To be perfectly clear, I don't care if John McCain is diddling the Radio City Rockettes. What I DO care about is what he does for lobbyists, and his blanket denials about his involvement with them.

Dana Perino White House press briefing, July 14, 2008. The original video can be found here.

This is a new campaign ad from Obama.

McCain stinks to hell, but let's not get ahead of ourselves as Olbermann easily uncovers a mess of insiders and lobbyists, hands still dirty after manufacturing our current credit crisis.

John McCain's got so much experience in dealing with rogue regimes that he's got the rogue regimes' lobbyists running his campaign.

From YT: Did John McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis accept bribes from Freddie Mac? John McCain claimed that Rick Davis had long severed ties with Freddie Mac and has not done any work for the lobbyist... more inside

McCain's campaign is run by lobbyists. I guess all that straight talk was keeping him down.

A new MoveOn ad posits who John McCain is really talking about when he says "my friends" -- his favorite lobbyists. Watch: "With the economy on the skids and gas prices high, we can't afford a McCain... more inside

"Just The Facts" from the first week in April of 2008. FactCheck.org The first part is about some boring email. The bit about the TV AD starts at around 1:34.

McCain's neocon foreign policy adviser has been a lobbyist for arms companies & Saakashvili's Georgia -TRN http://therealnews.com

The video has an odd 15 second intro with a butterfly, but it's the only siftable version of it I've found so far. For more about what's going on here, see the original UK Times article. This video... more inside

From YT: Forget rapacious CEOs, regulation-busting politicians, and the lobbyists that are keeping the whole system afloat (that is, until it got hit by a torpedo and sank). Republicans have found the real culprit behind the meltdown: Past Dem administrations and minority homeowners!

"We’ve had no associations with any lobbyists on our campaign." Yes. He actually says this.