The Trail: A Daily Diary of Campaign 2008

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In response to 9:29 post. McCain Sucks, why should we say anything good about a guy who "SUCKS". I'd be happy to say something about Mark Penn and Hilary Clinton. They too both "SUCK". That's why I'm voting for Obama. Why don't you join us?

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"The day of individual happiness has passed."

--Adolf Hitler

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John McCain can do one last, great service for his country; resign his Senate seat, withdraw his candidacy for president, and dedicate himself to having an honorable Republican elected president in November - while there's still time to recover.
This fellow Vietnam veteran will not vote for him.

This isn't change, just more of the McSame

http://www.changeyoudeserve.wordpress.com

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Mark Who? Hillary who?
Why write comments about a Democrat that will not win the nomination? Of course the classical Republican trick of redirection.

The real reason why Loeffler is resigning is because McCain fears the Boeing-EADS story. Maybe he knows that the NYT or Post is working on it.

McCain won praise for being super-tough on Boeing after they were caught bribing Air Force officers involved in choosing a new airborne tanker. Boeing has never forgiven him.

But in fact three of his closest pals were lobbying for the Airbus company EADS, the other bidder, who got the contract. The most senior of the three was Tom Loeffler.

McCain hopes to defuse that story, and also to get rid of the bad press from stories like this: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/21/AR2008022101131.html?sid=ST2008022200029

...in which Charlie Black told a reporter he did most of his lobbying work by cellphone from on board the Straight Talk Express.

McCain can remove the lobbyists from his front office (he'd better replace 'em quick or there'll be no-one left), but the real test is the financial roots of his campaign, and that's lobbyist-run all the way.

"Public Citizen, a group that monitors campaign fundraising, has found that McCain has more bundlers -- people who gather checks from networks of friends and associates -- from the lobbying community than any other presidential candidate from either party.
By the group's current count, McCain has at least 70 federal lobbyists raising money for his campaign, compared with 35 working for Republican Rudolph W. Giuliani and 22 working for Democrat Clinton."*

*Obama has 14.

another Republican rat running down the mooring lines yelling: "sinking ship, sinking ship!"

Don't believe it for a minutes - Bidding Tom adieu only means he's not on paper in the campaign. More stringer actions are needed for this governement to prove its transparency. Any one see Rove roaming around-that's why he "resigned."

Where there's money (even though the $ is gone, Saudis money isn't) there's fraud. Follow the bank accounts.

I miss the Senator I voted for for re-election in Arizona in 2004. Hard to believe that that was just 4 years ago. And I was and am a Democrat.

That fellow was unfortunately the product of my and others' imagination and a lot of successful and misleading campaign rhetoric. The "real" McCain is the fellow we are seeing today, who accepted GWB's endorsement after incredible lies being circulated in S. Carolina by the Bush campaign in 2000.

It is so terribly sad that the "real" McCain is also the man who voted to allow torture in spite of the fact that he knows it firsthand and is aware of its horrors.
What happened to you, sir, or has this been you all along?

We need laws against the ties between our elected officials and these D.C. rats. Once a lobbyist, he or she cannot run or help run for an office.

TIME BECAUSE MOST AMERICAN DO NOT BELIEVE THE 'OFFICIAL'MEDIA NARRATIVE ANYMORE, THEY HAVE GOOGLE TO FIND THE REAL TRUTH. FOR EXAMPLE ONE THING IS TO BE GRATEFUL FOR MCCAIN SERVICE DURING THE VIETNAM WAR AND ANOTHER IS TO BUY THE OFFICIAL MEDIA NARRATIVE THAT HE IS THE SUPPER HERO, BIGGER THAN PATTON,BIGGER THAN ANYONE ELSE WHO FOUGHT IN VIETNAM. AFTER ALL WE NOW HE WAS A PRISONER OF WAR THE WHOLE TIME, NEVER KILLED A SINGLE ENEMY OR RESCUED A FELLOW SOLDIER AS MANY OTHERS DID. NO SENSE OF PROPORTIONALITY HERE. REPUBLICANS ARE EXPERTS IN APPROPRIATING HEROES. RONALD REAGAN IS FOR EXAMPLE PORTRAYED AS THE SOLE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SOVIET COLLAPSE BUT HOW ABOUT JOHN KENNEDY? DIDN'T HE STOP THE SOVIETS DURING THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS, DIDN'T HE WIN THE SPACE RACE AGAINST THE SOVIETS THAT DEMONSTRATED THEM THAT OUR POLITICAL SYSTEM WAS BETTER? WHAT REAGAN DID IS TO ASK GORBACHEV TO ' TEAR DOWN THOSE WALLS' WHEN IN REALITY THE WALL WAS ALREADY DOWN PROBLEM IS THE HOPELESS DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONCEDED DEFEAT ON THESE ISSUES AND THE CORPORATE MEDIA OFF COURSE WOULD NO TELL US THE REAL HISTORY. THANKS GOD GAVE US THE INTERNET.THE INTERNET IS MCCAIN WORSE NIGHTMARE. THE AMERICAN CORPORATE MEDIA SOLD US BUSH JUNIOR AS A ONE OF US GUY, A RANCHER, A REAL COWBOY, A COMPASSIONATE UNITER, ETC, ETC. WE ALL KNOW NOW ALL THAT WAS A PROPAGANDA THAT CONVINCED MANY AMERICANS WHO VOTED FOR HIM. NOT THIS

"How can you countenance someone who was engaged in bombing which could have or did kill innocent people?"
John McCain, 2007

In October of 1967, John McCain was flying his twenty-third bombing mission over North Vietnam when his A-4E Skyhawk was shot down by a missile over the city of Hanoi. Skyhawks were the Navy's primary light bomber over North Vietnam during the early years of the Vietnam War.

http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnmccain.com/index.htm

We don't call them

Re-pig-licans

for nothing!

Does anyone see the attitude of the democrats here?

NOT one democrat has said, oh, good McCain has dealt with this issue.

Instead, they still want to slam McCain, anything to slam McCain.

The democrats are such jokesters.

Has any democrat here said anything about Mark Penn's continued activities on the Clinton campaign ???

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Nothing will satisfy the democrats.

The democrats are jokers again.

As McCain cleans up his campaign, you think he would give him credit for that?

Meanwhile which democrats in favor of Clinton or Obama complained about Mark Penn EVER>>????

The hypocrisy in the democratic party is so out of control......

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What this article isn't talking about but should be is that all the rest of McCain's primary staff are lobbyists too. The guys quitting are the ones who refuse to give up their ties. The rest are fresh off K street and now dedicated to influencing John McCain up close and personal. They are McCain's own row of dedicated lobbyists who have a direct line (no pun intended) from the telecoms to the white house. How quickly we forgot the Republican Abramoff lobbying scandal. Now the lobbyists are running and funding McCain.

What a joke. McCain trying to sell himself as Mr Integrity, when he was the key player in the Keating 5 which ripped off the American taxpayers to the tune of 100s of billions of dollars--McCain should be sitting in jail not running for president. He is another criminal of the same hue as Bush, and I cannot believe there are so many ignorant Americans that McCain was able to get as far as he has. Certainly bespeaks a dumbed down America--scary indeed.

Scary Times practice this you MO-ron, President Barack Hussein Obama! Now shut up!

http://www.McCainsource.com/

HERE IS A LAUNDRY LIST OF McCAIN'S LOBBYISTS IN TROUBLE FOR FOREIGN LOBBYING

http://www.McCainsource.com/McCain_fact_check?id=0007
or Http://www.McCainsource.com/

Well I heard that he's going to work for Obama because there so much cash floatin around that,well you know...

What a joke. McCain trying to sell himself as Mr Integrity, when he was the key player in the Keating 5 which ripped off the American taxpayers to the tune of 100s of billions of dollars--McCain should be sitting in jail not running for president. He is another criminal of the same hue as Bush, and I cannot believe there are so many ignorant Americans that McCain was able to get as far as he has. Certainly bespeaks a dumbed dpown America--scary indeed.

Of course lobbyists are McCain's best friends. They arranged the Iraq war so that American's would gladly pay the Pentagon to buy a little "safety." By voting McCain, Americans vote to keep the dollars flowing to defense contractors for at least the next four years. Feel safer?

"How can you countenance someone who was engaged in bombing which could have or did kill innocent people?"

John McCain

My friends, you are right. I've been a liar, so what?

I like the idea of being a maverick, even if I'm not really one - it just feels good, and it buys me votes. Well, doesn't it?

After the election, it won't make any diffrerence, because I'll simply fly home in my hunnybun's private jet. Back to Sedona for a barbecue. Now, that's that I call living.

Isn't it funny how many lobbyists have had to leave Mc Cain's staff in the last few weeks? Some "maverick" Mc Cain turns out to be. The worst lobbyist of them all, Charles Black, is still there, of course. It would be...awkward to fire him, now wouldn't it?

Vote Mc Cain, and get K Street in the bargain!

Scary Times:

You are so full of bullcrap...I hope god forgives you...

That's too bad that McCain's real good friend never told him what he did for a living.

I'm sure McCain didn't know his good friend was a lobbiest.

Rats deserting the sinking ship

Where is JakeMoronD?

Are you kidding me? This is EXACTLY WHY I AM NOT VOTING REBUBLIKAN FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER---- J.M. IS A B.M.- He is so tied to Airbus, Big COrporate, and just plain greedy liars and typical politikans, I will never vote for him. If you vote for this guy, you are going to get exactly more of the same dribble we have gotten for the last 8 years. NEXT.

THE INTERNET IS MCCAIN WORSE NIGHTMARE. THE AMERICAN CORPORATE MEDIA SOLD US BUSH JUNIOR AS A ONE OF US GUY, A RANCHER, A REAL COWBOY, A COMPASSIONATE UNITER, ETC, ETC. WE ALL KNOW NOW ALL THAT WAS A PROPAGANDA THAT CONVINCED MANY AMERICANS WHO VOTED FOR HIM. NOT THIS TIME BECAUSE MOST AMERICAN DO NOT BELIEVE THE 'OFFICIAL'MEDIA NARRATIVE ANYMORE, THEY HAVE GOOGLE TO FIND THE REAL TRUTH. FOR EXAMPLE ONE THING IS TO BE GRATEFUL FOR MCCAIN SERVICE DURING THE VIETNAM WAR AND ANOTHER IS TO BUY THE OFFICIAL MEDIA NARRATIVE THAT HE IS THE SUPPER HERO, BIGGER THAN PATTON,BIGGER THAN ANYONE ELSE WHO FOUGHT IN VIETNAM. AFTER ALL WE NOW HE WAS A PRISONER OF WAR THE WHOLE TIME, NEVER KILLED A SINGLE ENEMY OR RESCUED A FELLOW SOLDIER AS MANY OTHERS DID. NO SENSE OF PROPORTIONALITY HERE. REPUBLICANS ARE EXPERTS IN APPROPRIATING HEROES. RONALD REAGAN IS FOR EXAMPLE PORTRAYED AS THE SOLE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SOVIET COLLAPSE BUT HOW ABOUT JOHN KENNEDY? DIDN'T HE STOP THE SOVIETS DURING THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS, DIDN'T HE WIN THE SPACE RACE AGAINST THE SOVIETS THAT DEMONSTRATED THEM THAT OUR POLITICAL SYSTEM WAS BETTER? WHAT REAGAN DID IS TO ASK GORBACHEV TO ' TEAR DOWN THOSE WALLS' WHEN IN REALITY THE WALL WAS ALREADY DOWN PROBLEM IS THE HOPELESS DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONCEDED DEFEAT ON THESE ISSUES AND THE CORPORATE MEDIA OFF COURSE WOULD NO TELL US THE REAL HISTORY. THANKS GOD GAVE US THE INTERNET.

Hey Scary Times,

Just come right out and say it. "I, scary times, am a racist thug." (And a not very bright one at that.) Telling the truth is the only antidote to a disease like yours. You can't begin to get well until you first admit how sick you and your kind really are. You wouldn't know patriotism if it jumped up and bit you. You're too busy being hateful.

If you don't come clean, you're going to make yourself seriously ill.

""The campaign over the last week or so obviously had a perception problem with regards with this whole business of lobbyists and their work," said spokesman Brian Rogers. "This is really all about setting a policy so that we can just get through that perception problem and the issues that come up with regards to lobbyists affiliated with the campaign and move on."

Yeeaahh.....perception issues huh?

""Everyone is coming into compliance. To the extent that there are others that are dealing with this, then potentially there will be more activity on this," Rogers said. "It really becomes a distraction from the issues we want to talk about in this campaign."

Imagine how Obama feels about distractions. Now can we get down to business and focus on the real issues and solely on the issues? We'd be obliged. =) White House '08

hahahaha Are we friggin SERIOUS?!?! This is what Obama's talking about??? Interesting, I mean what other logical reason or reasons of common sense did McCain have to vote against EQUAL PAY?

shrink2: Just being reported that the Obama campaign estimated the Portland rally crowd at 75,000 -- 60,000 inside the gates and 15,000 outside. His largest to date by far.

Obama is speaking in front of an outdoor crowd of 30,000 in our beloved Oregon right now.

The crowd is just about all white (like Oregon). And we work really hard.

He is not scary.

McCain may be too old and off to be scary, but his friends are very, very scary.

It's all about perception, isn't it. Nothing real, nothing actual. No real conflict of interest. No ulterior motives, no spinning, no lies, no manipulations, no buyoff and quid pro quo, no betrayals of the ideals McCain purports to represent. Just change the copy, change the lighting, and restart the pageant.

Could it be that untill recently the republicans have been wining by other than honest methods?

Now, how about the media scrutinizing the lobbying links of his Senate staff? He has recent hired guns for a variety of companies writing the laws meant to regulate them. Talk about scary!

Another "change":

From: Head of State
http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/05/change-that-you-deserve.html

Wednesday, May 14, 2008
The Change That You Deserve

From the Chicago Tribune:

"The slogan unveiled this week by House Republicans - "Change you deserve" - is already a trademark used by Wyeth Pharmaceuticals to market its antidepressant Effexor XR."

Black Screen.

Fade into:

Scene of a thin grey haired man standing in a green field. Behind him we can see the sun is rising.

"I got the change I deserved with GOP"

Cut to a small child, in a sun dress, who looks up at him and smiles.

"I was tired, listless. I had lost interest in my usual activities--creating false attacks, acting as if I had been unfairly attacked about issues created out of whole cloth, drawing specious historical parallels, fawning over ideologically bankrupt manufactured father figures. Sure, I sent emails claiming that Obama was a Muslim, but somehow...it had lost the spark, the enjoyment of everyday life."

Cut to a child who rides by on a bicycle, and throws a newspaper on the front porch.

"That's when I found GOP."

Cut to man rowing in a scull across a still river. He turns to the camera, smiles.

"In clinical studies, GOP has been found to increase aggressiveness in the absence of actual provocation in 8 out of 10 users. In most users, the desire to gleefully attack returns in 1 week. Full enthusiasm for invented ideas in two. "

Cut to image of porch swing.

"With GOP, my attention to minor distractions fully returned, until I was again building them into major accusations of flawed character. Once again, my intense focus on pins, buttons, sentences fragments and remote relationships as absolute indications of personal virtue and ability was at its peak. For an entire weekend, I could once again choose the right moment to accuse a candidate of treason without cause--when I was ready, when the time felt right".

Cut to a series of blurred images: long, stringy haired teens in torn jeans and ironic 80's t-shirts lounging by the Washington Monument; picture of John Kerry in a Swift Boat during Vietnam;
Eiffel Tower. Plate of Arugula. During these images, rapid voiceover in female voice:

"GOP may cause monosyllabism, inability to consider two differing concepts at the same time, memory loss or inaccurate recall of recently and repeatedly presented intelligence information, focus on size of automobiles or koro, sequential nicknaming, knowing mischaracterization, involuntary lobbying, hooting. If you have a desire to read the collected works of Ann Coulter that lasts longer than four hours, this may be a sign of a dangerous condition and you should contact your physician immediately."

Cut back to man standing in field. American flag waving in the distance behind him, below a risen sun. A woman walks up beside him, puts her arm around him, and smiles.

Man:

"So get the change that you deserve. Talk to your Doctor about GOP. Soon, you'll be walking by the homeless on the street again and saying 'Let them get a job!'

Or better yet--let them get GOP."

Woman smiles.

Fade.

Cite:
Head of State
http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/05/change-that-you-deserve.html

This rule if carried to it's logical conclusion will force John McClone to resign also. McCaine is th role model the other lobbiest loving campaign workers are following.

More great WaPo "reporting".

One of McCain's staff members is a former cabinet-level official with the Mexican government who worked directly with Vicente Fox. Presumably in that role he pledged an oath to the Mexican government. Now, he's doing outreach to U.S. Hispanics on McCain's behalf.

You will never - never - hear about a WaPo "reporter" pressing McCain on that issue. In fact, if they ever mention it they'll try to sugarcoat it for him or just lie or mislead about it.

If anyone wants to do a public service, go to one of McCain's appearances and ask him about it, then upload his response to Youtube. Details here:

http://lonewacko.com/blog/archives/007421.html

McAmnesty is a old corrupt man. He also is a long way from having the brains god give a goose. He is to Stupid to be president or even hold a demanding Job. Of Course, The Senate is full of Morons and Idiots little more than Parasites living off of the American Tax Payers!

McCain just calrified position on lobbyists. It is only the left leaning lobbyists that are the problem. McCain was to development the right leaning lobbyists.

McCain is Lobbyist Central.

Since lobbying is a constitutionally protected endeavor exactly what is it that McCain wants to do with them?

Or is stating that you are anti-lobbyist one of those "bombastic" comments meant for voter appeal only?

McCain has endured pain and suffering during the Vietnam war era. Nobody an question him on his patriotism or sacrifice that he has done for this country. But when it comes to the presidency, he is not the right person for the job. He is short tempered. He has a misplaced sense of hatred for some countries around the world. He lacks the political sensitivity that is required for diplomacy whether it be with our enemies or allies. His wife is a closed book. The pair is super rich and other than words you can expect nothing for the middle class from the McCains. Mrs.McCain and her beer distribution company will be the sole profiteer out of McCain's proposal for the gas tax holiday. The hundreds of trucks Mrs.McCain's companies have on the road will save tons of money since they are on the road polluting our air 24/7. The savings for the middle class from the gas tax holiday is $30 or $40 at the best.

McCain has been known to be short tempered towards his wife. Maybe this is a side effect of the torture he endured while in Vietnam. We feel sorry for any soldier who has to endure the type of mental agony they go through serving our country. But putting them in a position in which they have to make crucial decisions while dealing with rogue nations is not a good thing. They smell blood rather than seeking other ways to releive the tension.

McCain has proven time and again that he has no idea about our economy. His wife controls the money matters in their house, and he is naive about almost anything to do with finance. In the senate most of the matters he controls are actually controlled by the lobbyists. He is just a pawn doing the work on the lobbyists behalf.

"Scary Times"s comment should be entitled "scary comment." Anyone who casts a vote on the basis of what someone's name is, or what it "sounds like" is no different from a vote cast in a totalitarian regime, where people vote because of what they are told to vote for.

When I drive cross-country and listen to the talk radio host on station after station spewing "chaos theory" about the present political climate, I can only weep for the fact that people listen to this instead of listening to good material and thinking.

Another fold of this curtain comes away exposing this phony candidate.

People also need to take a look at the "advisors" McCain has on his foreign policy and domestic security campaign staff:

• Bill Kristol - the neo-con chickenhawk who co-founded PNAC (among other idiocies).

• Robert Kagan - another neo-con nutcase; also a co-founder of PNAC. (His wife worked as a National Security Adviser for Dick Cheney, before getting a plum pay-off appointment from Bush).

• Randy Scheunemann (Like neo-cons Kagan and Kristol, also a director of the Project for the New American Century, the architects, promoters and salesmen of the Bush disaster in Iraq).

• Gary Schmitt - another neo-con halfwit and member of PNAC.

• Robert Zoellick - Another neo-con member of PNAC (and Bush's hand-picked replacement for the disgraced Wolfowitz at the World Bank).

• Eliot Cohen - Neo-con lunatic. Fervent Zionist. Also a founding member of PNAC. In late 2001 said, "After Afghanistan, what? Iraq is the big prize... " In the run-up to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, he was also a member of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, another group of crazed Zionists and neo-cons (like PNAC) pressing for invasion.

McCain = Bush on Geritol.

ScaryTimes,

Did you actually have anything to say relevant to the article you're commenting on?

ScaryTimes, your days of dominating the discourse are over. You and your friends have brought this country's economy to its knees.

Did you know that yours wars are being paid for by the Chinese people, they are loaning us money they would dearly love to use themselves. Why? They want to own enough American debt to control policy.
That is reality.

If you are going to freak out about America's enemies all day, you better pick the real ones; you can not fight everybody who scares you.

Barak Obama clearly scares you, but he won't waste the future of this country on your paranoid fantasies about moslems at the gate.

I am not sure how a man named BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA (sounds like OSAMA) ever reached this pinacle that he is perched on..The American people ( I pray this isnt true)have either just gotten so fed up with the status quo that they just hang on to any charasmatic leader..who says a few choice words ie: "change" Are we ready to become a socialist/communist society in which some of his ideas would entail? Have we so buried our "heads in the sand" that we just accept anything ? This Generation needs to remember their fathers and grandfathers..and what they stood for...20 Years ago this man would have been sent back on a rail...not because of his color ..but his beliefs...he attends a church in which the charasmatic leader spewed hate from his lips from the pulpit...If I remember correctly we are supposed to be "like Christ" if we are Christians...as Barack Obama..is portrayed to be...It is very discouraging that people are deceived by this mans "talk" and for the idiots in congress or Hollywood who give this man such praise...who claim to love America...have endorsed...For the Christian people... if this man wins the white house...God help us all...this man who refuses to salute the American flag because "he doesnt want to take sides" Sides from who? America's enemies?..Give me a patriot who doesnt see America as the enemy...America IS NOT THE ENEMY..I LOVE MY COUNTRY!..My hope and prayer is that our good peoples of this land will rise up and take it back from the unprincipled and the purveyors of the left -leaning people who would take our country down a road of eventual dictatorship...God Help Us All!

Thanks for all the head's up to other possible conflicts of interest within McCain's office.

Bigger picture here is that average Americans or We the People must be disadvantaged getting assistance from Politicians in Office like McCain. Certainly the voice of the majority has been drowned out for years upon years now.

Those not having campaign funds as carrots even for fifteen minutes of office time must be very discouraged through the actions of Politicians availing themselves for influence even if currency cannot be directly traced. Will be an uphill battle for sometime restoring a government by the people and for the people rather than an Autocratic style that pencil in lobbyists rather than the public.

Many average American citizens must know the frustration of dealing with duly elected public servants. I myself can relate as well. Suck to be them now.

Johnny McCain is not exactly Abe Lincoln, now is he? McCain promises government of lobbyists, by lobbyists, and for lobbyists.

I love this paragraph, do you mind if I use it?

"They're just changing name-tags, they're not really being cut loose. McCain's campaign is the flowery end of a system of roots that goes deep into a host of industries and businesses, and that can't change. That's what it is."

Now look at McCain's financial advisor Former Texas Sen Phil Gramm who is responsible for the sub-prime housing mess and contributed to the high price of gas. Search on Gramm and Enron or USB. The deregulation of the banking industry -

A year after the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act repealed the old regulations, Swiss Bank UBS gobbled up brokerage house Paine Weber. Two years later, Gramm settled in as a vice chairman of UBS's new investment banking arm.

During those years, the mortgage industry pressed Congress to roll back strong state rules that sought to stem the rise of predatory tactics used by lenders and brokers to place homeowners in high-cost mortgages.

For his work, Gramm and two other lobbyists collected $750,000 in fees from UBS's American subsidiary. In the past year, UBS has written down more than $18 billion in exposure to subprime loans and other risky securities and is considering cutting as many as 8,000 jobs.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0308/9246.html

They're just changing name-tags, they're not really being cut loose. McCain's campaign is the flowery end of a system of roots that goes deep into a host of industries and businesses, and that can't change. That's what it is.

"Until recently, his top political adviser, Charlie Black, was the head of a Washington lobbying firm. Black retired from the firm to stay with the campaign. Davis ran a lobbying firm for several years but has said he is on leave from that firm."

On leave? Retired? They're still profiting from their firms' clients. Charlie Black is running John McCain's campaign, and he is God of all Washington lobbyists.

Black can't resign from McCain's campaign, he IS McCain's campaign. It would be more accurate to demand that McCain resign as Mr Black's frontman.

A lobbyist on John McCain's committee staff?

Now that's a big surprise. Campaign finance reform, huh?

Good move, ethics reform begins at home. That is sound strategy.

McCain's candidacy is such a joke.

Hillary is hanging around hoping for someone to do something to Barak because she knows McCain is dead on arrival.

Only Faux News and furious Clinton supporters think McCain has any chance.
Between Obama's money (we $2300 types have not even begun to donate for the general election)and the fractured Republican base, he might as well not even bother.

Even the real Hillary people who threaten to vote McCain won't do it in the end. Vote for two more right wing nuts on the supreme court? They won't do that to the women of this country, no matter how much they hate Obama's victory.

when is charlie Black going to resign? He lobbied for worst dictators in the world. Republicans can support dictators and champion their course, but wouldn't negotiate with them, because that will not net them millions of dollars. It is a shame to be a republican.

The real reason why Loeffler is resigning is because McCain fears the Boeing-EADS story. Maybe he knows that the NYT or Post is working on it.

McCain won praise for being super-tough on Boeing after they were caught bribing Air Force officers involved in choosing a new airborne tanker. Boeing has never forgiven him.

But in fact three of his closest pals were lobbying for the Airbus company EADS, the other bidder, who got the contract. The most senior of the three was Tom Loeffler.

McCain hopes to defuse that story, and also to get rid of the bad press from stories like this: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/21/AR2008022101131.html?sid=ST2008022200029

...in which Charlie Black told a reporter he did most of his lobbying work by cellphone from on board the Straight Talk Express.

McCain can remove the lobbyists from his front office (he'd better replace 'em quick or there'll be no-one left), but the real test is the financial roots of his campaign, and that's lobbyist-run all the way.

Is that not 1/2 a dozen now in the last few days who have left the McCain campaign because they are lobbyist?

McCain seems to not know what everyone else knows about is campaign. It is entirely run and funded by lobbyist.

http://mediamattersaction.org/freeride/lobbyists/

"Public Citizen, a group that monitors campaign fundraising, has found that McCain has more bundlers -- people who gather checks from networks of friends and associates -- from the lobbying community than any other presidential candidate from either party.
By the group's current count, McCain has at least 70 federal lobbyists raising money for his campaign, compared with 35 working for Republican Rudolph W. Giuliani and 22 working for Democrat Clinton."*

*Obama has 14.