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Monday, October 06, 2008
Amanda Carpenter :: Townhall.com Columnist
Keating Five Member is Obama Surrogate
by Amanda Carpenter
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If Barack Obama is so outraged at John McCain’s involvement in the Keating Five scandal, why is John Glenn, another Keating Five member, doing surrogate work for Obama?

Obama’s presidential campaign released a scathing documentary on Monday detailing McCain’s ties to the Savings and Loan crisis on the 1980’s. Five U.S. senators were named in the scandal: Sen. Alan Cranston (D.-Calif.), Sen. Dennis DeConcini (D.-Ariz.), Sen. John Glenn (D.-Ohio), Sen. John McCain (R.-Ariz.) and Sen. Donald Reigle (D-Minn.).

"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," reads a trailer for the video on a website created by the Obama campaign to attack McCain, www.keatingeconomics.com. "And in both cases, John McCain's judgment and values have placed him on the wrong side of history.

But Obama doesn’t seem to have any quarrel with Glenn. The former Democratic Ohio senator introduced Bruce Springsteen at a benefit concert for Obama in Ohio on Sunday, October 5. He's also done other surrogate work for Obama as well. According to Obama's presidential website Glenn held a conference calls with reporters for Obama in August.

A day after Glenn urged people to register to vote for Obama in Ohio, Obama’s campaign began a multimedia campaign to remind the public McCain was one of the “Keating Five” although he was eventually cleared of all charges.

Like McCain, Glenn was also found not guilty of violating any Senate rules.

Attorney John Dowd, who represented McCain during the Senate Ethics investigation, said Senate Democrats conducted a "classic political smear job" on McCain in the Keating Five scandal.

"When it was discovered Keating was pushing too hard, he [McCain] threw Keating out of his office and ended all relations with him," Dowd said.

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Typical Obama grasping for straws
Obama is a little kid in a man's body and a typical politician. He points out McCain in the Keating scandal, but fails to mention McCain
was found not guilty of violating any rules, a mere "omission". Omissions in my book are lies. So I guess you could say Obama lies! Big surprise there!

Another Shamefull Obama Ploy
I am certain Obama's dupes in the mainstream media are giving this full coverage, even though Robert Bennett said:

"First, I should tell your listeners I'm a registered Democrat, so I'm not on (McCain's) side of a lot of issues. But I investigated John McCain for a year and a half, at least, when I was special counsel to the Senate Ethics Committee in the Keating Five. ... And if there is one thing I am absolutely confident of, it is John McCain is an honest man. I recommended to the Senate Ethics Committee that he be cut out of the case, that there was no evidence against him."

THE CHICAGO-7
AL SHARPTON,RANGEL,NANCY POLOSI,HARRY REID,BARNEY FRANK,KATIE COURIC,CHRIS MATTHEWS.SEVEN LIBERAL RADICALS FOR OBAMA!SAD SAD!

Always a bridesmaid, never the bride
The unfortunate aspect of this tripe is that with the msm in the tank of BO you can figure that if they yell loud enough, long enough and to enough people then those who are willing, certainly will believe it's true.

It's a degradation of our society that turns itself toward believing things without knowing the facts.

No surprises here.
Obama blames McCain for the credit meltdown, yet he has the Ex-CEO of fannie mae as an advisor. A CEO who was fired for improper accounting practices.

He goes after McCain who was totally exonerated in keating5 "scandal" yetr has the only other senator exonerated as one of his surrogates.

Obama has never had any real competition in his previous campaigns. He won his senate seat by destrying his opponent's credibility in a manufactured sex scandal. He "beat" hillary by using the dem machine and MSM to rip Hillary apart.

People didn't actually vote For obama, they voted Against his opponents.

I for one plan to vote Against Obama.


NObama '08
Seig Heil is now "Yes We Can"


List of the lies
I could make a list of the lies from the Obama camp, starting with the 14+ from Biden, the self-proclaimed expert on everything, during the debate but there is not enough time or paper. What is depressing is the number of people who will vote without knowing anything more than what they read in the MSM. Facts don't matter.

Lynn I agree
I don't even have enough time in my day to run through the lies and reasons why Obama/Biden should not be in the White House.

Oh,Amamda!!
Don't you know the Obama-bots will not see this as a conflict? Glenn is excused because he was an astronaut.

Glenn,too was the main senator who excused Clinton in his China funny money. He traded his integrity for a complimentary ride in a space ship. He is trash,in my opinion....but so is Obama.

Here's the difference:
John McCain is running for president, Glenn is not.

Guilt by association does not work. Guilt by action does.

Obama Surrogate.
Thank you Amanda! There are so many connections of Obama with some very radical ultra leftwing people & organizations. I'm sure that many watched Sean Hannity's America last night wherein Mr. Hannity DETAILED the history of Obama's ties to radicals and also so very much that Obama keeps HIDDEN from mainstreet voters and refuses to discuss. This guy, Obama, is a disgrace, he's done NOT ONE THING in his life for the USA, and he's neither qualified for nor FIT for the office he seeks!

I see the Dow dropped over 500 pts.
this morning (it plunged below 10,000 for the first time in over 4 years).

Yesterday, John McCain and his campaign gangsters said that the economy as an issue was over, that it was "time to turn the page". I know we use the word "desperate" over and over on these threads as a matter of course, but I hope you all can recognize true desperateness (that McCain has been illustrating for over 2 weeks now) when you see it. Erratic behavior indeed.


There are 8 battlefield/toss-up states left. Obama has to win ONE to capture this election. McCain must win ALL OF THEM. It's no wonder he has plunged into panic mode. 4 weeks left. And the wind is with Obama.

Go ahead, John. TURN THE PAGE! You LOSE when the issue is the economy. All that deregulation comes up (as well as your admitted inexperience on economic matters). You sink like in quicksand. TURN THE PAGE, John! Just tell the american folks you REFUSE to mention the economy again! Just keep it all about attacks now and keep substance out of it!

Weak retort
So by premise of this articles argument: because it is a fundamentally bad thing that one of the Keating 5 supports Obama.. wouldn't that mean there is a fundamental problem with McCain being a part of the Keating 5 which in all of its sum is a "bad" thing to be involved in the first place? or is this like a negative and a negative equals a positive?

Pretty weak...

George
Here's the difference:
McCain was declared innocent by the Democrat investigator of the Keating Five. Ayers admits the bombing and wishes he'd done more.

You're known by the company you keep.

Why is Barry Soetoro angry

Why would a muslim from Indonesia named Barry Soetoro care about McCain and the Keating 5?

Because that muslim from Indonesia named Barry Soetoro is also known as Barack Obama.

TIME FOR THE TRUTH BARRY!

Keating 5
At least someone remembers the S&L scandal, even if very selectively. The S&L problem began with a Democrat Congress setting up a loose-standards lending machine for poor credits in the residential mortgage market, but not properly calling it such. Eventually, the entire thrift industry imploded and a $500 billion bailout was required (larger, in inflation adjusted dollars, than the $700 billion now on the table).

In order to get the hugely Democrat Senate some cover, the Senate ethics committee would only blame some Democrats, if a Republican was also charged. At the time, this was called the Keating 4 plus 1, or 3 + 2 if you lived in Ohio. The lead investigator recommended McCain NOT be charged with anything, but he was anyway as the price for "bi-partisanship".
A false claim about a 25 year old event does not rise to the level of anything - except scorn. Fannie and Freddie became the substitute vehichles for Federal tampering in mortgage lending standards. These "quasi" government lenders (who bought mortgages that met whatever they called their "standards") added some $5 trillion in refunding, much of it for "bad" loans that a bank that had to hold the mortgages would never have originated without the "F's" real, not quasi, support.

In their claims that that the currrent mess has "nothing to do with Congess" and is solely a product of "Wall Street Greed" and "derulation, Pelosi, Frank, Dodd and Biden are just plain lying or just plain stupid.

I would like BOTH candidates to promise that there will be NO special government-supported entities given any power to "help" Americans buy homes, except those whose expenditures are expensed within the Federal Budget in the year they are made.

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. STOP NOW

Hey 'Teflon',
It goes like this:

Obama decries McCain's "ties" to the Keating-5....

Obama says McCain is BAD for being "involved" with Keating 5....

But McCain was CLEARED of any "involvement" with the Keating-5 - Making McCain a 'fake' Keating-5er.

Obama, trying for an air of authenticity, has taken on a REAL Keating-5er - and has him doing surrogate-work.

So what we learn from Obama is....

Keating-5ers = Bad.

Unless they're REAL Keating-5ers - and stump for Obama.

Sometimes a 'weak' retort can be made stronger by phrasing it such that more people can understand it.

No - s'okay, no need to thank me - just lookin' out for ya.

- MuscleDaddy

Doesnt't Matter, with Democrats,
It is always the seriousness of the charges, even if it is untrue!
Obama said it first, then it must be somehow true, just like all Biden's half truths, and make-believes.
Media is in tank with Democrats and do not CARE.

John
Get over it. His name at birth was Barack Obama. His stepfather's name is Soetoro but Obama never took that name. He is a Christian not a muslim. Grow up, get a brain and stop the foolishness that makes you look stupid.

Character Matters
So, if Obama brings up Keating 5 against McCain, it must mean he feels character matters.

But, noooo. The Keating, issue -- lame as it is -- it's OK for Obama to use John Glenn as a campaign surrogate.

Both McCain and Glenn, by the way, were exonerated and the Democrat Ethics chair recommended charges be dropped for both of them. Three DEMOCRATS, Alan Cranston, Dennis DeConcini, and Donald Riegle were found to have "substantially and improperly interfered with the FHLBB in its investigation of Lincoln Savings."

I used to have a fair amount of tolerance for Obamabots here at Town Hall. Not any more. It's one thing if you're ill-informed. It's quite another when you're willfully ignorant and your ethics are only for the convenience of your argument.


Glenn and McCain were both
innocent of charges. Why does Obama use one and point the finger at the other? BECAUSE HE IS STUPID!!!

Sandra - Obama doesn't act
like a Christian, he is a wolf in sheep's clothing and that church he went to advocating killing white people is not Christian, either.

Muscledaddy
McCain and his family took at least nine trips to the Caribbean with Charles Keating on Keating's dime. Keating thought he had bought himself a Senator as would anyone with half a brain. When Keating was being investigated McCain did not want to get involved but Keating pushed him into it. McCain was at the meeting with the regulators but apparently did not say much. He got a slap on the wrist by the Senate Ethics committee for using "poor judgement." To say he was not involved is incorrect.

Obama said there are 57 states...
there are 57 states in the nation of Islam, not the United States of America. We only have 50 and any intelligent person running for President wouldn't have made that mistake twice, pay attention!

There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed, nothing covered that will not be made known... keep praying, people, and let the chips fall where they may!

He was NOT GUILTY
of a crime, that is correct, Sandra. Why do you twist the truth? Who are you involved with??

Sandra
If it's true that Hussein isn't a Muslim, then why did he refer to his "Muslim faith" in that interview with George Stephanopoulos on "This Week" a few weeks ago? Could it be because he finally let the truth slip and had to have Georgie save his bacon by pointing out what he said?

Hapless Idiot
No matter what the great "O" throws, he looks in his back pocket and finds something worse.

...and this guy is the SO SMART savior of America?

No thanks, I'll give my vote to someone actually qualified beyond moron of the organizers...

Keating vs Freddie/Fannie
If McCain doesn't strongly respond to restate his being cleared of any wrong-doing AND at the same time strike out against Obama and his ties to Freddie/Fannie, he deserves to lose. But with the MSM firmly on Obama's side, how does he respond?

I can not understand how Palin let Biden state at least 2 times that Obama was raising the warning bells about Freddie/Fannie in the debate without pointing out Obama's ties to them now, and how McCain tried to raise the warning back when Obama was still in the state senate.

Obama
From what I read McCain was cleared of any wrong doing. In reality Congress under the Dems was behind the S&L problem. As with the problem aginst Fannie & Freddie, the Dems have protected them at all cost, and even when the truth came to light that their books were cooked. Now that becomes Wall Street's Greed. In reality it can be laid at the feet of the Dems, Clinton admistration, Pelosi,Reid,Dodd,Schumer,and most of all Duffis Barney, who was singing their praises up to the day before they fell. And look who is going to correct the problem, but not change the basics. You can't make loans to people to buy a house with nothing down, no credit check, no varification of salary, and interest only. Anyone with a hair, a small thin hair in the brain department would think this was going to work. I had a banker tell me years ago some people are employers and some people are employees. I think that her reasoining should and be applied to this mess, some people should buy a house and some people have no right to buy a house, not only because they can't aford it, and they have no idea what is involved with owning their own property. To allow a person to become an owner but not expect them to pay the same way on their sub-prime mortage and other buyers!

keating five
Bob Bennett has said many times that he found John McMain should not have even been a part of the Keating Five.

McCain innocent
Democrat Robert Bennett, special counsel for the Senate Ethics Committee's 1989–1991 investigation of the Keating Five, found that Sens. McCain(R) & Glenn(D) should be released from the case and exonerated; but Dems on the committee shamefully voted to keep the innocent McCain and Glenn in the case to hide the obvious fact that the guilty three remaining senators were all Democrats - The Keating Three Dems.

NYT - Where Art Thou??
Why does this information not appear in the NYT. I am so saddened and sickened by the number of people who still do not have access to alternate news reporting (or should I say opposite view points?).

If the article had said McCain should have been investigated - I could almost guarantee that the esteemed (NOT) Raines at NYT would have had that plastered all over the paper from now until November.

Marxist Obama in "Panic Mode?"
As recently as February of this year, on Fox News' "Hannity and Colmes," Bennett said, (as he'd already said, publicly before....)

"First, I should tell your listeners I'm a registered Democrat, so I'm not on (McCain's) side of a lot of issues. But I investigated John McCain for a year and a half, at least, when I was special counsel to the Senate Ethics Committee in the Keating Five. ... And if there is one thing I am absolutely confident of, it is John McCain is an honest man. I recommended to the Senate Ethics Committee that he be cut out of the case, that there was no evidence against him."

==============================================

Obviously you don't know who Robert Bennett is, do you?

When Robert Bennett was assigned Spec. Investigator, he was licking his chops, hoping to have McCain drawn and quartered, if not brought before the firing squad at sunrise.

This assignment was Christmas for Robert Bennett!

So, for him to say, "... if there is one thing I am absolutely confident of, it is John McCain is an honest man. I recommended to the Senate Ethics Committee that he be cut out of the case, that there was no evidence against him." there was NO evidence."

Want me to repeat that part, just so you get it???

*** "John McCain is an honest man."

*** "I recommended to the Senate Ethics Committee that he be cut out of the case,"

*** "... there was no evidence against him."

John McCain was EXONERATED! For those libs who don't know what "exonerated" means.....

1. to clear, as of an accusation; free from guilt or blame; exculpate: He was exonerated from the accusation.....

2. to relieve, as from an obligation, duty, or task.

Jackpine: You're absolutely right!!!


Actually, Obama has never really won any race. He's used the typical ACORN "thuggery" tactics, and just destroyed them, exactly the way he used the "dem machine and MSM to rip Hillary apart."

Marxist Obama's tactics are exactly those of Saul Alinsky... "The end justifies the means."


osama obama
THIS SHOULD SCARE EVERYBODY.
faithfreedom.org/obama.html

un-anticipated lies
It is impossible to prepare for every possible falsehood that might come up in a debate. One has to assume a certain amount of good faith on the part of one's opponents--otherwise there is no point in debating. The more outlandish a lie is, the less likely one is to be prepared to counter it. That is why Goebels said that a big lie is more believable than a small one. When dealing with someone who follows this strategy,it is best to denounce everything they say, whether you can prove it is false or not. This may be what McCain and Palin have to do.

Light vs. Shadow
McCain's involvement in the Keating scandal is well known and he neither hides from it nor makes excuses for it.

Obama runs for cover and cries racism every time his associations with criminals and radicals are questioned. He lies about his past and his media surrogates let him get away with it.

THAT'S the difference.

The Incredible Shrinking Conservative

Which is shrinking faster, conservative integrity or intelligence? Based on the smears directed at Obama, it's hard to say.


Obama's hippocracy...
Again, Obama's poor judgement. He is counting on the MSM not drawing attention to Sen. Glenn's involvement in Keating 5. Glenn, was one of the Dem's that said McCain was clean.

Change
The only time that countries revert to socialism (or its many forms such as communism or naziism) is when there is great social and economic unrest. There seems to be a historic confluence of events (or perhaps evil) among socialism, markets, and Obama that is happening now. The extent to which the unfolding of history is caused by manipulation or a natural evolution is of import. My sense is that socialists like Obama will lie any lie and manipulate any event possible. Tough times may be getting tougher.

you so!
I told you,over 8 months age,BHO is nothing but a SOCIALIST, he and comrads like: Al Gore,Al Franken,Rangel,Reid,Pelosi,Franks,Biden will bludgeon our CONSTITUTION into something our children will not recognize. This is got to stop
or my COUNTRY is in big trouble.
Keep those American hater,s out of our government.PLEASE THINK!
Doc
Army

Lynn
""I could make a list of the lies from the Obama camp, starting with the 14+ from Biden, the self-proclaimed expert on everything, during the debate but there is not enough time or paper.""

The saddest thing is, the people who really need to see the lies are the ones who would discount them anyhow.

The Obamabots aren't followers because obama is a great politician, they fo9llow him because it's become a religion to them

Kinda like how rabid Atheists have their own religion of Hating Religion.


Because Glenn isn't on ticket
Duh.

If Glenn were on the GOP ticket for Presidency, and was attacking Obama's "honor" in smear ads aimed at his tenuous connection to a guy who did stupid stuff when Obama was EIGHT, then you can "betcha" they'd go after Glenn under those circumstances as well.

But the glaring underscore to this is that Glenn IS NOT supporting McCain. Glenn, who is a Republican, by the way, chose to align his support with the opposition party. Get that? Glenn is not the kind of guy who would use Rovian smear tactics against his opponent, and rather would go up against his opponent on issues, not long-debunked "gotcha" tactics that even ROVE denounces.

Because Glenn isn't on ticket
Duh.

If Glenn were on the GOP ticket for Presidency, and was attacking Obama's "honor" in smear ads aimed at his tenuous connection to a guy who did stupid stuff when Obama was EIGHT, then you can "betcha" they'd go after Glenn under those circumstances as well.

But the glaring underscore to this is that Glenn IS NOT supporting McCain. Glenn, who is a Republican, by the way, chose to align his support with the opposition party. Get that? Glenn is not the kind of guy who would use Rovian smear tactics against his opponent, and rather would go up against his opponent on issues, not long-debunked "gotcha" tactics that even ROVE denounces.

Because Glenn isn't on ticket
Duh.

If Glenn were on the GOP ticket for Presidency, and was attacking Obama's "honor" in smear ads aimed at his tenuous connection to a guy who did stupid stuff when Obama was EIGHT, then you can "betcha" they'd go after Glenn under those circumstances as well.

But the glaring underscore to this is that Glenn IS NOT supporting McCain. Glenn, who is a Republican, by the way, chose to align his support with the opposition party. Get that? Glenn is not the kind of guy who would use Rovian smear tactics against his opponent, and rather would go up against his opponent on issues, not long-debunked "gotcha" tactics that even ROVE denounces.

John McCain
He is speaking now. The race is on !! He and Palin rocks! Got down and dirty,just like the Dems do.

Reply to Tara
Get your facts straight Tara. John Glenn is a Democrat!

Why not Glenn?
For those who are as out of touch as Gov. Palin, Senator Glenn retired in '99 and is currently a civilian. So what he was one of "the 5"... he's not running for President, McCain is. BTW, you gotta admit that even if you loved McCain, he showed either disastrous judgment or utter contempt for the intelligence of the American electorate by choosing Sara Palin as his running mate. Even if you're a life-long Republican, you cannot seriously want to put her that close to the Oval Office.

Ojamas
Ojamas,put on your p'jamas. Time for bed. Mama will catch you up and swat you!

Obama is a smoker and Biden
has had a triple bypass. Do you seriously think conservatives would want to risk seeing Nancy Pelosi as the next President??? I rather take Sarah Palin in a heartbeat over all of the demo deadbeats.
McCain-Palin 2008!

Ojamas
I would make Sarah Palin President over both candidates!

Especially that Communist/Muslim Ovomit!

Get over it!
Most posters here in Support of McCain pounding on the likes of Obama are I think justified in doing so, but to what end? It has been said over and over that the MSM are in the tank for Obama, the dewy-eyed pants wetters, and no amount of posting here is going to amount to a hill of beans as far as getting McCain and Palin elected. These left wingers will support stupidity,until, their dying breaths. Liberals on this thread, won't even acknowledge 4 of operatives were Democrats, how many will acknowledge that all of the miscreants in the ARABSCAM episode back in the 80s were except for one all Democrats. How many will acknowledge that Obama was and may still be playing footsy and keeping company with convicted terrorists and thugs, nor will they acknowledge that this economic bailout crisis is largely due sneaky operations of such Congressmen Barney Franks and Christopher Dodd. Nope much easier to flail and lie about the Republicans and conservatives than admit to any wrong doing on their part. Might be a good idea to give it up, as it ain't going to make a difference anyway

Tara
You wrote: "Glenn, who is a Republican, by the way, chose to align his support with the opposition party. Get that?"

Just exactly which Glenn are you talking about?

If you want to play with the big boys, you need to actually have an education. Go back to your third grade homework and quit playing with the computer.

A WINNING STRATEGY
A WINNING STRATEGY

Senator McCain is widely accepted as the candidate most able to be Commander in Chief. Unfortunately this is most often tied to military actions only.

The mission would be to change the ground rules being employed by the Obama campaign and drive the understanding that this role is critically important in virtually all challenges that will be faced by the next President: the war on terror, controlling the runaway spending by Congress, the economy, the rapidly increasing cost of healthcare and availability, the underperforming educational system, and infrastructure improvement. Each is a war unto itself requiring a proven Commander in Chief.

The key requirements of a Commander in Chief is to lead a team in identifying and defining major highly impactful challenges, developing strategies to address, building tactical plans to execute the strategies, identifying and securing the resources necessary to implement the plans and leading the team in the execution.

These are skills that Senator McCain learned at the Naval Academy and has used consistently in both his military and public service careers.

By emphasizing the need for a strong Commander in Chief in dealing with the current economic challenge it would focus on what is most important and not let the Obama campaign steal it as an issue that Senator Obama is best able to address.

Senator Obama has never shown any of the skills necessary to be Commander in Chief and this repositioning of the requirements would make this highly evident.

Let Governor Palin focus on the relationships, flip-flops, questions about donations, voting record etc.

“Keating Five”
McCain was investigated for a year and a half and the Democrat Special Prosecutor determined that McCain had not done anything illegal.

Whereas the remaining did.

Obama got his fingers stuck wrist deep in the Freddie / Fannie mess to the tune of several 100's of thousands of dollars of money received from them.

That and two of his advisors used to be CEOs of F / M

Would Joe Like
With Joe Biden just sending his young son off to Iraq, I wonder if he likes seeing these young people wearing military style clothes?
Spit in the face to the Military?
Wonder if these young men would wear a real Military uniform.
Highly doubtful!
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/10/utterly_chillin g_video_of_obam.html

If someone knows how to get this to Joe Biden, please forward it to him.

I have already forwarded it to the conservative talk shows.

Hello Americans, remind you of something?
Wake up!

Only ONE Republican?
The list of the Keating 5 shows John McCain as the lone Republican in the "scandal". While McCain (R) and Glenn (D) were found not guilty, that leaves the others - all DEMOCRATS - as guilty. Is this really the message Obama wants to deliver - a reminder of the scandals that involved more Democrats?

Democrats have tried hard today to push only one part of this story: McCain. They have failed to disclose their parties' Senators. Typical Obama, which is why every American should turn a deaf ear to Obama's pundits.

It's about time the Republicans came out with the more important questions regarding Obama's associates and judgements.

Maybe Obama was 8 years old when Ayers committed the bombings BUT Obama was an adult when he met Ayers. The questions remains: why would Obama, knowing about the infamous Ayers, have anything to do with that terrorist? Could it be that Obama had another mentor in Ayers? Whether Ayers was a neighbor or they were on the board together, the question remains ... why Obama didn't walk away from that terriorist.

The same applies to Rev. Wright. First Rev. Wright was a spiritual mentor. Then Obama, who sat in Wright's church for 20 years, suddenly claims Wright didn't preach like that while he was there. Come on. Does Obama think Americans are that stupid? Sure Obama much later rebuked Wright's racist remarks but that was only after the tapes surfaced.

Obama lied about Wright - just as he has lied about Ayers. Now Obama is trying to use the "Keating 5" to slam McCain!

McCain was NOT guilty! Can the same be said about Obama and his Chicago associates? Can Obama really be trusted?

No.

Douglas
I do. And I feel the same about his wife. Telling the truth about Cotton Candy Obama (all fluff and no substance) is not an attack ad. Obama has spent a good part of his life associating with America hating leftists. Two questions to ask about the candidates for president: Who is this man and should we trust the nation to him? With McCain the answer is obviously yes, and with HUSSEIN Obama, the answer is we don't know enough about him and the answer is obviously NO.

Reply to #58
What did McCain learn? He spent the next 12 years sending up bills to reform congress. He was embarrassed and apologized. He was PO'd at the GOP for hanging him out to dry and has been impartial ever since. Obama apologizes for nothing! Admits nothing! Blames others and repeatedly states that Rezko,Wright,Ayers were not the same people he knew. Stop drinking the Obama blueberry Kool-Aid please!

John
I think they are drinking some red kool-aid. Maybe cherry or strawberry,but surely red.

For Ojamas
Why not Glenn?

I absolutely WOULD want Sarah Palin as President. I'd vote for her over any of the other 3 candidates in the race. So stop trying to speak for other people, jerko, especially when you don't know what the hey you're talking about.

Tara
Subject: Because Glenn isn't on ticket

Why did you post that tripe 3 times??? Cuz
maybe you're triple dumb???

Glenn Has Turned America Hater
John Glenn was once ranked as a hero, but now he is nothing more than an Obamabot shill and water carrier.

The only one of the five Senators in this group who was recommended to be dropped from all investigations by the Democrat lawyer, was John McCain. The other four Demorats were up to their eyebrows in crap, but since the Senate was controlled by Demorats at the time, they let it pretty much slide.

Of course they needed cover so they kept McCain in the investigation, much to the disgust of their own lawyer.

Tara You Are Showing Your Ignorance
John Glenn has had a "D" behind his name since he was elected Senator. He was never a Republican who deiced to align himself with Demorats.

Your entire set of posts are made irrelevant by your Big Gaffe of the Day. Clueless would be a movie you ought to go see, because the descriptor fits.

Must be another "Guilt by association"..
Well, it seems to me that Obama just threw another log on the flame. Bringing up something that is mostly a democratic standard, would not give a very strong outlook to the democratic ticket. I wonder if the Obama campaign was aware of this blunder. Chalk one up for the "Chicago Politics". If ever guilt by association would change an average americans' mind, this would. John McCain made the right choice, again. Now the glves are off and the score is McCain 2 Obama 0

McCain foued obama, BO retaliated
Of course, Obama isn't horrified by the Keating Five, and McCain dost seriously care about Ayers-of he dd he would have brought it up LONG before. But McCain smells his goose cooking and commenced mudslinging. B

But unlike naive john kerry, obama gave McAmnesty a dose of his own nedicine: a lie fora lie-or tit for tat...

yes, McAmnesty's role in keating wasnt that bad. But it's also true Obama did not know the extent of ayers past conduct whne Obamas was 7 years old.

, until recently-by the way eveyne inChicago worked with ayers on legimitae respectable projects.

McCain is going to see this blow up in his face
and casue a lanslide istead ofa narrow loss-which will hurt republicans all the way donw the ticket.



Vietrs

Ignorance
It appalls me how ignorant some of you are. No one is saying Obama had anything to do with the bombings of Ayer's buddies. They are saying that Obama started his political career in the admitted terrorist's house. He is friends with him. He's done business with him. Yes, Obama was 7 when those bombings happened, but that makes it even worse. He should know who he's hanging out with, especially since he's running for a high office. Politically it is retarded to have affiliations with known terrorists, but for some reason the government educated in this country don't care.

Barack Hussein Obama's Civilian Army
Many of these trolls are afflicted with Obama-itis. The cause of this ailment is extreme hero-worship. Mainly because of the color of his skin. If he was a white man,he would have gone unnoticed for most of his life and surely would not be in his present position.

They get their political history all wrong, because they were never interested in the political scene until the 'Great Emancipator'made his debut. Their history began at the same time Obama began.

Trolls should know their history before they try to debate someone who has been studying these facts for years. They will always lose. Like bringing a knife to a gunfight. So solly.

"I didn't know", "I was 7"
BULL CRAP. NOboma and his handlers KNOW exactly what they are doing and our lame stream media is letting them get by with this nonsence because they are all in the tank together.We are being led to believe that ALL US citizens want "CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN". I for one DO NOT want to hand power of our government to an unknown that will not make his personal history available to the public, ie: his health records, his term papers, who financed his advanced college education, what mid-eastern contries 200 million of his campaign money came from. Why is this so secret? This man and his handlers are dangerous as they are Marxist and Terrorist sympathizers. Change, Bull Crap.

Double standard Obama
Obama is someone who sets himself up to have all the answers for what this country needs, yet claims he knows nothing about the people he has associated with, "churched" with, collaborated with, planned his campaign with, worked with, mingled with, neighbored with, etc????
What world is he living in? If he wrote a forward for Bill Ayers book, worked hand in hand with Ayers on the Anenburg Project with for years, it would seem logical that some conversation would ensue, would it not? Especially when the issue of political office is discussed. That's when idealogy is discussed among associates and supporters.

After years in Rev Wrights church, and Obama never challenged his radical views? Does that translate to "agree with Wrights views??

Birds of a feather flock together. These are all vultures, ready to pick the bones of the American people, just as soon as the POWER is obtained.

Obama has way too many associates of questionable intent, terrorists, crooks, Acorn, etc. Maybe many of our fellow Americans aren't concerned about that, but I am.

There is a level of trust that Obama does NOT reach.

Obama: no experience,
questionable associates,
phoney biography,
hard heart (voted against the Born Alive Infants Protection Act)

And he wants us to give him the highest office in the land.

That's audacity!


Unbelievable.

Obama, Keating and Glenn
Glenn became a whore years ago when he decided on the democrat party. He solidified his social status as a whore in the Chinagate hearings during the Clinton years, and was paid in full when he became, for the second time in his career, a piece of luggage aboard a space craft.

Obama & friends?
Demoncrats are always on the defensive and most of the time get away with it by smearing everybody to no avail. Now we have kids in school trained to do "campaign singing" for B. Hussein, paid by taxpayers money! What will happened if this was done by Conservatives? As you can see there is a double standards when it comes to Demoncrats. Anything done or said by Republicans, it will be threaded to pieces and milk till get nauseated, even though they will be telling the truth. B. Hussein had been lying to his teeth promising all kind of freebies to buy votes from the misinformed and the ones that are campaigning for him as payback! Where is money coming from to paid for it? It's sad to hear these people adoring this man as if he is the Chosen Messiahs, but eventually will regret voting for, who really did NOT know who the really B. Hussein is. It will show once he will be in power!



A WINNING STRATEGY
A WINNING STRATEGY

Senator McCain is widely accepted as the candidate most able to be Commander in Chief. Unfortunately this is most often tied to military actions only.

The mission would be to change the ground rules being employed by the Obama campaign and drive the understanding that this role is critically important in virtually all challenges that will be faced by the next President: the war on terror, achieving energy independence, controlling the runaway spending by Congress, the economy, the rapidly increasing cost of healthcare and availability, the underperforming educational system, and infrastructure improvement. Each is a war unto itself requiring a proven Commander in Chief.

The key requirements of a Commander in Chief is to lead a team in identifying and defining major highly impactful challenges, developing strategies to address, building tactical plans to execute the strategies, identifying and securing the resources necessary to implement the plans and leading the team in the execution.

These are skills that Senator McCain learned at the Naval Academy and has used consistently in both his military and public service careers.

By emphasizing the need for a strong Commander in Chief in dealing with the current economic challenge it would focus on what is most important and not let the Obama campaign steal it as an issue that Senator Obama is best able to address.

Senator Obama has never shown any of the skills necessary to be Commander in Chief and this repositioning of the requirements would make this highly evident.

Let Governor Palin focus on the relationships, flip-flops, questions about donations, voting record etc.

Character attack
Why would Obama's character not be subject to criticism? I fail to see how one could say it is not. If he were to have had 1 or possibly 2 associations in the past he could explain away plausibly I would weigh his explanations versus the character of those associates. That is not the case, he has a who's who of questionable characters about whom he has not provided anything close to a reasonable defensible explanation much less disassociated himself with veracity and clarity. Instead he makes claims of not holding the beliefs of these people. If that were true one would be able to point to associates of differing viewpoints or even lines or paragraphs in his two books that indicate a position on subjects that differs from theirs. He is tarred with a brush of his own making. Then we look only at his record of votes since taking office in Illinois. Not many votes and those were strictly party line votes except when his party thought the legislation too liberal to vote for then he surpasses them by voting for it. In the Senate he voted rarely and when he did it was with his party save three times. Going back pre political we see he worked for a group of organizations where his time as a community organizer was arranging the use of strongarm tactics to further their agenda as well as plying his profession in their interests regarding voter registration legality. Each instance taken individually could be excused with a reasonable argument, together they are more than circumstantial and beyond a reasonable doubt damning.

THE KEATING 5=A STRAW,
OBAMA HUSSEIN,RIDES IN ON A CAMEL FROM IRAN!THE STRAWS NEED TO WIN,THE CAMEL NEEDS TO TAKE OBAMA BACK TO THE SOUTH SIDE YMCA!

Barack Obama
There are so many issues that are scary of this man. Guilt by Association is the first one, if anyone watch Hannity America, it really put fear into me, that this man, is respected by all the radical groups. To read Hammas comment on him, that they love him, and that the enemies of Islam are defeated. I don't know about anybody else, but I am proud of our Country, of what our forefathers, fought for, and I will not surrender to a Radical Society.Economic Policies, in the situation we are in one can't raise taxes on Main Stream America. Oh, he says I will cut taxes, on 95% of the middle class people, oh, by the way, about 45% don't pay taxes, they get welfare checks. Raise taxes on small business', it is the small business man that promotes jobs. This problem, everybody is blaming our President and the Republicans, as a matter of fact, Senator McCain, President Bush, back in 2001 and 2004, stated that reform needed to be put in place, but it was the Democratic party, ignored it.College education, when my daughter was applying, we were told sorry make to much money,
my husband worked two jobs, I worked fulltime, to pay for her education. I feel that all the college loans that have been executed, by paid back. People of America, on Election Day, put your Country First, take back your Country, put respectabilty back into this Country, be proud to call yourself's American's. Remember, there was only one body that every said I am the Alpha and Omega, and it is not Barack Obama, as projected yesterday by the Middle School in Missouri. I will keep you all in my prayers.
Thank you for letting me have this time to express, my views

Barack Hussein Obama's Ineligibility
I wish McCain had the guts to ask O'Bama straight out in tonight's debate if O'Bama is Constitutionally eligible to occupy the Office of President, and if so, why he has failed to produce a valid birth certificate proving his citizenship and native birth.

Until this question is answered in the affirmative, then everything else -- the Keating 5, the associations and complicity with terrorist William Ayers, his mentoring under communists and other anti-American hatriots, his defeatist attitudes during wartime, his illegal contributions both domestic and foreign, ACORN voter fraud, and on and on -- is just a side show.

John Glenn
I lost all respect for John Glenn when he tanked the Chinese$$/Clinton investigation for a ride on the space shuttle
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