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POLITICO Exclusive: Obama To Hit McCain On Keating Five (Obama Gets Desperate Alert!)
Politico ^ | 10-5-08 11.12PM EDT | Mike Allen

Posted on 10/05/2008 8:23:34 PM PDT by tcrlaf

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To: Harry Wurzbach

Plus, he has many more shady affiliations than with just Ayers..


41 posted on 10/05/2008 8:44:31 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: tcrlaf

Obama can try to dredge up ancient history about McCain, but he’ll never be able to deny that his relationship with Ayers or Rezco is recent history.


42 posted on 10/05/2008 8:44:36 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Harry Wurzbach
Me thinks someone protests too much.

Me too. Very good analysis and I agree 100%. I think McCain telegraphing his plans has put Obama completely off and it is showing going back to Keating 5 which is laughable.

43 posted on 10/05/2008 8:45:57 PM PDT by PhiKapMom ( BOOMER SOONER -- VOTE FOR McCAIN/PALIN2008! LetsGetThisRight.com)
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To: rvoitier

Actually, one of the regulators is a 40+ year friend of Bush’s; they went to prep school and college together.


44 posted on 10/05/2008 8:45:58 PM PDT by awakenedcitizen
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To: Loud Mime

Dollar to a donut, if Wonderboy pushes this, DeConcini and maybe John H. Glenn will come out in an ad for McCain. I hated Glenn’s politics but I still admire him for his non-political career and accomplishments. Those two could put a screeching halt to Wonderboy’s smear. And I believe that they will.


45 posted on 10/05/2008 8:46:52 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Barack Hussein Obama is a muslim.)
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To: forYourChildrenVote4Bush

“I’m rvoitier and I approve this post.”


46 posted on 10/05/2008 8:47:17 PM PDT by rvoitier (Democrat--gateway ideology to Communism / It's the Revolution, Stupid!)
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To: tcrlaf

Palin has to continue hitting Obama on this. Obama does not seem able to handle being criticized by her. If I had to guess, I’d say he doesn’t respect women as his equals in this profession and, in general, he hates whites, especially those he views as vastly inferior (ie “rednecks”) to him. Having Palin attack him is, in reality, baiting him. The one thing the McCain campaign would love is for him being forced to address the Ayers relationship personally. Because if he talks about it, then the media is forced to cover it, which ultimately gives it more coverage and then, perhaps (finally) some enterprising reporter in the MSM will put two and two together.

Right now his campaign is doing the absolute last thing they should be doing tactically to address this issue. They should be laughing it off and talking about whatever handout they want to promise this week. Instead they are wigging out about it. That tells you there is more there. So Palin will hit him more until the smoke cloud is big enough that Obama will be forced to respond in person.

And this is the guy Americans want facing down Putin?


47 posted on 10/05/2008 8:47:40 PM PDT by Harry Wurzbach (Rep. Thaddeus McCotter is my hero.)
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To: Finalapproach29er

from wikipedia on ‘Keating Five’-

McCain and Keating had become personal friends following their initial contacts in 1981,[11] and McCain was the closest socially to Keating of the five senators.[31] Like DeConcini, McCain considered Keating a constituent as he lived in Arizona.[25] Between 1982 and 1987, McCain had received $112,000 in political contributions from Keating and his associates.[32] In addition, McCain’s wife Cindy McCain and her father Jim Hensley had invested $359,100 in a Keating shopping center in April 1986, a year before McCain met with the regulators. McCain, his family, and their baby-sitter had made nine trips at Keating’s expense, sometimes aboard Keating’s jet. Three of the trips were made during vacations to Keating’s opulent Bahamas retreat at Cat Cay. McCain did not pay Keating (in the amount of $13,433) for some of the trips until years after they were taken, when he learned that Keating was in trouble over Lincoln.[7][33]


48 posted on 10/05/2008 8:48:13 PM PDT by Peelod (Whatever Sarah tells you, heed her voice - Genesis 21:12)
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To: xkaydet65

In the research I did earlier, I kept seeing articles that alluded to Michelle knowing Ayers and Dorhn a long time before she met Obama. In fact one article said that Dorhn got Michelle the job with the law firm. Sounds like someone has a lot more info.


49 posted on 10/05/2008 8:48:26 PM PDT by PhiKapMom ( BOOMER SOONER -- VOTE FOR McCAIN/PALIN2008! LetsGetThisRight.com)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Wasn’t Senator McCain exonerated in the Keating 5 case? WTF is the Obama Team doing? Oh, that’s right, they are masters of pulling stuff outta their @$$...

yes but that is not in any way relevant to peoples perception, especially when 50 % of them don't know their @$$ from a hole in the ground. The WHOLE problem is not that McCain is guilty or anything close to it, in fact he was the token Republican in a gang of Democrats, but the fact the Democrats have successfully labeled the GOP as the cause of all problems and this just adds to the drumbeat. The GOP needed to attack long ago not just Barry but to hit the Democrat party which they have failed to do.

50 posted on 10/05/2008 8:49:06 PM PDT by Archon of the East (Universal Executive Power of the Law of Nature)
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To: tcrlaf

I think it’s much simpler than that. McCain is great at pulling punches. And obama can’t stop himself. He’s got that same psycho thing going that clinton had going. Order more popcorn.


51 posted on 10/05/2008 8:49:22 PM PDT by gotribe (The right pick!)
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To: Corin Stormhands

they are

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread398079/pg1


52 posted on 10/05/2008 8:51:01 PM PDT by Perdogg (Vice President Sarah H Palin - Make it happen !!!!)
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To: linn37

If you think he is erratic now, wait until he gets elected if he does

He can sure star in a campaign where he is micromanaged and exposed to adoring crowds, has almost no decisions to make, at least before pollsters tell him what to do, he can lie and charm everyone or flip off people he loses his temper at (like Hillary),

but no one can run the USA on lies, tap dances, flip offs, and illusions (or delusions) of being a strong leader.


53 posted on 10/05/2008 8:51:06 PM PDT by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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To: tcrlaf

I lived in AZ during this time and alot was made of this. If I recall correctly DeConcini (d) was the bad apple.


54 posted on 10/05/2008 8:52:01 PM PDT by eyedigress ( My first 4 wheeler was on the rocks in Fairbanks)
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To: tcrlaf
YES! YES! YES! I LOVE IT!!! This allows McCain to join Palin in an all-out vetting of Obama without being branded as the only one that's "going negative".

Let the electorate know about each and every terrorist tie, money scandal, radical society, racist pal & shady deal that 0bomber has ever had. Don't hold back on any of the truth!

55 posted on 10/05/2008 8:54:09 PM PDT by Nasher (BHO: His most memorable work is a biography of his favorite subject: Himself!)
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To: tcrlaf

What’s the matter Barry? I thought you were going to play nice in the sandbox. McCain and Palin can not quit. They need to finish this. Who the hell ever said politics was warm and fuzzy?


56 posted on 10/05/2008 8:54:19 PM PDT by ladyvet (WOLVERINES!!!!!)
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To: Harry Wurzbach

the way I remember it from watching the actual hearings on C-Span is that McCain split from the meeting when he realized why it was called......Democrat lawyer Robert Bennett was the Special Counsel


57 posted on 10/05/2008 8:54:38 PM PDT by Vn_survivor_67-68 (CALL CONGRESSCRITTERS TOLL-FREE @ 1-800-965-4701)
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To: tcrlaf

McCain is an idiot. He waited too long, and now Obama’s negative barrage will drown out McCain’s Ayers/Rezko attacks.


58 posted on 10/05/2008 8:54:45 PM PDT by montag813
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To: tcrlaf

Sarah Palin is like our fullback. She opened up a hole. Now McCain has to run through it.


59 posted on 10/05/2008 8:55:36 PM PDT by se_ohio_young_conservative (GO Sarah Palin !)
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