Yesireee, that McCain is a real maverick

Maverick McCain says he's your genuine Down-With-The-Special-Interests guy. That's why his operators did not want the upcoming Republican convention to be managed by Paul Manafort, the business partner of McCain's campaign manager, lobbyist Rick Davis. Manafort's clients have included the dictator Ferdinand Marcos and the infamous Putin buddy Viktor Yanukovich of the Ukraine. So, great, they dumped Manafort.

And upon whom have they now bestowed that convention management job? Why, good old Doug Goodyear, the Arizonan who is CEO of DCI Group. Last year, DCI made $3 million lobbying for ExxonMobil and General Motors, among others. In 2002, it got $348,000 for supporting Burma's dictatorial military junta. (Yep, that same bunch of numbskulls that has blocked international aid so urgently needed by the victims of Cyclone Nargis, -- which according to the Red Cross may have already killed over 128,000.)

Maverick? Oh sure.

Straight talker? Oh yeah.

Now let's all go watch the pigs fly.


(Source: current Newsweek)