How could Bob Schieffer bring up Ayers but not mention McCain's criminal buddy Keating?

[NNN0LHI]

Did that seem odd to anyone else?

Don

[hobbit709]

1. That's that "liberal media bias" don't you know.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

2. no because the question was negative campaigning and ayers was used as an example

how much has obama been mentioning keating?

[NNN0LHI]

3. Obama put a 15 minute Keating ad on the web last week

[riverdeep]

6. Well, he ran a thirteen minute webisode on it.

With some amount of fanfare.

What really struck me was that Obama didn't mention that two years ago McCain was at an ACORN meeting as a speaker, and praised their work to high heaven. It's on tape. He didn't need to dwell on it, just throw it out there.

[NewJeffCT]

4. Keating happened before today

and, since McCain is a Republican, it is a youthful indiscretion.

However, even though the Weather Underground was active 40 years ago, it's still very relevant to Obama's character today, because he's a Democrat.

[malaise]

5. Well thankfully McGramps brought Keating up last

night with his pipe dreams re Joe the plumber.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4247159

[Spritz57]

7. How could Bob Schieffer allow

McCain the last word in all but two exchanges (and in the aforementioned two I'm including the final comment). I thought this was the poorest run debate of the three because Schieffer allowed McCain to dominate while cutting off Obama and then denied Obama the time to respond, e.g. "you launched your political career in Ayer's living room". Then the right wing pundits noted McCain's aggressiveness--in part Schieffer made McCain.

[KharmaTrain]

8. Nah...Squeeky Wheel Gets The Grease...

Remember, Camp Gramps has yelled Ayers non-stop for weeks now, while very little has been pushed by the Obama campaign about Keating. I think it's been a good strategy because the Ayers sliming has backfired...and bringing it up last night gave Senator Obama the chance to knock it down even further.

Polls are showing that the negative campaigning is not working this year thanks to the early and often attacks on Senator Obama. Most of us have had to endure nearly 2 years of this shit and the more dirt they attempt to throw at Senator Obama, the less effective their attacks are.

Kudos to the Obama campaign for trying to stay on the high road and not buy into the Camp Gramps distraction games. While Keating is far more relevant to Gramp's character than Ayers ever was to Obama, too many voters are focused on the here and now, not on what was.

Cheers...

:hi:

[NNN0LHI]

9. I would not have wanted Obama to bring it up

But McCain sure should have been forced to defend himself on this one.

Don

[KharmaTrain]

11. Remember, "The Sheef" Is A Tire Swinger...

I'm still curious about Vickie Isemann myself...she sure vanished during this election. Actually I would have prefered the focus be on the many lobbyists in Camp Gramps...little has been said of the money Rick Davis bagged from Fannie Mae while this turd has the chutzpah last night to question Obama about his connections to Raines and Johnson...or Phil Gramm or Randy Shuereman or Tilliston, his "transition" (shudder) chief...the "mavrick" has been long bought by K Street.

Since the corporate media lives in a short attention span world, the Keating story, even though it came out last week was "old news"...while the relentless Ayers crap was still "having legs". It's an interesting study of manipulation and how the weathervanes like Shiefer are swayed by the "buzz" over any real substance.

Cheers...

[Hubert Flottz]

10. Bob Schieffer belongs on FOX...

[Kazak]

12. And why wasn't A.I.P. brought up?

:mad:

[bigtree]

13. he had to dig to get McCain to say it -- finally he did, in an awkward jumble

. . . almost under his breath.

I think Obama would have felt just fine if it hadn't come up. Both are distractions and, I think, really don't do much to hold or attract votes from most folks watching.