McCain keeps touting change, but with 7 lobbyists on his staff, how can he justify that statement.  CNN wrote a piece on the McCain lobbyist connection.  The list of the 7 follows:

1.  Current Campaign Manager, Rick Davis, a former tellecommucation lobbyist.  McCain has backed tax bans on telecomms and has received about $765,000 from them.  McCain also backs the retroactive immunity for the telecomms as a result of the Bush administration illegal wire tapping.
2. Senior foreign policy adviser Randy Scheunemann, a former foreign lobbyist for the Republic of Georgia.  Scheunemann recently faced scrutiny over his foreign lobbying on behalf of the Republic of Georgia, which has been embroiled in a military conflict with Russia.
3. Senior adviser Charlie Black was a foreign lobbyist for dictators in Zaire and Angola in the 1980s.  Black commented in a June 2008 interview with Fortune magazine that another terrorist attack inside the U.S. would "be a big advantage" to McCain in the November presidential election.  McCain responded that he could not imagine why Black had said such a thing.  That’s complete control.
4. The Republican National Committee’s liaison to the McCain campaign, Frank Donatelli.  He was formerly a registered lobbyist for Exxon Mobil.  Perhaps that is where the "Drill here, drill now" originated.
5. Economic adviser Nancy Pfotenhauer has lobbied for corporate giants like Koch Industries.  In 2000 the EPA issued a 97-count federal indictment charging it with concealing illegal releases of 91 metric tons of benzene, a known carcinogen, from its refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas. Koch faced fines of up to $352 million, plus possible jail time for company executives.  After Bush became president, however, the US Justice Department dropped 88 of the charges. Two days before the trial, John Ashcroft settled for a plea bargain, in which Koch pled guilty to falsifying documents. All major charges were dropped, and Koch and Ashcroft settled the lawsuit for a fraction of that amount. Koch had contributed $800,000 to the Bush election campaign and other Republican candidates - a small price for the ability to pollute and get away with it.
6. McCain’s congressional liaison, John Green, a founding partner of what is now Ogilvy Government Relations.
7. National finance Co-chairman Wayne Berman (and John Green) billed more than $720,000 in lobbying fees from 2005 through last year to Ameriquest Mortgage through their lobbying firm, disclosure forms show. Ameriquest, which since has been bought out, was forced to settle suits with 49 states for $325 million. More than 13,680 New York homeowners got taken for a ride by the company, records show.