Excellent News for McCain
Talking Points Memo — John McCain's transition chief helped lobby for Saddam Hussein back in the 1990s.

Palling Around with Pal of A Terrorist Dictator
Taylor Marsh — ... Obama-Ayers meets McCain-Timmons. What Murray Waas is reporting should even make John McCain blush. ...

Report: McCain Transition Head Helped Saddam's Lobbying Effort
TPMMuckraker — ... Wiliam Timmons, the veteran Washington lobbyist tapped to lead John McCain's transition team was involved in an effort on behalf of Saddam Hussein's government to ease international sanctions against Iraq, according to a report by Murray Waas in The Huffington Post. ...

McCain Transition Chief Lobbied for Saddam
Matthew Yglesias — Murray Waas reports: William Timmons, the Washington lobbyist who John McCain has named to head his presidential transition team, aided an influence effort on behalf of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to ease international sanctions against his regime. The two lobbyists who Timmons worked closely with over a five year period on the lobbying campaign later either pleaded guilty to or were convicted of federal criminal charges that they had acted as unregistered agents of Saddam Hussein’s government. It was probably ...

McCain transition team linked to Saddam Hussein
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/14/mccain-transit... The Washington lobbyist John McCain has named to head his presidential transition team aided an influence effort on behalf of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to ease international sanctions against his regime. The two lobbyists who McCain aide William Timmons worked closely with over a five year period on the lobbying campaign later either pleaded guilty to or were convicted of federal criminal charges that they had acted as unregistered agents of Saddam Hussein's government. During the same period beginning in ...

McCain Transition Chief Helped Saddam
democracyarsenal.org — Just when you thought you couldn't find anymore weird McCain lobbyist ties we get this from the Huffington Post: William Timmons, the Washington lobbyist who John McCain has named to head his presidential transition team, aided an influence effort on behalf of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to ease international sanctions against his regime. The two lobbyists who Timmons worked closely with over a five year period on the lobbying campaign later either pleaded guilty to or were convicted of federal criminal charges that they had acted as unregistered ...

BREAKING: McCain Transition Chief Lobbied For Saddam Hussein
Crooks and Liars — Our own Murray Waas has a huge breaking story. This just gets better and better. William Timmons, the Washington lobbyist who John McCain has named to head his presidential transition team, aided an influence effort on behalf of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to ease international sanctions against his regime. The two lobbyists who Timmons worked closely with over a five year period on the lobbying campaign later either pleaded guilty to or were convicted of federal criminal charges that they had acted as unregistered agents ...

Testimony: Timmons Knew Lobbyists Met With Saddam
TPMMuckraker — ... , Murray Waas is reporting that William Timmons, the head of John McCain's transition team, was involved in a lobbying effort on behalf of Saddam Hussein's government in the early 1990s. ...

McCain Transition Chief Aided Saddam In Lobbying Effort
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — Investigative journalist Murray Waas just published a feature story on the ties between John McCain's transition chief and Saddam Hussein. ...

Yet More Lobbyist Trouble For McCain
Newshoggers.com — ... Murray Waas reports that McCain's transition chief used to work closely with lobbyists who were jailed for aiding Saddam Hussain's attempts to get around international sanctions, and that Mccain's handpicked man, another lobbyist by the name of William Timmons, would have benefitted to the tune of millions had one of their deals worked out. (Hat-tip, ...

Yeah, that whole William Ayers thing...
Rising Hegemon — Well, fuck that shit: William Timmons, the Washington lobbyist who John McCain has named to head his presidential transition team, aided an influence effort on behalf of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to ease international sanctions against his regime. The two lobbyists who Timmons worked closely with over a five year period on the lobbying campaign later either pleaded guilty to or were convicted of federal criminal charges that they had acted as unregistered agents of Saddam Hussein's government. Go ahead ...

McCain Transition Chief Aided Saddam Lobbying Effort
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire — Murray Waas: "William Timmons, the Washington lobbyist who John McCain has named to head his presidential transition team, aided an influence effort on behalf of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to ease international sanctions against his regime." "The two lobbyists who Timmons worked closely with over a five year period on the lobbying campaign later either pleaded guilty to or were convicted of federal criminal charges that they had acted as unregistered agents of Saddam Hussein's government."

I Can’t Make Stuff Like This Up!
Comments from Left Field — ... of lobbyists, and his unintentionally ironic attempt to brand himself as an anti-Lobbyist crusader, is all old hat.  We know that McCain said he would fight the special interests, and we also know that he’s got a whole butt load of special interest lobbyists running his campaign. Like I said, nothing new.  What is new, though, is rather shocking.  William Timmons, the man that John McCain tapped to be his White House Transition Chief, was also a lobbyist… For Saddam Hussein. No, this is not a joke, I’m dead serious.  Saddam ...

McCain's transition team chief aided Saddam
Daily Kos — From the indispensable Murray Waas: The Washington lobbyist John McCain has named to head his presidential transition team aided an influence effort on behalf of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to ease international sanctions against his regime. The two lobbyists who McCain aide William Timmons worked closely with over a five year period on the lobbying campaign later either pleaded guilty to or were convicted of federal criminal charges that they had acted as unregistered agents of Saddam Hussein's government. During the same period ...

Remainders: 21 days
Ben Smith's Blog — That 'Chicago' ad — which Steve Schmidt said would air across the country — only aired 11 times. Sorry, Dad: Christopher Buckley resigns from the National Review. Mike Thomas says Charlie Crist's finely tuned political barometer indicates that McCain will lose. A CBS producer sneaks anti-Fox riffs into his sitcom. Sargent points out that Palin mistakenly waged culture war on her supporters. A guy involved in part of McCain's transition (I don't think he's the "chief") is ...

Top McCain aide tied to Saddam lobbying
Political Animal — TOP MCCAIN AIDE TIED TO SADDAM LOBBYING.... Hmm. I wonder what the response would be from the political world in general, and Republicans in specific, if a top Obama campaign aide was associated with lobbying on behalf of Saddam Hussein. Except, as Murray Waas reports today, we're talking about a McCain campaign aide. William Timmons, the Washington lobbyist who John McCain has named to head his presidential transition team, aided an influence effort on behalf of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to ease international sanctions against his regime. The two lobbyists who Timmons ...

Insurgent In The White House?
Oliver Willis — A lobbyist for Saddam Hussein is the head of McCain’s “transition” team. Country first. ...

McCain Transition Chief Helped Saddam Hussein Lobby Against Sanctions
Think Progress — ... , was involved in a lobbying effort on behalf of Saddam Hussein around the same time as Clinton launched strikes against Iraq “to ease international sanctions against his regime,” as Murray Waas reports today on The Huffington Post: ...

McCain Transition Head Lobbied For Saddam Hussein
Wonk Room — ... , “aided an influence effort on behalf of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to ease international sanctions against his regime“: ...

McCain transition chief aided Saddam Hussein lobbying effort
Newshoggers.com — ... At one point, Timmons even boasted to investigators that it was his ideas that later became the basis for the United Nations' oil-for-food program.  (Link) ...

Remainders: Three weeks
Jonathan Martin's Blog — ... Christopher Buckley breaks with National Review. Lowry clarifies. Ben sketches the outline of the voting rights debate that will clog the airwaves for the next few weeks. Jill Biden gets the Vogue treatment. All the pandering has made Chadwick Matlin dizzy. Terry Eastland worries about Obama's judicial appointments. Science funding won't be affected by McCain's spending freeze. And McCain's transition chief's record has a slight blemish.

What Do John McCain and Saddam Hussein Have in Common?
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — ... of federal criminal charges that they had acted as unregistered agents of Saddam Hussein’s government. During the same period beginning in 1992, Timmons worked closely with the two lobbyists, Samir Vincent and Tongsun Park, on a previously unreported prospective deal with the Iraqis in which they hoped to be awarded a contract to purchase and resell Iraqi oil. Timmons, Vincent, and Park stood to share at least $45 million if the business deal went through. Read more READ THE WHOLE ITEMRelated ...

Amygdala — SADDAM REACHES OUT FROM THE GRAVE to influence John McCain's transition team. More awesome judgment from McCain on who he hires: ...

McCain's Saddam Hussein Connection
Politics Daily — ... The Huffington Post is reporting that one of the lobbyists on the McCain campaign's roster, the transition team chief, has close connections with a fairly notorious figure: ...

I wonder what the lunatics shouting "terrorist!" at Palin rallies would make of this
Brilliant at Breakfast — You'd think that John McCain would have become sensitive to the issue of how his campaign is lousy with lobbyists. But you'd be wrong: ...

McCain campaign includes lobbyist for Saddam
The Reaction — ... From Murray Waas, at HuffPo: "William Timmons, the Washington lobbyist who John McCain has named to head his presidential transition team, aided an influence effort on behalf of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to ease international sanctions against his regime. ...

Fair and Balanced
Obsidian Wings — ... Robert Kagan, former Pentagon official Richard Perle, and former CIA director Jim Woolsey. McCain was also a member, and honorary cochair, and he would go on to hire Scheunemann as his top foreign policy adviser for both his 2000 presidential campaign and his current bid; Scheunemann's tasks this fall have included schooling VP candidate Sarah Palin on foreign policy, and even standing in for Sen. Joe Biden during debate preparation. On the other hand, Walter Timmons was lobbying Washington on behalf of Saddam Hussein himself: ...

McCain is a Terrorist and Loved Saddam
Shakesville — What's good for the goose is good for the gander. So follow me, won't you, on this lovely thought train based on this information: William Timmons, the Washington lobbyist who John McCain has named to head his presidential transition team, aided an influence effort on behalf of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to ease international sanctions against his regime. The two lobbyists who Timmons worked closely with over a five year period on the lobbying campaign later either pleaded guilty to or were convicted of federal criminal charges that they had acted as ...

10/15: It's The Same Old Song...
Blogometer — ... has demonstrated a more concrete connection, and one that implicates Obama directly, not just through 'association.'" Liberal bloggers, on the other hand, are mocking Kurtz: OBAMA II: He Killed Vince Foster! Meanwhile, liberal bloggers are mocking some of the other recent anti-Obama claims made by conservative bloggers: MCCAIN: Pallin' Around With Saddam's Lobbyist? Liberal bloggers are buzzing about Murray Waas 's recent report, "McCain Transition Chief Aided Saddam In Lobbying Effort" : " William Timmons , the Washington lobbyist who John McCain has named to head his ...

FDL Book Salon Welcomes John Podesta, Author of “The Power of Progress”
Firedoglake — ... It's comforting to read Podesta's new book and realize that the man that Obama has tasked with leading his transition team is considering these questions quite thoughtfully.   (The leader of McCain's transition team, on the other hand, was a lobbyist for Saddam Hussein.)  Podesta chronicles the history of progressive politics in the 20th century and looks at how it addressed many of the challenges we faced as a nation, with an eye to how these lessons can be applied to the monumental hurdles which stand before us. ...

Palling around wiv terrists!
WTF Is It Now?!? — McCain's transition chief William Timmons aided unrepentent terrorist and mass-murderer Saddam "the other" Hussein in lobbying efforts to ease sanctions -- and award US oil companies. Why does he hate America? ...

McCain Flack On Transition Chief Lobbying For Saddam: ‘We’ve Had No Associations With Any Lobbyists’
Think Progress — Yesterday, Murray Waas revealed that the head of Sen. John McCain’s transition team, power lobbyist William Timmons, was involved in a lobbying effort on behalf of Saddam Hussein in the early 1990s “to ease international sanctions against his regime.” Today, MSNBC’s David Schuster asked McCain spokesperson Ben Porritt about the revelations. Porrit claimed that the campaign has had no associations with lobbyists, quickly changing the subject to Bill Ayers: I’m actually not too familiar with his history, but what ...

McCain Spokesman: Lobbyists? Never Heard of ‘em.
Firedoglake — ... McCain campaign spokesman Ben Porritt is completely flummoxed today when David Shuster asks him about the head of McCain's transition team, William Timmons, who lobbied for Sadaam Hussein.   Porritt just waffles and tries to stall until a good answer comes to him, but that never happens so he makes the rather outrageous claim they've had "no associations with any lobbyists on our campaign." ...

McCain Fundraiser is "War Profiteer"
Booman Tribune — John McCain's campaign employs or has employed lobbyists for Saudi Arabia , Saddam Hussein , Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac , the military dictatorship in Myanmar , Exxon Mobil , Shell Oil , conservative televangelist Bud Paxon , every major telecommunications firm including AT , Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, Motorola, SBC Telecommunications, et alia ... well, the list is endless. And the latest story to come out of McCain's dubious connections with the world of lobbyists, big business and government contractors ...