Exclusive: Obama to hit McCain on Keating scandal

[maddezmom]

Exclusive: Obama to hit McCain on Keating scandal
By MIKE ALLEN | 10/5/08 10:09 PM EDT Text Size:



Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Monday will launch a multimedia campaign to draw attention to the involvement of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in the “Keating Five” savings-and-loan scandal of 1989-91, which blemished McCain’s public image and set him on his course as a self-styled reformer.

Pushing back against what it calls “guilt-by-association” tactics by McCain, the Obama campaign is e-mailing millions of supporters a link to a website, KeatingEconomics.com, that will have a 13-minute documentary on the scandal beginning at noon Eastern time on Monday. The overnight e-mails urge recipients to pass the link on to friends.

The Obama campaign, including its surrogates appearing on radio and television, will argue that the deregulatory fervor that caused massive, cascading savings-and-loan collapses in the last ‘80s was pursued by McCain throughout his career, and helped cause the current credit crisis.

Obama’s offensive comes after McCain’s running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, spent two days telling voters, donors and reporters that Obama showed poor judgment in his relationship with the former radical William Ayers.

McCain’s campaign has vowed to make a major issue of Obama’s Chicago relationships in coming days, with a senior McCain official telling Politico that they are “the vehicle that allows us to question Obama’s truthfulness about his past and his plans for the future.”


more:http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14302.html

[BlooInBloo]

1. Not so exclusive, apparently - LOL!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7327176

[maddezmom]

6. I think the exclusive is the multi-media campaign...I posted the other link earlier as well

:D http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=7325469&mesg_id=7325469

[AlCzervik]

2. excellent, all out.

[Thrill]

3. They asked for it

[speedoo]

4. Yeah, nail his ass.

No more "honor his service" bullshit. Just fucking nail him. (and Palin, too.)

[1corona4u]

5. P O W!!!!

Right in the puffy ugly face, LOL...:rofl:


Hey, we need that pic of Obama and mcrap in the senate, the one where it looks like Obama's going to punch him, LOL....needs to be in this thread!!

[FrenchieCat]

13. got you covered!

[1corona4u]

19. Awesome!! Too bad he didn't follow through, LOL.....

;-)

[Imagevision]

7. Actually Obama camp said they wern't taking Keating 5 off the table 7-8 months ago

Mccain is using Palin to defend Obama ads she surely isn't effective in selling to the majority of American people.

[NJGeek]

8. WOW The Obama team is impressive

I never thought we'd see a Democrat with such fight in him.

McCain is toast.

[electron_blue]

9. blitz.

[Kittycat]

10. Kind of sucks

that Obama has to even do this. But if McCain is going to open the door, at least Obama can hit him with something that ties right back to the realities of the economic troubles we're facing today.

[AlCzervik]

11. oh well, Palin should have never opened the door so that's just too bad for McCain.

i am for Obama doing what needs to be done to stop this bobsebse, there is just too much on the line now.

[Kittycat]

18. I'm not disagreeing...

I'm just saying that it sucks that it had to go to this level. McCain has, since day one, refused to play by any set of decent rules.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

12. McCain begged for this on his rickety old knees.

[quantass]

14. k&r

[Miss Chybil]

15. Well, shoot. What time is it on the East Coast?

I want to see the documentary! It says it's not available until midnight.

On edit: Never mind... I have some sort of problem with midnight and noon. Maybe, because they're both at 12:00. I guess I'll wait until tomorrow.

[quantass]

16. ..

[gravity]

17. Obama is running circles around McCain

They counter attack before McCain has a chance to make the first move. McCain shouldn't have taken the weekend off

[Turk 182]

20. What about McCain's relationship with G. Gordon Liddy?

This guy went to jail as part of the Watergate scandel, and has been involved in other nefarious plots, besides being a complete nutcase.

[Mme. Defarge]

21. "Damn the torpedoes,

full speed ahead!!!"

[quantass]

22. k

[Willo]

23. "Don't start none, won't be none"

McCain didn't heed the warning, now it's on!


http://keatingeconomics.com/

with a sublink to: http://www.johnmccainrecord.com/

How the heck are they going to greet each other tomorrow?
I hope Obama's expression is sufficiently stern so as not to take away from the attack.