Posted by
Andrews on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 3:36:11 PM
I know the media is desperate to find a McCain scandal, they can make stick, and after
their last effort fell flat they had to try again, but is it really news that he is firing people form his campaign after finding out they were former lobbyists? For that matter, what person involved in national politics has not been a lobbyist at one time? Unless they never left government service, I think every Washington insider has been a lobbyist at some point. And please, don't try to tell me that there are no Washingotn insiders on either Clinton or Obama's campaign. Every campaign has insiders, and every campaign has former lobbyists. I just can't get worked up about it.
Let me just compare this to something else the media did not feel compelled to cover. Obama claims Wright was not his "quote-unquote spiritual adviser", yet the media forgets to mention that Wright served on the Obama campaign's spiritual advisory commission.
Apparently a voluntary cleanup of McCain's campaign is more of a scandal than an outright lie by Obama. Yet someone will doubtless post a reply to tell me that the press is not biased.