The Clintons and McCain have made some odd overtures to each other the past few months.

From Hillary Clinton to John McCain:

"I think that I have a lifetime of experience that I will bring to the White House. Sen. John McCain has a lifetime of experience that he’d bring to the White House. And Sen. Obama has a speech he gave in 2002."

From John McCain to Hillary Clinton:

STEPHANOPOULOS: Back in 2005, you said, “I have no doubt that Sen. [Hillary] Clinton would make a good president.”

MCCAIN: Well, look, here’s — Sen. Clinton and I are sitting next to each other, and we’re asked, “Would she,” quote, “be a good president?” She would be a good president in the respect that I think she has integrity, I think she has all of the qualities that are necessary , but she has a very different philosophical view, the liberal Democratic view, than I have, which is conservative Republican.

From Bill Clinton to both John McCain and Hillary:

"She and John McCain are very close. They always laugh that if they wound up being the nominees of their party, it would be the most civilized election in American history and they’re afraid they’d put the voters to sleep because they like and respect each other."

These are curious things for campaigns on opposite sides of the aisle to be saying. Why would they be advocating the other’s candidacy? Their campaign advisers might have something to do with that.

A Mr. Mark Penn is Hillary Clinton’s Chief Strategist.

Mark Penn is also Worldwide President and CEO of Burson & Martseller .

Burson & Martseller owns BKSH & Associates Worldwide.

A Mr. Charles Black is CEO of BKSH and he is also a senior advisor to the McCain campaign.

Business before politics, it appears. While Charles Black is operating as a volunteer to the McCain campaign, he considers McCain a client. Undoubtedly Mark Penn would like to make that a paying client. To what lengths would a lobbyist for Blackwater go to achieve that, I wonder…