Bush Helps McCain Draw $3.5 From Exclusive Crowd of 500

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Behind closed doors this week, George W. Bush quietly hosted a fundraiser for John McCain that raised $3.5 million from about 500 Republican donors.

No cameras were allowed into the event, and the two were only captured on film together at the airport -- even then for just 27 seconds as they got into a car to be whisked to the exclusive event.

"McCain is going to extraordinary lengths to conceal the fact that at the very foundation of his campaign -- its policy positions and now the money driving it -- is George W. Bush."

This Saturday is the financial reporting deadline for the month of May. It will be a test of whether millions of ordinary people giving whatever they can afford can go toe-to-toe with the Bush-McCain fundraising machine.

McCain has been rocked by several recent media reports that detail his association with undesirable political contacts who have alliances with the brutal dictatorship in Myanmar. That's just one problem. Another one of McCain's prominent team players, Rick Davis, "founded his own lobbying firm, and, according to the Politico, 'has made at least $2.8 million lobbying Congress since 1998.'"

Howard Dean called the McCain campaign out last week, saying that Charlie Black, McCain's chief political adviser, used his connections with George Bush and Dick Cheney to lobby administration officials for dozens of wealthy clients. He apparently has gotten away with that for more than seven years. The Washington Post reported that "Black said he does a lot of his work by telephone from McCain's Straight Talk Express bus."

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Anonymous May 31, 2008 7:00 pm (Pacific time)

Brice et al: That overplay for corporate political purpose is extremely well-documented now, with the wild reaction to McClelland book. It is typical Murdochization at work, per dialog notes here recently. CNN is as complicit as Fox, with insider documentation now firmly on record so stating. What WE do about it will now either kill that conception of tv-news vulnerable to corporate control --via strong condemnation from customers for advertisers--or it will go on. Hurt 'em in the ad-dollars and you bring about change...

Brice May 31, 2008 11:19 am (Pacific time)

Well the priest apologized for his outlandish behavior, but I don't believe it will stop from becoming another political commercial for the right. The death of a thousand cuts seems to be a process that is self-inflicted by Obama's associates. I must have seen this on CNN and FOX over 20 times in the last couple of days. It really steams me, and my wife.

Henry Ruark May 30, 2008 7:02 pm (Pacific time)

Brice et al: Unfortunately, First Amendment may protect precisely this kind of campaign behavior, on either --or ANY-- side. That point is less vulnerable that political campaign contributions by corporations, which abuses 14th Amendment written to protect slaves-as-freed, with last count something over 100-to- for uses by corporations vs as intended. SO Brice, live and learn... amd it becomes clearer what we must do, if we are to create such shock-wave that many, many WDs, uninformed and further led astray via Fox and Murdockization, must finally come to some sense of citizen responsibility and learn to read plain English statements readily available already.

Marylee May 31, 2008 7:57 am (Pacific time)

The way that money talks in elections and the way the votes that count are the ones by super deligates or other chosen rich makes voting not wort it and our founding forfathers would roll over in their grave to see the way this Country is today. Money talks and BS walks

Brice May 30, 2008 2:59 pm (Pacific time)

I realize McCain has a lot of baggage, but did anyone catch that Priest at Trinity Church in Chicago the other day demeaning Clinton? He did apologize later, but as a Catholic, it made me pretty sick. I just wonder how these people like that keep their tax free status, they are ripping us taxpayers off when they endorse specific candidates. Am I wrong?

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