Obama outlines plans for race against McCain (Keating Five)

Yahoo News ^ | 11 May 08 | CHARLES BABINGTON and SARA KUGLER

[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.

[MARTIAL MONK]

A war crimes tribunal should have been commissioned, the leadership of Vietnam should have been demanded to appear, and if they didn't, the nation should have been put under economic embargo until it took the issue serious.

You are nucking futz.

[DoughtyOne]

That’s okay. We’re not going to agree on this, and I don’t mind you getting testy about it.

The Senate gave you reason to back it, and you have. I don’t buy their swill at all. That’s the way it goes.

Thanks for your comments. You take care.