Another article on this:

http://www.campaignfreedom.org/blog/id.514/blog_detail.asp

This won't go anywhere at present because:

The situation is complicated by the current state of the FEC. Squabbling over presidential nominees between the Bush administration and the Democratic-controlled Congress has four of the six seats on the commission vacant. The panel therefore lacks the four commissioners required for a quorum and cannot rule definitively either on Mr. McCain's attempt to withdraw from the system or on the forthcoming DNC complaint against him.

Isn't partisanship great!

This won't go anywhere at present because:

The situation is complicated by the current state of the FEC. Squabbling over presidential nominees between the Bush administration and the Democratic-controlled Congress has four of the six seats on the commission vacant. The panel therefore lacks the four commissioners required for a quorum and cannot rule definitively either on Mr. McCain's attempt to withdraw from the system or on the forthcoming DNC complaint against him.

Isn't partisanship great!

Time is not on Mcfly's side. Looks like he will self destruct the way HRC has! Experience doesn't equal change.

McPain has flip flopped or changed like a chameleon on everything else over the past months, so what'the big deal?? In retrospect Kerry was pretty straight talking in 2004, but suffered all sorts of false attacks!

I think this particular issue is a losing proposition for us, as we have a candidate on our side of the aisle who cannot stand up to financial scrutiny. (Hint, it's the point point, clap clap one in blazing yellow).

The majority lobbyist campaign staff is a better issue for us, against Rethugs, as are the fraud of the war and the frauds in prosecuting the war for the benefit of contractors.

Of course, the outraged clapper-pointer cannot press those issues, because she's their accomplice.

Obama's Finance Ploy. Hypocritical scheme to cut McCain out of either public OR private financing by preventing the FEC to rule! Fair, free and honest?

"Barack Obama is promising to end partisanship in Washington, and here's a place to start: He could stop playing politics with the Federal Election Commission in a way that could hamper John McCain's campaign against, well, Mr. Obama.

The Illinois Senator is blocking confirmation of one of President Bush's appointees to the FEC, which administers election laws. This has left the agency two commissioners short of the quorum it needs to make decisions -- with the potential for direct harm to Mr. McCain's campaign. As we've been writing, the Arizona Senator took out a controversial $1 million loan that FEC Chairman David Mason has said might lock him into the public finance system for the primary season. Mr. McCain doesn't want to do that because he'd have to abide by spending limits that would reduce his campaigning this spring and summer. Mr. Mason says the FEC needs to rule on the matter, but without a quorum Mr. McCain is left hanging.
[Barack Obama]

The FEC must also vote to certify that Mr. McCain can receive an estimated $85 million in public funds for the November election. The Republican has already pledged to accept those funds, and the spending limits that go with them, and he is counting on the money to make him competitive against a Democratic nominee. However, no FEC quorum, no public McCain funds in the fall -- and a potentially big advantage for Mr. Obama, who is raising far more in private donations."

To me, this is worse than any sex scandal. McCain foisted this bad law on American politics in the name of "Straight Talk", and now he is doing somersaults trying to get around it.

If McCain wants to ride the "Straight Talk Express", he needs to own up to the failures of his own law and admit that his own campaign is shackled by its short-sighted and naive approach to politics. If this is any example of how he wants to govern: pedantic, half-baked laws that his own government will flout, then he has no business in the White House.

Mr. straight talk tried to scam the election committe, Who's those lobbies running your campaign working out for you mr straight talk, seems like every day Mr. Straight talk is being proved a to be Mr. Lier,

Go get him boys! Hit him, hit him hard, knock him down, then bury him. We're in it to win it.

leave mc war alone he is our senator from az and we love him. who cares if we have a 100 year war with iraq we are always going to have wars might as well be a war with a county that has blackgold (ie oil) and 40 years worth.

may want to rethink that 100 years deal and go for 40 years. god I love capitalism and imperialism. we can invade any country we want and the un and europe and the demos do nothing about it. its great having a spineless world that lives in fear of us.

long live the republican party truly god's party. go get them mc pain never too old to start a war.

signed a neo con evangel repub.

Hey, weren't we told that the Republicans were good managers? John McCain sdeems to be as bad as Hillary Clinton. Doesn't he know any experienced managers?
Actually this is quite serious. Or it could be if ther law is enforced.

Just wondering. Do you think it will be?

I've never seen the GOP candidate get hit so hard and have it stick before. The GOP is the lame duck party. All they need is a strong third party and they are history.

Come on people. McCain is a true Bush republican. He will do whatever he damn well pleases. Legal or not.

Badges, we dont need no stinkin badges!

I didn't think anyone could top GWB for blatantly ignoring the law, but at least GWB waited until he became President to do so. McCain doesn't even have the nomination and he's already saying "screw the law, I'll do what I want."