Community | September 08, 2008 | 17 comments

Who is Randy Scheunemann?

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Vierotchka
McCain's neocon foreign policy adviser has been a lobbyist for arms companies & Saakashvili's Georgia.

Randy Scheunemann, John McCain’s Senior Foreign Policy Advisor, Lobbyist, and a former director of the neo conservative Project for a New American Century. A group which advocates global strategic and ideological predominance of the United States through military force. He has been a Republican political insider In Washington since 1986. He served on the staffs of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and as National Security Adviser to Senate Republican and Majority Leaders Bob Dole and Trent Lott from 1993-99. He was also McCain’s defense and foreign policy advisor during the bid for the White House in 2000. About his relationship with McCain the web site RIGHT WEB reports: He introduced the senator to the foreign ministers of Albania, Croatia, and Macedonia as they tried to win admission to NATO, and a representative of Taiwan as it lobbied for free trade, records show.

Mr. Scheunemann also accompanied Mr. McCain to Latvia in 2001 and Georgia in 2006. He has led 3 lobbying firms, SCHEUNEMANN & ASSOCIATES, ORION STRATEGIES and the MERCURY GROUP. He has lobbied for among others: Arms manufacturers and gun associations, Oil Firms, And represented foreign governments Including Georgia. The Wall Street Journal reported that “Mr. Scheunemann's firm (Orion Strategies) has earned more than $2 million since 2004 lobbying U.S. officials, including Sen. McCain and his staff, on behalf of various clients including Georgia, records show. His lobbying for Saakashvili has led to the inference by Journalist Robert Scheer on TruthDig, Conservative Columnist Pat Buchanan on Creators Syndicate, and indirectly Vladimir Putin of Russia, to suggest that he had something to do with Georgia’s attack on the breakaway region of South Ossetia in early August. Randy Scheunemann has been described as John McCain’s Henry Kissinger or Zbignew Brzeniski.

Senior Analyst at Political Research Associates, Chip Berlet is a veteran freelance writer and photographer who specializes in investigating right-wing social movements, apocalyptic scapegoating and conspiracism, and authoritarianism. A PRA staffer since 1982, he has written, edited and co-authored numerous articles on right-wing activity and government repression for publications as varied as the The Boston Globe, The New York Times, The Progressive, The Nation, The Humanist, and The St. Louis Journalism Review. Mr. Berlet edited Eyes Right! Challenging the Right-wing Backlash, co-published by PRA and South End Press (1995), a popular primer on the right. He is also co-author with Matthew N. Lyons of Right-wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort, published by Guilford Press (2000).
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17 comments // Who is Randy Scheunemann?

  • pissedoffinarkansas
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      pissedoffinarkansas  

    • If the current system of govt. in this country is what retired navy thinks this country stands for I think HE should be the one to "get out". War proffiteering, hate mongering, class warfare, greed, political opportunism at all costs,etc. is not what I was taught patriotism stood for.

      And I'm pretty sure even retired navy has to be pissed at the way this country uses it's service members, who proudly and without question serve this country in whatever endevours our govt. dreams up, illegal or not,only to be treated like a burden that we can barely afford when they return from duty. The politicians fill their own and the wealthie's pockets and we get the scaps, with veterans getting the even shorter end of the stick. Come on navy think about it. Do you really want to defend these pricks? I hope not.

    • 3 years ago
  • globewatcher
  • rightbrain
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      rightbrain  

    • I'm not sure if lobbyists are really the point though, you think? I mean, when we stop squabbling about the minutia of staffing, aren't we really talking about policies that contribute to endless war?

      Secret wars have been waged constantly since ww2, so I'm not talking about that specifically. My concern is that the US will become embroiled in open war so frequently that war itself loses all meaning. Becoming completely commonplace, decade after decade. In the end, it's all in the interest of fuel and munitions concerns.

      Isn't time our leaders stopped leveraging our patriotism for their own capital gains? I mean com' on, let's cut to the quick; war is the most profitable business in history.

      I'm sure you're not one of those types that get off on war and suffering? Of course you're not. Hopefully you're like the rest of us, and believe that war should be the absolute last resort. Not the first option.
      Truly, what the neocons want; is endless war for an endless revenue stream. To screw up diplomacy so badly and so often, that it appears war is always the only option.

      The soldier above all, should desire peace, no?

    • 3 years ago
  • onechance
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      onechance  

    • @ retired_Navy:

      I'm sure Vierotchka loves this country very much based on her previous responses and posts.

      It always amazes me how you old-timers automatically jump to "GET OUT" when you can't actually see that people that speak up are HELPING this great country.

      They just can't stand the dick bags that claim to be running it... THINK ABOUT IT OLD MAN.

    • 3 years ago
  • retired_Navy
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  • tanyetta
  • Vierotchka
  • fiat_lux088
  • globewatcher
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      globewatcher  
    • retired_Navy:

      okay retarded navy. you are clearly on the wrong web site #1. #2, we love this country, we just hate all the crooks who run it and really dont like those punk asses policies on killing innocent people.

    • 3 years ago
  • rube
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      rube  

    • So Mccain and Palin say they will dump the lobbyists...
      Well there goes the entire Mccain staff!
      Hypocrits!
      Theives!
      Liars!
      Noecons- McCain and Palin!

    • 3 years ago
  • neocongo
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      neocongo  

    • McCain's tight relationship with a member of the now disbanded Project for a New American Century is deadly serious information for the discerning voter. You won't see this in the news, but in Randy as his senior foreign policy adviser, count on, absolutely count on war as the primarty solution to international situations.

      We're in two now. How high can it go?

    • 3 years ago
  • regjoeschmo
  • rightbrain
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      rightbrain  

    • This is chilling. The neocons scare the crap out of me.
      If there is a political force in the world right now, pushing for an eventual nuclear holocaust, they would be it.

    • 3 years ago
  • ProgressiveBum
  • huntre
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      huntre  
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    • Since Right Web was mentioned in this clip, I thought it worth adding their profile on this man whose history in conservative politics offers much to consider.

    • 3 years ago
  • onechance
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