Savimbi, McCain.. if you're the piper you play the tune that's paid for.

I'm starting to wonder if McCain actually has anyone on his staff who hasn't done work for foreign governments, dictators, and warlords. This makes what, the 6 or 7th high level adviser in his campaign to have proven links now?

If this is how he runs his campaign, im scared to see what his cabinet as president would look like.

A rather strange crew of associates and advisors for somebody that advertizes himself as "Mr. Clean".

McCain sounds more and more like Bush III each day.

As long as there are people like this, and Karl Rove, allowed to interject themselves into our political system, we will never have another admin for the people.

I have a feeling his cabinet would look like a who's who of the Lobyyist hierarchy. The amazing thing is with the American people rejecting the Bush mantra of unquestioned support for the corporation how can they offer a candidate that makes Bush look like he DID care for the little guy?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/201671...

"John McCain's campaign asked prominent Republican consultant, Craig Shirley, to leave. Shirley doubled as a consultant to McCain and the group Stop Her Now, a 527 group barred from coordinating its activities with presidential campaigns.

Shirley's firm, Shirley & Bannister Associates, was paid more than $22,000 by McCain for work to win conservative support. Stop Her Now has paid the firm more than $155,000 since 2007 for public relations work.

Shirley's background is in some of the hardest hitting Republican attacks on Democratic politicians. He was a member of the team that tarred Michael Dukakis with the "Willie Horton" ads in 1988, and he helped organize the press conference with Paula Jones. In 2004, his company did public relations work for a movie attacking John Kerry called, 'Stolen Honor.'"

http://news.propeller.com/story/2008/04/26/mcca...

"McCain's help for Keating came after Keating had donated $112,000 to McCain from 1982 to 1987, had taken McCain and his family on nine trips, including three to the Bahamas, and had gone in on a business deal with McCain's wife and father-in-law.

In 1982, Keating held a fund-raiser for him, collecting more than $11,000 from 40 employees of American Continental Corp. In 1983, as McCain contemplated his House re-election, Keating hosted a $1,000-a-plate dinner for him, even though McCain had no serious competition. When McCain pushed for the Senate in 1986, Keating was there with more than $50,000. By 1987, McCain had received about $112,000 from Keating and his associates.

The Arizona Republic revealed that McCain's wife and her father had invested $359,100 in a Keating shopping center."

So why would some one like McCain who has for years talked about reducing the lobbyist influence hang out with some one like Black who has lobbied for some of the dirtiest of all crooks and dictators? Black says he only lobbied for dictators

whom White House supported ...hmmmm..and when White House pulled the plug on Marcos he stopped. Didn't he have his own conscious to lead him in his decisions to lobby? It is funny that many of those people have ended up as a failures. Why would McCain hire some one like Black who has led so many to fail and doing so fail his own conscious as well? Does America need a leadership to help it fail? Does one need a tutor to get an F? McCain shows no leadership in any issues that he declares it important to him and to America.