Well, ya just knew this was coming. I expected them to hold off until late in Oct with the Keating 5 stuff. This is why the MSM pushed so hard for McCain last year—they knew this was waiting in the wings. This & stories of his temper.
Fair’s fair. Let’s hear about Ayers and Obama’s funding fraud, as well as his various lies about accepting public funds and his pork proposals for the ‘corruption-free political sphere’ of Chicago.
I see Politico got Rahm Emanuel’s email talking points!
LOL.
And are we to think that they would have not brought this up any way?
I’m guessing there is only a very small minority of voters that know about, or remember keating 5. The fact that it resembles the current economic crisis is a bit distrubing. While the ayers/rezko obama connections are more damning, its hard to create a strong narrative from it. All Obama has to do is say Keating 5/wall street/troopergate and the useful idiots will eat it up.
Going negative against this guy won’t work.
This is just a stall tactic. They really won’t be able to pin anything damaging on McCain with this informaion, but it will divert attention away from Obama with the help of the MSM. Obama is in a prevent defense now, sensing he has a solid enough lead to win the election. The McCain campaign needs to find a couple of really damaging issues for Obama and stick with them.
Charles Keating was McCain’s friend, sponsor and contributer.
The minute that there was a hint of impropriety, McCain severed all connections and refused to intercede. I would call that integrity.
McCain should be hitting back with Mae and Mac.
Instead, he’s going to lay down and take it....
Bring it on Ba-rocko. Take your best shot and then let’s take a look at your birth certificate too while we are at it.
This is what I would like to see McCain do if Obama brings it up in a debate. “My Friend that happened 20 years ago and I regret ever making the mistake and has never done it since. Twenty years ago Senator Obama you admitted to being a cokehead, I have this serile urine bottle for drug testing and if you agree we can send your sample to an independent lab to see if that mistake of yours from 20 years ago is still going on”
Why? Given the Keating 5, we could highlight the co-conspirators of the current bailout the Kriminal 535 (less those who voted against twice), three of who are on the ticket. Given the tough choices we have to make...Barack & Joe lose in a landslide...Sarah wins by default...and McCain rides her skirt-tails to the presidency.
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.
Ping!
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.
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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
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.
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?)