Obama Rips Into McCain On Lobbyists (VIDEO)
On Monday, The Huffington Post reported: Just twelve years ago, when [Sen. John] McCain was politically recuperating from his involvement in the Keat...
On Monday, The Huffington Post reported: Just twelve years ago, when [Sen. John] McCain was politically recuperating from his involvement in the Keat...
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.
Time | MICHAEL SCHERER | Posted 03.27.2008 | Politics
The U.S. senate is a lousy launching pad for sainthood, a place of compromise and backslaps, of hidden doors that lead to gilded rooms where the real ...
USA Today | Matt Kelley | Posted 03.24.2008 | Politics
Republican presidential candidate John McCain has condemned the influence of "special interest lobbyists," yet dozens of lobbyists have political and ...
Politico | Martin Kady II and Patrick O'Connor | Posted 03.04.2008 | Politics
Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain has engaged a leading GOP lobbyist to coordinate his message and travel schedule with c...
Sean Carman | Posted 02.26.2008 | Politics
Kristol's argument on why Obama doesn't wear a flag pin ("Flag-gate!") is just so unbelievably, insidiously stupid: The man is a 50-year-old fifth grader.
Dylan Loewe | Posted 02.25.2008 | Politics
The New York Times story has the potential to echo through this most crucial part of McCain's winning coalition, with evidence of government corruption and a rejection of "family values."
Robert Schlesinger | Posted 02.24.2008 | Politics
The Hill report that lobbying revenues were up across the board in 2007, despite the ethics and lobbying overhauls the Democrats instituted with much fanfare.
AP | LIZ SIDOTI | Posted 02.23.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — A former Paxson Communications president said Saturday he never met with John McCain about the Arizona senator writing letters to t...
New York Times | Clark Hoyt | Posted 02.23.2008 | Media
BILL KELLER, the executive editor of The Times, said the article about John McCain that appeared in Thursday's paper was about a man nearly felled by ...
AP | SETH SUTEL | Posted 02.22.2008 | Media
NEW YORK — A New York Times story examining John McCain's relationship with a female lobbyist eight years ago has thrust the newspaper itself in...
Posted 02.22.2008 | Politics
Iseman Client Contradicts McCain Campaign On Meetings: The Washington Post reports: Broadcaster Lowell "Bud" Paxson today contradicted statements fro...
HuffingtonPost.com | Marc Cooper | Posted 02.21.2008 | Home
Beleagured GOP candidate John McCain's choice for personal lawyer in the emerging favors-for-lobbyist scandal, Bob Bennett, has a long record of defe...
Matt Browner Hamlin | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics
It is clear that at least two people very high up in the McCain universe have confirmed to both the Times and Post that they had a direct intervention with McCain over Iseman.
Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics
Democrats Debate In Texas Tonight in Austin, Texas, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will go head-to-head in their penultimate debate before the March...
Huffington Post | Katharine Zaleski | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics
Gennifer Flowers came out today to remind everyone of her legacy in the pantheon of political scandals. She told the television show "Extra" that if ...
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics
Tucker Carlson is convinced that this New York Times story making waves on the campaign trail has no legs. On MSNBC, anchor Norah O'Donnell asks Tuck...
Mary Mapes | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics
The fact that McCain's picture is suddenly plastered all over the place next to photos of a pretty lobbyist sure isn't going to help him with the people he needs most, the hardcore Huckabee fans.
Huffington Post | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics
John McCain's daughter Meghan wrote on her blog McCain Blogette a few hours after The New York Times released the report suggesting her father's infid...
Ari Melber | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics
The G.O.P. elites aren't mad that McCain did any of thoee things. They're upset that the media is covering it.
Robert Schlesinger | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics
McCain presented the Democrats with a powerful soundbite when he told reporters today that he has many friends who are Washington lobbyists.
Cliff Schecter | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics
Many are unaware that McCain has surrounded himself with more lobbyists than Jack Abramoff on a golf outing. Vicki Iseman, and his actions on behalf of her clients, is only the tip of the tip of the iceberg.
Zephyr Teachout | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics
By blending two stories, the Times is coming down strongly on the side of political parietals: If you are an older man, in a position of power, don't have close relationships with younger women.
Lanny Davis | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics
What was omitted from both stories today was that what I wanted Sen. McCain to do, he refused to do. And he did so out of a concern of appearances of impropriety. That is a fact.
AP | LIZ SIDOTI | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics
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The Huffington Post | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics