Top McCain Adviser Lobbied For Nation Of Georgia

McClatchy:

John McCain's top foreign policy adviser, Randall Scheunemann, lobbied for the nation of Georgia for four years, including for about a year after he joined the Republican senator's presidential campaign staff in early 2007.

Georgia has paid Scheunemann's firm, Orion Strategies, LLC, nearly $900,000 since 2004, including $200,000 for an eight-month contract that began on May 1, two weeks after McCain issued a strong statement criticizing Russia and supporting Georgia.

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Comments

[Tommygun264]

Gosh, does anyone in the mainstream corporate media aware of this? To the best of my knowledge no one other than Rachel Maddow of Air America Radio, Keith Olbermann and now Huffpo has reported this information thus far. I wonder why that is? Hmmm...

And come to think of it, shouldn't there be a firestorm of articles and pundits labeling McSame as "presumptuous", "arrogant" and "forgetting his place" for giving a presidential-style speech on foreign policy while the real President is out of the country? Or is it only the dark-skinned candidates who need to remember their place?

[rosal]

As always, just follow the money, or Big Oil, it always take you to the same place, McBush.

[walkthewalk]

Forget about McCain's not so subtle ads that refer to him as the American President Americans have been waiting for. He would be the Lobbyists' President -- a group that is hardly lacking representation.

[riverhouse]

Lobbied for Georgia, lobbied for DHL against the best interests of working people in OH, lobbied for big oil on offshore drilling, lobbied, lobbied, lobbied. The entire campaign is one big lobbyists' bonanza. He's for sale to the highest bidder. He is absolutely without values or ideas or principles and he has no commitment to the best interests of the United States. He's nothing but a tool of the lobbyists.

[AzRealProgressive]

Congratulations, fill in most any name and you have described all politicians.

[Tommygun264]

Really? How many lobbyists are on Obama's staff? Names and the interests they lobby for, please? Take your time, we'll wait...

and wait...

[hippieCy08]

Repugnants Republicans and their cronies....if they could.....they'll sell every prick and doc in our country.......we truly can't afford them in the White House.

[YunekFlava]

What is next? The crap is mounting so much against this guy, that I don't know what the H--- is going on. Criminal charges should be brought against the American Media, for malpractice. Something!

He gets them to drive his FAKE TALK EXPRESS, and when it crashes and burns, they will all say they broke the story.

[Msohio]

Is there any local or world affair that does not have a six degree connection to John McCain?

[TuFu]

McCain Administration would be foreign policy by lobbyists, sheer disaster of the first order. Foreign policy by bribe, a great American heroic tradition.

[FebM]

So this is a personal loss? Why did I think it had anything to do with Georgians? Never mind, JC to the rescue!!! More Blackwater and Huliburtons, for no bid contracts to win that war against Russia

[haleywins]

He has assembled every degenerate possible for his campaign, is it a senior thing, or a money thing?

(I'm ticked my posts keep getting deleted, I don't curse, so what's the deal? Anyone know?)

[AllenD]

I had a bunch deleted too. It seems that any reference to the fact that McCain is "youth challenged" seems to get plonked.

[VOTER]

Ditto.

[Crake]

Christ, it's like McCain went out of his way to assemble the worst campaign ever imagined.

[Seven7s]

But...but...but....

THE SURGE IS WORKING!

[McChimp]

and O is too much a celebrity like Paris and Britney to be trusted!

[mscriblerus]

Well. At least he's consistent. No matter what any one says, he's gonna stick with his people.

[TGCNY]

Sure must be great to be whtie in America

[edwarvir]

TGCNY There is one thing I know that Senator O had better not try to do
anything like what Hill and Johnny War Monger have done or said, because if
he does his whole political career will be over. So yes I agree America must
be a great place to live if you are WHITE

[AzRealProgressive]

You should move to America, it is a great place for all people. Just please do it legally.

[riverhouse]

Well, I think it's great to be rich in America, regardless of race. The extremely wealthy of every color are reaping the benefits. The working class in America of all races are the ones suffering from neglect.

[AzRealProgressive]

The working class people have always been the ones to suffer the most, at any point in time.

[sherbug]

Yeah, none of your sins are punished and none of your deeds are laid bare for all to see. If Obama's camp had mega lobbyists working for it, he would be finished.

[Tommygun264]

And straight.

And Christian.

And wealthy.

[Tulu]

McCain by far has the most lobbyists who work on behalf foreign dictators. The tricks they use is to improve the relationship of a particular country with the USA when infact it is cover the image of this thugs who are the brutal regimes in the world. Look at for example that of PM Meles Zanawi of Ethiopia who cheats the USA in the name of the war on terror as he did in Somalia commits genocide in Ethiopia. Look another McCain’s lobbyist trouble

http://www.democrats.org/a/2008/05/lobbyists_for_m.php

and read about HR2003
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h2003/show