Charlie Black is John McCain's chief campaign advisor.
Up until last week, it would be no surprise if few Americans were
familiar with the name Charlie Black: before joining the McCain campaign
as chief adviser, Black amassed a fortune working not for middle class
Americans, but as a serial lobbyist working closely with conservative
powerbrokers in plush backrooms on behalf of powerful CEO’s and creepy
foreign gazillionaires:
VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjCYmjjxp8I
* TPM re****ts that Black was on the dole of Ahmed Chalabi, the
Iraqi born con man who played a leading role in hoodwinking a tragically
naive Bush administration into invading Iraq and installing Chalabi as a
senior figure in the new government.
Up until just a few months ago -- we really don't know how recently
-- US taxpayers were still paying Chalabi millions of dollars a year
while he continued to fleece American taxpayers from an undisclosed
location in ... Iran.
* Black is chairmen of lobbying giant BKSH and Associates. His firm
boasts a long list of impressive, powerful clients, including many who
currently have business before US lawmakers, At&T and JP Morgan among
them. Despite joining the McCain campaign, Black was still re****tedly
being paid by BKSH as recently as this Spring.
* My personal favorite: John Gorenfeld, author of Bad Moon Rising,
notes that Black lent his name and in the process deceived several US
lawmakers into attending a gruesome spectacle in the Dirksen Senate
Office Building a few years ago, where right-wing religious maniac and
beloved funding maven of the GOP, cult-leader Sun Myung-moon, was
dressed up like King George III and crowned the Savior and Messiah of
Mankind.
When confronted by Gorenfeld, Black confessed nonchalantly as
though it were business as usual.
Charlie Black has the right to work for whomever he sees fit, but that
just begs the question. Given Mr. Black's many divided loyalties to a
multitude of wealthy patrons, clear conflicts of interest, and his self
professed penchant for cutting lobbying deals on a cell phone from the
back of the 'Straight Talk Express,' it's reasonable to ask just who the
hell this guy is working for now.
More im****tantly, can we trust the judgment of a Presidential candidate
who casually places such grave responsibility for the welfare of our
nation during a time of war, in the hands of a man who looks eager to
open a lobby franchise in the Oval Office on behalf of everyone from
revolting foreign operatives to extremist anti-American clerics at the
expense, literally, of legitimate, taxpaying citizens?
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