at the expense of their domestic populations. The is a recipe for massive disaffected and radicalized foreign populations with no power other than home-grown terrorism.
Read what Naomi Klein has to say about that, unless you want to sleep soundly at night.
The media likes to treat McCain like a 'loveable old coot', but the people behind the scenes are not just money-grubbing lobbiests, but seriously misguided and dangerous individuals.
We spend as much money on our military as the rest of the world combined. That military is going toward protecting unsavory oligarks who are, in turn, financing the neo-con's control of US politics. This has GOT to STOP!
August 18th, 2008 at 10:35 am"And I’m so proud that so many of my friends have done so..."
Wait a minute, is McStain referring to "my friends" as in me? He's always calling me his "friend".
Or is he referring to his lobbyist buddies? Or his press?
Now that I think about it, I don't feel so special anymore. Looks like McStain has lots of "my friends".
PEACE
August 18th, 2008 at 10:37 amMcCrooked lives in the early 20th century where bribery and crime rules politics. He slept past the first political changes.
August 18th, 2008 at 10:37 amIt's the end of democracy when McCriminals are allowed to run for president.
August 18th, 2008 at 10:41 amGotta love those lobbyists. They're his "base."
August 18th, 2008 at 11:06 amReporter: Senator McCain...are you proud of having a conflict of interest like this within your own campaign?
McCain: I don't consider this to be a conflict at all. In fact, the only conflict I see is in Iraq. I want the surge to be seen on the level of the Normandy invasion or the battle of Gettysburg. So do I see what my people did for me to pocket money for themselves...and maybe me, as against my core values? Haha, no. Now a real "conflict of interest" is what my wife Cindy should wear on a daily basis. Women...they are funny thingamaboos!
August 18th, 2008 at 11:06 amtechsong Says:
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McCain is so proud of his corruption. That’s our republicans.
He is right to embrace his corruption. His involvement in the Keating 5 scandal is what made him famous. He would not be running for President now, if it were not for that corrupt episode in his life.
August 18th, 2008 at 11:17 amNext he'll be braying about his colostomy bag or the box of dead kittens whose blood he drinks every morning.
August 18th, 2008 at 12:30 pmMcCain is "All sold out," as the Rolling Stones used to sing... McCain has started his very own war: he encouraged and cheerleaded for the recent Georgian war on South Ossetia, in which thousands of South Ossetians were murdered and almost 90% of the buildings in the capital, Tskhinvali, were totally destroyed. Heck of a warmongering, John. Mikhail Saskashvili, the President of the Republic of Georgia, is another worthless lying war criminal, cut from the same cloth as McCain, Bush, Cheney and Rice.
August 18th, 2008 at 12:48 pmMcCain: ‘I’m proud’ of adviser’s lobbying connection.»
It's just business as usual in McDipshit's America.
August 18th, 2008 at 12:55 pmMcGrampa has lost it - he says he's proud of his lobbyist campaign staff. He claims to support campaign reform, but he has a staff of lobbyists with dubious loyalties and connections -- he is not a man to be believed.
August 18th, 2008 at 1:56 pmCheck this out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lyds2LkViY
August 18th, 2008 at 3:49 pm#22
August 18th, 2008 at 3:49 pmVideo youtube link - needs some work, my first attempt using Imovie
CONFLICT OF INTEREST, John! CONFLICT OF INTEREST!
August 18th, 2008 at 7:46 pm