I really don't know what to make of this news from Reuters. This is a "I have good new and I have bad news." He wins funding on one hand, but may loose his halo with the other.

Following recent investigative articles by the New York Times and the Washington Post  which detail two separate instances in which Sen. McCain apparently used his influence to bring about federal land deals lucrative for his friends and campaign contributors, another such case is about to come to the forefront.

This new land swindle is far less benign than the other two.  It involves wealthy corporate mining interests, electric utilities, and a Coal slurry pipeline through the homeland of Native Americans, which took not only their land but their precious water along the way as well.

In this case, Sen. McCain's influence did more than just bring profits to campagin contributors, it dispossessed thousands of indigenous people from lands they had occupied since before Columbus, not in the 19th Century, but in the 21st.  A story similar to that of many tribes sold out and taken advantage of by ruthless politicians, this wasnt the work of some banana republic dictator, but of the Republican candidate for President of the United States.

When Clinton consigliere Harold Ickes sends a message, Obama supporters need to listen with both ears.  Clinton is "fully vetted," he told the Christian Science Monitor late in February.  But, he repeated her campaign mantra, for Obama "the vetting process has just begun."

Hillary’s hard-hitting attacks on Obama in the Texas and Ohio primaries supplied "the vetting" that Republican swift-boaters will continue if the Illinois senator gains the Democratic nomination.  But the real kicker in what Ickes said was his premise.  Like other insiders, he had to know far better than the rest of us that, in the years since they left the White House owing big bucks to defense attorneys, neither Bill nor Hillary had been seriously "vetted," fully or otherwise.

Where did the Clintons get the $5 million that Hillary loaned to her campaign?

It is no stretch to say that the blogs as of late have consisted of which Democratic Candidate a person supports.  So lets get to meet the people behind the candidates shall we?