Posted on 10/06/2008 9:51:14 AM PDT by Dutchgirl
If Barack Obama is so outraged at John McCain’s involvement in the Keating Five scandal, why is John Glenn, another Keating Five member, doing surrogate work for Obama?
Obama’s presidential campaign released a scathing documentary on Monday detailing McCain’s ties to the Savings and Loan crisis on the 1980’s. Five U.S. senators were named in the scandal: Sen. Alan Cranston (D.-Calif.), Sen. Dennis DeConcini (D.-Ariz.), Sen. John Glenn (D.-Ohio), Sen. John McCain (R.-Ariz.) and Sen. Donald Reigle (D-Minn.).
"The Keating scandal is eerily similar to today's credit crisis, where a lack of regulation and cozy relationships between the financial industry and Congress has allowed banks to make risky loans and profit by bending the rules," reads a trailer for the video on a website created by the Obama campaign to attack McCain, www.keatingeconomics.com. "And in both cases, John McCain's judgment and values have placed him on the wrong side of history.
But Obama doesn’t seem to have any quarrel with Glenn. The former Democratic Ohio senator introduced Bruce Springsteen at a benefit concert for Obama in Ohio on Sunday, October 5. He's also done other surrogate work for Obama as well. According to Obama's presidential website Glenn held a conference calls with reporters for Obama in August.
A day after Glenn urged people to register to vote for Obama in Ohio, Obama’s campaign began a multimedia campaign to remind the public McCain was one of the “Keating Five” although he was eventually cleared of all charges.
Like McCain, Glenn was also found not guilty of violating any Senate rules.
Attorney John Dowd, who represented McCain during the Senate Ethics investigation, said Senate Democrats conducted a "classic political smear job" on McCain in the Keating Five scandal.
"When it was discovered Keating was pushing too hard, he [McCain] threw Keating out of his office and ended all relations with him," Dowd said.
Perfect! That nullifies obama’s argument.
I wonder if any or all of these guys have donated $$ to the Obama campaign?
Glenn was also cleared? I’d forgotten that, if I knew it.
Who was convicted (or implicated) of anything, if anyone?
John Glenn left his brain in outer space.
Bill Bennett’s brother, Bob, the Democrat, cut his teeth in the K5 investigation as special counsel. Despite his partisan affiliation, Bob Bennett says McCain was clean in the investigation.
Why does this not suprise me...
oK WE ARE DOWN TO ABOUT 3 DEGREES OF SEPARATION FOR OBAMA
and every tie to a terrorist,financial crises or voter fraud!
ROFL.
Gov. Palin, fire at will.
PMAOL
Theres McCains response right there, if your so righteous about it Obama, why is Sen Glen working for your campaign.
That wasn’t the John Glenn I knew.
BTTT
BHO is spitting on his own face.
Watch this and you’ll see why the socialist dhims can’t wrap their brains around anything. In fact this will really open your eyes (unless you have already been brainwashed) you as to why they have no brains.
Even if you put absolute proof in front of them, they truly will not believe it, as we have seen with comments on Kos.
Search Yuri Bezmenov on YouTube.com
Soviet strategy for subversion
“...Perfect! That nullifies obama’s argument...”
Only if it is heard beyond the choir loft.
I’ve always made that contention. Either that, or the Sun’s radiation outside the Earth’s atmosphere fried it.
John Glenn, who ran interference for the Clintons as ranking member of Al D'Amato's Senate Banking Committee in 1995... all for a trip on the Space Shuttle, and as one of the ridiculous micro-gravity experiments that are forbidden as unnecessary under the post-Challenger flight rules.
Glenn, once a hero, now so far over on the Dark Side to be at risk for his immortal soul.
The facts behind McCain's refusal to become involved with this bribary had become lost in time.
I appreciated this...
Yes, that's very important to remember. Bergsom and Hoffer both said the Cultist, members of all Mass Movements, in the revolutionary stage, though seemingly passionate to move mountains aren't really about moving mountains.
They are really about denying that mountains in need of being moved really exist.
Noted lawyer Bob Bennett has stated that McCain was not involved in any wrongdoing but brought into the ethics panel investigation so that there would not be only dems under the cloud of impropriety. Because of age and illness, Cranston was let off the hook and he did not seek re-election.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.