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[Among McCain's campaign advisers have been] lead McCain fundraiser Tom Loeffler, a registered foreign agent, whose company made almost $15M from Saudi Arabia and helped a European airplane maker get a Pentagon contract after McCain helped to kill a Boeing contract.... Today, McCain's top adviser, Charlie Black, called the uproar 'complete inside-the-Beltway nonsense.' Black himself was a lobbyist up until this March. He did some of his lobbying by phone while literally on board the Straight Talk Express. His client list included in order of 'repulsive' to 'disgusting': Ferdinand Marcos; the dictator of Zaire, Mobutu Sese Seko; Angolan terrorist Jonas Savimbi; Somali warlord Mohamed Siad Barre; Nigerian dictator Ibrahim Babangida; Iraq warmonger Ahmed Chalabi; and of course the Friends of Blackwater. By the calculations of the government watchdog group Public Citizen, McCain has only 54 remaining lobbyists left in his campaign.... Rachel: If you were going to be President of the United States and you were going to have gotten there because a lobbyist for Saudi Arabia put you there, that's got to be a problem during your presidency, not just for you as a campaign. That's all of our problems as Americans.