10. Responding to a student who criticized his remark about our staying in Iraq for 100 years, McCain quipped, “No American argues against our military presence in Korea or Japan or Germany or Kuwait or other places, or Turkey, because America is not receiving casualties.”
I guess Ron Paul isn’t American. Or Dennis Kucinich. Or many […]

Is John McCain in danger of having to hold “press conferences from his front yard,” as political strategist Joe Trippi suggested to NOW on PBS this week? The Republican frontrunner may have access to only limited funds this summer thanks to a government campaign finance program that prohibits a candidate from spending any privately raised […]

John McCain is refusing to renounce the endorsement of a prominent Texas televangelist who Democrats say peddles anti-Catholic and other intolerant speech.

Instead, the Republican presidential candidate issued a statement Friday afternoon saying he had unspecified disagreements with the San Antonio megachurch leader, John Hagee. Hagee endorsed him at a news conference Wednesday in San […]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/22/rick-renzi-ind…

Renzi is listed as an Arizona co-chair McCain’s website.
Paul Kiel breaks down the indictment:
The charges boil down to this, basically. Renzi is charged with doing everything he can as a congressman to strong-arm others into buying land from his buddy James Sandlin — Sandlin then allegedly kicked back sizable chunks of cash back to Renzi […]

Newsweek is reporting that McCain testified in a deposition five years ago that he personally spoke with the CEO of Paxson Communications regarding Paxson’s business before the FCC. This flatly contradicts McCain’s denial yesterday that he’d had any contact with Paxson or his representatives regarding the matter. Here’s the Newsweek link: http://www.newsweek.com /…
McCain flatly […]

Put very simply:
John McCain may also be involved (1) in Vicki Iseman’s lobbying efforts for the Carnival Corporation, (2) a Miami cruise company.
Carnival Cruise company (CEO Micky Arison)(3) was under scrutiny for a decision by FEMA in 2005 to charter three cruise ships to be used as temporary housing for Katrina victims. The contracts awarded […]

From Seafan:
It’s about using his position on Senate committees to exert direct pressure on government entities for the benefit of his campaign contributors, represented by lobbyists such as Ms. Iseman, cozying up to McCain on their behalf.
Isn’t it interesting that Ms. Iseman is, among other things, a telecommunications lobbyist who represented her clients before Senate […]

Iseman’s client list: (fcc regulated companies)
Client
AMFM Inc
AstraZeneca
CanWest
Capstar Broadcasting Partners
Carnival Corp
Computer Sciences Corp
Future Leaders of America
Hillsborough County
Hispanic Broadcasting Inc
Paxson Communications
Sinclair Broadcast Group
Telemundo Network Group
Total Living Network
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph…
and this from boston globe january 2000
MCCAIN GETS MONEY/PERKS, PRESSURES FCC
source: Boston Globe
The Boston Globe is reporting a multitude of instances where Senator John McCain has used his influence to get […]

John McCain, the probable Republican presidential nominee, has been forced to deny having an affair eight years ago with a lobbyist whose clients had business with the senate committee that he chaired.

A report in the New York Times claimed that aides to the 71-year-old Arizona senator were so worried by the amount of contact he […]