Exclusive: Obama to hit McCain on Keating scandal

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[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.

[SERKIT]

Great! Let's see if Barry can stand the whithering hearings on topics like his COLB, passed foreign citizenships, travleing on an Indonesian passport under the name Barry Soetoro, college records, college tuition (source of), ties to Ayers & Rezko, unlawful foreign bundled campaign donations, meeting calendar and travel itineraries while in the Illinois senate, phone records in the timeframe of 1999 with members of the TUCC prior to 3 murdered church members, conspiracy with Joe and Beau Biden in violating the civil rights of a detractor leading up to Joe Biden’s VP candidacy being announced, $100,000 “Garden to Nowhere” in a southside neighborhood that piped funds to fraudulent minority businesses, clarity on his use of cocaine as recently as 9 years ago....more?

[Joe 6-pack]

I would be more concerned had McCain been involved with the Keaton Five...

[ntnychik]

Here’s some ammo I found pages into a Google search on John McCain Keating Five Bob Bennett:

http://boards.historychannel.com/topic/Current-Events/Ann-Coulter-Keating/520013428

Do you think Obama’s diversionary tactic swapping Ayers for Keating will finally raise McCain’s ire? (Or is that the point?)

[BuckeyeTexan]

McCain: “Oh, Please!”

Even their beloved Big Dawg says John McCain is a different kind of Republican ... and a good man. Funny that he doesn’t say much about Oblahblah.

[Minn]

Wasn’t it the ethics committee’s attorney Bob Bennett that told the committee that McCain was completely innocent and should be released from the investigation? And wasn’t this advice refused because the Dems on the committee couldn’t stand to have a Keating four, that was entirely Democratic?

[kcvl]

http://keatingeconomics.com/

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Keating Economics: The Making of a Financial Crisis
The current economic crisis demands that we understand John McCain’s attitudes about economic oversight and corporate influence in federal regulation. Nothing illustrates the danger of his approach more clearly than his central role in the savings and loan scandal of the late ‘80s and early ‘90s.

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[flyfree]

They both may be playing head-trip games with each other prior to Tuesday’s debate.

[snarkytart]

Why is he still here on FR?

[RoseofTexas]

What waste of money? The mediaPUKES will be carrying the slag for Ozero for free 42/7! The mediaWHORES are going to crucify McCain bet on it! By the time they are through with him you think the scandal happened yesterday at midnight! HOLD on it's going to be a HELLISH ride from here on! God please remove the blinders from the American people and whatever these EVIL servants of Ozero meant for evil you will turn it around for good towards McPal! In Jesus name!

[CedarDave]

OODA Loop worked

What is OODA??

[Perdogg]

I have no idea.

[kingattax]

there ya go :)

[MARTIAL MONK]

The Democrats had a major role but it was Jesse Helms who really kept McCain in the Keating 5.

[bahblahbah]

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[1035rep]

Obama is in a panic.

[jrooney]

No, he was found to have no guilt. Not less.

[sourcery]

<sarcasm> Breaking news: Water is wet! Betcha didn't know that, didya? </sarcasm>

[willgetsome]

GOOD!

Now open up on Rezko, Annenburg, Ayres, Wright, everything.

You want to play in the dirt Onama? Fine. Get your Chicago boys with ya, we are coming to fight!

[GBA]

C’mon John. Bury ‘em. But first, rub their noses in the mess they've made and make sure, I mean absolutely make sure, that grass roots America knows who stuck us with the $700 BILLION liberal plan to give mortgages to people who couldn't afford them.

[Busywhiskers]

That ain’t gonna play. The only reason they threw McCain into that mess was because the needed a token Republican and, if I recall correctly, he was the only one completely exonerated.