Update to "A Question of Judgment"

Update to "A Question of Judgment", a post from earlier today:

The New York Times is reporting this evening that Doug Goodyear, the professional lobbyist hand picked by John McCain to manage the Republican National Convention, has resigned. 

“Today I offered the convention my resignation so as not to become a distraction in this campaign,’’ Mr. Goodyear said in a two-sentence statement. “I continue to strongly support John McCain for president, and wish him the best of luck in this campaign.’’

Mr. Goodyear is the chief executive office and a founding partner of DCI Group, a public affairs group with offices in Washington and Phoenix. He offered his resignation on Saturday after Newsweek reported that his firm had been paid $348,000 in 2002 to represent the military junta that runs Myanmar.

The Times article includes excerpts from an 2005 Wall Street Journal editorial co-written by John McCain and Senator Mitch McConnell that bluntly criticizes the Burmese regime:

The junta routinely jails democracy activists, sometimes resorting to torture and murder,’’ it said. “The Burmese military employs rape as a weapon of war, destroying the lives of innocent ethnic minority women and girls. Child soldiers are pressed into the military’s rank and file. Narcotics production remains a profitable business, with illegal drugs flowing across Burma’s borders into neighboring countries.’’

Jeez Senator McCain, perhaps you have some explaining to do about some of the unsavory characters you're hanging out with.