Centipede McCain

John McCain has so many Achillies’ heels, he’s going to need more legs.

Here’s the latest:

McCain’s campaign staff is rife with lobbyists. But, apparently, McCain finally found lobbyists who crossed the line. That line is pretty far out there — representing a brutal military regime that is now letting hundreds of thousands of its citizens die. Over the weekend, he lost two key staffers because they represented the Myanmar regime:

Doug Davenport, the regional campaign manager for the mid-Atlantic states, founded the DCI Group’s lobbying practice and oversaw the contract with Myanmar in 2002.

“Doug has tendered his resignation and we have accepted it,” Jill Hazelbaker, McCain’s communications director, wrote in a e-mail.

He joins former DCI Group CEO Doug Goodyear, who resigned yesterday from the post of convention CEO after Newsweek reported that DCI was paid more than $300,000 to represent Myanmar’s ruling junta.

That’s right–John McCain’s campaign employed lobbyists who represented Burma’s murderous military regime.

If these are the guys he puts on his campaign, imagine who he’ll put in the Penatgon, or the State Department, or the White House.

Scary stuff.


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