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Randy Scheunemann

Conservatives Back Obama On Afghanistan

Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Max Boot, Gen. Stanley McCrystal, Troops, Conservatives, Bill Kristol, President Obama, Ryan Crocker, Randy Scheunemann, Afghanistan War, Fred Kagan, Politics News

Prominent conservative foreign policy thinkers and activists who backed the Iraq war are circulating a letter to President Obama supporting his engage...

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When Randy Met Sarah

Lionel Beehner | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mccain, Alaska, Russia Georgia Conflict, Foreign Policy, Sarah Palin, Randy Scheunemann, Politics News
Lionel Beehner

Randy Scheunemann always struck me as someone whose views of the world were too sketchy and scary to be taken seriously. It is fitting that he and Sarah Palin found each other.

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Top McCain Aide Secretly Fired Last Week For "Trashing" Staffers

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bill Kristol, John McCain, Mccain Aide Fired, Randy Scheunemann John McCain, Mccain Foreign Policy Adviser Fired, Randy Scheunemann Fired, Randy Scheunemann, Politics News

CNN reports that senior McCain aide, and chief foreign policy adviser, Randy Scheunemann was fired a week before Election Day for "trashing" McCain st...

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McCain Campaign: "Bullshit" To Deny That Obama Palled Around With Terrorists

The Atlantic | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Marc Ambinder, John McCain, Palling Around With Terrorists, Randy Scheunemann, Politics News

In response to an earlier post on Marc Ambinder's Atlantic blog, Randy Scheunemann, McCain's chief foreign policy adviser (pictured at left), had some...

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Jason Linkins

McCain Holds Conference Call To Address Al Qaeda Endorsement

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Al Qaeda, John McCain, Al Qaeda Endorses Mccain, Barack Obama, Randy Scheunemann, Politics News

This morning, for reasons beyond understanding, the McCain campaign is going to have a conference call, in which they will presumably turn down the en...

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McCain Adviser Scheunemann Behind Neocon Iraq War Lobby

Mother Jones | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mccain Foreign Policy, Mccain Randy Scheunemann, Randy Scheunemann, McCain Advisers, Mccain Foreign Policy Advisers, Scheunemann McCain, Scheunemann, Politics News

In the fall of 2002, the man who would become the John McCain campaign's top foreign policy adviser was tasked with a sensitive project at the behest ...

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McCain's Straight Mess Express

The Real News | Posted 10.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Wall Street, 2008 Election, Lobbyists, Economy, Randy Scheunemann, Foreign Policy, Straight Mess Express, Zapatero, Straight Talk Express, Wayne Berman, Carly Fiorina, Politics News
The Real News

The shaky foundations of the McCain platform continue to quiver as McCain appears to be flip-flopping from one position to the next on a variety of issues.

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The Palin Doctrine: Why the Neocons Are So Excited

Arianna Huffington | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Palin Doctrine, Bush Doctrine, Bill Kristol, Randy Scheunemann John McCain, Sarah Palin, Palin Neoconservatism, Neocons, Neoconservatives, Bush Doctrine Palin, Iraq, Palin Iraq, Palin Foreign Policy, Palin Neocon, Randy Scheunemann, Palin National Security, Politics News
Arianna Huffington

Sarah Palin may not have known what the Bush Doctrine was, but we're getting a pretty good idea of what the Palin Doctrine is. And what is it going to look like? Let's just say, it's going to seem familiar.

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McCain: For Sale To The Highest Donors

Paul Peete | Posted 10.15.2008 | Home

Read More: Eads, Quid Pro Quo, The Loeffler Group, Jim McNerney, Rick Bavis, John McCain Donald Diamond, Susan Nelson, Donald Diamond, McCain's Money, John McCain, Betts, Randy Scheunemann, Home News
Paul Peete

The mainstream media has documented the facts over the years but has failed to tie them together during the election. John McCain is no maverick; he' a master of the quid pro quo.

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Who is Randy Scheunemann?

The Real News | Posted 10.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Kissinger, John McCain, Project for New American Century, Russia Georgia War, Randy Scheunemann, Brezenski, Rightweb, Politics News
The Real News

Basically he is a neo-conservative which in the context of American politics means he belongs to a very small group of intellectuals who think that America should basically take over the running of the world and spread democracy through ideas first and military power second."

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Some Foreign Policy Advice For Sarah Palin

Lionel Beehner | Posted 10.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Foreign Policy, Sarah Palin, Colin Powell, Sarah Palin Foreign Policy, Palin Foreign Policy, Randy Scheunemann, Politics News
Lionel Beehner

Grab some good foreign policy experts on the Right. Contrary to popular opinion, they do exist. Or if you are being briefed by Randy Scheunemann, take everything he says, reverse it, and you'll be just fine.

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John McCain: Campaign Lobbyist in Chief

Janet Ritz | Posted 10.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Corruption, Karl Rove, Jack Abramoff, Lobbyists, Rick Davis, Nancy Pfotenhauer, Oil, McCain's Money, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, John McCain, John McCain Lobbyists, Charlie Black, Randy Scheunemann, Politics News, Breaking Business News, Big Oil, Green News, Politics News
Janet Ritz

John McCain's attempted co-opt of the Obama campaign's change message avoids the fact that McCain has surrounded himself with a campaign staff of top ...

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John McCain Channels Reagan: Both the Good and the Troubling

Steve Clemons | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Dwight Eisenhower, Teddy Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Billl Kristol, John Kerry, Joseph Lieberman, Harry Truman, Lindsey Graham, Republican National Convention, Barack Obama, Robert Kagan, Randy Scheunemann, Fred Kagan, Politics News
Steve Clemons

Tonight, McCain gave us a big dose of Reagan's national greatness flourish in a dignified, genteel and pleasant manner. His speaking style was reminiscent of Reagan -- without the memorable lines.

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A New Cold War Does Not Benefit Obama

Lionel Beehner | Posted 09.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Gori, Russia, New Cold War, u.s. Foreign Policy, Biden, Mccain, Georgia, Cold War, Russia Georgia War, Randy Scheunemann, Politics News
Lionel Beehner

McCain likes to say that Obama is willing to lose a war (in Iraq) to win a campaign. Interestingly, it appears that McCain is willing to start a new cold war to win a campaign.

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John McCain Comes to Sacramento

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 09.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Republican Fundraiser, John McCain, John Bolton, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Randy Scheunemann, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

John McCain came to Sacramento today. He came for a fundraiser with his fellow fat-cat Republicans. Well-healed lobbyists and donors filed past our ...

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Georgia and the Push for Cold War

David Bromwich | Posted 02.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Saakashvili, Georgia the Beginning, Putin Georgia, Randy Scheunemann John McCain, Crisis in Georgia, Vladimir Putin, McCain Scheunemann, Scheunemann Georgia, Mikhail Saakashvili, Randy Scheunemann, Week in Review, Politics News
David Bromwich

Outside of the U.S., the utterances of Bush and McCain on Georgia are greeted with laughter, for they betoken a hypocrisy so ingrained it suggests insanity. The U.S. looks in the mirror and what do we see? Russia.

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Reporter Cut Off McCain Call For Questioning Attack

Politico | Posted 09.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Reporter Cut Off Mccain Call, Randy Scheunemann, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Mccain Call Cut Off, Ron Kampeas, Rudy Giuliani, Mccain Adviser Georgia, McCain Reporters, Politics News

Rudy Giuliani's appearance on a McCain conference call got off to a rocky start when Ron Kampeas, the Washington, D.C. of the Jewish Telegraphic Agenc...

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Sam Stein

McCain's Russia Lobbyists Confuse Georgia Defense

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mccain Lobbiysts, Charlie Black, Mccain Russia Georgia, Mccain Russia Lobbyists, McCain Russia, Randy Scheunemann, Mccain Angels, McCain Scheunemann, Melissa Edwards, McCain Georgia, Politics News

In the wake of John McCain's forceful rebuke of Russia for sending invading forces into Georgia, scrutiny has been placed on the role McCain's chief f...

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Why Does the Media and the American Public Allow McCain to Ignore the Facts with No Consequences?

Mitchell Bard | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: GI Bill, Paris Hilton, Jerry Falwell, Gas Prices, John McCain, Andrea Mitchell, Britney Spears, Obama Ambtious, Countdown With Keith Olbermann, McCain Offshore Drilling, Mccain Georgia Lobbyist, Jim Webb, Russia Georgia War, Iraq GAO Report Conclusions, Barack Obama, Mccain Letter Nbc Media Bias, Randy Scheunemann, Bush Tax Cuts, Veterans, Campaign Finance Reform, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Mccain Flip-Flop, Pat Robertson, Disabled Veterans Mccain, Politics News
Mitchell Bard

If Britney or Paris were to claim they were virgins, the media and public would go into apoplexy, but McCain can be equally dishonest about important policy issues, and virtually nobody says a word.

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McCain "Proud" Of His Adviser's Georgia Lobbying

USA Today | Posted 09.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mccain Georgia Crisis, Randy Scheunemann, McCain Lobbyists, McCain Scheunemann, McCain Georgia, Mccain Georgia Lobbyist, Scheunemann Georgia, John McCain, Politics News

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain told USA TODAY on Sunday that he has no problem with his top foreign policy adviser Randy Sche...

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The Personification of the Military-Industrial Racket

Joe Lauria | Posted 09.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Neocons, Neoconservatives, John McCain, Military-Industrial Complex, Georgia, Randy Scheunemann, Politics News
Joe Lauria

Randy Scheunemann stands as living, breathing proof of the incestuous relationship between the White House, the Pentagon, defense contractors, Congress and foreign governments: the military industrial complex.

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McCain Adviser Paid By Georgia To Lobby Senator

AP | PETE YOST | Posted 09.13.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — John McCain's chief foreign policy adviser and his business partner lobbied the senator or his staff on 49 occasions in a 3 1/2-yea...

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How the Bush Administration Created the Disaster in Georgia

Mark Kleiman | Posted 09.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Saakashvili, Georgia War, State Department, Randy Scheunemann, Politics News
Mark Kleiman

Jonathan Landay of McClatchy, which has been pound-for-pound the best news organization in the U.S. since 2001, has the gory details, and doesn't even front them.

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Sunday Watch 8-10-08: The Question Mark Over The Networks

Todd Gitlin | Posted 09.11.2008 | Media

Read More: Paris Hilton, Meet the Press, Karl Rove, John McCain, Face the Nation, David Gregory, Media News, Bob Schieffer, Barack Obama, Randy Scheunemann, Ready to Lead on Day One, Attack Ads, Media News
Todd Gitlin

David Gregory appears to have a limited supply of question marks at his disposal. He doesn't see any over John McCain's head -- or about his top foreign policy advisor, Randy Scheunemann.

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Seth Colter Walls

Track The Lobbyist Money That Bankrolls McCain's Campaign (And His Advisers)

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 08.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Lobbyists, John McCain Lobbyist, Charlie Black, Randy Scheunemann, Politics News

When it comes to tracking the lobbyists and companies who either work for or have contributed to John McCain's presidential campaign, now you can play...

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