Obama: Keating Five Is Germane to the Presidency
Oh yeah! Obama is getting ready to do a little business with John McCain. And that gas tax plan McCain initiated and Hillary plagiarized on? It appears he will get an opportunity to discuss it frequently.
Obama said McCain has received "a free pass" while he and Clinton have battled for months.
McCain, he said, "has a straight-talker image, but it’s not clear that lately he’s been following through on that image. I mean, this gas tax holiday was a pander. He didn’t even have a way of paying for it."
Obviously, Obama plans to capitalize on the stupidity of McCain’s proposals, like the gas tax and Bush’s tax cuts, he’s going to address McCain’s judgment with no statue of limitations imposed.
Barely mentioning Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton, Obama said he was open to campaigning with McCain in "town hall" events. But he also warned that controversial issues such as McCain’s ties to the Keating Five savings and loan scandal are fair game, and he called McCain’s proposal for a temporary halt in the federal gasoline tax a pander and a gimmick. . . .
Speaking with reporters in Bend, Ore., Obama brushed aside suggestions that the fall campaign may be largely about his race, liberalism or patriotism.
"In a contest between myself and John McCain," he said, "there is going to be a very clear choice on policy that I don’t think is going to have to do with ideology and who theoretically is more liberal or who’s more conservative. I think it is going to have to do with who has a plan to provide relief to people when it comes to their gas prices, who has a real plan to make sure that everybody has health insurance, who’s got a real plan to deal with college affordability.". . .
Obama was asked Saturday if the fall campaign might touch on the 1987 Keating Five scandal, in which the Senate Ethics Committee said McCain used "poor judgment" for allegedly pressing regulators to go easy on the owner of a failed Arizona savings and loan who was also a campaign contributor.
Obama said there is no doubt the Keating Five case is "germane to the presidency."
"I can’t quarrel with the American people wanting to know more about that," he said.
McCain should be prosecuted for his actions with the Keating Five. Dropping all charges is not sufficient, due to the conflict of interest of the judge who persisted over the case. We have to ask the question have the statue of limitations run out on this kind of case? If not we should push to prosecute for extortions, charges, against the American people. It sounds like the judge was being paid, to participate, as they did so much back then. What have this country come to, even to let this man run for President after he dumped his cripple wife after she had a car accident, for money, he’s a sell out, and if the republican party don’t do their homework, he will sell you out too. Look at his pass about his first wife and the Keating Five you will change to Democrat.