McCain Calls Lobbyists "Birds Of Prey"

Politico.com:

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) called lobbyists "birds of prey" Wednesday and vowed to enforce a lifetime ban on lobbying for members of his administration.

"Whenever there's a corrupt system, then you're going to have these birds of prey descend on it to get their share of the spoils," McCain said in a half-hour interview with Politico following a town-hall meeting in the southern part of this swing state.

McCain, clearly weary of vice-presidential speculation, began by saying preemptively that he was not going to say anything about the hot topic. His mood initially seemed sour, and his answers were clipped, although he warmed as the conversation went on.

Read the whole story: Politico.com

Comments

[ex-pat]

If our situation was not as dire as it is this would actually be funny... here is more proof that this man is a NUTTER
http://www.jedreport.com/2008/08/judgment-mccain.html

[DebbieinPhx]

Lobbyists abound.... in fact, they literally make up the bulk of the McCain Camp! How can people buy the load of bull coming out of this bozo's mouth on a daily bais? I just....do­...not...u­nderstand these people!!!
And by the by, did anyone see Keith Olbermann tonite? He has broken a story that John McCain made statements supporting the reinstatement of the draft today, while in Las Cruces, NM!!!
If this doesn't get the apathetic, lazy couch potatoes off their couches and make them sit up and take notice.... I'm just going to lose it!!!

[SShaw490]

Wake up, folks! McCain's acknowledgment today that a draft may be necessary ought to get everyone's UNDIVIDED attention!

[Mike4Obama]

Did he actually say this with a straight face? Now that would be something.

[Mike4Obama]

I can imagine a cartoon satire, McCain standing there with all his turkey vulture lobbyists flying around him splurting out advise about Georgia, the economy, Oil, etc etc etc. It would make a great New Yorker cover.

[BlueOnBlue]

“I would not allow anyone who worked for my administration to go back to lobbying"

If I read this right, it means that everyone in his administration will already have BEEN a lobbyist. This is quite believable, as they are now staffing his campaign.

The problem isn't so much that people return to lobbying. The problem is that you hire lobbyists to run the freaking government, as Bush has done. Nothing McCain has said and nothing he has done indicate he would do otherwise.

This is as much of a CYA position as was his position on campaign finance reform, thought up as a way to whitewash his being a member of the Keating Five.

[hexham]

freakin Bingo! right on the money

[nellie]

Birds of prey. Agents of intolerance.

Drivel. Just words from a man who says whatever he thinks will make him look good in the situation.

A bird of prey has more integrity in one feather than all of the McCain campaign.

[JiminNC]

Buzzards! And McLobby has most of them working for him while they are still lobbying.

[ex-pat]

So does this make him Tippy Hedron

[SSF]

If lobbyists are "birds of prey", then McCain must feel like a flopping, gasping fish in an eagles' nest considering all the LOBBYISTS on his campaign staff! What a hypocrite!

[DebbieinPhx]

No kidding! Can you say, Randy Schuenamann & Phil Gramm just for starters!!!! Aaaaamazing. As if anyone buys this line of cr**p!!

[soapington]

This geriatric cretin is gambling on our memories being as short as his own.

[Oldtimer]

What an insult to birds of prey!!

[indypete]

Sometimes you just have to laugh, eh?

[Xenopus]

Lord, what a hypocrit. His whole upper campaign staff are current or former lobbyists. This guy says black is white, and white is black and people just suck it in. Back in the grumpy mood huh, must have caught him in another of those "wonderful" stories that turn out to be just that.....s­tories.

[Quaoar]

Vultures are technically Birds of Prey.

[lovethesinner]

"The topic of lobbyists is sensitive for McCain because several of his top aides had lucrative lobbying practices.­"

Several of his top aids "HAD" lobbying practices? (more like POLITICO "HAS" ties to Republican spin masters.)

http://www.mccainslobbyists.com/

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/08/mccain_advisers_have_also_doub.php

Randy Scheuneman (the Georgia false flag op)

Phil Graham (UBS, Enron: created the deregulation legislation that created the mortgage meltdown, and his wife deregulated the securitys and exchange commission which led to the Enron disaster)

McCain's whole staff is nothing but lobbyists.