Shameless is one word. Typical is another.

Shameless yeah. Business as usual, for sure.

When you spend years as a POW, you learn that the only way to fight gay abortion is to have lobbiests push for more off shore drilling.

Here's a partial list of companies he has lobbied for:

– Unocal  (now owned by Chevron)
– American Petroleum Institute
– American Health Care Association
– Lincare
– AT&T
– Freddie Mac
– Centex Corporation
– Cox Enterprises, Inc.
– National Assoc. of Manufacturers
– Asbestos Working Group
– Northrup Grumman
– American Financial Services Assoc.
– The NRA  (The National Rifle Association)
— The American Council of Life Insurers
;– Farallon Capital Management, LLC
– Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
– The Vanguard Group, Inc.
– Primerica Financial Services
– Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.

Hmmm - oil, Big Pharma, Subprime, guns, asbestos, defense contractor. Now that's change we can believe in!

Timmons has been around so long he was one of the people behind the effort to deport John Lennon because he was supposedly dangerous.

Standard GOP playbook -- an outraged accusation that your opponent is doing something that you are openly doing yourself.

John McCain -- more of the same.

I don't know why this is surprising. Someone commented on this blog a couple of weeks ago that Karl Rove attacks the opponent, sees what the response is and if it isn't too bad he does the same thing he came out against. The fact that McCain is now doing something Obama did earlier that McCain said was wrong is Karl Rove's strategy. It is abominable, yes, and McCain has obviously put the puppet strings on himself, but it isn't surprising.

Democrats were angry at the media love for McCain when he was running an admirable campaign. Now he is being underhanded and dirty, the Democrats are calling foul, the press is coming out against the tactics (when they do), and his campaign is saying, "We don't care! We will win this way!" Honestly, I am not sure which is better - Obama being on the defensive for not getting any media love or Obama being on the defensive of lies and smears.

I hate Karl Rove.

Am I being cynical in suggesting the timing of this announcement coincides with Ike, and that the media won't cover it ever?

What's considered preparation is only uppity, er, I mean presumptuous if Obama does it.

Great list Danp - this would make a great ad: "John McCain has already hired his transition team leader. And you'll never guess who it is. Another lobbyist! Let's see who he has lobbied for (after leaving the Nixon administration: (roll list). Change? Or more of the same?"

McCain/Palin: Lies you can believe in.

Great list,/i> - Homer

Thanks. I should have cited this link though.

And second, when the Obama campaign recently put together its own transition team -- a standard procedure for presidential candidates from both parties for decades -- Republicans went berserk. The McCain campaign accused Obama of "already dancing in the end zone with a new White House transition team."

Well, in all fairness, that was almost two months ago, well before Obama had even officially been nominated. I think that's where the outrage came from. In addition, it already fit in with the (relatively well supported) accusations of narcissism.

Dunno about that FOX report though.

And of course McSame has absolutely promised that he will NOT allow lobbyists in his administration:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/21/15952/0593/958/571631

BTW...looks like Ike was a lot more destructive than Gustav, but somehow you don't see all those Republican efforts on camera to look like they actually give a crap the way they did during their convention.

I don't even believe Sarah Palin needs glasses at this point.

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The TRUTH about the "McCain Bounce":

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/09/poll-madness-mccain-takes_n_125158.html

http://www.nation.co.ke/News/world/-/1068/469652/-/rxnf86/-/

"They were, of course, lying, and now McCain is doing precisely what he criticized Obama for doing."

We're their lips moving?

Every word out of McCain's mouth is a lie, including "and" and "the."

The reason is that Obama did his on July 25th, a full month before he even officially got the nomination. McCain's got his officially within 8 weeks of the election which is traditional. Someone with ties to major itnerests? I guess we should just pick guys up off the streets and put them in the cabinet, right? I mean, I guess we shouldn't put people in charge who might have an ounce of experience in the actual areas they will be advising the president on. My god, someone who talks about energy who has worked in the oil business? Heresy. Maybe the no experience angle just comes naturally to Obama supporters.

WAIT A MINUTE, MODERATE
You're off the mark. Timmons has NO oil industry experience or, for that matter, any of the other companies listed. His experience (other than as a congressional relations aide way back the mid 1970's -- more than 30 years ago! -- and assisting in transition in 1980 and 2000) is all about securing access and accommodation (you know, those favors that the "reformer" McCain is so opposed to?) for his corporate clients. No heresy here, but definitely hypocrisy in your comments.

Ok, here's what really P-sses me off about McCain:

What he's doing when he denies telling some pretty vicious lies about Obama (the latest being his wanting to teach comprehensive sex-ed to kindergarteners and the lipstick on a pig thing)is exactly what Cheney did during an interview several months ago when he was asked about how he feels that %67 of Americans say they want us out of Iraq. Cheney smirked and said, "So?"
This kind of blatant disregard for the public stems from an attitude that, no. 1, the American people must not be paying attention and no.2, they don't care. They'll just do what they want, anyway. I think McCain is banking on some failed sense that Americans are simply stupid. I pay very close attention to what is going on in this race. Most people probably can't do that, but at least they can see the forest for the trees.
Come on, people! LOOK!

The choice shows us exactly how McCain/Palin will govern. The transition will be a time to line federal agencies with the people corporate America and K Street want in place.

They don't want those parties at the Department of the Interior to stop.

"A prominent Washington lobbyist who has worked for every Republican President since Richard Nixon has been tapped by the McCain campaign to conduct a study ..."

John McCain says he's taken on special interests and opposes lobbyists. Once again he's taken on a lobbyist by hiring him.

Change or more of the same?

For real change vote for Barack Obama!

Even though Palin is helping McCain in the *National* polls, they won't matter in the long run.

It's the ELECTORAL COLLEGE that will decide it all.

McCain HAS to keep all Bush states from 04, BUT he is losing (as of now) IA, CO, and NM. If he loses these 3, he has to pick off some blue state(s) from 04 to offset the loss, but where is this truly realistic???

Bottom line: if Obama keeps all of Kerry's states from 04, and picks off IA, CO, and NM, he wins.....Obama does NOT need OH!

Translation: all of this nit-picky nonsense about Palin is not gonna matter Nov. 4th.

http://www.opinionjournal.com/ecc/calculator.htm

Obama put his team together before the primaries along with his temple columns etc. when it looked very likely that he might become President.

McCaine set up a transitional team after the primaries and when Obama started to drop in the polls every day.

Not only in the States that McCain seemed sure to win but also in the ones that Obama seemed sure to win.

Obama levitated on hot air for 18 months which is admirable but now the air is leaving the balloon and he is clearly yesterday's man.

As the song goes, "we used to love you but it's all over now".

Mike