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So Much for McCain's No-Lobbyist Policy

John McCain's declared policy of not having lobbyists as part of his campaign team has always been full of holes and contradictions. But the fact that his top foreign policy advisor Randy Scheunemann arranged a phone call between his longtime lobbying client, the Georgian president, and the Republican presidential candidate on the same day that Scheunemann's lobbying company Orion Strategies signed a $200,000 lobbying renewal contract with the country really takes the cake for conflict of interest. With the Caucasian nation's territorial integrity in jeopardy after five days of fighting with Russian forces, it's hard not to wonder whether the Georgian leadership thinks in retrospect that it got its money's worth from its lobbying investment.


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McSlime has shown his yellow stripes. He thinks he is President already by calling on Russia to withdraw from the invasion of Georgia. Maybe McSlime's foreign Policy Advisor and Lobbyist to the Country of Georgia had something to do with Georgia's confidence in standing up to the Russians. But, everyhing backfired!
Now McSlime has to show his experience or lack thereof and explain why he is engaged in lobbying in a foreign country for profit or for political reasons. The Russians took advantage of an idiot and senile American running for President and they won! Now the people of Georgia will pay with their lives. What a great Amerkan.

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Translation - We in Japan have given McCain many dollars.

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The connections between the McCain campaign and lobbyists seems a small aspect of the bigger story: who in the United States encouraged Georgia to settle their dispute with the South Ossetians by force? Who told them to expect American help or expect an easy fight?

And above all, why after screwing up exactly the same way in Georgia, Lebanon, Somalia, and Iraq, why should they keep being in charge of foreign policy?

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