The Obama-Biden campaign will be pushing back on John “Mr. Negative” McCain’s recent decision to go all-smear, all-the-time by pointing out Sen. McCain’s “poor judgment” in palling around with deregulated Savings and Loan frauds…
Obama-Biden communications director Dan Pfeiffer said: “While John McCain may want to turn the page on his erratic response to the current economic crisis, we think voters will find his involvement in a similar crisis to be particularly interesting. His involvement with Keating is a window into McCain’s economic past, present, and future.” (emphasis added)
At noon, Monday, October 6th, the best-managed campaign in America will release a full 13-minute documentary on McCain’s association with Charles Keating — likely to include such nefarious hits as McCain’s vacations with the Keatings and his influence-peddling on behalf of Mr. Keating’s costly, deregulated failures.
If McCain really wants to repeat Sen. Hillary Clinton’s mistakes of bringing up a guy who did some despicable acts when Sen. Obama was 8… then let’s talk about some real guilt-by-association and Sen. McCain’s “poor judgment” related to same.
Update: The Trailer to the McCain-Keating “poor judgment” documentary is up and running…
Head to KeatingEconomics.com after noon Eastern time for the full expose. Research and recent (yes, recent) news articles about McCain’s cozy relationship with Charles Keating and the Keating 5 scandal is already available at KeatingEconomics.com.
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October 6, 2008 at 12:29 am
goodtimepolitics
Obama has no defense on being close to William Ayers except to keep saying he was 8 years old, but he was much older than that in 1981 when the weathermen terrorist group rob a armory car!
October 6, 2008 at 2:24 am
robnesvacil
Good Time…
And did Obama know Ayers in 1981? Seems rather impossible seeing as how he was in college in New York … and didn’t even get to Chicago til 1985.
Then again, Ayers wasn’t even involved in that fatal roberry in the first place. But seeing as how such a loose connection is now “ok” to look into, Good Time, you ought to talk about McCain’s connections to racists, anti-Semites, anti-Catholics and other nefarious ne’er-do-wells with whom he’s served on organizations’ boards and gotten endorsements.
Hmm… what else was going on in the 80s?
That’s right! McCain was having pina coladas with Keating while helping deregulate savings & loans and costing American taxpayers billions of dollars.
Of course, the connection between McCain and Keating lasted years and developed into a very deep friendship (they even went on vacation together… maybe that’s why McCain thought it’d be ok to intimidate government inspectors looking into Keating’s bogus business deals). Compare that to Obama and Ayers who simply live in the same city, with Ayers donating 200 bucks because Ayers’ actual friend, Alice Palmer, asked him to (Obama didn’t ask for it).
If this is your criteria, you, Good Time, have about as much of a connection to Ayers as Obama does.