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Originally Posted by Tully Mars
McCain did bring this up. Said he took on a defense contractor over a contract on planes, I think it was planes.
Don't think he was telling it exactly the way it happened but it's too early here and I haven't had enough coffee yet to go fact check. Besides I'm down to if he or Palin says it- it's a lie until I find out different. Just easier that way. He and her are both repeating lies that were disproved weeks ago.
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I was surprised he brought this up ....he rarely mentions it for good reason.
He did help block a DoD contract with Boeing when he was chair of the Armed Services Committee...and there may have been some questionable contracting practices (so whats new).
What he failed to mention was that his chief adviser on the issue at the time was the lobbyist (a former Republican congressman) for the competing bidder, Northrop Grumman/Airbus....and McCain wrote several letters to the DoD on their behalf. The lobbyist later became his campaign co-chairman.
Just as it is hard for him to make a compelling case about his oversight of Fannie and Freddie when he has several of their former lobbyist on his campaign staff or as money bundlers.
Each time that both sides of these "fighting corruption and lobbyists interest" mantra are revealed...it turns out he had a lobbyist close by his side and he loses more of his "maverick" image.