I was going to write a post about this yesterday, but it seems Big Dog has already done so. Democrats and the media have been having a field day placing the blame on Boeing’s loss of the Air Force contract squarely on McCain. The will undoubtedly use his role in the decision against him in the general, regardless of what Boeing.
As Big Dog explains, blame Boeing — not McCain.
Boeing executives broke the law and that cost them the contract. That is the bottom line and no amount of finger pointing can change that fact. As McCain points out, many of the people criticizing him are the same ones who went along with the original, illegal, contract. He was the one who stopped it. In other words, the members crying about jobs were more than happy to overlook corruption in order for Boeing to gain the contract and keep jobs here in the US. That is business as usual in Congress and I would bet if we looked at other contracts there is plenty of corruption and these very members were aware and condoned it.
by Stephan Tawney on Sun, Mar 9, 2008