Posted on 10/06/2008 8:28:54 AM PDT by BGHater
Barack Obama has countered a John McCain ad about the Illinois senator's controversial connections with an ad of his own.
The Democratic nominee launched a website on the link between the Arizona senator and S&L loan scandal figure Charles Keating.
It's the latest attempt to score points by hitting the candidate of the other party on connections to dubious figures in their past. Over the weekend, the McCain campaign strongly pushed the link between Obama and former Weather Underground member William Ayers.
Now, the Illinois senator’s campaign is responding by putting together a documentary on the “Keating Five.”
“The current economic crisis demands that we understand John McCain’s attitudes about economic oversight and corporate influence in federal regulation,” the campaign said on the website, which was launched Sunday night. “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.”
The website states that the GOP nominee “was accused of improperly aiding his political patron, Charles Keating, chairman of the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association.”
According to the Obama campaign’s website, “The Keating scandal is eerily similar to today’s credit crisis, where a lack of regulation and cozy relationships between the financial industry and Congress has allowed banks to make risky loans and profit by bending the rules.
“And in both cases, John McCain's judgment and values have placed him on the wrong side of history,” the site stated.
The McCain campaign did not immediately return a request for comment.
No, McCain doesn’t need to respond. But we can point it out through blogs and other sites.
YAWN, can we talk about Ayers now? Oh, and how Obama hates America and sits in a church with a pastor that also hates america?
And how he campaigned for his tribal "cousin" in Kenya, the genocidal Muslim Communist agent for change Raila Odinga?
I suspect Obama’s media campaigners will make sure this is front and center...right after they finish “debunking” the Obama-Ayers connection.
If he doesn’t respond in some way, the MSM will play it as “No Comment”, which they always imply to mean GUILTY.
Wow, did I miss the part about Keating bombing buildings?
Obama REALLY(??) thinks that comparing Keating to Ayers is gonna fly?
LOL
There is a distinct first mover advantage here in going negative - especially when the comeback is so weak. McCain shoud hit this head on and hard: “I and Hilary Clinton raised the genuine issue of BHO’s long running and close association with unrepentant terrorists, and they have tried to counter with a total misrepresentation of a relationship I had with Keating, where I was completely exonerated of any wrong-doing.”
Now is the time to hit back, and hit back harder.
Osama's friends don't apologize for murder and terrorism.
Obama's friend Ayers, whom he recently called "mainstream" on his website, similarly doesn't apolgize for murder and terrorism. Instead, he still says he didn't do enough.
Other friends of Obama use phrases like "G__ D___ America" and suggest that our families deserve to be murdered by terrorist thugs. Let's have a full discussion of character and questionable associates - for once I'm glad to hear Obama bring a topic up. Did McCain actually plan this so that Obama's chickens would come home to roost in the last month of the campaign when people pay attention? If so, I may be able to smile as I vote for McCain and for the country's survival.
I hope and pray that we can fully air the dirty laundry on both sides and the mainstream media will come anywhere near reporting the truth, just as if they were professionals.
Let me rephrase. I think I single statement from the McCain campain should suffice.
Something that includes the John Glenn reference, and that both McCain and Glenn were cleared.
Although if Obama brings it up tomorrow night, I’d love to see McCain respond with something like “are you throwing your buddy John Glenn under the bus as well? It’s getting might crowded under there.”
I’m just not sure he has the giblets to do it.
Lets see is Keating as bad as sleeping with terrorist..and you handing our country over to the terrorist that are already here in our country
But the Ayers thing and Wright are going to stick.
I agree!!! Absolutely the correct way to deal with it.
McCain suffers from what most Republican/conservatives suffer from ... we don’t know how to get vicious like the liberals. And we’re not nearly as accomplished liars as they are; ref. the Democrats claim that they’d had a deal about the bailout until McCain showed up to the meeting. That was a flat out lie and they weren’t called on it.
I wonder if the Illinois senator's campaign addresses the political party association of the other FOUR members of the "Keating Five" in their little documentary.
“My friend Senator John Glen and I were cleared of any wrongdoing. The other three Democrat Senators were found guilty.
And Mr Obama knows this as witnessed by him having Senator Glen stumping for him in Ohio.
Shame on him.”
By responding with this, he legitimizes the Ayers attack as relevant.
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What McCain ad about Obama and Ayers?
Over the weekend, the McCain campaign strongly pushed the link between Obama and former Weather Underground member William Ayers.
Oh I see. There was no ad. Well I guess that would make this The Hill writer a liar. No surprise. And notice how The Hill gives the worst spin possible and offers no facts that McCain was exonerated, that three Democrats were found guilty etc. and yet they do not feel the need to publish those facts because McCain's campaign didn't give them a response. Give me a break!
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