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- psyexmachina, on 10/06/2008, -9/+190McCain deserves to have his record of poor judgment and bad associations exposed.
- cg4et, on 10/06/2008, -7/+178I think McCain is going to regret bringing up the whole issue of personal associations.
- lucidnow, on 10/06/2008, -7/+142McCain/Palin wants to take the gloves off. Two can play that game
- shardayyy, on 10/06/2008, -6/+125Let not forget Sarah Palin association's with the radical Alaska Independence Party that wants to secede from this great country, the United States of America.
And here is a quote from Alaskan Independence Party founder Joe Voegler:
“The fires of Hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government, and I won’t be buried under their damn flag!”
http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/09/08/palin-rep ...
Sarah Palin congratulating the party on their convention:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBHjUiKCtI4 - katemckinnon, on 10/06/2008, -8/+124I remember the Keating 5- as an Arizona native I look forward to voting against McStain next month.
- otheruser, on 10/06/2008, -6/+114http://keatingeconomics.com/
Now that's a SLICK website... Color scheme is awesome. Layout is direct & to the point. The fade-in-and-out body content just melts in your mouth (click "Top News"). And the entire idea is, well, genius.
Seriously folks, the Obama campaign is one hell of a machine. Hats off to Obama, Plouffe, Axelrod, and the rest. - xtopher66, on 10/06/2008, -5/+95Like Abraham Lincoln said, "If you start telling lies about me, I'm gonna have to tell the truth about you"
About time the Democrats fought back against the Rovian smear tatics. - RickHavoc, on 10/06/2008, -4/+74They had the big guns locked and loaded. I'm glad to see the Obama camp spend my contributions in such a bad ass manner. I'm going to send them more.
- LainyD, on 10/06/2008, -5/+68Bring it! Fire with fire.
- seddyei, on 10/06/2008, -5/+65Become notorious for your participation in a massive S&L scandal two decades ago:$3.4 billion taxpayer dollars
Consistently lie and spread false rumors about opponent in a last-ditch effort to get elected: $180,000 in TV ads
Have your once-overlooked scandal thrown into the spotlight solely due to your own inept campaign and bold-faced lies: PRICELESS
There are some things Cindy McCain can't buy, but for everything else, John, there's an oil lobbyist in your campaign that will. - charm803, on 10/06/2008, -5/+61McCain has been talking and making nasty ads.
Obama's Camp just made a whole entire website dedicated to this with all the newslinks.
Take that, you old man! - crystalAinardi, on 10/06/2008, -3/+52LOL oooohh boy I was waiting for this to come out, and just fits our economic crisis issues NOW.
- facingreality, on 10/06/2008, -5/+48This move by Obama is CHECKMATE!
Obama/Biden 08
p.s. - condolences to Joe / Jill Biden on the death of her mother Ms. Jacobs. - relaxeder, on 04/17/2009, -4/+44Again, if you think this is on par with the likes of the Bill Ayers smears, watch the web ad. There is no moral equivalency between the Swiftboat liars and an examination of McCain's record as a Senator. It isn't even close to the same thing, particularly given how relevant the Keating Scandal is to the current economic crisis.
Senator McCain has shown a pattern of leaning on regulators on behalf of donors to his campaigns. It should have been brought up as soon as this economic crisis exploded. Keating Five was just the first incident of McCain doing favors; he's done it many times since.
Its this scandal and a renewed focus on his involvement in it that relates directly to what we're dealing with right now, it taps into the anger that people are feeling over the need to bail out Wall Street after greed and incompetence got them into this mess, and it places John McCain exactly where he belongs -- square in the middle of the crisis, clinging to a failed economic policy. - rawg, on 10/06/2008, -7/+44BRILLIANT!
The full movie isn't being released until noon tomorrow so it guarantees that morning news will cover it with trailing coverage in the afternoon and evening.
It effectively neutralizes the message of Ayers or at least forces a discussion on the merits of each claim, which favors Obama. The Ayers connection to Obama is tenuous at best while McCain was formally reprimanded by a bipartisan ethics committee over his role in the Keating Five, which was at the center of the S&L bailout that cost taxpayers $150B in the late 80s / early 90s. That keeps the discussion on the economy.
It makes McCain take the defensive and sets the tone for the debate on Tuesday. The pundits will be talking about it beforehand, the question on everyone's mind will be how McCain addresses it during the debates and the analysis afterward will be about how effective McCain was at dealing with it. With some side drama about whether or not McCain will finally lose it and show his famous temper during the debate.
And the best part of all... the Obama campaign can say that they are responding to McCain's negative attacks because of Palin's comments about Ayers over the weekend.
Obama's team is ***** brilliant. This gun's been loaded for a while and they've picked the perfect time to pull the trigger. It will be nice to have a team with patience, discipline and intelligence running the country again - AndrewDB, on 10/06/2008, -5/+39Wooohooo! Obama just brought out the big guns and destroyed everything John McCain was going to say.
THIS is exactly why they waited to mention the Keating Five scandal.
Bravo and AWESOME timing on their part. - Cilantro33309, on 10/06/2008, -0/+32I wasn't going to send more because I didn't think he would need it...now I'm going to send more just because I'm proud of him!!
- leesonis, on 10/06/2008, -5/+36For years, John McCain's solution has been deregulation, deregulation, deregulation. He is attempting the same thing now with the Health Care industry.
Look what it's done to the economy - we're spending $850bn to bailout wall street
Look what it's done to the Telecoms - there is no competition, only collusion to increase contract lengths and fees
Look what it's done to the Credit companies - there are now only three, and they all moved to business friendly states and charge 29.99% interest
Look what it's done to Cable - no competition, no competitors, no a-la-carte services, no cable cards, no true HD programming
Deregulation relies on the greediest of people to look out for the rest of us.
McCain would destroy the Health Care industry and drive Doctors out of business.
Lee Sonis,
National Director
Doctors for Obama - diggmike8, on 10/06/2008, -4/+32This is a McCain association in which thousands of people, many retirees or soon-to-be retirees, were harmed, and in which billions of average Americans tax dollars were lost, which resonates immensely in the current economic crisis. It's a direct link involving hundreds of thousands of dollars too, not the relatively minor couple hundred or couple thousand dollar fundraising connection of Obama to U of Chicago professor W. Ayers. Since it was a big deal in congress at the time, it's likely the spiderweb of a story has parts that have remained hidden since then under threat of McCain's wrath. Who will dare speak up and further illuminate history?
Perfect timing to learn some more about what really went down with Keating and McCain (and Cindy and business) back then, and perfect timing for the upcoming debate. - TigerStar337, on 10/06/2008, -6/+33Barack Obama is not going to allow John McCain, Karl Rove, and the Republicans to bully him around. Good for him.
Go Obama!
God Bless America and God Bless Barack Obama! - Renegade98, on 10/06/2008, -5/+30McCain's rapid fall from grace.
- MiDNiGHTS, on 10/06/2008, -0/+23The thing is you can tell its wasnt whipped together this weekend. Clearly they have been holding onto it for some time.
- RoroCo, on 10/06/2008, -0/+20And is Bill Ayers locked up in prison for his crimes? McCain wants to bring us fuzzy associations to discredit Obama's character, then he deserves this story to be told about him.
- seweso, on 10/06/2008, -0/+20Watch the youtube video, really, do it. You will understand.
- ElectricRebel, on 10/06/2008, -0/+20Obama and Ayers lived in the same neighborhood and served in some of the same local organizations. The only semi-legitimate claim of them doing anything together was the campaign event Ayers hosted for Obama. However, given that Ayers was simply a democratic fund raiser and Obama was the local democratic candidate, it wasn't anything special. If you look at the history of political fund raising, many questionable characters have raised money for both major parties. Overall, there is no evidence that Obama and Ayers have any real associations. Obama was 8 years old when Ayers was active in the Weather Underground and Obama has said that what Ayers did in the 1960s was wrong.
As far as the Keating Five... John McCain took all kinds of bribes from Charles Keating such as trips to Keating's vacation home and rides on Keating's private jet. John McCain intervened in an investigation by the federal regulators and instead of letting the regulators fix the problems with Keating's bank in 1987, they backed off. Two years later, the Lincoln Savings and Loaned failed. Lots of people lost their investments and the final cost for tax payers was $2 billion. McCain was corrupt in this situation. The Senate Ethics committee let McCain (the famous POW) and John Glenn (the famous astronaut) walk away with a slap on the wrist because of who they are.
The two situations do not even compare. McCain's campaign is desperate right now and they are resorting to the dirtiest kind of politics in an effort to turn people away from Obama. However, given all of the dirt in McCain's past and the fact that Obama is not afraid to defend himself or go on the attack (unlike Kerry), this is a mistake on the McCain campaign. Obama was generally playing the high road so far, but if McCain wants to get dirty, Obama's campaign is going to fight them and beat them. - MiDNiGHTS, on 10/06/2008, -4/+21This is the whole problem with the guilty by association trend McCain decided to spring on us. It opens a whole can of worms that will send us all down the wrong path. There is no person (especially politician) who can say I have never been in the presence of someone who is unethical and even a criminal. This is generally why a campaign saves this stuff for the last push because it is always a two-way street.
- rawg, on 10/06/2008, -1/+18I have $10 that McCain is going to suspend his campaign and threaten to pull out of the debate again. Any takers?
- bitfreak, on 10/06/2008, -4/+20John McSame and Bible Spice will go down in history as having run one of the all time worst presidential campaigns. You couldn't suck harder if you tried.
Goodnight Johnny, enjoy your retirement. - manlyandy, on 10/06/2008, -0/+16While he was not found guilty of an actual crime, "McCain was criticized by the [Senate Ethics] Committee for exercising "poor judgment" when he met with the federal regulators on Keating's behalf."
I'd say an ethics committee telling you you have poor judgment is pretty significant. - verevi, on 10/06/2008, -3/+19uh oh... its about to get very ugly.
- AndrewDB, on 10/06/2008, -0/+15Yeah, I'm looking at the home-page's source and it's extremely well put together.
- medfreak, on 10/06/2008, -3/+18Lol. Wipe of that foam on your mouth. Obama has far more ammo to use than McCain can count. The thing is Keating 5 is related to the economy, and it is playing two issues at once. Nothing that McCain will ever play has the same effect.
Check Mate. Game over and KO. - inactive, on 10/06/2008, -0/+15He's not nervous, he's ready. He's not going to let himself fall prey to the ***** Kerry did.
- inactive, on 10/06/2008, -1/+15 John McCain's solution has been deregulation as long as it only hurts the little guy. When his big dollar friends need a handout he's first line to bail them out.
- writie, on 10/06/2008, -1/+14Well, someone who signs up today and starts rumors about a run on banks. Nothing fishy about that.
- inactive, on 10/06/2008, -0/+13Whoever coded this is a great Web designer/developer. The structure is obviously hand written, employing the Moo Tools compact JS framework. Obama has definitely prepared for an online battle and procured an awesome team.
- inactive, on 10/06/2008, -1/+13This is huge. I hope mainstream media wakes up and reports on this. But I won’t hold my breath. Aside from MSNBC they all are in bed with John S. McCain.
- shardayyy, on 10/06/2008, -0/+11Check out
http://www.johnmccainrecord.com/
http://www.mclobbyist.com/
All from the Obama Campaign. Funny thing is this is all the truth and nothing but the truth!. - jaime9, on 10/06/2008, -6/+17If any one is interested, get the DVD "Theologians under Hitler". America is drifting the same way under the neo-cons. Obama must win this election to put a stop to their dirty deeds.
- TigerStar337, on 10/06/2008, -1/+12What is wrong with being biased? Freerepublic.com is biased. Foxnews is biased. What is your point?
Who died and made you king? - sorias, on 10/06/2008, -0/+10Wow, this is just incredibly well put together.
- xtmno3, on 10/06/2008, -0/+10http://digg.com/users/wbuffet/history/comments
- RodBorn, on 10/06/2008, -0/+10Lovey indeed moron.
First off, shame on John McCain, a past American hero turned negative prick only power hungry for the American presidency. This guilt by association will be the final nail in his coffin. Thanks Mrs Palin for starting this up.
Keating 5...sure.
Follieri..yup, that one will come up.
Alaskan Independence Party..let's see where that takes us. This will be the good one. - FredFredrickson, on 10/06/2008, -2/+11I say let 'em secede. Preferably before the November elections, so Palin can't be on the ticket.
- theone156, on 10/06/2008, -1/+10Looking at the their website: http://www.akip.org/
1) Remain a Territory.
2) Become a separate and Independent Nation.
3) Accept Commonwealth status.
4) Become a State.
Shouldn't this be a cause for concern? - banderwocky, on 10/06/2008, -2/+11Oh boy. This is the circus Exxon John was hoping to keep in the dark. This should be entertaining to watch as it makes it way into the mainstream.
- SwampyUK, on 10/06/2008, -0/+8Closest I could find was from Obama himself:
"Abraham Lincoln once said to one of his opponents, he said, 'If you stop telling lies about me, I'll start telling truth about you,'" Obama said, repeating a line he had also used earlier in the week.
Reported by http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/20 ... - ryanonfire, on 10/06/2008, -1/+9I read that as "burn it with fire", but i'll still digg u up
- MrSkrilla, on 10/06/2008, -0/+8Sure, but let's make it $100. Let me know if you are interested.
It sucks that it has come to this but if McCain/Palin want to do things this way let's go. Difference is this is real and the Obama = terrorist is total bs. Let's go bitches. -
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