Charlie Black [3], the chief campaign adviser for Republican Party Presidential aspirant John McCain [4], has dismissed calls that he should resign due to his many years of lobbying work for BKSH & Associates [5], calling the calls "complete inside-the-beltway nonsense." MoveOn [6] recently launched an advertisement [7] demanding McCain fire Black. "John McCain's chief adviser, lobbyist Charlie Black, worked for some of the world's worst dictators -- mass murderers, terrorists, and tyrants. Call McCain and tell him to fire Charlie Black," the group's website states. Black defended [8] working for dictators -- including Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines and Mobutu Sese Seko in Zaire -- insisting that he never worked for foreign clients "without first talking to the State Department [9] and the White House and clearing with them that the work would be in the interest of U.S. foreign policy."