AMERICAblog: McCain now saying Keating Five scandal was a Democratic plot against him
JohnInTexas
· 1 year ago
I'm surprised they didn't blame Bill Clinton
shrrrr
· 1 year ago
well, you know that's coming. It's only Monday.
tlsintx
· 1 year ago
oh right.
he should've stuck with the reformed sinner BS. steve schmidt is blowing it!
tbhull
· 1 year ago
I wonder if Jim Cramer was urging clients to put money into S & Ls on the eve of their collapse in the same we Cramer is now urging folks to pull out of the stock market now right before several banks are sure to fail?
sukabi1
· 1 year ago
McCain's history as a pilot is coming under scrutiny as well... the conclusion is that by today's standards he would have had his wings pulled BEFORE he went to Nam due to his flight record...
SCLiberal
· 1 year ago
This is so Rove.
Apphouse50
· 1 year ago
Anyone besides me having trouble seeing this Keating 5 thing in its entirety? Even when I downloaded it, it stopped about 2 minutes in.
scytherius
· 1 year ago
Yeah me too. I assume it's a traffic issue.
Apphouse50
· 1 year ago
Yowza! That's the kind of bandwidth issue I'm happy with.
scytherius
· 1 year ago
HAHA Agreed!
scytherius
· 1 year ago
Annnnddddd . . . .lol I went to the primary site and it's slow and I've got fiber optic. I assume that the site is getting blitzed this morning.
KarenMrsLloydRichards
· 1 year ago
Yes, it WAS a slime-machine Democrat campaign to victimize a poor, broken war hero all over again after he was victimized by the Communist enemy in Vietnam. And John McCain wore very stylish and flattering eyewear throughout the "Scandal."
snark/
scytherius
· 1 year ago
This is REALLY their response? Wow. Who is running that campaign, the Three Stooges?
Apphouse50
· 1 year ago
Ask McCain's lawyer if they also maintain the South won the Civil War.
kevinbgoode
· 1 year ago
McCain-Palin and the RNC: "Personal responsibility is for the little people."
ron071
· 1 year ago
The Republican mantra is an outgrowth of the Leona Helmsley credo that " taxes are for the little people'. They will NEVER CHANGE and must be REMOVED BY THE " LITTLE PEOPLE".
marblex
· 1 year ago
McCain was known as "songbird" in Viet Nam because of his willingness to disclose military secrets in exchange for perks and preferential treatment. This has been well documented. He was a legacy admittee and had his father and grandfather not been admirals before him, McCain would have been unfit for service. His torture stories are also under some scrutiny at this point as well.
Is it any surprise he would attempt to rewrite history now, as his long standing support for complete deregulation of everything in sight has come back to bite him on the ass? Did Democrats make him associate with Keating? No.
Total bullshit.
tlsintx
· 1 year ago
even if, for the sake of ridiculous argument, it WAS a democratic political hit job, how does McCain explain the crooked Phil Gramm, who to this day, continues to advise him on economics? McCain is as corrupt now as he always has been.
Well--the McCain camp certainly knows from smear jobs.
Shlomo
· 1 year ago
If this was a politically motivated hit job on McCain, then who was behind it and why? It seems that anyone seeking to unseat McCain would already have plenty of ammunition at their disposal, even without his association with Keating. It could not have been because he was a Republican, since even Democrats were part responsible for this mess. The hit job couldn't have been very effective since McCain's career still marches on to the same tune as always.
Manchurian candidate?
cmpnwtr
· 1 year ago
Here's why McPalin wants to talk about the 1960s: Today's polling thus far: PA Morning call daily tracker: Obama 49 McCain 38 (O+11)
SUSA New Hampshire: Obama 53 McCain 40
SUSA Virginia: Obama 53 McCain 43
Suffolk Virginia: Obama 51 McCain 39
ron071
· 1 year ago
REPUBLICAN DENIAL OF REALITY WON'T WORK NOW OR EVER.
FACTS MEAN NOTHING TO THE REPUBLICANS who will deny reality today or yesterday to negate the truth. Blame the inconvenient truth on anyone but themselves. Republicans are responsible for NOTHING in their world of DENIAL. The voters will not again be fooled by this trash-talking group.
Well, that's one McCain biography that I'm sending on... LOL!
and it's what I've been saying all along about McCain, his character and motivations...
ron071
· 1 year ago
REwrite history, dismiss facts, call lies the truth and all will be well for the Republicans. They are desperate to escape a disaster of their own making.
JtotheAtotheM
· 1 year ago
Some questions:
If the Keating 5 investigation was a political hit job, then why wait 15+ years to say so?
Who ordered and executed the smear job? It was a bi-partisan commision that investigated and admonished Senator McCain...
And so on...
ImpureScience
· 1 year ago
Think of the subtlety and prescience of the Democrats' plan to conspire with McCain's own Republican colleagues to smear McCain preemptively, associating him with the Keating Five scandal seventeen years prior to his last chance to become President. Will they stop at nothing?
Jimbo72
· 1 year ago
Gee, the McCain campaign is getting desperate. Smear job done by a Democrat; what a lame excuse. McCain screwed it. And it proves he can screw America too as a president.
nsr
· 1 year ago
This is so funny. Their pathetic attempt to smear Obama over something that happened when he was 8 is getting knocked off track by something McCain did as a senator. And weren't the rest of the Keating 5 all democrats?
You can't say it was political because four of the five senators were democrats. Now of course this does not say much for the democrats, but you cannot say it was a political hatchet job.
BerrSD
· 1 year ago
I read the Rolling Stone article "Make-Believe Maverick" and saw Obama's video on McCain's involvement with the "Keating Five." The only way this man should view being president is with a rear view mirror.
homerj714
· 1 year ago
unless of course they wouldn't drop mccain from the investigation because he was the lone republican......slate is a very "conservative" news source lets see what they say......
The Senate Ethics Committee probe of the Keating Five began in November 1990, and committee Special Counsel Robert Bennett recommended that McCain and Glenn be dropped from the investigation. They were not. McCain believes Democrats on the committee blocked Bennett's recommendation because he was the lone Keating Five Republican.
In February 1991, the Senate Ethics Committee found McCain and Glenn to be the least blameworthy of the five senators. (McCain and Glenn attended the meetings but did nothing else to influence the regulators.) McCain was guilty of nothing more than "poor judgment," the committee said, and declared his actions were not "improper nor attended with gross negligence." McCain considered the committee's judgment to be "full exoneration," and he contributed $112,000 (the amount raised for him by Keating) to the U.S. Treasury.
Sage24
· 1 year ago
I am sick of McCain, Palin, and the rethuglicans spinning away, and distracting the public from the TRUTH. Those tapes do not lie. He was hauled in front of that senatorial committee, and it was true that he went on those lavish trips to Bahamas, many times, and that he did not stand up for the people, and say anything against the culprits, which really includes himself. I am sick of seeing mindless, rethuglican, mouthpieces, like Hasslebeck, go on a tirade about Obama, but dismiss McCain/Keating involvement by saying he was exonerated. These people are seriously, intellectually handicapped. They seem to have drunk some sort of koolaid, and cannot think independently for themselves. Whoopi was right, the McCain camp knows they are losing in the polls, so therefore they are digging into the garbage can to bring out lies and distractions. As for that idiot Palin, and her high pitch attacks on Obama, I do not think that dumb woman even knows what she is talking about. Heck, she could not even name a publication she reads, so I betcha she is clueless about the talking points she keeps yelling about too.
cowboyneok
· 1 year ago
They are no different that germans in the 1930's who bought the whole Nazi crap from Hitler. It is true. They DO NOT think for themselves.
peter4n6
· 1 year ago
FWIW, he blinks like crazy in the clips from the Keating hearing.
cowboyneok
· 1 year ago
But didn't John McCain say he was sorry and LEARNED from his mistakes? Obviously not.
cowboyneok
· 1 year ago
Larry Craig, Sarah Palin, John McCain and David Vitter would like to thank the Talibangelicals for the continued "family values" support. They are bringing families closer together by ensuring your parents and / or kids all have to live in ONE home together for the rest of their lives. If your 401(K) has been destroyed, and you've voted Republican, they want to know all is not lost! Republicans are to be reminded they saved 'merica from the evil homosexicals gettin' married!
cowboyneok
· 1 year ago
Sarah Palin is a lying piece of crap.
getreal
· 1 year ago
i guess obama is even with mccain with the smearing.
All Comments
he should've stuck with the reformed sinner BS.
steve schmidt is blowing it!
snark/
http://www.unfitmccain.com/Donations.html
Is it any surprise he would attempt to rewrite history now, as his long standing support for complete deregulation of everything in sight has come back to bite him on the ass? Did Democrats make him associate with Keating? No.
Total bullshit.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...
Manchurian candidate?
Today's polling thus far:
PA Morning call daily tracker:
Obama 49
McCain 38
(O+11)
SUSA New Hampshire:
Obama 53
McCain 40
SUSA Virginia:
Obama 53
McCain 43
Suffolk Virginia:
Obama 51
McCain 39
FACTS MEAN NOTHING TO THE REPUBLICANS who will deny reality today or yesterday to negate the truth. Blame the inconvenient truth on anyone but themselves. Republicans are responsible for NOTHING in their world of DENIAL. The voters will not again be fooled by this trash-talking group.
and it's what I've been saying all along about McCain, his character and motivations...
If the Keating 5 investigation was a political hit job, then why wait 15+ years to say so?
Who ordered and executed the smear job? It was a bi-partisan commision that investigated and admonished Senator McCain...
And so on...
McCain screwed it. And it proves he can screw America too as a president.
John McCain, on his Keating 5 role, December 1999.
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
http://www.slate.com/id/1004633/
The Senate Ethics Committee probe of the Keating Five began in November 1990, and committee Special Counsel Robert Bennett recommended that McCain and Glenn be dropped from the investigation. They were not. McCain believes Democrats on the committee blocked Bennett's recommendation because he was the lone Keating Five Republican.
In February 1991, the Senate Ethics Committee found McCain and Glenn to be the least blameworthy of the five senators. (McCain and Glenn attended the meetings but did nothing else to influence the regulators.) McCain was guilty of nothing more than "poor judgment," the committee said, and declared his actions were not "improper nor attended with gross negligence." McCain considered the committee's judgment to be "full exoneration," and he contributed $112,000 (the amount raised for him by Keating) to the U.S. Treasury.
http://PoliticEye.com