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.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Oh, gotta love them trying to hit hard with Keating, all the while sweeping Biden’s plagiarism under the “oh it was so long ago” rug.
Not weeks ago. McCain has to conserve money and time the dollars spent like PGMs...pinpointed precisely and hard hitting.
Not weeks ago. McCain has to conserve money and time the dollars spent like PGMs...pinpointed precisely and hard hitting.
Look at how many time Wikipedia has been rewritten this week!
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Keating_Five&action=history
This part is gone now:
The Senate Ethics Committee lawyer who investigated McCain — Robert Bennett — is quoted as saying: “First, I should tell your listeners I’m a registered Democrat, so I’m not on (McCain’s) side of a lot of issues. But I investigated John McCain for a year and a half, at least, when I was special counsel to the Senate Ethics Committee in the Keating Five. ... And if there is one thing I am absolutely confident of, it is John McCain is an honest man. I recommended to the Senate Ethics Committee that he be cut out of the case, that there was no evidence against him.”
Ping!
He was cleared of any wrongdoing.
That's not the premise Wall St. has been operating on ;-)
McCain was investigated and found INNOCENT......
Not only was he not found guilty, he was never charged. The lead Democrat counsel, Robert Bennett, tried to get him dropped entirely from the investigation. That wasn't allowed. Apparently, they needed a Republican to be named so that they could claim "both parties do it". All of the others involved were Democrats.
Joking, but not by much......
It’s not the idea, it’s the execution that matters.
As an IT guy I’m wondering why we didn’t set up a website with a 13 minute video covering Ayers and Fannie and Freddy - complete with emails going out to supporters that can be forwarded to others quickly and easily?
They have a lot less to work with here, but I believe they might be outflanking us.
Paid for by Obama for America
Obama for America Official Website of Barack Obama 2008 Presidential Campaign.
www.barackobama.com/
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Revisiting McCain’s Keating 5 history
Seattle Times - Sept. 4, 2008
Keating 5 ring a bell?
Los Angeles Times - Sept 25, 2008
McCain’s recent history
Sioux Falls Argue Leader - Sept. 15, 2008
Reinsert it...
Now McCain’s reticence in hitting the Dems with Raines, Gorelick and Johnson makes some sense. He figured they would hit him with the Keating Five. He can now hit back with the fact of his being cleared of any charges together with a strong offense on these current Dem and Obama advisors and their relationship with Barney F. and Chris Dodd and the part of all of them in causing the current crisis.
‘The Keating 5 Scandal’? BIG DEAL!
McCain was cleared of that- and even if he wasn’t, that cannot compare to the devastating dirt we have on Obama.
If he doesn’t get off his duff and get out there and hit Obama every day, he’s handing the presidency over to Barack Hussein Obama.
Why is he not mentioning such things as Obama trying to turn Missouri into a police state? Obama trying to turn our children into ‘Hitler youth’?
Email Republican headquarters/McCain.
REMIND McCAIN THAT HE HAS AN OBLIGATION AS OUR CANDIDATE TO FIGHT BACK!
To h*ll with bipartisian BS!
To h*ll with PC!
To h*ll with ‘conducting a respectful campaign’as McCain has said, and vowed to do.
RESPECTFUL CAMPAIGNING WENT STRAIGHT OUT THE WINDWO WITH OBAMA’S NASTY, BRUTAL COMMENTS SUCH AS;
‘lipstick on a pig’ and ‘You can wrap AN OLD FISH in a piece of paper called change. It’s still going to stink after eight years.’
Take off the gloves, McCain!
Hit the Marxist/Muslim hard with Ayers, Acorn, Violation of Logan Act, abortion, 2nd admendment, Campaigning for Odinga!!
FReep ‘EM!!!!
MCCAIN/REPUBLICAN PARTY
Fax: 202-228-2862
Send a fax FREE: https://faxzero.com/
rickdavis@johnmccain.com, ameese@mccain08hq.com, anickel@mccain08hq.com,
johnmccain@gop.com, info@gop.com,
RNCommunications@gop.com, Chairman@gop.com, Political@gop.com
THE CONSERVATIVE ACTIVIST’S
(all the Republican movers and shakers)
GIANT E-MAIL LINKS PAGE!
http://www.conservativeusa.org/megalink.htm
FReep THE MSM!
SEND THEM DAMAGING INFO ON OBAMA. DEMAND THEY DO THEIR JOB AND INVESTIGATE.
ElRushbo@eibnet.com
me@glennbeck.com
Hannity@foxnews.com
FOX & Friends — Friends@foxnews.com
FOX News Live — Feedback@foxnews.com
FOX News Live w/ Jamie Colby — Jamie@foxnews.com
FOX News Live Weekend — Feedback@foxnews.com
FOX News Specials — Viewerservices@foxnews.com
FOX News Sunday — FNS@foxnews.com
FOX News Watch — Newswatch@foxnews.com
FOX Report w/ Shepard Smith — Foxreport@foxnews.com
Obama and Odinga
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=S8QcpdUtxNQ&feature=related
Obama talks about Ayers giving him a job:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=D-45A6I
I don’t know about John Glenn doing the right thing, but please see response #64 - good stuff!
I don’t have an account and can’t recall where it was in the article when I copied and pasted it here earlier today.
If you admit the first sentence, you get to make the argument in the last sentence. Read it again, carefully.
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