Meet John McCain's Karl Rove

DailyKos' resident Abramoff and Marinara Islands scholar, Dengre, has written an important post about a person we should get to know, "Senior Advisor" to John McCain, Charlie Black:


Charlie Black is a major root in the Culture of Corruption. He is a creator of the current system.
Jack Abramoff and his entire scandal is just a twisted root branch that grew out of trunk created by Charlie Black and his fellow professional influence peddlers.

Along with his fellow trailblazers-folks like Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Karl Rove, Lee Atwater and others-Black perfected the negative attack campaign. They perfected a business model of permanent institutionalized influence peddling. They created a permanent campaign where the roles were always blurred, deniability was always high and the money always flowed.

From time to time they were involved in a scandal or a bit of bad press, but mostly they worked in the shadows.

Their work inspired generations of young College Republicans and snot-nosed right wing warriors to follow in their footsteps.

Grover Noquist, Ralph Reed and Jack Abramoff are just a few of the punks who modeled their lives and careers on the pioneering "work" of Black and his network of thieves.

And now Black and his pals are running John McCain's campaign. In fact, they "rescued" McCain when he was on the ropes a year ago. These are the devils McCain sold his soul to in a vain pursuit of power. This story needs more exposure.

Remember when McCain's campaign was a joke? When the battle seemed to be all about Romney, Giuliani and Thompson? McCain made a miraculous come back, and while some larger forces were there to help him (namely the glaring flaws of the other contenders), the campaign staff he took on after firing all his previous people are an important rock to turn over.

There is a lot of sleaze coming. Get ready.

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