Exclusive: Obama to hit McCain on Keating scandal

Politico ^

[Chet 99]

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Monday will launch a multimedia campaign to draw attention to the involvement of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in the “Keating Five” savings-and-loan scandal of 1989-91, which blemished McCain’s public image and set him on his course as a self-styled reformer.

Pushing back against what it calls “guilt-by-association” tactics by McCain, the Obama campaign is e-mailing millions of supporters a link to a website, KeatingEconomics.com, that will have a 13-minute documentary on the scandal beginning at noon Eastern time on Monday. The overnight e-mails urge recipients to pass the link on to friends.

The Obama campaign, including its surrogates appearing on radio and television, will argue that the deregulatory fervor that caused massive, cascading savings-and-loan collapses in the last ‘80s was pursued by McCain throughout his career, and helped cause the current credit crisis.

[snarkytart]

LOL

Oh please.

[Chet 99]

Works for me. Seems the Obama campaign is “taking the bait” with Palin’s Ayers attack.

A week spent discussing Ayers and Charles Keating is better than a week discussing economic upheaval.

[forYourChildrenVote4Bush]

McCain better hit Obama with this guy:

Odinga

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=S8QcpdUtxNQ&feature=related

Odinga

[FFranco]

Wasn’t McCain found not guilty in the Keating Five Scandal? Unlike Obama’s association with an admitted domestic terrorist.

[Jackson57]

Expect the MSM to discover “new” information about the scandal and it’ll be wall-to-wall for a week or so. They must defend THE ONE at all costs. They’ve already sold their integrity and objectivity completely for Obama.

[FFranco]

Wasn’t McCain found not guilty in the Keating Five Scandal? Unlike Obama’s association with an admitted domestic terrorist. Besides, that was a long, long time ago and is no longer relevant.

[steve-b]

The problem is that the Keating Five scandal parallels the current Wall Street shenanigans far too closely for comfort.

[yldstrk]

ooooooooooooo scawee

[BookmanTheJanitor]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW12_OscRZg

If Obama doesn’t want to talk about Ayers...maybe we can talk about his association w/ slumlords (above link)

[brytlea]

I think he was found less guilty than the other guys, if my memory serves me, and sometimes it doesn’t.

[Chet 99]

Both McCain and John Glenn were held blameless. It was really the “Keating Three”, but the Dem Controlled Senate kept McCain and Glenn involved so it would be “bipartisan” scandal.

[snarkytart]

Keating is very public knowledge and has been for years. McCain's life has been pretty much an open book. That;s the difference...nobody is allowed to question or examine Barry.
People know about McCain, the same cannot be said about Obama.

[Chet 99]

The problem is that the Keating Five scandal parallels the current Wall Street shenanigans far too closely for comfort.

Is that the talking points they faxed your way?

[Jeff Head]

Bring it. Keeting has already been very well vetted. Ayers never has...but now he is going to be and it's going to leave a mark...a huge welted, red, angry, weeping mark.

McCain himself, through his campaign, made it pretty clear today what he intends to do about this. BRAVO!.

“The last four weeks of this election will be about whether the American people are willing to turn our economy and national security over to Barack Obama, a man with little record, questionable judgment, and ties to radical figures like unrepentant domestic terrorist William Ayers. Americans need to ask themselves if they’ve ever befriended an unrepentant terrorist, or had a convicted felon help them buy their house — because those aren’t smears, those are true facts about Barack Obama.” —Tucker Bounds, spokesman McCain-Palin 2008

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/05/ap-palins-a-racist-for-bringing-up-ayers-or-something/

The real question is what the American people will do...and with Sarah out there all over the country, that is becoming more and more clear with each passing day.

SARAH PALIN SPOTTED "HIDING" FROM THE PRESS IN VA, CA, & NV


I'M VOTING FOR SARAH...AND SO ARE A WHOLE LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE

[RoseofTexas]

Funny how the politico has it as an EXCLUSIVE! I'm sick of those bastards...I loathe them! Anything for the Ozero camp is EXCLUSIVE anything from our team is Vicious attack or Rumors etc...

[sierrahome]

He was exonerated of any wrong doing early on. Let Bambi try, he’s just taking the bait.

[13Sisters76]

I hope he tries it. This one will bite Obummer on the butt with facts. Unfortunately for the Anointed One, the facts about HIM and his associates are true

[DiogenesLaertius]

Obama’s plans will backfire in two ways.

1) The facts are not on his side. McCain was one of two senators completely acquitted.

2) All this attack politics turns off the center and makes it a base on base war. This country is still (partisan-wise) more conservative than liberal. 38% to 19%.

I hope McCain runs an ad with Obama side-by-side with his rhetoric during the primaries—”I see one America”—with his rhetoric now—”Conservatives are the enemy”.

Transformational politican my ass. If Obama loses (and deat god I hope its still possible), he will disappear in history as a far-left quack senator from a liberal cul-de-sac in Chicago.

[kingattax]

They’ve already sold their integrity and objectivity completely for Obama.

can't sell what you ain't got