mccain should run against bush

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he's a better anti-bush candidate than any of the dems, sad to say...


"McCain hopes Boeing CEO exit will help scuttle tanker deal

Mike Sunnucks
The Business Journal

Arizona Sen. John McCain hopes Monday's resignation of Boeing chief 
executive Phil Condit will help him sink a controversial lease deal between 
the aerospace company and the U.S. Air Force. 

McCain is opposed to a $20 billion lease arrangement that has the Air Force 
leasing new aerial fuel tankers from Chicago-based Boeing, saying it is a 
costly, sweetheart deal. The Arizona Republican said Condit's abrupt 
resignation on Monday was tied to the controversy surrounding the lease 
deal and questionable, almost incestuous relations between Pentagon and 
Boeing personnel. 

"It's all about the lease deal," said McCain Tuesday morning at a Phoenix 
Business Journal-hosted breakfast at the Arizona Biltmore. 

The state's senior senator said he is not opposed to the Air Force 
acquiring new airplanes from Boeing to outfit as fuel tankers, but says the 
$20 billion lease pact is a bad deal. He is optimistic opposition on 
Capitol Hill and Condit's resignation will help scrap the lease deal for 
this year. 

"We probably saved the taxpayers $5.8 billion," said McCain at the Business 
Journal's Power Breakfast event with Phoenix Mayor-elect Phil Gordon. 
Critics of the Boeing lease (which has support from the Bush administration 
and some key members of Congress) say it would be cheaper to acquire the 
planes outright or modernize the existing fleet. 

McCain, who chairs the Senate Commerce, Transportation and Science 
Committee, linked the Boeing lease deal and recent resignations of Condit 
and other top executives to corporate scandals involving mutual fund 
managers and Enron. 

"This kind of corporate corruption cannot continue in America," McCain told 
the crowd of several hundred business leaders and elected officials."


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