... The four dozen lobbyists still in his campaign might be a bit of glaring hypocrisy from a man who purports to be a maverick.... Today, federal disclosure forms proved that John McCain was being advised on the mortgage crisis by a lobbyist still being paid by the investment banks to help them in the mortgage crisis, a man identified by some economists as the principal enabler of the mortgage crisis....

I'm very upset with John with some of the things he's been saying. And I can't get into the psychoanalysis of it. But I believe that John is smarter than some …

We have now learned that the other [the one not yet purged for lobbying ties] general co-chair, Phil Gramm, was working as a lobbyist for a foreign bank here i…

[Among McCain's campaign advisers have been] lead McCain fundraiser Tom Loeffler, a registered foreign agent, whose company made almost $15M from Saudi Arabia …