McCain's Lobbyist Loophole
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.
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.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics
On Tuesday, Sen. John McCain will travel to Colombia to highlight his support for a free trade pact with that country. It is a trip that comes with a...
Martin Garbus | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics
What Charles Black and Hillary Clinton said were not "accidents" as they were in the past. It is likely that words like these will become the accepted political dialogue of the future.
Katie Halper | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics
Anyone who knows anything about Islamofascism and/or cable service knows that al-Qaeda hearts C-SPAN, which is one of the few channels you can actually get in Afghani caves.
Craig Newmark | Posted 06.26.2008 | Home
McCain is not "confused"-- not in the way the media means, anyway. It's just hard to remember scripted lines and the arguments they make when they go against your better judgment.
Bob Cesca | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics
Even though Sen. McCain didn't truly denounce Charlie Black and, instead, basically supported the lobbyist's awful statements, the very serious cable news people are giving McCain a pass on this thing.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics
If they really see political gold in another 9-11, what would stop them from being delighted if Bush attacked Iran if the timing were right, say in mid-October?
Robert Creamer | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics
Fundamentally, the centuries-long battle between Progressives and the right wing has been a struggle between empowerment and domination.
Mary Lyon | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics
Charlie Black gave away the mindset -- the same chilling, dreadful policy-making mentality under whose influence we've already suffered for almost eight years -- of the McCain campaign.
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 06.25.2008 | Media
Here is a fact of life: If you are having a conversation with someone about Obama and Osama, there is a very good chance that someone will slip up somewhere. But honestly, it's really no big deal.
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics
With support for Bush's approach to combating terrorism waning, the notion that another attack during a Republican presidency will help the Republican candidate borders on being downright bizarre.
Blake Fleetwood | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics
Black is no dummy. He has been around and knew that something had to be done quickly to bring terrorism back on the agenda.
Huffington Post | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics
***UPDATE*** The Obama campaign has slammed John McCain's chief advisor, Charlie Black, for his comments that a terrorist attack on U.S. soil would c...
M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 06.24.2008 | Home
So Obama's position now is that the duty and power to protect the Constitution resides primarily not with the president or congress or the courts, but with a bureaucrat whose job is to conduct internal investigations of government agencies.
Huffington Post | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics
John McCain's chief advisor, Charlie Black, ignited a firestorm with his comments that another terrorist attack on the U.S. would create a "big advant...
RJ Eskow | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics
Obama should start laying the groundwork now with a series of speeches that explain why we can -- and must -- defend the liberties that make us Americans, even in the face of terror.
Paul Peete | Posted 06.16.2008 | Home
The only modern way to combat this powerful, entrenched, well-financed conservative cabal is to create public outrage. After sleeping through the bloodless coup the 2000 elections turned out to be, Americans have tuned into the battle between Hillary and Barack that kept us listening, talking and taking sides. Obama must re-ignite that excitement by engaging McCain in the most democratic of forums.
David Donnelly | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics
Question: How many lobbyists does it take to get to the center of John McCain's campaign? Answer: Too many.
HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics
The steady disclosures of past lobbying activity by campaign aides, and the struggle to minimize firings, continue to plague John McCain's presidentia...
Washington Post | Michael D. Shear and Jeffrey H. Birnbaum | Posted 05.22.2008 | Politics
Longtime uber-lobbyist Charles R. Black Jr. is John McCain's man in Washington, a political maestro who is hoping to guide his friend, the senator fro...
David Donnelly | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics
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.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics
Senator John McCain has a lobbyist problem. This past week, as several aides resigned because of their work representing unsavory governments, his cam...
Tom Matzzie | Posted 05.19.2008 | Politics
John McCain has 118 lobbyists either working or raising money for him. So far, he's fired only three of them.
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.19.2008 | Politics
The Washington Post reports that yet another top aide to Sen. John McCain has resigned in an attempt to clean up the "perception problem" that McCain'...
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.16.2008 | Politics
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David Donnelly | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics