Every Sunday, it is some other front-page promotion piece.
"Defense hawk McCain also proves a tough military critic" by Bryan Bender, Globe Staff | June 29, 2008
WASHINGTON - Despite McCain's national security credentials and staunch support for continuing the war in Iraq, he has only slightly exceeded presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama in campaign contributions from the defense industry, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. The latest figures released by the Federal Election Commission show that McCain has raised $301,284 and Obama has raised $300,403 from employees who gave more than $200 and, in McCain's case, contributions from political action committees.
Oh no!
Change We Can Believe In?
And it gets worse!
Please watch: Change you can believe in? Surprise! ... Obama's people are Clinton's people
Industry officials and defense analysts said McCain's low level of financial support reflects deep anxiety among arms manufacturers at the prospect of a President McCain with the power to upend the Pentagon procurement budget. Some leading Wall Street analysts have recently cautioned clients that a McCain presidency could eat into some of their profits from big-ticket weapon systems.
Uh-huh!
This is making me laugh it is so silly!
Frikkin' newspapers!
"He has shown a lot of suspicion and sometimes hostility toward the largest defense companies," said Philip Finnegan, director of corporate analysis at the Teal Group, a market research firm in Washington that specializes in aerospace and defense. "He hasn't hesitated in taking on the largest defense companies and hasn't hesitated taking on the largest defense programs."
Government watchdog groups and both Republicans and Democrats in Congress credit McCain for helping to save taxpayer dollars and redirect funds to more pressing concerns. But others say his desire to play the role of maverick has also led him to overreach, at times seeking to apply contract changes or reforms to numerous programs without a full assessment of the impact. His abrasive personal style has also alienated many in the arms industry, according to several executives who recalled meetings with McCain in which he browbeat them.
That would be that famous McCain temper we have all not heard about!
His run-ins with senior Pentagon civilians and project officers have become legendary.
Then how come the Zionist-controlled MSM kept after Rev. Wright for his "angry" remarks?
After all, Bob Wright isn't running for president; McCain is, and the last thing this country needs is an angry hothead (besides, we already have one like that in there now) -- unless it is ME!?
When the Air Force wasn't satisfying his concerns that a multibillion-dollar deal in 2003 to lease air-refueling planes from
WTF?!?! I never heard a word about that?!
Gee, if it is some DemocraP trying to hold up WAR FUNDING, you never here the end of it until a bill goes through.
So WTF, McCain NOT SUPPORT the "TROOPS?"
McCain kept pushing until he got the competition reopened. When his influence on a key subcommittee overseeing air and land forces was not enough to address his concerns about the lease deal, the senator used his chairmanship of the Commerce Committee to continue investigating.
"They were doing defense oversight on the Commerce Committee," said Keith Ashdown, vice president for policy at Taxpayers for Common Sense, a nonpartisan watchdog group in Washington.
Ashdown, who cooperated with McCain's Senate aides in investigating the tanker deal, said McCain's efforts demonstrated how strongly he feels about checking what he considers defense industry largesse.
The investigation by his Senate staff into that program eventually resulted in a top Air Force procurement official and a company executive being sent to jail.
Yeah, right, McCain is looking out for us, sure.
I'm TIRED of the MYTH-MAKING regarding this slimy fossil from Washington.
Yup, that's why he is ALL GUNG-HO for WARS, right?
McCain's weapons oversight efforts appear to stem from a deep-seated suspicion of the power wielded by large arms manufacturers and their lobbyists. To justify his scrutiny, he has cited the farewell address of President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1961, in which he warned about the influence of the "military-industrial complex."
Pffffftttt!
America sure didn't heed that warning, did they?
Now, if America has a problem, they declare WAR on it!
That is the ONLY WAY you solve problems here in AmeriKa -- WAR!!!!
It his also his personal approach that has upset defense industry officials.
Getting a taste of that temper, huh?
"He has had some very tough meetings with Lockheed and Boeing and Northrop, and the executives came away feeling they were not treated in a professional way," said a former senior Pentagon official and defense industry insider who is now advising Obama. Like some other government and industry officials, he requested anonymity to speak critically of the man who could be the next president.
And if McCain disrespects them.... how does he feel towards ANYONE who disagrees with him?
McCain has been particularly critical of billions of dollars of weapons funding approved by Congress but not sought by the military services, such as the C-130J cargo plane manufactured by Lockheed Martin. One industry official said a top company executive was "absolutely blistered" after an encounter with McCain over the program several years ago.
McCain himself previewed what may be in store if he is elected president during a speech on defense policy last year to the Hudson Institute, in which he said the military needs more troops but will have to pay for them by cutting wasteful spending, "including unnecessary Pentagon programs" that he said are the result of a "dysfunctional procurement system."
I agree with McCain in theory (the wasted billions of war contractors should be used for troops' health care); however, he's not going to change shit!
"McCain and the defense industry [have] a funny relationship," remarked the former Pentagon official and industry executive, "because the CEOs who run the industry are mostly Republicans, and they want to like McCain. But he treats them so badly."
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