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Unlike smears, Keating 5=relevant, true
| Sat, 10-11-2008 - 10:36pm |
In the last financial crisis to hit this nation, the S&L crisis in the late 1980s, McCain was mixed up with the very worst felon, Keating.
This is not a smear. This is the truth that McCain himself admits. McCain admitted he made a terrible mistake.
Even if like me you think you know the details and magnitude of the Keating scandal, his undue influence over our government, and McCain's deep involvement, you will learn something if you haven't watched this already!:

Good Frank Rich editorial:
"All’s fair in politics. John McCain and Sarah Palin have every right to bring up William Ayers, even if his connection to Obama is minor, even if Ayers’s Weather Underground history dates back to Obama’s childhood, even if establishment Republicans and Democrats alike have collaborated with the present-day Ayers in educational reform. But it’s not just the old Joe McCarthyesque guilt-by-association game, however spurious, that’s going on here. Don’t for an instant believe the many mindlessly “even-handed” journalists who keep saying that the McCain campaign’s use of Ayers is the moral or political equivalent of the Obama campaign’s hammering on Charles Keating.
What makes them different, and what has pumped up the Weimar-like rage at McCain-Palin rallies, is the violent escalation in rhetoric, especially (though not exclusively) by Palin. Obama “launched his political career in the living room of a domestic terrorist.” He is “palling around with terrorists” (note the plural noun). Obama is “not a man who sees America the way you and I see America.” Wielding a wildly out-of-context Obama quote, Palin slurs him as an enemy of American troops.
By the time McCain asks the crowd “Who is the real Barack Obama?” it’s no surprise that someone cries out “Terrorist!” The rhetorical conflation of Obama with terrorism is complete. It is stoked further by the repeated invocation of Obama’s middle name by surrogates introducing McCain and Palin at these rallies. This sleight of hand at once synchronizes with the poisonous Obama-is-a-Muslim e-mail blasts and shifts the brand of terrorism from Ayers’s Vietnam-era variety to the radical Islamic threats of today.
That’s a far cry from simply accusing Obama of being a guilty-by-association radical leftist. Obama is being branded as a potential killer and an accessory to past attempts at murder. “Barack Obama’s friend tried to kill my family” was how a McCain press release last week packaged the remembrance of a Weather Underground incident from 1970 — when Obama was 8."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/opinion/12rich.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
(((This is not a smear. This is the truth that McCain himself admits. McCain admitted he made a terrible mistake.))))))
Exactly. No lies needed, and no spin either. The truth is the most powerful tool to use against McCain, because he has done