Mccain Lobbyists

Ignoring the 'Rocks in Glass Houses' Rule, Lieberman Calls Obama a Flip-Flopper on This Week

Mitchell Bard | Posted 07.06.2008 | Politics

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How apathetic does McCain think the voters are that his campaign can get away with accusing Obama of the very thing that has been McCain's biggest weakness?

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McCain Heads To Colombia, Already Tied To Country By Lobbyists

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics

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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...

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Helping McCain: The Man Needs An intervention

Craig Newmark | Posted 06.20.2008 | Home

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Over the last year, The real McCain has disappeared. We've heard nothing real from him. What we hear instead are the words predatory lobbyists are putting into his mouth.

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John McCain: The Second Coming of Bob Dole

Arianna Huffington | Posted 06.16.2008 | Politics

We once again have a Republican nominee who is a war hero, personable and engaging, with a long Senate career, who is so out of sync with the times that his campaign feels stillborn. It's Doleja vu all over again.

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In Obama's America, Road to Power No Longer Runs Through Law Firms

Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 06.14.2008 | Business

Lawyers will soon have to choose: spend your career serving your country, or spend it serving your corporation. But we have to make sure that those who embrace public service can make a decent living.

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Mr. Biz Whiz

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 06.12.2008 | Business

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By flip flopping on the constitutionality of the NSA's surveillance program, and giving key telecom lobbyists prominent play in his campaign, McCain shows that he, too, can be bought.

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Axelrod Exclusive: Obama Strategist Rips McCain, Defends Himself Against Lobbying Charges

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics

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Barack Obama's chief strategist leveled the campaign's harshest counterattack yet over John McCain's recent rhetoric on national security issues, and ...

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7 Days in America: McCain's Weak Week, w/ Klobuchar, Huffington, Conason & Green

Mark Green | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics

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If his five problems in five days are an indication, McCain is on track to end up with a smaller vote than the last Republican nominee from Arizona in 1964.

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McCain Swims With The Sharks

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 05.25.2008 | Politics

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At a time when the public is sick of Washington insiders - just look at the 2006 election results - it's difficult to decide who poked a sharper stick...

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Unearthed: News of the Week the Mainstream Media Forgot to Report

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.23.2008 | Media

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Karl Rove faces possible arrest; sea of plastic threatens aquatic life; corporate espionage continues; deficit off by trillions, and more...

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McCain Camp Quietly Reassuring Lobbyists

ABC's The Blotter | Justin Rood | Posted 05.22.2008 | Politics

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After a fervent round of anti-lobbyist posturing by John McCain provoked public grumbling from the K Street crowd, his presidential campaign quietly r...

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Charlie Black's Lobbying Career With Dictators Profiled

Washington Post | Michael D. Shear and Jeffrey H. Birnbaum | Posted 05.22.2008 | Politics

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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...

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Sing-along: Lobbyists, Lobbyists, oh Johnny's Lobbyists

David Donnelly | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics

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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.

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McCain Adviser Lobbied Senate Staff While On Presidential Campaign

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics

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McCain's lobbyist hits just keep on coming. Even as the campaign moves to curtail the senator's large number of lobbyist/advisers, new stories come o...

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Another McCain Connection To Anti-Obama Website

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics

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This past month, Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign paid tens of thousands of dollars to a vendor that was simultaneously working on behalf of a...

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Lobbyists To McCain: This Is The Thanks We Get?

Politico | Jeanne Cummings | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics

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More than a few Republican lobbyists in Washington are scratching their heads these days, asking: So this is the thanks we get? It was a small band o...

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McCain's '97 Lobbyist Bill Would Cripple Current Campaign

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics

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Senator John McCain has a lobbyist problem. This past week, as several aides resigned because of their work representing unsavory governments, his cam...

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Obama: McCain Campaign Paid For And Run By Lobbyists

HuffingtonPost.com | Will Thomas | Posted 05.19.2008 | Politics

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Today, Barack Obama sharpened his criticism John McCain's relationships with Washington lobbyists: During a speech at a local high school here, Obama...

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McCain's Fundraisers Are Lobbyists And Bankers

NY Times | Michael Luo & Sarah Wheaton | Posted 04.21.2008 | Politics

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Senator John McCain has staked his campaign for the presidency in large part on his reputation as a reformer intent on curbing the influence of money ...

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McCain's Cronies: Busting Media Myths On McCain's Lobbyist Hypocrisy

Christy Hardin Smith | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics

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Pretending that McCain has clean hands when his highest-ranking advisors are shoveling the muck is both illogical and dishonest. And the media knows it.

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Reformers Spurned

Katie Schlieper | Posted 04.02.2008 | Politics

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I know you're sensitive about this subject, John McCain, but I really think your new friends have come between us.

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McCain's Cronies: You Gotta Have Friends

Christy Hardin Smith | Posted 03.31.2008 | Home

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If political fixer Charlie Black were the only big name lobbyist surrounding John McCain, you could almost see it as an aberration -- Black having bee...

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John McCain's Ethical Double Standards

Time | MICHAEL SCHERER | Posted 03.27.2008 | Politics

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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 ...

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McCain Campaign Has 23 Telecom Lobbyists

USA Today | Matt Kelley | Posted 03.24.2008 | Politics

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Republican presidential candidate John McCain has condemned the influence of "special interest lobbyists," yet dozens of lobbyists have political and ...

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McCain Advisers Lobbied For Airbus

Associated Press | Jim Kuhnhenn and Matthew Daly | Posted 03.11.2008 | Politics

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Top current advisers to Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign last year lobbied for a European plane maker that beat Boeing to a $35 billion Air Fo...

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