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Originally Posted by tony404
more current:
"John McCain boasts that he was crusading against excessive spending and legislative corruption when he helped block the Boeing-Air Force air tanker contract. But lobbyists in his campaign, including his finance chair, helped Airbus beat out Boeing last year for a $35 billion contract to build aerial refueling tanker planes. McCain is under scrutiny in this deal because he sent letters "urging the Defense Department, in evaluating the tanker bids, not to consider the potential effects of a separate United States-Airbus trade dispute." (Washington Post, New York Times)
this is good reading also
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/s...ves/133654.asp |
What I was reading on some miltary board was that the air bus tankers were superior to the boeing ones... If true, then he can use his military backgroud that everyone worships to simply spin it into a call for patriotism and wanting to ensure the troops have the best equipment possible...
Hasn't the media already gone over those letters a couple months ago and it faded away.. maybe I'm thinking about something else...