Telco Sock Puppet Picks Clinton As Best of Bad Field

TELCO SOCK PUPPET PICKS CLINTON AS BEST OF BAD FIELD
[SOURCE: Tales from the Sausage Factory, AUTHOR: Harold Feld]
[Commentary] David McClure, President of the United States Internet Industry Association, addressed his fellow telecom industry buddies at a conference in Monterey California, where he had some very interesting things to say about his personal pick for the White House in 2008 (hint: It's not Obama) and his opinions about Kevin Martin -- the supposedly wholly-owned telco asset. “I think it will be Hillary Clinton, I hate to say,” said McClure. “But Barack Obama has come out endorsing all the looney-tunes” liberal proposals like network neutrality, he added, calling Clinton industry's best choice. “Hillary understands telecom...she's backed our industry on a number of initiatives in Congress, probably more than John McCain.” A show of hands in the audience had elicited no support for either Democrat and less than half for McCain. It is disturbing to hear that someone like David McClure considers Clinton superior to McCain (whom McClure worries “waffles” on telecom issues and would therefore be an uncertain ally), although pleasant to hear his “negative endorsement” of Obama as embracing us “looney tunes” and thus utterly unacceptable to industry. To use the vernacular of recent days, I would hope that Clinton will both “denounce” and “reject” this half-hearted endorsement by a major industry sock puppet. It is difficult to reconcile her recent commitment to Edwards-style struggle against entrenched corporate interests when the chief spokesman for one of the very lobbying cabals Clinton says she will oppose tooth and nail is telling his fellow entrenched industry lobbyists “of the three choices out there, she's probably the best one for us.”
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