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- DRock02, on 10/06/2008, -2/+78Let the guilt by association begin! I really don't know what the McCain campaign was thinking going down the route of Ayers, Rezko, and Wright.
- JenniferInMO, on 10/06/2008, -3/+72A MUST see, digg, save, share, discuss.
- inactive, on 10/06/2008, -3/+68
Proof Palin Lied & Was Member of Anti-American Radical AIP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIi4rbIXbkw
This is an Alaska Independence Party meeting. Go to the 6th minute of this video. They are a radical group that wanted Alaska to secede from the USA. Very un-American, unpatriotic. Sarah & her husband were both members. She claimed she never was, but the AIP says otherwise in this video. That is not just "someone" saying it, that is the Vice Chairman of the AIP Dexter Clark speaking at their national convention. His wife Lynette Clark is the chairman (head of) the AIP). If anyone would know if Sarah Palin was a member, it would be him!
McCain sat on board of racist group
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Begala_McCain_sat_on ...
McCain close friends with violent radical extremist felon G. Gordon Liddy
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-ope ...
Keating Economics: McCain & the Making of a Financial Crisis
http://keatingeconomics.com/
Exxon Advises Palin, Palin Advises McCain
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/10/02/exxon ...
McCain is a one-time defender of Osama Bin Laden
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/5/131911 ...
Palin Has Ties To Anti-American Extremist Group
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-mackey/terror ...
McCain’s ‘team of mavericks’ run by ‘old Bush hands’
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/22/old-bush-hands ...
McCain Defended Iran-Contra Scandal
http://www.perrspectives.com/blog/archives/001071. ...
- BishkekBuddy, on 10/06/2008, -2/+64I wonder if the "Straight Talk Express" can do a U-turn.... nah, thing's tooooooo long to turn around
Buh Bye! - inactive, on 10/06/2008, -0/+50I think it is important to point out that this isn't even close to the same as the guilt-by-association, distract voters from the real problems garbage the McCain campaign is running with in the final month. This IS the economy, this IS the issue, it is about deregulation and repeating the past by not remembering how we got here. Obama is adding much needed historical context to our current crisis. I can't believe McCain has gotten away with this not being an issue for as long as he has. But be clear on this, while McCain is trying to play the voters for fools by distracting them, Obama is trying to get to the heart of the economic crisis, so we don't repeat it again. http://www.thepersonalispolitical.com/2008/10/mcca ...
- MKSinSA, on 10/06/2008, -2/+49The co-host of a recent top-dollar fundraiser for Sen. John McCain oversaw the payment of roughly $1.7 million to a Colombian paramilitary group that is today designated a terrorist organization by the United States.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/02/mccain-fu ...
Broadcaster Lowell "Bud" Paxson yesterday contradicted statements from Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign that the senator did not meet with Paxson or his lobbyist before sending two controversial letters to the Federal Communications Commission on Paxson's behalf.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic ...
Today's indictment of Congressman Rick Renzi, Co- Chair of John McCain's campaign in Arizona, caps off a week of problems for McCain that have raised serious questions about his credibility on ethics.
http://www.thecherrycreeknews.com/content/view/253 ...
Florida state representative Bob Allen (R-Merritt Island), co-sponsor of a bill that would have increased penalties for public lewdness and indecent exposure had it been passed, has been convicted following a week-long jury trial on charges that he solicited an undercover male officer for sex at a park in Central Florida. Allen served as co-chairman of Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s Florida campaign.
http://www.northcountrygazette.org/2007/11/09/flor ... - Echota, on 01/05/2009, -1/+48Country First My A$$! These two clowns are an insult to America's voters and America in general!
A closer look at the life and career of John McCain reveals a disturbing record of recklessness and dishonesty
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/23316912/ma ...
John McCain's connection to Terrorism Financing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A1DbdLRevU
Proof! Sarah Palin was a member of AIP.
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Proof_Palin_Lied ...
Crook,Liar's,Traitor's To The United States Of America!
Obama/Biden 08! - Singulariter, on 10/06/2008, -2/+47One good turn deserves another.
- Nuqueen1, on 10/06/2008, -2/+36Don't forget GG Liddy, a real american terrorist that now has his own radio show.
G. Gordon Libby now a conservative talk show host, served four and a half years in prison for his role in the Watergate break-in and the break-in at the office of the psychiatrist of Daniel Ellsberg, the military analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers. Libby was charged with conspiracy; burglary 2 charges; wiretapping; contempt of Court and contempt of Congress.
Liddy was convicted for his role in the Watergate break-in, for conspiracy in the Daniel Ellsberg case and for contempt of court, spending about four and a half years in prison. In 1986, a federal appeals court found Liddy liable for $20,499 in back taxes on Watergate slush-fund money, rejecting his claim that his benefits did not exceed $45,000. As one of the White House “plumbers,” Liddy spent about $300,000 engineering political dirty tricks and the Watergate break-in.
In his book Will: The Autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy, Liddy has acknowledged preparing to kill someone during the Ellsberg break-in “if necessary”; plotting to murder journalist Jack Anderson; plotting with a “gangland figure” to murder Howard Hunt to stop him from cooperating with investigators; plotting to firebomb the Brookings Institution; and plotting to kidnap protesters “leftist guerillas” at the 1972 Republican National Convention. Liddy using Nazi terminology, outlined his plan to Attorney Genral John Mitchell and members of the Nixon administration. - Wryly, on 10/06/2008, -1/+33Goose. Gander.
- cheesegypsy, on 10/06/2008, -1/+32Some maverick McCain has turned out to be. And all this was because Obama wouldn't agree to town hall meetings.
If we use McCain's same knee-jerk logic and apply it to international affairs:
Putin refuses to meet for talks: he nukes them. - roystah, on 10/06/2008, -1/+31I'm glad Obama "saved the best for last" when we're only less than a month away from the election. People will get to see who McCain really is behind that self-created maverick image. It's amazing how many people are still against Obama because of all the vague connections to radical figures that McCain's campaign is so relentlessly pushing for, while still ignorant of all the SOLID, PROVEN, DOCUMENTED ties between McCain/his campaign and financial frauds/briberies and radical anti-abortionist groups/Alaskan Independence Party.
- jazzence, on 10/06/2008, -1/+29Regulators! Mount up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhWGDGHupYA
McCain is a goner. - HarryRag, on 10/06/2008, -1/+28Embarrassing that this kind of ***** is necessary, but the McCain camp is asking for it for being so damn shameless. They want to steer away from the issues, because they can't WIN on the issues. Democrats need to strike hard and strike fast.
- inactive, on 10/06/2008, -1/+24No *****. This is going to blow up in Grampy McStroker's one good eye.
- ChristPissed, on 10/06/2008, -2/+24Cindy and Johnnie are crooks.
- AllHereTruth, on 10/06/2008, -1/+21Everyone must see this. PLEASE share with all your friends and family who might vote for McCain.
- Icebird, on 10/06/2008, -0/+20Wake up people. This is the REAL McCain.
- peep, on 10/06/2008, -1/+18File this under stuff you should already know if you were planning on voting this year. If you didn't know this most basic thing then your part of the reason things are so screwed up. Over all good info but a 13 minute video with 4 minutes worth of content, a lot of white space in the margins.
- elwior, on 10/06/2008, -0/+17 McCain's campaign dolts opened him up for this! Obama really didn't want to go there, but this is American politics, and you just can't let heinous attacks go unanswered. Look at what they did to Kerry in 2004 with the bogus "swiftboat" attacks. And Kerry, a war hero, could easily have hit Bush HARD on his ditching his own National Guard service, but chose to take the high road, and guess what, he lost with that strategy.
No, Obama is playing it exactly right, and if I were advising McCain, I'd tell him that people living in glass houses should not throw stones. And his relationship with Charles Keating, a truly despicable man, and a convicted felon is by no means the bottom of the McCain cesspool. 'Nuff said, for now! - PBCliberal, on 10/06/2008, -0/+16And its even sweeter when they hand you the gun. Now the question is can enough potential voters stay focused for the 13 minutes it takes to view and understand this. Perhaps their vanishing 401Ks will help focus their attentions.
- Bastet62, on 10/06/2008, -0/+16And while Americans who speak out, protest, write, blog, and otherwise do what they can to resist the war, spying on Americans, torture, and the rest of the Bush era crimes are put on the terrorist watch list, and/or demonized, and called traitors - Bush/McCain/Wall Street and Company continue to participate in MASS ECONOMIC TERRORISM of the American people.
Where's the justice? - minimitable, on 10/06/2008, -0/+13I find it interesting that not many (if any) Republicans/conservatives/NeoCons have posted ANY rebuttal, defensive or apologist responses.
Not much they could say now, is there? - panicbombs, on 10/06/2008, -1/+14McCain's lawyer just said it was a partisan witch hunt after McCain even though McCain apologized years ago for doing it.
- gail40, on 10/06/2008, -0/+12John McCain brought a knife and Barack Obama pulled out a gun. Wow! Barack said that he would not throw the first punch, but he would throw the last. Go Obama! Do what you have to do to win and we got your back!
- psy333che, on 10/06/2008, -1/+12http://current.com/items/89305833_keating_5_scanda ...
McCain's past collides with the present Wall Street debacle.
Rosa Brooks
September 25, 2008
Once upon a time, a politician took campaign contributions and favors from a friendly constituent who happened to run a savings and loan association. The contributions were generous: They came to about $200,000 in today's dollars, and on top of that there were several free vacations for the politician and his family, along with private jet trips and other perks. The politician voted repeatedly against congressional efforts to tighten regulation of S&Ls, and in 1987, when he learned that his constituent's S&L was the target of a federal investigation, he met with regulators in an effort to get them to back off.
That politician was John McCain, and his generous friend was Charles Keating, head of Lincoln Savings & Loan. While he was courting McCain and other senators and urging them to oppose tougher regulation of S&Ls, Keating was also investing his depositors' federally insured savings in risky ventures. When those lost money, Keating tried to hide the losses from regulators by inducing his customers to switch from insured accounts to uninsured (and worthless) bonds issued by Lincoln's near-bankrupt parent company. In 1989, it went belly up -- and more than 20,000 Lincoln customers saw their savings vanish.
Keating went to prison, and McCain's Senate career almost ended. Together with the rest of the so-called Keating Five -- Sens. Alan Cranston (D-Calif.), John Glenn (D-Ohio), Don Riegle (D-Mich.) and Dennis DeConcini (D-Ariz.), all of whom had also accepted large donations from Keating and intervened on his behalf -- McCain was investigated by the Senate Ethics Committee and ultimately reprimanded for "poor judgment."
But the savings and loan crisis mushroomed. Eventually, the government spent about $125 billion in taxpayer dollars to bail out hundreds of failed S&Ls that, like Keating's, fell victim to a combination of private-sector greed and the "poor judgment" of politicians like McCain.
The $125 billion seems like small change compared to the $700-billion price tag for the Bush administration's proposed Wall Street bailout. But the root causes of both crises are the same: a lethal mix of deregulation and greed.
Today's meltdown began when unscrupulous mortgage lenders pushed naive borrowers to sign up for loans they couldn't afford to pay back. The original lenders didn't care: They pocketed the upfront fees and quickly sold the loans to others, who sold them to others still. With the government MIA, soon mortgage-backed securities were zipping around the globe. But by the time many ordinary people began to struggle to make their mortgage payments, the numerous "good" loans (held by borrowers able to pay) had gotten hopelessly mixed up with the bad loans. Investors and banks started to panic about being left with the hot potato -- securities backed mainly by worthless loans. And so began the downward spiral of a credit crunch, short-selling, stock sell-offs and bankruptcies.
Could all this have been prevented? Sure. It's not rocket science: A sensible package of regulatory reforms -- like those Barack Obama has been pushing since well before the current meltdown began -- could have kept this most recent crisis from escalating, just as maintaining reasonable regulatory regimes for S&Ls in the '80s could have prevented that crisis (McCain learned this the hard way).
But, despite his political near-death experience as a member of the Keating Five, McCain continued to champion deregulation, voting in 2000, for instance, against federal regulation of the kind of financial derivatives at the heart of today's crisis.
Shades of the Keating Five scandal don't end there. This week, for instance, news broke that until August, the lobbying firm owned by McCain campaign manager Rick Davis was paid $15,000 a month by Freddie Mac, one of the mortgage giants implicated in the current crisis (now taken over by the government and under investigation by the FBI). Apparently, Freddie Mac's plan was to gain influence with McCain's campaign in hopes that he would help shield it from pesky government regulations. And until very recently, Freddie Mac executives probably figured money paid to Davis' firm was money well spent. "I'm always in favor of less regulation," McCain told the Wall Street Journal in March.
These days, McCain is singing a different tune.
"There are no atheists in foxholes and no ideologues in financial crises," Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said last week, explaining the sudden mass conversion of so many onetime free marketeers into champions of robust government intervention. Fair enough. But as you try to figure out what and who can get us out of this mess, beware of those who now embrace regulation with the fervor of new converts.
rbrooks@latimescolumnists.com - Olon97, on 10/06/2008, -0/+11According a search I did just now this video is currently buried. If you think this is an important video, digg it and shout it to your friends.
- magus_melchior, on 10/06/2008, -0/+10There's a reason why people are calling it a "train wreck"...
- deem1890, on 10/06/2008, -1/+10PALIN HAD AN AFFAIR
http://drinkliberal.blogspot.com/2008/09/and-anoth ... - niradg, on 10/06/2008, -0/+8400+ and not popular yet? WTF?
- johnnr2, on 10/06/2008, -0/+7(corrected audio version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDofbll86dY - deem1890, on 10/06/2008, -1/+7Proof Palin Lied & Was Member of AIP - Vice Chairman of AIP says she's a member!
Alaska Governor Palin's Address to the AIP
I said thanks but no thanks for that soul to nowhere.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4iCDBIAde8&feature ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIi4rbIXbkw - assassinmonkey, on 10/06/2008, -0/+6Now if only a rick roll sounded that good, i'd listen all day.
- theviceroy, on 10/07/2008, -0/+5My god, this is a masterstroke!!
- p9s50W5k4GUD2c6, on 10/07/2008, -0/+4"The Keating scandal is eerily similar to today's credit crisis, where a lack of regulation and cozy relationships between the financial industry and Congress has allowed banks to make risky loans and profit by bending the rules. And in both cases, John McCain's judgment and values have placed him on the wrong side of history."
Interesting to note that the Obama team was ready for the McCain attack. They had this Keating video locked and loaded into their rhetorical rifle.
The public release of the video was today (October 6th). The site was created 2 weeks ago.
Here is the Whois info:
Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc
Domain Name: KEATINGECONOMICS.COM
Created on: 25-Sep-08
Expires on: 26-Sep-09
Senator McCain - welcome to the Obama AMBUSH! - Olon97, on 10/06/2008, -1/+5Wow, total flip flop from his biographies and even interviews this election cycle where he displayed some fake contrition. I expect his explanation for the inconsistency will go something like this:
"Clearly, John McCain wouldn't have had Keating rub suntan lotion on him in the Bahamas in the 1980s if only Obama had agreed years in the future to meet with him at town halls."
Also strange how a prosecution of 4 Democratic senators and 1 Republican senator is a "partisan witch hunt." - inactive, on 10/06/2008, -0/+2I had to read that twice before I realized it didn't say "McCain has a boner".
- MediaWeasel, on 10/06/2008, -0/+2ewwww
- johnnr2, on 10/06/2008, -0/+2"Clearly, John McCain wouldn't have had Keating rub suntan lotion on him in the Bahamas in the 1980s if only Obama had agreed years in the future to meet with him at town halls." - priceless.
- holzp, on 10/06/2008, -19/+1It looks like it was done by the same guy that did Zeitgeist.
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