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John McCain's Very Own Prince of Darkness

Submitted by pmcarpenter on Sun, 04/20/2008 - 7:28am. P.M. Carpenter

THE FIFTH COLUMNIST by P.M. Carpenter

Some straight-talkin' maverick, this John McCain -- a pol who's dependent on one of the GOP's most familiar gunslinger-lobbyists whose peculiar political ethics once helped design and construct the party's modern seek-and-destroy machine.

Then, as now, that machine delivered precious little straight talk and the only thing "maverick" about it was how ethically low it was willing to operate. And one of its co-designers was Charlie Black, whose most recent association with Mr. McCain is summarized here by the New York

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Senator Clinton Became What She Beheld: The Right Wing Slime Attack Machine

Submitted by mark karlin on Sun, 04/20/2008 - 8:53am. EditorBlog

BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG

by Mark Karlin

Editor and Publisher

April 20, 2008

If you are a Chicagoan, as I am, you know that Richard M. Daley is the voice of the lunch bucket working class men and women. In fact, I used to be involved actively in an advocacy issue and would talk to Daley while sitting next to him at fundraising functions, and let me tell you (they were off the record as far as details) that he's a tireless advocate for many progressive urban issues (gay rights, education, gun control, the environment, etc.), but he's also someone who can speak bluntly of the "family values" Reagan Democrat, because his heart never left the former working class Irish enclave of his birth in Chicago: the Bridgeport neighborhood. (It is now largely Mexican, Italian and Irish -- and he has long ago moved out.)