Why McCain's connection to Charles Keating is troubling

[Chris]

......because McCain lobbied as a U.S. Senator for a convicted felon.

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]

Keating Five - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Mad Scientist]

From your own link:

The result of the collapse of Lincoln Savings and Loan was that 21,000 mostly elderly investors lost their life savings. After a lengthy investigation, the Senate Ethics Committee determined in 1991 that Alan Cranston, Dennis DeConcini, and Donald Riegle had substantially and improperly interfered with the FHLBB in its investigation of Lincoln Savings. Senators John Glenn and John McCain were cleared of having acted improperly but were criticized for having exercised "poor judgment".

Oh no! They were "criticized"! Notice they weren't found guilty of anything.

 

[Mauser]

The Special Prosecutor, a lifelong Democrat, wanted to remove McCain from the investigation because of a lack of evidence of wrongdoing.

The Senate, which had a Democrat majority, refused to allow McCain to be removed from the investigation......because he was the sole Republican amidst all the other Democrats.

 

[Gunny]

......because McCain lobbied as a U.S. Senator for a convicted felon.

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]

Keating Five - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

How many times are you going to post this crap?

 

[Larkinn]

From your own link:


[/B]Oh no! They were "criticized"! Notice they weren't found guilty of anything.

Neither was Obama.

If Guilt by association is all well and good, Obama will, and is, hitting back.

Ads are going up on Monday.

Keating Economics

Hitting Obama on Ayers was a pretty stupid thing to do.

 

[Red Dawn]

Cons, I don't think you wanted to go here. I don't think you wanted to send a vice presidential candidate out to insinuate Obama is a terrorist sympathizer and traitor. Obama's got the money to bury the Old Man with McCain's associations. This isn't good for democracy. This is the lowest common denominator.

But, I don't think Obama is like Kerry. You bring punch him in the mouth, and he's going to respond by kicking McCain's skull in.

It ain't cool. But, this is how McCain/Palin want to play.



KeatingEconomics.com: Obama to launch massive multimedia offensive against McCain re Keating Five Scandal

Barack Obama is taking Sarah Palin and John McCain at their words. All weekend McCain sent the head of his ticket, Sarah Palin, out to talk about Barack Obama's "associations." What she meant was, she was going to talk about stories that CNN and AP and the NYT have already debunked. But Obama takes Palin at her word, and if Sarah Palin and John McCain want to talk about associations, then let's.

Monday at noon, Obama officially launches a 13-minute documentary about John McCain's huge financial ethics scandal, the Keating Five Scandal. The clip above is a teaser for the documentary that will be posted at noon Eastern on Monday.

 

[DiveCon]

Cons, I don't think you wanted to go here. I don't think you wanted to send a vice presidential candidate out to insinuate Obama is a terrorist sympathizer and traitor. Obama's got the money to bury the Old Man with McCain's associations. This isn't good for democracy. This is the lowest common denominator.

But, I don't think Obama is like Kerry. You bring punch him in the mouth, and he's going to respond by kicking McCain's skull in.

It ain't cool. But, this is how McCain/Palin want to play.



KeatingEconomics.com: Obama to launch massive multimedia offensive against McCain re Keating Five Scandal

Barack Obama is taking Sarah Palin and John McCain at their words. All weekend McCain sent the head of his ticket, Sarah Palin, out to talk about Barack Obama's "associations." What she meant was, she was going to talk about stories that CNN and AP and the NYT have already debunked. But Obama takes Palin at her word, and if Sarah Palin and John McCain want to talk about associations, then let's.

Monday at noon, Obama officially launches a 13-minute documentary about John McCain's huge financial ethics scandal, the Keating Five Scandal. The clip above is a teaser for the documentary that will be posted at noon Eastern on Monday.

go for it
LOL

 

[del]

How many times are you going to post this crap?

n +1, unfortunately.

 

[DiveCon]

How many times are you going to post this crap?

too bad you dont have a penalty box for such stupidity as chris
LOL

 

[Chris]

too bad you dont have a penalty box for such stupidity as chris
LOL

Your posts consist of one sentence insults.

I suggest you have your doctor check it out.

I think narcosis of the deep has had an effect on you.

 

[DiveCon]

Your posts consist of one sentence insults.

I suggest you have your doctor check it out.

I think narcosis of the deep has had an effect on you.

because thats all morons like you deserve

 

[Chris]

Neither was Obama.

If Guilt by association is all well and good, Obama will, and is, hitting back.

Ads are going up on Monday.

Keating Economics

Hitting Obama on Ayers was a pretty stupid thing to do.

Hit McCain on Charles Keating because the Savings and Loan scandal is so similar to the economic meltdown we have today.

And McCain lobbied in the U.S. Senate for a man who stole the life savings of thousands of pensioners.

 

[Red Dawn]

Hit McCain on Charles Keating because the Savings and Loan scandal is so similar to the economic meltdown we have today.

And McCain lobbied in the U.S. Senate for a man who stole the life savings of thousands of pensioners.

Americans aren't going to give a crap about some old 60's radical no one ever heard of until 3 months ago.

The Keating Five scandal will raise eyebrows, because the corruption and financial meltdown mirror what's happening today.

And since McCain is so busy defending red states, and Obama has expanded the electoral map into former republican strongholds, Obama has the money and resources to bury McCain it a tit for tat exchange between Keating and Ayers.

This won't be pretty for McCain. Do republicans literally want to crash and burn their party, and give the Dems a super, fillibuster proof majority in the Senate?

 

[sealybobo]

......because McCain lobbied as a U.S. Senator for a convicted felon.

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]

Keating Five - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This story reminds me of Mark Foley. If you forgot who he was, he was the GOP perv trying to have sex with underaged boys and at the same time passed anti gay laws. Self loather apparently, only gay people don't hit on minors.

Anyways, he was suspected of doing that underage boy thing earlier in his career, but was cleared of any charges. Today, there is no doubt it was true.

The same with Keating 5 and mccain. Of course he was involved. The 2 that were cleared of charges were the astronaut and the former pow.

It shoud have ruined his political career but it didn't.
But it should ruin his chances of being president.

The swift boaters would have ran the keating 5 advertisement if that were obama's past.

The same shit that happened then is happening right now. Mccains way/the gop way clearly doesn't work. Even reagan overspent.

You don't want to believe obama will do great things and you know mccain won't do what is right. You have no choice unless you have a foreign import business, hire illegals, outsource to mexico, india and china.

Do you work for someone else? Then vote obama. If you make less than $250,000, vote for obama. If you aren't voting, register and vote. Its impowering and fun.

 

[jreeves]

This story reminds me of Mark Foley. If you forgot who he was, he was the GOP perv trying to have sex with underaged boys and at the same time passed anti gay laws. Self loather apparently, only gay people don't hit on minors.

Anyways, he was suspected of doing that underage boy thing earlier in his career, but was cleared of any charges. Today, there is no doubt it was true.

The same with Keating 5 and mccain. Of course he was involved. The 2 that were cleared of charges were the astronaut and the former pow.

It shoud have ruined his political career but it didn't.
But it should ruin his chances of being president.

The swift boaters would have ran the keating 5 advertisement if that were obama's past.

The same shit that happened then is happening right now. Mccains way/the gop way clearly doesn't work. Even reagan overspent.

You don't want to believe obama will do great things and you know mccain won't do what is right. You have no choice unless you have a foreign import business, hire illegals, outsource to mexico, india and china.

Do you work for someone else? Then vote obama. If you make less than $250,000, vote for obama. If you aren't voting, register and vote. Its impowering and fun.

If you believe in Socialism, vote for Obama. His tax plan gives 40% of the American population who pay no federal income taxes handouts. While Mccain's tax plan gives more money back to people who actually pay taxes.

 

[jreeves]

......because McCain lobbied as a U.S. Senator for a convicted felon.

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]

Keating Five - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

More spam from Kirky....yawn...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Five
Senator McCain has violated no law of the United States or specific Rule of the United States Senate."[48]

 

[sealybobo]

because thats all morons like you deserve

Now I would like to analyze this. I may come off as too extreme and I may tell you to suck my balls, but it isn't because you are right. No way. I think its because you refuse to be intelectually honest. You are so sure that you're going to be rich that you pretend that everything the gop does is right even though you know you are wrong bcause you don't care. In the end, you think the gop is a better party for you.

Think about all the $250k execs that lost their jobs. Think about the indians coming here to do IT that are competing for your jobs. Think about the foreign countries buying companies wholesale that will replace you managers.

Even upper middle class should vote for obama.

I'm not saying this for you Dive.. You are a lost hope. I just hope others read this.

Chris is right on the money. ALWAYS! Maybe not for millionaires, but their taking from us so they can get richer? And your party has the balls to talk about wealth distribution?

There are a lot more of us.

And you'll maybe pay $5000 more under obama but the economy will run right under obama if you are a millionaire. That's why so many rich celebs endorse obama. They have souls.

Dive, you are truly a little bitch. I love it. YOU talk shit to chris too? Now I know you are full of shit and i'm not wrong. I never thought I was wrong, but this is proof.

 

[DiveCon]

Now I would like to analyze this. I may come off as too extreme and I may tell you to suck my balls, but it isn't because you are right. No way. I think its because you refuse to be intelectually honest. You are so sure that you're going to be rich that you pretend that everything the gop does is right even though you know you are wrong bcause you don't care. In the end, you think the gop is a better party for you.

Think about all the $250k execs that lost their jobs. Think about the indians coming here to do IT that are competing for your jobs. Think about the foreign countries buying companies wholesale that will replace you managers.

Even upper middle class should vote for obama.

I'm not saying this for you Dive.. You are a lost hope. I just hope others read this.

Chris is right on the money. ALWAYS! Maybe not for millionaires, but their taking from us so they can get richer? And your party has the balls to talk about wealth distribution?

There are a lot more of us.

And you'll maybe pay $5000 more under obama but the economy will run right under obama if you are a millionaire. That's why so many rich celebs endorse obama. They have souls.

Dive, you are truly a little bitch. I love it. YOU talk shit to chris too? Now I know you are full of shit and i'm not wrong. I never thought I was wrong, but this is proof.

LOL

talk about someone full of shit, you have got to be kidding
you are only out done for moronic posts by michael collins, sunniman, and chris

 

[jreeves]

Now I would like to analyze this. I may come off as too extreme and I may tell you to suck my balls, but it isn't because you are right. No way. I think its because you refuse to be intelectually honest. You are so sure that you're going to be rich that you pretend that everything the gop does is right even though you know you are wrong bcause you don't care. In the end, you think the gop is a better party for you.

Think about all the $250k execs that lost their jobs. Think about the indians coming here to do IT that are competing for your jobs. Think about the foreign countries buying companies wholesale that will replace you managers.

Even upper middle class should vote for obama.

I'm not saying this for you Dive.. You are a lost hope. I just hope others read this.

Chris is right on the money. ALWAYS! Maybe not for millionaires, but their taking from us so they can get richer? And your party has the balls to talk about wealth distribution?

There are a lot more of us.

And you'll maybe pay $5000 more under obama but the economy will run right under obama if you are a millionaire. That's why so many rich celebs endorse obama. They have souls.

Dive, you are truly a little bitch. I love it. YOU talk shit to chris too? Now I know you are full of shit and i'm not wrong. I never thought I was wrong, but this is proof.

Under both tax plans, Mccain gives $400 more than Obama to the 121k-166k tax bracket....Do you need a link? That would be upper middle class right?

 

[sealybobo]

LOL

talk about someone full of shit, you have got to be kidding
you are only out done for moronic posts by michael collins, sunniman, and chris

And I'm convinced you aren't really going to make the money you say you are. $50k best is what you'll make. Maybe $80k, but that's it. I'm calling you a liar.
I think you're more of a dude who's parents have money so you're suckered into thinking you are gop because of that. You want the death tax abolished so more of the tax burden falls on us.

You didn't earn that money. You were born into it. And maybe we could talk if reagan, bush 1 & 2 didn't spent $2 trillion.