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Posted by: ybdogsct 3 months, 1 week ago

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Doug Goodyear, McCain's selection for GOP Convention Chair, is CEO of DCI Group. DCI was paid $348,000 to represent Burma's military junta, which the State Dept. condemned for its human-rights record. Goodyear was chosen after McCain nixed another candidate, Paul Manafort, who runs a lobbying firm with McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis.

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ybdogsct3 months, 1 week ago

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...
"Longtime uber-lobbyist Charles R. Black Jr. is John McCain's man in Washington. Black was Jonas Savimbi's man in the capital city. His lobbying firm received millions from the brutal Angolan guerrilla leader and took advantage of Black's contacts in Congress and the White House. Black and his partners were at times registered foreign agents for a remarkable collection of U.S.-backed foreign leaders whose human rights records were sometimes harshly criticized.
What the firm achieved was quickly dubbed 'Savimbi chic.' Foreign-agent records document hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on behalf of UNITA, including $76,491 for limousines, $13,675 for photography and $216,186 for lodging at the Grand Hotel and the Waldorf-Astoria.
McCain 'portrays himself as Mr. Clean, and then he has all these lobbyists around him who are connected to a lot of not-so-clean people.'"
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  sir_samurai3 months, 1 week ago
  
  politicians are known for double-talk, but this bushit gang has dropped the bar to new *unpresidential* lows!
  and johnny mclame is proving to be a double hypocrite... in just as deep with this bushit crime gang!
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  NordicFisher3 months, 1 week ago
  
  It seems to me, one can and indeed must question the honour and values of anyone claiming to be the worthy head of state based on his military credentials (as a POW survivor); and yet, once staunchly opposed, he shrinks-back and is himself duped along with Mr.Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld in their disgusting Nazi-like round-up and torture programs.
  Unfortunately for Mr.McCain, ANY alleged ties to OTHER military junta's and dictatorships (which condones these and other questionable entities) would come as no surprise.
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dunkirk3 months, 1 week ago

Im beginning to think McCain should just step down, definetly wont happen but with the lobbyists infecting his campaign how can he continue to say he runs an anti lobby agenda. Oh wait I know, its another of those fuzzy terms the Repubs like to use, the middle class is a lobby to that man and hes out to destroy it like his leader the Dumya
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  ETproductions3 months, 1 week ago
  
  He's now gotten the gist of recent Republican tactics. Say whatever it takes to get power. What RepugniCons say has absolutely no relationship with what they do.
  If they went out and campaigned on a platform of transferring all the nation's wealth to the very richest families in America (what they really do) they would never get more than 1% of the votes.
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quackpot3 months, 1 week ago

Does McCain know anybody who is NOT a lobbyist?
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TheRealizer3 months, 1 week ago

Mc Dim has never been exposed to the private sector, he was raised in the military, served in the military, then elected to office. He has never been exposed to the reality of looking for work, trying to buy insurence or any of the pitfalls of non social parisite work....
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simonsez3 months, 1 week ago

Everybody has been somewhere doing something to make a living. If they were doing it around DC, they probably aren't Boy Scouts (although their headquarters is probably there, too.)

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sinophil493 months, 1 week ago

I, for one, am glad McCain picked this Goodyear fellow. I hope he sticks w/ it and actually become the convention chair. If any pollsters come to ask me, I will enthusiastically approve the choice of Goodyear.
I think everyone should email, call, fax, text-message, telegram the McCain campaign headquarters to endorse the choice of Goodyear.
I want Goodyear pictured next to McCain in every campaign poster. I want everyone in the USA to know how close-knit McCain and Goodyear are.
That way McCain will announce to the entire country how closely allied he is to the dark world of lobbyists and their dirty money.
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cloud153 months, 1 week ago

I know were not bashing McCain on lobbyists when Obama has received more money from them...
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  ybdogsct3 months ago
  
  http://www.newsday.com/services/newspaper/print...
  "Unlike McCain and Clinton, Obama accepts money from advocates but not lobbyists. The Center for Responsive Politics said lobbyists gave McCain $590,952 and Obama $115,163, but Obama returns lobbyist funds.
  Obama stated he doesn't accept money from 'currently registered federal lobbyists, registered foreign agents, PACs, or minors.' His filings show he was true to his word."
  Nice try. Thanks for playing!
  LOL!
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  Charlson3 months ago
  
  Repeating a repu(blican)gnant lie doesn't make it true.
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