[steve-b]

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

[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?

[snarkytart]

You mean the Democrats scandal with Fanny and Freddie that caused a domino reaction across the board on wall street?

You need to get off the ship of doom, or just get out of the way.

[linn37]

How so?

[1035rep]

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

Yes,  and again it was the Democrats. No evidence of any wrongdoing by Senator McCain.  

[Perdogg]

There he is, Obama’s worker on FR.

[shield]

McCain was investigated and found INNOCENT......

[JEH_Boston]

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

Not as close to ACORN/Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac....

[clintonh8r]

That’s right. Most voters won’t see past the vague similarities between Keating and the current financial situation. McCain is vulnerable on this, warrented or not.

[editor-surveyor]

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

You mean for the Dem's comfort?

Absolutely! - Obama will be counseled not to try this, by some very powerful people in his party.

[Yardstick]

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

Yep, and the Keating line of attack on McCain will be helped substantially by the fact that McCain and the Republicans have failed to put the blame for the mortgage crisis where it belongs.

The public has been led to believe that the villain is greedy Wall Street types enabled by a Republican climate of laissez-faire malregulation. That belief will now pivot nicely onto McCain as the press spends the next couple of weeks rediscovering the Keating Five scandal.

If he & the pubbies had done their job and made sure the public understood that the mortgage crisis is a Democrat-created crisis, this false context would not exist. But as it is, McCain's Keating association will seem to fit into a pattern and will therefore be more damaging.

True to form, the Republicans have played nice and now they will get their just deserts.

[Lexinom]

...including the fact that most of the key players were Democrats.

[MississippiMan]

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

Might this be the reason McCain has refused to play hardball and point the (accurate) finger of blame at the Democrats on the financial crisis?

No matter his reason, it should be obvious to him now that he can either fight hard or lose.

MM (in TX)

[pray4liberty]

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

Not to mention 4 of the Keating Five were Democrats.