Filed under: Press releases, Rants and raves, Scandals, Politics, Headline news
The ridiculous story published by the New York times yesterday regarding John McCain’s encounters with a Washington lobbyist offered tiny to it’s readers or the voting American public. It was a waste of time on speak shows and the broader media coverage it received shows how petty election politics can be.
Each official in Washington is constantly being bombarded by thousands of lobbyist’s all the time and someone in McCains position (and Obama’s and Clinton’s) get no relief. If his wife is not griping when he gets closer to some then others and they happen to be attractive too, we have nothing to say about it, unless it crosses some legal or ethical boundary.
McCain was unhappy. I was unhappy and most pundits I listened to thought as much of the story as I did. However, I might have handled it with some good humor. McCain should have issued a press release with photos of the top 100 best looking lobbyists (male and female) that he has met with over the past five years. Let them run that in the New Yorks Times. Now that would spark huge readership.
Sheldon Liber is the CEO of a small private investment company and the principal for design and research at an architecture & planning firm. He writes the columns Chasing Value and Serious Money.
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