Campaign Money Watch

McCain's policy ignores the problem with having a campaign run by corporate and foreign lobbyists: they are happy to abandon their lobbying work temporarily to get valuable chits with the potential future president.

The truth is that the public financing system for presidential races has long been outmoded and the blame for the system's failure is at Congress' doorstep, not Obama's.

McCain, whose history with Boeing led to the Air Force scuttling an earlier award on this contract, intervened twice with the Air Force to help Airbus' bid.

Question: How many lobbyists does it take to get to the center of John McCain's campaign? Answer: Too many.

McCain's campaign doesn't just have any old 115 lobbyists working for him. He's got some of the worst abusers of the pay-to-play and influence-peddling in Washington, DC.

With 115 lobbyists raising money for or staffing your campaign, we believe that last weekend's revelations about two staff members' work promoting the military junta in Myanmar are just the tip of the iceberg.

Over the past two days, two McCain aides have resigned because of their public relations work for the Burmese Junta. Turns out he has even more friends in low places.