thinkprogress.org— “It’s a dangerous road, but we have no choice,” a top McCain strategist told the Daily News. “If we keep talking about the economic crisis, we’re going to lose.”
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@shepherd79, The pathetic attempt by the Left to equate the Keating affair with the long and disturbing pattern of Obama's radical associations isn't going to work. You write, "The Keating 5 investigation did not clear McCain of all wrong doing."This from the New York Times, "''I found nothing in my investigation which caused me to question Senator McCain's integrity,'' said Robert Bennett, the Washington lawyer who was special counsel to the ethics panel during what is called the Keating Five investigation. Mr. Bennett, more recently, has been one of President Clinton's lawyers." <a class="user" href="http://74.125.45.104/search?q=cache:potDj-GkD78J:query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html%3Fres%3D9F05E7D9123CF932A15752C1A96F958260%26sec%3D%26spon%3D%26pagewanted%3Dall+keating+five+%22cleared+of+any+wrongdoing%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=27&gl=us&client=firefox-a">http://74.125.45.104/search?q=cache:potDj-GkD78J:q ...</a>Does the New York Times spout Republican talking points?Oh, and how about this from CNN:"McCain testified that he never asked for anything inappropriate during the meeting, and the Senate ethics committee found that, after regulators said the firm was being investigated not just for insolvency, but on criminal grounds, McCain took no further action on Keating's behalf. In the end, the committee recommended McCain and Sen. John Glenn be dropped from the probe."Now, isn't it interesting that the article mentions John Glenn, who was deemed innocent too. It's particularly intriguing since Glenn has been stumping for Obama. If the Obama camp is going to try and say that McCain was wrong in the Keating affair, how do they explain Glenn, especially since on Obama's OWN SITE they are touting his support? <a class="user" href="http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/michaelgottwald/gG5FMR">http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/mich ...</a>The simple fact is, the Republicans are going to bring up in earnest now the radical and questionable associations and actions of Senator Obama, and the Left really has nothing of substance to combat it. They should, too, as the American people have a right to know. As far as your assertion that "Barack comes out on top," well, we'll see about that.
that's the way political games work all over the world, and struggle for power for that matter too from my point of view. if people believe that they are the solution they will try in every way possible to get there. be glad you know about it and that you have competition.
"We can only win if we cheat" - attributed by Bill Clinton to Newt Gingrich.I'm not sure if Newt is dumb enough to say that - but he and other right-wing activists certainly act by that standard assumption.
philipl411Oct 7, 2008
so what is happening is Ohio is fair? The dems are OPENLY stealing this election.
smallnshort247Oct 7, 2008
If McCain wins, I'm moving from Virginia to the U.K...ok well maybe not that extreme, but its gonna suck being an American if he wins..
yesyoucantOct 7, 2008
@shepherd79, The pathetic attempt by the Left to equate the Keating affair with the long and disturbing pattern of Obama's radical associations isn't going to work. You write, "The Keating 5 investigation did not clear McCain of all wrong doing."This from the New York Times, "''I found nothing in my investigation which caused me to question Senator McCain's integrity,'' said Robert Bennett, the Washington lawyer who was special counsel to the ethics panel during what is called the Keating Five investigation. Mr. Bennett, more recently, has been one of President Clinton's lawyers." <a class="user" href="http://74.125.45.104/search?q=cache:potDj-GkD78J:query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html%3Fres%3D9F05E7D9123CF932A15752C1A96F958260%26sec%3D%26spon%3D%26pagewanted%3Dall+keating+five+%22cleared+of+any+wrongdoing%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=27&gl=us&client=firefox-a">http://74.125.45.104/search?q=cache:potDj-GkD78J:q ...</a>Does the New York Times spout Republican talking points?Oh, and how about this from CNN:"McCain testified that he never asked for anything inappropriate during the meeting, and the Senate ethics committee found that, after regulators said the firm was being investigated not just for insolvency, but on criminal grounds, McCain took no further action on Keating's behalf. In the end, the committee recommended McCain and Sen. John Glenn be dropped from the probe."Now, isn't it interesting that the article mentions John Glenn, who was deemed innocent too. It's particularly intriguing since Glenn has been stumping for Obama. If the Obama camp is going to try and say that McCain was wrong in the Keating affair, how do they explain Glenn, especially since on Obama's OWN SITE they are touting his support? <a class="user" href="http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/michaelgottwald/gG5FMR">http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/mich ...</a>The simple fact is, the Republicans are going to bring up in earnest now the radical and questionable associations and actions of Senator Obama, and the Left really has nothing of substance to combat it. They should, too, as the American people have a right to know. As far as your assertion that "Barack comes out on top," well, we'll see about that.
rigoriousOct 7, 2008
that's the way political games work all over the world, and struggle for power for that matter too from my point of view. if people believe that they are the solution they will try in every way possible to get there. be glad you know about it and that you have competition.
graphictruthOct 10, 2008
"We can only win if we cheat" - attributed by Bill Clinton to Newt Gingrich.I'm not sure if Newt is dumb enough to say that - but he and other right-wing activists certainly act by that standard assumption.