Here’s the Obama camp’s 13-minute documentary on John McCain and the Keating Five scandal
10 comments October 6th, 2008
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Obama camp plays Keating Five card in response to McCain’s character smears
8 comments October 6th, 2008
Barack Obama’s campaign is launching a BROADBASED EFFORT today to raise public awareness of John McCain’s involvement in the so-called Keating Five savings-and-loan scandal of nearly 20 years ago.
The strategy is a response to the McCain camp’s recent guilt-by-association smears on Obama’s character.
The centerpiece of the Obama effort is a 13-minute documentary on the Keating Five scandal to be released at 11 a.m. (CDT) today. Here’s a preview:
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I’m inclined to cut John McCain a little slack on the Keating Five scandal
8 comments September 23rd, 2008
John McCain got himself caught up in the Savings & Loan debacle of the late 1980’s and became known as one of the Keating Five, a reference to five lawmakers who did favors for a corrupt S&L operator.
In light of the current banking scandal, there’s a growing buzz about the Keating Five case. Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter brought it up last night on Keith Olbermann’s program:
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My take on McCain’s role in the Keating Five business is that he screwed up and showed poor judgement. But his culpability in the case strikes me as relatively minor.
I’m not going to get into all the particulars in my narrative here. Rather, I ask you to read THIS ARTICLE in its entirety and judge for yourself whether McCain acted like a crook. I don’t think so.