McCain Top Aide Linked To Suspected Russian Mob-King, Arranged Meeting With Senator

Washington Post:

A top political adviser in Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign helped arrange an introduction in 2006 between McCain and a Russian billionaire whose suspected links to anti-democratic and organized-crime figures are so controversial that the U.S. government revoked his visa.

Rick Davis, who is now McCain's campaign manager, helped set up the encounter between McCain and Russian aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska in Switzerland during an international economic conference. At the time, Davis was working for a lobbying firm and seeking to do business with the billionaire.

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Comments

[hannitizer]

02:50 PM on 01/25/2008

McCain is dirty. Can you say Keating Five? I knew that you could.

[citizenofmars]

01:43 PM on 01/25/2008

Oleg got Viggo Mortensen a job as McCain's chauffer...

[imsosure]

01:15 PM on 01/25/2008

He's about as dirty as you can get, no one can survive in a government or political position as long as he has and not have dirty hands.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1656880303867390173

[TuffPosh]

01:04 PM on 01/25/2008

On the plus side, McCain is quite liberal in other ways:

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/01/25/dr-juan-hernandez-has-joined-the-mccain-campaign/

Obama and Hillary would have to hire Vicente Fox himself to be even more liberal.

[TotobiAyokoh23]

12:07 PM on 01/25/2008

I have always suspected there is something plastic about McCain: his vituperative attitude and holier-than-thou posture conceals a very dark secret. Time will tell.

[GenXer]

12:07 PM on 01/25/2008

His journey to the darkside is now complete. Rise Darth Caine!