Posted on 05/11/2008 6:40:55 AM PDT by Mr Rogers
Barely mentioning Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton, Obama said he was open to campaigning with McCain in "town hall" events. But he also warned that controversial issues such as McCain's ties to the Keating Five savings and loan scandal are fair game, and he called McCain's proposal for a temporary halt in the federal gasoline tax a pander and a gimmick...
Obama was asked Saturday if the fall campaign might touch on the 1987 Keating Five scandal, in which the Senate Ethics Committee said McCain used "poor judgment" for allegedly pressing regulators to go easy on the owner of a failed Arizona savings and loan who was also a campaign contributor.
Obama said there is no doubt the Keating Five case is "germane to the presidency."
"I can't quarrel with the American people wanting to know more about that," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
McCain's press buddies are going to turn on him big time. Having tossed overboard every conservative he can find, who will rise to his defense?
Unfortunately, so does McCain
There is no Keating Five scandal for McCain. The Senate Judiciary Chief Counsel said McCain was innocent of all allegations, and should never have been charged, and is now supporting McCain.
Advisor to Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama, Robert Malley, seen here in France in 2004, has left the campaign after a British newspaper asked him about meetings with the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, media reports said Friday. (AFP/File/Thomas Coex)
Are facts relevant to the MSM? This blogger hopes not:
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/15498.html
This hypocrisy is going to bite him right on the butt if he doesn't wake up. Cannot be “a different kind of politician” if your are going to run a getter slime political campaign of innuendo, half truth and accusation
“Bill Ayers’ radicalism? That was long ago. It’s old news. It’s divisive to talk about it. The 90+ percent of the black vote for me proves that we are beyond divisive issues. Let’s get on with the campaign. Now about McCain’s crimes. . . .”
Of course, in the playbook of the dims and their co-conspirator drive bys, a 20 or 30 year "charge" is quite legitimate.
Witness the attacks on GW based on "Rather" dubious information.
The gas tax moratorium is a gimmick, it won’t produce one gallon of oil. Nobody is asking where are we going to get more oil and if we don’t how are we going to survive?
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
Polished in a prepared speech, charismatic in his presentation, nonetheless, underneath it all lies a smoldering cauldron of marxism, bigotry, and black liberation theology that is the enemy of America and its traditional values.
THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - OBAMA'S CIRCLE OF FRIENDS AND SUPPORT
THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY AND OBAMA'S CHURCH
THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA
One can only hope that Hussein Obama will try use that 20 year old situation where McCain has been cleared.
Then Hussein will open the doors to his $ connections to the Chicago Magia, Terrorists and Black Panthers.
Obama has already made a smarmy illusion that McCain’s problem may be that he’s getting old in a statement Obama made this week! I thought it was appalling, but didn’t hear much about it at the time other than it was noted, but not discussed. Obama’s is going to make inferences to McCain showing signs of sinility.
Actually, McCain has opened the door on Hussein Obama re his connections with Ayers:
http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/361268.aspx
McCain Slams Obama on Bill Ayers Connection
April 21, 2008
First it was Hillary Clinton. Now it is John McCain taking shots at Barack Obama over his relationship with 60’s radical Bill Ayers. Read more about the Ayers controversy here and watch John McCain criticize Obama about Ayers here. Read more from The Associated Press below.
McCain said he was sure Obama was “very patriotic” but said his relationship with William Ayers, a University of Illinois professor who was once part of the violent Weather Underground group, was “open to question.”
There is an error in the story. Keating’s Lincoln S & L was located in Irvine CA not AZ.
Where is any infor from the HilLIARy camp? I bet she is tossing ashtrays every time she turns on the news.
I want to see a MELTDOWN
Mr. McCain is fortunate that the rat party has given him an opponent in obama who is more stupid than hillary.
Obama, the ku klux man, will give everyone a good fore-taste of America under a divisive, racist lunatic.
If we had a solid small government conservative, we could’ve seen a Reagan-style electoral sweep.
He may open that door, but as mclame has proved, he WILL NOT walk through it.
McCain has taken Obama on with his Hamas support/friends and Ayers.
"The Obama campaign also pointed out that the attack seemed to contradict comments made on MSNBC last month by McCain campaign senior adviser, Charlie Black, who said, "What Senator McCain has said repeatedly is that these candidates cannot be held accountable for all the views of people who endorse them or people who befriend them. ... He believes that people who endorse you, people who befriend you, are entitled to their own views, but you are not held personally accountable. That when somebody endorses you or befriends you, they're embracing your views, the candidates' views, not the other way around."
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