Posted on 10/05/2008 7:37:18 PM PDT by Chet 99
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Monday will launch a multimedia campaign to draw attention to the involvement of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in the “Keating Five” savings-and-loan scandal of 1989-91, which blemished McCain’s public image and set him on his course as a self-styled reformer.
Pushing back against what it calls “guilt-by-association” tactics by McCain, the Obama campaign is e-mailing millions of supporters a link to a website, KeatingEconomics.com, that will have a 13-minute documentary on the scandal beginning at noon Eastern time on Monday. The overnight e-mails urge recipients to pass the link on to friends.
The Obama campaign, including its surrogates appearing on radio and television, will argue that the deregulatory fervor that caused massive, cascading savings-and-loan collapses in the last ‘80s was pursued by McCain throughout his career, and helped cause the current credit crisis.
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This would have come regardless of the Ayers revelations.
The McCain camp assuredly anticipated this from the time McCain got the nomination.
“LIE: “Bill Ayers is an unrepentant terrorist.” TRUTH: Bill Ayers is not, and apparently never was, a terrorist. The conventional definition of a terrorist is someone who tries to kill innocent people for political purposes. As Factcheck.org noted, In fact, nobody died as a result of bombings in which Ayers said he participated as part of the Weather Underground. (Factcheck.org, http://www.factcheck.org/...";
Where the #### did they come up with that IDIOTIC definition? You know, if somebody blows up my garage for political purposes and scares the sh— out of my family, THAT IS TERRORISM.
If Hamas launches a rocket into a Israeli school, but everybody got to cover safely, THAT is terrorism, too.
It is the attempt to induce terror for political, religious, etc., purposes that defines terror. Not whether it actually kills anyone.
I’d say 10-to-1 that Obama planned on using it, regardless, unless he was up over 10 points in the polls.
Yup, they work on the behalf of Obama.
On FOX today, Chris Wallace interviewed a representative from “FactCheck”.org and seemed to give that front organization credibility. I say ‘seemed’ because I turned the channel in disgust after viewing it for about a minute.
(Factcheck.org is funded by Annenberg, post #199.)
I apologize for repeating this, but it is critical, given FactCheck's previous reputation for, well, checking facts, that everyone understand its common financial ties to Obama - and adjust its credibility accordingly on all things Obama.
owned=funded (”primary funding source”)
Incredible isn’t it? They lie with impunity and then say it’s the truth.
This disgusts me. I really want to get after this guy, and God forbid he becomes president, I might not know what to do.
This disgusts me. I really want to get after this guy, and God forbid he becomes president, I might not know what to do.
This disgusts me. I really want to get after this guy, and God forbid he becomes president, I might not know what to do.
This disgusts me. I really want to get after this guy, and God forbid he becomes president, I might not know what to do.
Thank you.
Might this be the reason McCain has refused to play hardball and point the (accurate) finger of blame at the Democrats on the financial crisis?
No matter his reason, it should be obvious to him now that he can either fight hard or lose.
MM (in TX)
So McCain should give the impression he did something wrong that he didn’t actually do, so he can turn around and challenge Obama on something that is supposed to equate?
I’m sorry but that’s not going to cut it. Nobody should do that for any reason, but especially not now and under these political conditions.
He must stress the actual truth. He was not guilty of doing what the other Senators WERE guilty of doing, according to the official findings. And Bob Bennett says McCain should never have even been investigated. And the Dems who are bringing it up now KNOW all of this but are low down enough to bring it up anyway and smear and mislead.
First set the record straight with the truth.
THEN turn it back around on Obama.
The Keating Five does mimic today’s scandal, it is a complete DEMOCRAT scandal!
Sure you can. They're just using CREDIT. Isn't that what what the Obamanation and his followers are always howling.....? Gimme credit for bringing the change..... and I'll give you all the credit you want after I'm the Prez.
Last night Hannity had on a man who infiltrated and informed on Ayers group for the FBI. Ayers instructed him how to make bombs and where he wanted them placed and when.
The guy told Ayers that in one case the targeted building would not be where most of the casualties would occur, but a next door building would be, due to its greater vulnerability, and those people inside weren’t the targets.
To which he quoted Ayers replying that “this is a revolution, and in revolutions innocent people have to die”.
The man’s intent was clear. He was fully prepared to kill people in the course of his activities.
And the point is well made that it is terrorism whether people die or not.
McCain has only to put out the Quote from Bennett Himself after a Year and a Half Investigation , He said that I do not agree with John McCain on any policies But I can Say After Investigating this case John McCain Is an Honest Man
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