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Obama launches website on McCain/Keating link
The Hill ^ | 06 Oct 2008 | Klaus Marre

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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ayers; keating; mccain; obama
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To: BGHater

Keating? Is that it Obama?

Let’s see...we started with Ayers, we still have...

Odinga
Hamas support
Wright
Khalid Al-Mansour
Rezko


41 posted on 10/06/2008 9:16:22 AM PDT by dmanLA
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To: TexasNative2000
By responding with this, he legitimizes the Ayers attack as relevant.

Exactly.

42 posted on 10/06/2008 9:17:16 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (LET'S HAVE A BONFIRE WITH THE VANITIES!!!)
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To: Corin Stormhands

Why not let Sarah Palin respond (briefly)? The MSM is paying attention to her & she can bring up John Glenn campaigning for 0bama.


43 posted on 10/06/2008 9:17:29 AM PDT by Post Toasties (It's not a smear if it's true.)
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To: nhwingut

And Dennis DiConcini was convicted. Now he’s an Obama delegate and on the campaign trail.


44 posted on 10/06/2008 9:17:43 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: TexasNative2000

Yep. And the McCain camp better ramp up all the Ayers/Wright/Odinga stuff ASAP.


45 posted on 10/06/2008 9:35:28 AM PDT by rintense (Chuck Norris wears Sarah Palin pajamas.)
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To: rintense
If Obama is this manipulatable (is that a word?) in the campaign, imagine how easily our enemies will be able to play him if he is ever elected.
46 posted on 10/06/2008 9:40:34 AM PDT by TexasNative2000 (Obviously, liberals can't handle a strong, independent woman.)
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To: BGHater; All
Robert Bennett, a Washington lawyer and big dem, was the special prosecutor for the Keating scandal. He has many times that John McCain should never have been included in the Keating 5. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,331651,00.html

Use this for Keating 5 lies about McCain:

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

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=28714

Here’s what Wikipedia has to say about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_5#Glenn_and_McCain:_cleared_of_impropriety_but_criticized_for_poor_judgment

They say that McCain wasn’t guilty of anything except bad judgment.

"Wasn’t McCain found not guilty in the Keating Five Scandal?"

McCain has nothing to worry about. First off, he was found not guilty. Second, all of the CNN, MSNBC, etc. documentaries have already reported this in their "exposes" - it's old news.

47 posted on 10/06/2008 9:44:36 AM PDT by backhoe (McCain? Fight, dammit, fight!)
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To: TexasNative2000

BINGO! I notice he is not issuing any denials whatsoever about the Ayers connections, just trying to change the subject and deflect....


48 posted on 10/06/2008 9:49:57 AM PDT by gore_sux_2000 (Vote in honor of a Veteran! My vote is in honor of My Father.)
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To: BGHater

My memories of the Keating 5 scandal are a little fuzzy, but wasn’t McCain kept on as a defendant just so the RATS could call it a bi-partisan scandal, since all the others were RATS? And wasn’t it originally the Keating 7?


49 posted on 10/06/2008 10:42:30 AM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: Texas4ever
EXONERATED?

IIRC, he copped a plea and witnessed against others involved.

The Keating 5 scandal is absolutely appropriate to bring up during this cycle. It's one of the things that makes McCain a weak candidate.

50 posted on 10/06/2008 10:59:17 AM PDT by zeugma (Mark Steyn For Global Dictator!)
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To: 1Old Pro

“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.”

“YAWN,” exactly.

Besides...isn’t this the exact same period of time when obie was said (based upon his book - exhibit #1) to have been snorting cocaine, smoking marijuana, and drinking alcohol excessively...yeah, pretty sure...also, seen some mention on here about him maybe being on the DL...was there ever evidence to that effect.


51 posted on 10/06/2008 10:59:22 AM PDT by areukiddingme1 (areukiddingme1 is a synonym for a Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and tired of liberal BS.)
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To: zeugma
IIRC, he copped a plea and witnessed against others involved.

You don't remember correctly.

52 posted on 10/06/2008 11:02:42 AM PDT by MARTIAL MONK (I'm waiting for the POP! It's gonna be a BIG one.)
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To: MARTIAL MONK
You don't remember correctly.

Really. Are you saying he was completely innocent of attempting to peddle his influence on behalf of Charles Keating?

53 posted on 10/06/2008 11:34:09 AM PDT by zeugma (Mark Steyn For Global Dictator!)
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To: zeugma
Are you saying he was completely innocent of attempting to peddle his influence on behalf of Charles Keating?

That is exactly what I am saying.

54 posted on 10/06/2008 11:36:29 AM PDT by MARTIAL MONK (I'm waiting for the POP! It's gonna be a BIG one.)
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To: MARTIAL MONK
 Are you saying he was completely innocent of attempting to peddle his influence on behalf of Charles Keating?

That is exactly what I am saying.

Here's a FreeRepublic thread where one of the principals discusses it...

MEDIA ADVISORY, October 6 /Standard Newswire/ -- The following is democratic counsel Robert Bennett on John McCain and Keating Five: 'Pure Politics':

In The Ring: The Trials Of A Washington Lawyer,

By Robert S. Bennett

Random House, 2008

Pgs. 133 134

"At the completion of my investigation, I filed my report with the committee. I recommended that no further action be taken against Senators McCain and Glenn principally because once they learned that there was a criminal referral, they stopped aggressively doing Keating's bidding with the regulators."

Apparently in Washington, influence peddling is o.k. as long as the peddler doesn't know he's dealing with folks involved are under investigation.

Sorry, my morality differes from that somewhat.

Blind partisanship is not a virtue.

55 posted on 10/06/2008 1:45:38 PM PDT by zeugma (Mark Steyn For Global Dictator!)
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To: zeugma
McCain and Keating were friends. Both were active in Republican politics. Keating sponsored McCain in his first run for Congress and the two subsequent runs. He was an important contributor. I know. I was opposed to the Keating faction and to McCain gaining the nominations.

First, who was Keating? He was was an Arizona developer with an impeccable reputation for honesty. He was a big Reagan supporter. Deeply religious, he was somewhat of a prude. He cut his political teeth fighting Larry Flynt. His brother was a congressman from Ohio.

What did McCain do? He went to two meetings. At both he made it very clear that he was not trying to influence regulatory process but was there to see if Keating was getting a fair deal. He refused to attend the second meeting when asked by Keating but changed his mind when DeConcini personally asked him to go. That was all he did. Keating asked for more but McCain told him to f himself.

I've fought with McCain for twenty-five years. I don't like the SOB. We looked at the Keating deal and we would have beat McCain over the head with it but there is no there there. As bitter as our disagreements have been, I have never, ever, seen McCain do anything that was dishonorable.

56 posted on 10/06/2008 2:43:08 PM PDT by MARTIAL MONK (I'm waiting for the POP! It's gonna be a BIG one.)
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To: Texas4ever

I think “exonerated” may just be one of those big words the average Obamabot does not understand. How about: McCain was totally cleared of all charges!!!”


57 posted on 10/06/2008 2:48:08 PM PDT by CaliforniaCon
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To: hsmomx3

...maybe get Sarah to Virginia as well. Looks like that state could use a little help.


58 posted on 10/06/2008 2:49:37 PM PDT by CaliforniaCon
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To: CaliforniaCon

Thank You!..I didnt know how to answer such a blank slate!


59 posted on 10/06/2008 2:54:51 PM PDT by Texas4ever ( Who is the real Obama?)
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60 posted on 10/06/2008 9:48:07 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (Obama, WHO is Bill Ayers and WHY are you still friends with him? Please RSVP asap!)
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