"Can a government run by prostitutes and addicts claim to be legitimate?"

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http://www.pbs.org/now/printable/transcript_mccain_print.html

Transcript - Bill Moyers Interviews Senator John McCain

SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN: Well, I don't know if they will or not. You know, this is a very addictive system. It's so much easier to raise money in hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars than in one thousand-dollar or two thousand-dollar contributions. But I think they're tired of it. There was recent comments by Senator Zell Miller of Georgia where he said after a period of fund raising he felt like a prostitute after a busy day.

BILL MOYERS: Can a government run by prostitutes and addicts claim to be legitimate?

SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN: I don't think so, and I think what happens is that the public interest is not served; the special interests are.

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BILL MOYERS: The Non-Partisan Center for Responsive Politics says less than one-tenth of one percent of the country gave 85 percent, almost 85 percent, of all itemized contributions in our recent elections. What does that tell you, Senator?

SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN: Well, it tells me that it's huge amounts of money contributed by a handful of Americans that are dictating the legislative agenda here in Congress.

[Career Prole]

1. This is an outrageous smear...

...against prostitutes and addicts! It wasn't that long ago they did the same thing to me, saying bush* spends "like a drunken sailor" without any consideration at all for the feelings of actual drunken sailors.
In the past week a man I admire greatly unknowingly offended a large number of otherwise honorable crooked liars through an open microphone...and it goes without saying that a class-action suit is in the offing brought by people who are genuinely fair and balanced.