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Are you aware that during the 1980s, McCain took bribes and kickbacks from Charles Keating, whose Savings and Loan was later bailed out by the U.S. taxpayer?

Of course not.

The reason we don't know that it because it isn't true. McCain sat in a meeting with Keating. That's it. That's all he did. McCain's name was dragged in to the scandal to make it "bipartisan".

It is clear to me that you don't know much about the Keating Five scandal. That doesn't stop you from smearing Senator McCain, though.

If ethics were important to you, there is no way you could compare McCain's involvement in the Keating Five with Hayworth's involvement in the Abramoff scandal. The Abramoff scandal enlarged the personal bank account of JD and Mary Hayworth through Hayworth's PAC. No money went directly to McCain in the Keating Five.

It is clear to me that you don't know much about the Keating Five scandal. That doesn't stop you from smearing Senator McCain, though.

It isn't a smear if it's true.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416139/posts

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"I was very, very concerned about the appearance of the meetings before I went," he said. I'm a big boy. I made the decision." His first real effort to explain came at a Phoenix news conference a week after The Arizona Republic reported that he and his family had vacationed at Mr. Keating's home in the Bahamas in 1984, 1985 and 1986, and had only belatedly reimbursed the developer's company for flights there on the corporate jet.

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Senator McCain said he was unaware that some of the personal flights had not been paid for until Mr. Keating's accountants brought them to his attention in March 1989. He made the reimbursements in May and June.

Source: Rasky, S.F. (1989, Dec. 21). To Senator McCain, the Savings and Loan Affair Is Now a Personal Demon. The New York Times, p. A24.

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Mr. McCain, who of the five Senators was the closest socially to Mr. Keating, would travel with the businessman to his vacation home in the Bahamas, where they swam, snorkeled and went fishing. But he did not repay more than $13,000 to American Continental until 1989, when he said the company notified him that the bill was due.
The Senator insisted that his payments were tardy because of lax personal accounting, and he denied that he intended to get free trips.

Source: Berke, R.L. (1991, Jan. 5). 2 Senators Deny Impropriety In Dealings With Keating. The New York Times, p. A6.

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"I have done this kind of thing many, many times," said one of the Senators, John McCain, Republican of Arizona, who in an interview likened the Lincoln case to his efforts "helping the little lady who didn't get her Social Security."

Source: Berke, R.L. (1989, Nov. 5). Helping constituents or themselves? The New York Times, p. A24.

Are you aware that during the 1980s, McCain took bribes and kickbacks from Charles Keating, whose Savings and Loan was later bailed out by the U.S. taxpayer?
Of course not.
The reason we don't know that it because it isn't true. McCain sat in a meeting with Keating. That's it. That's all he did.

***BZZZZZT*** wrong answer McCainiac.

Between 1982 and 1987, McCain received $112,000 in political contributions from Keating. Cindy McCain and her father invested $359,100 in a Keating shopping center known as 'Fountain Square' In the Spring of '86, a YEAR before McStain had that 'meeting' you refer to with regulators, McCain, family members plus their baby-sitter enjoyed NINE vacation trips paid for by Keating, making use of his private jet. Three of those trips were made to Keating's plush resort property in Cat Cay in the Bahamas. McCain never paid a dime for those trips until years later when he found out that Keating was in deep doo-doo over Lincoln Savings & Loan.

Now you were saying...?