This years campaign has been different! He has lobbyists! Over the last few weeks several have stepped down from his campaign, and now many feel betrayed!
It was a small band of loyal lobbyists who stood by presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain last August when his campaign went broke and his White House aspirations seemed doomed.
They raised money for him under impossible odds and kept him company in budget hotels during his darkest days.
Now they are under siege as McCain purges active lobbyists from his campaign team in a quest to wrest the reformist title from Democrat Barack Obama, his likely opponent in this fall’s general election.
If not for the lobbyists, Senator McCain may not have been the nominee! Now that he is, he is throwing them under the bus!
Look, I don't like corporate lobbyists to begin with. It is no sweat off of my back that they are leaving his campaign. What does bother me is the fact he not only did he have lobbyists, after preaching reform for a number of years, but he used them to his advantage, while all the while preaching for change! He is a typical politician. The old way! (Not a pun on his age, rather comparing Obama's message of change!)
Good for John for cleaning up the lobbyists! Bad for John for having them to begin with, using them, then disgarding them like yesterday's news!
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