Campaign Casting Continues for McCain

Now that's a lot of alliteration. In a similarly repititious manner, John McCain is stacking his campaign cast like nobody's business...

This from Mike Allen over at TIME:

"Former Deputy Secretary of State Robert B. Zoellick is planning to join the presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain next year, overseeing development of domestic and foreign policy, Republican officials tell TIME.

Zoellick, who will be working in New York and around the world for Goldman Sachs starting Sept. 11, told TIME that McCain contacted him as he was leaving the State Department this summer, and said he is delighted to advise the prospective campaign. "I have great respect for John McCain's character, sense of honor and record and have worked with him on a host of foreign policy and economic issues, and think he would make a great President who would fit the times and challenges," Zoellick said...

...It's a big get," the GOP official said. Zoellick was Deputy Secretary of State under Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice from February 2005 until July. In September, he joins Goldman Sachs as a managing director and vice chairman. He left government after he was not selected to succeed John Snow as Treasury Secretary. During the administration of President George H.W. Bush, Zoellick was Under Secretary of State for Economic and Agricultural Affairs and later White House Deputy Chief of Staff, and he held several Treasury Department positions under Reagan..."