Via Michele Malkin: (I've always wanted to put that in a Kos diary!)
Two of Sen. John McCain’s top advisers and fundraisers are among several Republican and Democratic presidential campaign officials whose lobbying firms have been paid more than $15 million by foreign governments since 2005.
What governments do you ask? More on the flip...
You may have heard of the lobbying firm that the McCain advisor belongs to. Its also Mark Penn's lobbying firm:
Mr. Black, who chaired BKSH when it received more than $700,000 in fees from foreign entities since 2005, also signed a deal to lobby for the China National Offshore Oil Corp., a state-owned firm that backed out of an $18.5 billion takeover of U.S. oil producer Unocal amid sharp congressional opposition.
China, check. Which other countries have done deals with Mr Clean's advisors? Take a guess:
Mr. Loeffler's firm has received more than $10 million since 2006 from the Saudi Embassy and the Ministry of Commerce & Industry of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Just two months ago, the firm also signed an agreement with the South Korean Embassy to consult on "legislation affecting Korea's foreign military sales status and related matters."
Mr. Clean is also not very transparent when it come to who is collecting big bundles of donations as the Moonie Times notes in the last paragraph:
Mr. Black and Mr. Loeffler also are listed by Mr. McCain's campaign Web site as bundlers, expected to collect thousands of dollars in donations from several sources to bypass federal election laws limiting individual contributors to a $2,300 maximum donation.
Although bundlers for Mr. Obama who have raised more than $50,000 and those for Mrs. Clinton who have raised at least $100,000 are identified, how much each of the McCain bundlers has raised is not listed.
Of course, McCain,
who has already broken his own campaign finance law, is already bitching about Obama dropping out of public financing.
In other word, while Obama and Hillary savage each other, McCain, who is as dirty when it comes to lobbyists and campaign money as any politician even as he pretends not to be, McCain gets to attack our likely presidential candidate as a man who renegs on his promises.
Nice, huh?