After having read account after account after account of John McCain's all-too-close relationship with lobbyists, it's hard for me to get too surprised at reading another account. Or at least I thought it was until reading Michael Isikoff today in Newsweek . ...
An Optics Problem For McCain
marcambinder.theatlantic.comFound 5 days, 14 hours, 5 minutes, and 43 seconds agoItem: The McCain campaign's handpicked RNC convention czar, Doug Goodyear, resigns after Newsweek reports that his firm, the DCI Group, was working to make the government of Myanmar look good. "Today I offered the convention my resignation so as not to become a distraction in this campaign. ...
McCain Convention Manager Resigns After NEWSWEEK Reveals Burma Ties
blog.newsweek.comFound 5 days, 16 hours, 11 minutes, and 59 seconds agoAround noon today, the powers-that-be at NEWSWEEK posted "A Convention Quandary" on our website. In the story, investigative ace Michael Isikoff reported that the man chosen by John McCain's presidential campaign to run this summer's GOP convention--Arizonan Doug Goodyear--was causing some headaches ...
Judge him by his friends
WWW.samefacts.comFound 5 days, 16 hours, 11 minutes, and 30 seconds agoJohn McCain decided that he couldn't have Paul Manafort of the lobbying firm Davis, Manafort, and Freedman as chair of the Republican National Convention because the firm used to lobby for Ferdinand Marcos when Marcos was dictator of the Philippines. ...
Great Choice, Senator McCain!
obsidianwings.blogs.comFound 5 days, 22 hours, 17 minutes, and 3 seconds ago"Ironically, Goodyear was chosen for the post after the McCain campaign nixed another candidate, Paul Manafort, who runs a lobbying firm with McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis. The prospect of choosing Manafort created anxiety in the campaign because of his long history of representing controversial foreign clients, including Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos. More recently, he served as chief political consultant to Viktor Yanukovich, the former Ukrainian prime minister who has been widely criticized for alleged corruption and for his close ties to Russia's Vladimir Putin-a potential embarrassment for McCain, who in 2007 called Putin a "totalitarian dictator.
Myanmar Turns Foreign Aid Into Form of Propaganda
foxnews.comFound 6 days, 5 hours, 27 minutes, and 47 seconds agoMyanmar's military regime distributed international aid Saturday but plastered the boxes with names of top generals in an apparent effort to turn the relief effort for last week's devastating cyclone into a propaganda exercise. ...
McCain Convention Coordinator Resigns
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.comFound 5 days, 20 hours, 5 minutes, and 11 seconds ago
Leader of GOP convention quits after Myanmar ties reported
news.yahoo.comFound 5 days, 17 hours, 21 minutes, and 39 seconds agoThe man picked by the John McCain campaign to run the 2008 Republican National Convention resigned Saturday after a report that his lobbying firm used to represent the military regime in Myanmar.
Aid on the way to devastated Myanmar but so is heavy rain
apnews.myway.comFound 5 days, 22 hours, 43 minutes, and 30 seconds agoYANGON, Myanmar (AP) - More aid is on the way to cyclone-ravaged Myanmar - but so is the heavy rain. Diplomats and aid groups warned that the number of dead could eventually exceed 100,000 because of illness and said thousands of children may have been orphaned. The government, which wants full control ...
'I stopped counting bodies on journey down river of death'
timesonline.co.ukFound 6 days, 6 hours, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds agoWe saw the first one a few minutes downriver, no more than five hundred yards from the quayside and the busy town centre of the river port of Pyapon.
