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Democrats dig into McCain's role in a financial scandal of the 1980s [skeletons in the closet]
The International Herald Tribune ^ | 2008-10-06 | Brian Knowlton

Posted on 10/06/2008 4:31:05 PM PDT by rabscuttle385

WASHINGTON: Pushing back hard against pointed new attacks from the Republican campaign of John McCain, Democrats on Monday unveiled an ad about McCain's role in a savings and loan scandal of the 1980s that they say has resonance in today's financial debacle.

(Excerpt) Read more at iht.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; elections; keating; mccain; mccainrecord; mccaintruthfile
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Keating Five is nothing compared to the Rats and their entanglement with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac over the past decade.
1 posted on 10/06/2008 4:31:05 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
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To: rabscuttle385

Oh goody, let’s delve into the “scandal” in which McCain’s actions were thoroughly examined found that he did nothing wrong.


2 posted on 10/06/2008 4:33:10 PM PDT by scottinoc
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To: rabscuttle385

Love how the Obama ads came out first but are “push back”. McCain ended up testifying against Keating and was cleared of everything. McCain is a legitimate hero.

Obama is a scumbag leftist lying radical do nothing.

Other than that they are equal.


3 posted on 10/06/2008 4:33:31 PM PDT by Williams
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To: rabscuttle385

Too late. McCain was absolved. Obama on the other hand, hasn’t been absolved


4 posted on 10/06/2008 4:34:12 PM PDT by realcleanguy ("I have not yet begun to fight")
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To: scottinoc
The baddy in the Keating scandal at the time was the OTHER Arizona senator, Dennis DeConcini, DEMOCRAT
5 posted on 10/06/2008 4:34:30 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Let's get serious - there is only one choice - McCain/Palin 2008)
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To: rabscuttle385

Keating Five vs. Ayers, Wright, Fannie Freddie, ACORN, that muslim guy (geez, there’s too many to remember)


6 posted on 10/06/2008 4:34:55 PM PDT by SMCC1
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To: rabscuttle385

Alan Cranston (D-CA)
Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ)
John Glenn (D-OH)
John McCain (R-AZ)
Donald W. Riegle (D-MI)

Do the Democrats REALLY want to go there and discuss the problems of a “culture of corruption” among a party in Congress?


7 posted on 10/06/2008 4:37:38 PM PDT by weegee (Obama's a uniter?"I want you to argue with them (friends,neighbors,Republicans) & get in their face")
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To: Williams

AMEN! Just seconding that! Obama HUSSEIN is as trustworthy, believable, and ethical as his namesake, Saddam HUSSEIN! No wonder Obama HUSSEIN didn’t want to go to War against Saddam HUSSEIN! There was a kindred spirit there:-)


8 posted on 10/06/2008 4:38:10 PM PDT by NOBAMA in 08 ( OBIE HUSSEIN IS AN EMPTY BRAIN and BODY with NO Redeeming Value!)
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To: BigEdLB

And John Glenn going to Obama rallies.


9 posted on 10/06/2008 4:38:24 PM PDT by Terry Mross
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To: Williams

AMEN! Just seconding that! Obama HUSSEIN is as trustworthy, believable, and ethical as his namesake, Saddam HUSSEIN! No wonder Obama HUSSEIN didn’t want to go to War against Saddam HUSSEIN! There was a kindred spirit there:-)*

* Note: this is not a repeat, changed the TAG Line to be more accurate!


10 posted on 10/06/2008 4:41:06 PM PDT by NOBAMA in 08 ( OBIE HUSSEIN IS A CORRUPT,DECAYED BRAIN and BODY with NO Redeeming Value!)
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To: weegee

Points out the fact that Obama is dumber than a ROCK when taken away from the Teleprompter and his Puppeteers:-)


11 posted on 10/06/2008 4:43:53 PM PDT by NOBAMA in 08 ( OBIE HUSSEIN IS A CORRUPT,DECAYED BRAIN and BODY with NO Redeeming Value!)
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To: rabscuttle385

My sense is that by doing this the democrats are really pissing off John McCain. He seems like a different candidate today.


12 posted on 10/06/2008 4:44:14 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius, (170 BC - 86 BC))
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Obama’s Keating moment: Glenn stumps for Team O

When the astronaut made way for the Boss on the Oval, 10,000 people roared in unison, "Bruuuuce!"

"You don't get introduced by John Glenn every day," Bruce Springsteen said, breaking into an impromptu version of Mr. Spaceman.

The Ohio State University campus was in a festive mood yesterday as the rock legend performed a seven-song, solo acoustic set on behalf of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. The free event, one of several Springsteen is doing for the Illinois senator, highlighted Ohio's early-voting law.

13 posted on 10/06/2008 4:44:54 PM PDT by McGruff (Read my lips, NO NEW BAILOUTS!)
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To: weegee

—yep—as I remember the situation, (Alan Cranston was my senior senator at the time), Cranston and DeConcini would have gone to jail if the Senate hadn’t been controlled by the Demo’s—the other three were somewhat less involved, with McCain’s involvement being through the good office of fellow Arizonan DeConcini—


14 posted on 10/06/2008 4:48:27 PM PDT by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the MSM tells you about firearms or explosives--NRA Benefactor)
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To: rabscuttle385

to all kids here:

Mccain was totally exonerated in Keating by a Dem prosecutor/investigator who admonished the Dems for even looking at Mac to begin with

Mac was on the committee and was the token GOP looked at

all the rest were asses.

don’t expect the media to ‘splain this to yall


15 posted on 10/06/2008 4:48:31 PM PDT by wardaddy (everyone has underestimated the media and their bias, it's killing us)
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To: rabscuttle385

Skeletons in the closet? Skeletons in the closet?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8QcpdUtxNQ

How about Obama openly campaigning for his communist cousin Odinga who signed a pact with Muslims to enact Sharia Law if elected and started riots when he lost. Obama campaigned for an openly Anti-American candidate in a foreign country in 2006 at taxpayer expense.


16 posted on 10/06/2008 4:49:08 PM PDT by word_warrior_bob (You can now see my amazing doggie and new puppy on my homepage!! Come say hello to Jake & Sonny)
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To: BigEdLB

The Democrat Party is THE party of CORRUPTION. It is the American version of the Communist Party. . and getting more that way every day. - Obama *could* have stood up for enforcing some oversight of Fannie/Freddie in 2006, as John McCain and Republicans wanted, but then the Democrat’s slush fund would have disappeared. - Big “O” is scared to death his ties to the CORRUPT Tony Rezko will come to light. His Ayer’s connection is also anothere area where he is scared of that indiscretion coming to light in more detail.


17 posted on 10/06/2008 4:52:50 PM PDT by Twinkie (WITH OBAMA - (IT'S PAYBACK TIME IN AMERICA!))
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To: McGruff
“You don't get introduced by John Glenn every day,” Bruce Springsteen said

Yeah too bad he can't sing everything else is in place including his lifetime Communist party membership!

18 posted on 10/06/2008 4:53:30 PM PDT by Cheetahcat (Osamabama the Wright kind of Racist!)
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To: rabscuttle385

LOL. So now the Obama campaign, instead of continuing with the ‘let’s talk about what really matters’ line (which is bunk but generally effective, especially with the market as it is), has opted to condone digging into the candidates’ pasts. Genius.

Obama is hiding some nasty secret. Something nastier than the already unsavory tidbits that are known (Ayers, Wright).


19 posted on 10/06/2008 4:58:24 PM PDT by Harry Wurzbach (Rep. Thaddeus McCotter is my hero.)
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To: weegee

DeConcini was appointed by President Bill Clinton in February 1995 to the Board of Directors of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, so what was his role in the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac fiasco?


20 posted on 10/06/2008 5:06:59 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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