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I won’t bother to recount the growing laundry list of John McCain flip-flops and hypocrisies, but the latest involving members of his senior campaign staff illustrate the core weakness of his increasingly unsupportable flights of fancy.
Never mind that McCain has attacked Barack Obama merely because he wants to open a dialogue with some of our adversaries -- a policy McCain himself has advocated on many occasions and a strategy being practiced under the radar by the Bush administration. Now we discover that several of McCain’s longtime associates and senior campaign officials are not only tried-and-true lobbyists of a kind the candidate routinely rails against, but lobbyists who have worked to improve the image of some of the world’s most despotic tyrants in countries hostile to the United States.
These include Doug Goodyear and Doug Davenport, both of whom were forced to resign after it was revealed they worked for the dictatorial regime in Myanmar, the same regime that has refused to allow distribution of relief aid to victims of the recent cyclone. Also on the list is McCain’s national finance chairman Tom Loeffler, who was forced to resign after his lobbying ties were brought to light, bringing the total number of departures (so far) to five.
Perhaps most troubling is the case of McCain senior campaign advisor Charles Black, former chief of the BKSH lobbying firm, whose clients include brutal dictators Mobutu Sese Seko in Zaire and terrorist rebel Jonas Savimbi in Angola. Yet despite these unsavory ties, McCain has refused to fire Black. If we’re to believe McCain’s claims about experience and running a tight ship, how come his campaign maintained these associations? And if they didn’t know about the relationships, what does that say about McCain and his people?
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Darral Faas wrote on May 28, 2008 2:01 PM: