My Lobby, Myself: How John McCain's hypocrisy is laundered as reform

In 2001, the year after he lost the G.O.P. presidential nomination to George W. Bush, McCain helped found the Reform Institute... a nonprofit whose stated aim was to advance ideals of influence-free good governance. But as McCain makes a second run at the White House, his supposedly independent project functions rather obviously as a public-relations arm of his political machine. In fact, in its revolving-door policy for loyalists, its dubious ... Full Story »

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by Gary Clark - Oct. 1, 2008

This is information that voters need to be hit with, hard. I have confidence in Harper's, and these charges are very important to the candidate's integrity. In all fairness, a thorough background check of Obama's ties to financial shakers and doers backing him need to be broadcast, as they should concern voters, too.

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