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Posted By Aidenag 1 year, 2 months ago in Political NewsThe Washington lobbyist John McCain has named to head his presidential transition team aided an influence effort on behalf of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to ease international sanctions against his regime. The two lobbyists who McCain aide William Timmons worked closely with were convicted of federal criminal charges that they had acted as unregistered agents of Saddam Hussein's government.
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Aidenag1 year, 2 months ago
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As much as McCain tries to say he isn't in bed with lobbyists, i just don't see how it can be true with how many he has working for him. Especially when so many of the ones that work for him, lobbied for things that endangered the National Security of the United States... This makes what, the 5th or 6th high up McCain staffer/aide who has worked for foreign dictators? I've seriously lost count.
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Spadecaller1 year, 2 months ago
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"My friends, I have a plan..." So McCain always says. He must have failed "show and tell" in grade school, because he never shows anything of substance. "I have a plan..." So do I... vote for Obama.
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Any plans that McCain alleges to have come from his lobbyists who are in charge of his campaign. -
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Progressive1 year, 2 months ago
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Thanks, Aidenag. We all know a McCain administration would be populated entirely by lobbyists. He still even has that smarmy Phil Gramm smirking over his shoulder everywhere he goes, despite having "fired" him from his campaign. Last time I looked, there were still 177 lobbyists running this dog and pony show.
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Eagle_Eye1 year, 2 months ago
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"Gee, where's our lockstep neocon cheerleaders?"
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Busy wallowing in the mud and stench on another thread.....
I can't wait, less than 4 weeks to go, I am so sick of this BS and the hateful right wing......every day they get worse, it is like a feeding frenzy of vultures swarming a dead animal and stinks just as bad. -
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NoWayMan1 year, 2 months ago
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wow. McCain has surrounded himself with yet another LOBBYIST, and this lobbyist worked on behalf of none other than SADDAM.
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how many times can McCain shoot himself in the foot? I guess it depends on how many bullets he has left.
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ETproductions1 year, 2 months ago
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McCain stooping to guilt by association is like the Nazis attacking the allies for using propaganda. McCain's got his protection of convicted felon Charles Keating and his entire campaign run by lobyists, including some who represented incredibly unsavory characters. He really shouldn't go there.
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diogenes21st1 year, 2 months ago
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Hey, ease up. McCain was only 56 years old at the time this guy was out working on behalf of an international bad guy. (When Sarah Palin said this week she and McCain know the good guys from the bad guys, she didn't include the fact that they help support the bad guys.) And I'm sure Irony John will say that Timmons is just a guy in his neighborhood who he only sees occasionally - after all, with 177 lobbysists on staff, how can he possibly see any one of them more than occasionally?
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