McCain’s Airbus ties-not pretty

At least seven top McCain advisers and fundraisers – Thomas Loeffler, Susan Nelson, John Green, Kirsten Chadwick, Kirk Blalock, Aleix Jarvis and William Ball III – have all lobbied for EADS, the parent company of European airplane manufacturer Airbus.

The Air Force and Boeing have dirty hands too-remember Darlene Druyun and Michael Sears?  Of course the White House and Donald Rumsfeld were involved in the original deal.

I’m pretty unhappy with the lack of professionalism shown by many current military “leaders”.  Between this deal, the Pat Tillman story, and the mess at Guantanamo, we’ve seen political-grade leadership from our senior military.  We all should expect better from them. 

I say outsource the tanker deal to the Japanese and be done with it.