Charlie Black

Charlie Black: Eternal Optimist

RssDaily (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008

From former MoJo-er Michael Scherer's Swampland post yesterday, explaining why the McCain campaign thinks the race is getting closer:

Black: McCain "Probably Going to Win Pennsylvania and Iowa"

Time (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008

Top McCain adviser Charlie Black tells reporters on the press plane Sunday that his candidate is "in a good position in every Red state," feels confident in some key swing states. Cites recent polling that shows the race tightening.

Who Knew Ken Duberstein Was Black?

Emptywheel (Free subscription) | 31/10/2008

... mentioned Duberstein when I outtamyarse speculated he might be one of the two sources--presumably Charlie Black was the other--using more leaks to Bob Novak to push McCain to name a VP back in July. It didn't happen. Well, now Duberstein is joining the growing stampede away from John McCain--arguing that the selection of Sarah Palin proves that McCain has crappy judgment. I suspect...

Who Needs Pompey When You’ve Got Erik Prince?

The American Conservative (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008

With their prospects for fleecing the U.S government in Iraq beyond 2009 drying up, Blackwater Worldwide is diversifying like mad. First it was flying spy machines, today it’s angling to train soldiers in Darfur and providing sellswords for international shipping companies trying to avoid pirates on the high seas. With a federal murder indictment over [...]

McCain 2010

The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008

First Read reports : McCain is setting up a PAC, which some are seeing as a first step for McCain in running for re-election in 2010. And/but sources tell Roll Call that McCain has made clear his intention to run for re-election when his Senate term is up in 2010. "McCain, 72, announced the decision during a meeting Tuesday evening with top ally Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), advisers Rick Davis, Charlie...

McCain internal polls say the race is tighening

Martin Eisenstadt's Blog (Free subscription) | 01/11/2008

I spoke with Charlie Black and the good news is that the campaign internals are showing the race is tightening. The pendulum is swinging back toward John McCain’s way. In the meantime, I still felt it was essential that I rebut the latest installments of that dubious BBC documentary series “The Last Republican.” I’ve already [...]

Pennsylvania G.O.P. Highlights Wright and Clinton Remarks

The Caucus (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008

... do Wright ads, but as McCain said back in the spring, he can’t be the referee of every ad,’’ Charlie Black, a senior adviser to the McCain campaign, said on a flight here from Philadelphia. “People know how he feels. If they cared what he felt about the issue, they wouldn’t run the ad.’’ It was unclear how often the Pennsylvania Republicans were able to broadcast the ads, and the...

The Ad Campaign: Unauthorized Ad Reminds Voters About a Certain Pastor

The Caucus (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008

... ties to Mr. Wright as a line of attack but since has been less rigid on the point. On Sunday, Charlie Black, an adviser to Mr. McCain, confirmed that the campaign did not authorize the advertisement and wished that the party had not made it.

The crucial cannibal vote

AgoraVox (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008

I grinned at this comment at the Stiftung: “Joan Walsh, are you telling me, really telling me here, now, on TV, that because Charlie Black worked with this Savimbi guy, this so-called Reagan ‘freedom fighter' in Africa who is alleged to have been a cannibal, are you really (...)

• The witches are coming! The witches are coming! - apostropher

Chalabi A ‘Key Figure’ In Iranian Efforts To Scuttle U.S.-Iraq Security Agreement

Think Progress (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008

... the “new Iraqi Ataturk,” and his Iraqi National Congress (INC) group as a “government in exile.” – Charlie Black, top political adviser : Black and his lobbying firm BKSH and Associates represented Chalabi and the INC, giving Chalabi access to high-powered officials in Washington. Just last week, McCain told a local New Hampshire reporter that “we just achieved” a security...

Erik Ose: Top McCain Advisor Learned Slime Tactics From Jesse Helms

The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008

... the '84 race, one of Helms' top aides responsible for implementing this gay-bashing strategy was Charlie Black . He went on to a long lobbying career representing disgraced foreign dictators like the Philippines' Ferdinand Marcos and Mobuto Sese Seko of Zaire. Black currently serves as a senior advisor to John McCain's presidential campaign, and the results of his most recent...

McCain fighting to finish

Denver Post (Free subscription) | 24/10/2008

... like Florida, Iowa and New Hampshire. "We believe we have traction with the tax issue," said Charlie Black, a senior adviser to McCain. Another issue was Sen. Joe Biden's prediction that a foreign power would test Obama with a crisis in the first months of his presidency. That remark goes to what has been the heart of McCain's argument about the need for the next president to have...

Chumming Around With Chalabi

The American Conservative (Free subscription) | 22/10/2008

... prostitutes”? “Mugging it up with mercenaries'” These days no one calls the relationship between Charlie Black — John McCain’s chief strategy guru, a role he’s been playing on-and-off since the Reagan years — and his various former clients, including Ahmed Chalabi, otherwise known as “ The Man Who Pushed America to War” much of anything, because they’re too busy handwringing over...

Campaign 08: Lobbyists Put Other Countries First

The Nation Blogs (Free subscription) | 22/10/2008

Lobbying for foreign governments has been a hot topic during this presidential campaign. Clinton strategist Mark Penn got in trouble during the Democratic primary for pushing the US-Colombia free trade deal on behalf of the Colombian government. McCain senior advisor Charlie Black was once the ringleader of what the Center for Public Integrity termed the "," representing the likes of...

McCain to push a pro-gridlock message

Political Animal (Free subscription) | 21/10/2008

... McCain has worked elsewhere to shrug off. "That argument is a bank shot," said McCain strategist Charlie Black. "We're reminding them that by considering Obama they're delivering a monopoly to liberal Democrats."Yesterday, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham introduced McCain at a rally in this St. Louis suburb as "the best check and balance you can find to tell Harry Reid and Nancy...