McShame is being hoist by his own petard. And it couldn't happen to a nicer (pretend) "Maverick".

STOOPID.

So, he was just joshing about being sorry for the appearance of corruption? Did he have his fingers crossed during the McCain-Feingold debate? He obviously wasn't sincere about running an honorable campaign -- he employs the sleazemeisters who are doing all the things McCain said he wouldn't do just 90 days ago.

McCain may be a former POW but he's also a weasel.

Can't wait to here rightwing radio et al repeating the "smear" story in order to prove the MSM is in the tank for Obama

God damn. These people really are almost as stupid as the cretins they bamboozle into voting for them. The political image McInsane has been trying to project for two decades was entirely founded on the story of his supposed transformation after his Keating "contrition", and now they blow the whole thing up just like that in a fit of pique. Wow.

The keatingeconomics.com video was well done and fits perfectly into what is happening in the markets as we speak!

Brokaw will lead the media in saying, "Old news."

And fyi, before you join the idiots Ezra and Yglesias, "Religulous" is not at all about God. It is about religion.

I know, this is incredible. How dumb do you have to be to re-kindle the Keating Five scandal?

Christ. Obama may actually win this thing.

Look closely at his record and you will find plenty of clouds over the "reformer" after the Keating Five "atonement". McCain's image is largely a myth fabricated by all the journalists who fawned over him following McCain's strategy to charm the press.

Just "social friends"? Not exactly. This was classic crony capitalism at its worst, Banana Republic style. "I'm sorry! I won't do it again! Boo hoo hoo!"

Get this straight people -- a real Maverick does not call himself a Maverick.

Get this straight people -- a real Maverick does not call himself a Maverick.

McCain is hoping that enough low-info, seat-of-the-pants sentiment/intuition voters and hacks will simply take his word for it, that there's nothing to Keating Five (even with the Google to lead people to read up on it - BTW keep a close eye on Wikipedia's Keating Five page and be prepared to step in if you're up to it.) McShamiacs are hoping to pull it through with enough marginal voters and to hell with what just about every respectable, intelligent person thinks.

Let's hope they won't succeed, but - this is still no time to be complacent, it will still take a massive effort to GOTV and stand in the face of suppression efforts, to pull through. What an interesting month this has been already, and will be so even more.

actually, i'm guessing McCain's camp can change positions and lie on this precisely because Obama does not want this to be the story right now. McCain wants this to be a character/association/personality fight. Obama wants this to be about health care and the economy.

hopefully this will, however, reinforce the Enough Club: the myth of John McCain is now being unraveled so fast the yarn may spontaneously combust.

I understand that Palin was just introduced at a Florida rally by someone in her campaign who referred to Obama as 'Barack HUSSEIN Obama'.

And Palin said: "The gloves are off and the heels are on".

And Palin said: "The gloves are off and the heels are on".

I hear McShamelss/Palein' is polling well in most American gutters. I hope they enjoy the very long rest they will get in this bed they're making.

First our mavericks took on their own party. Then came the media. Now (and with troopergate) the accusers. Steve M. (No more mister nice) thinks they're narcissists. Someone earlier today suggested it might be attention deficit disorder. Paranoid schitzophrenia, anyone?

actually, i'm guessing McCain's camp can change positions and lie on this precisely because Obama does not want this to be the story right now.

I saw Charles Keating speaking to the press after his conviction. When asked if he believed his contributions to various politicians influenced their decisions and activities, Keating responded, "I certainly hope so."

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And Palin said: "The gloves are off and the heels are on". Soon to be accompanied by brown shirts, no doubt. Posted by: Steve LaBonne

We'll see. After the results of the ethics investigation are released, she may have a tough time of even returning to her job as governor.

At this point one has to consider if McCain and the republicans have a secret memo describing how to lose this year's election. Why? Because of the current meltdown. What republican really wants to be in charge of the mess they created. Now they can sit back and point fingers at the dems trying to clean it up.

Re-igniting the Keating 5 discussion will help take the focus off the economy a bit.

I thought Palin/McCain (yes, I use that order) said we 'shouldn't look back' during the debate.

Now not only is she looking back, but looking with tremendous distortion, grossly slanderous association and logic as loose as a goose--all aimed to create fear and unjustly damn Obama's character and credibility.

Doesn't this make McCain the Pete Rose of politics, i.e., say you're sorry because that's what people want you to do, even though you're not sorry in the slightest?

Five bucks says McCain commits suicide within two weeks of losing the election. What else can a selfish bastard do?

John Dowd is the investigator who wrote the report on Pete Rose's gambling problem, is this the same John Dowd?

Anyway, I understand the hankering of the Rove acolytes in McCain's campaign to deny and dispute everything, but this is a huge mistake because it makes the issue current, and gives us all a chance to go back over the facts, which were extraordinary -- 5 Senators personally meeting with the head S&L regulator for the sole purpose of pressuring him not to enforce the law.

People need to remember what Keating did -- convincing retirees to transfer their assets from FSLIC insured savings accounts into risky uninsured notes -- and many of them lost their life savings. The materials used to advertise this contained highly deceptive claims that led the buyers to believe their investments were insured.

The last nugget of dignity, honor, reputation...

Shot down the porcelain convenience in a vain hope of getting the votes of folks who'd believe his denial AFTER his confession? (Remember, waterboarding was considered torture in those naive pre-9/11 days of yore.)

This is not just a dishonorable man. This is a STUPID man.

Why is he still polling in the 40's? Maybe this will get through to the average voter. John "Say Anything" McCain.

I've gone from impatient tolerance to outright contempt. He is voluntarily surrendering the last of his redeeming biographical aspects.

Watch for the "Enough!" team to bust out the membership forms by the ream.

The "straight talk express" is officially off the radar. Adopt the Bush/Rove way - "I never make or made a mistake." Are they trying to lose?

That would be fitting, npr, but I'd rather he'd do it live during his concession speech. Y'know, one last bid to control the news cycle, step on Obama's victory bounce.

...Nonetheless, on a recent campaign swing, he acknowledged he would be forever linked to the scandal. The Keating Five, he said, "will be on my tombstone."

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/02/28/amid_mccains_new_status_old_scandals_stir/?page=3

Keating Five.... on his tombstone. Sounds like an epithet for a campaign as well.

"He's learned nothing."

As anyone who has read "Make Believe Maverick" in the current Rolling Stone knows, John McCain has NEVER learned ANYTHING from any event in his life. As with Little Georgie, he's entirely consistent: he's been an worthless PoS his entire life.

Next week...

McCain campaign denies that McCain selflessly turned down Vietnamese offer of early release from POW camp...

McCain HQ announces that Vietnamese held McCain for five and a half years at the behest of Bill Ayers.

http://keatingeconomics.com/

The Obama campaign obviously anticipated this and published a 13 minute documentary on the topic.

http://keatingeconomics.com/

The Obama campaign obviously anticipated this and published a 13 minute documentary on the topic.

So he's actively turning the discussion to a time when he helped unscrupulous bankers avoid regulation, leading to a financial meltdown? And he thinks this is going to distract people from the economy?

WTF?

NPR,
Your comment is extremely offensive.

ERRATIC !!

As the fictional Francis Urquhart, the uber-devious UK Parliment chief whip in the British political drama "House of Cards" warned, "beware of an old man in a hurry."

Utube has a good summary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g72BuIvMbWY&eurl=http://my.barackobama.com/page/invite/keatingvideo

Corporate-owned media falls in line with McCain’s smear assault

Interesting, isn’t it? On the very day that the McCain campaign is to begin its “Obama is a terrorist� swiftboat-style smear assault, the New York Times leads with a story outlining Obama’s non-relationship-relationship with 70s era radical William Ayers. The New York Times concluded, as have all the many reports relating to the subject; the New York Times’ piece concluded that Obama did not and does not have ties to Ayers. But, wait! Interesting, too, that ALL THREE CORPORATE-OWNED NETWORKS continued the discussion on Sunday—that is interesting, isn’t it?

This Ayres-Obama smear has been debunked ten times over. So, why is the corporate-owned media continuing to play it up? Why are they doing the McCain campaign’s dirty work even when they know it is all a lie?

That is simple! The corporate-owned media is doing what their corporate masters want them to do. Corporate America is terrified—scared out of their minds that the American people are going to make the Democratic candidate, Obama, their president and, too, give the Democrats filibuster proof majorities in both houses of congress. The corporations understand what that would mean for them—they know that the people are really pissed off for having to handover a trillion dollars to Wall Street and corporate greed-merchants. The corporations know that the American people are going to want changes to the system! The corporations know that the American people are going to demand an end to the greed-driven trickle down three card monte-like scheme that has been imposed upon them!

Understand, the McCain campaign’s “Obama is a terrorist� swiftboat smear assault is being demanded by and propagated by corporate America. Corporate America knows that their only hope for maintaining power is to destroy Obama and to catapult their guy, their very old geezer, John McCain, into the Oval Office. So, it is interesting to see the corporate-owned press begin and to continue McCain’s “Obama is a terrorist� swiftboat smear assault, but it isn’t happening by accident—it is by design! This is corporate America’s way of ensuring that the Democrats won’t control all three levers of representative government. Interesting how it works, isn’t it?

(ProgressiveDailyBeacon.com)

I understand that Palin was just introduced at a Florida rally by someone in her campaign who referred to Obama as 'Barack HUSSEIN Obama'. -- unknown, @13:46

Rather than fret about Barack HUSSEIN Obama, we should give John Sidney McCain THE THIRD his full due, too. I've heard he doesn't like "Sidney" and purely hates being the Third (and least).

Bruce from Marin on October 6, 2008 at 2:00 PM

What republican really wants to be in charge of the mess they created. Now they can sit back and point fingers at the dems trying to clean it up.

I hesitate to even think it, but played correctly, McCain's meltdown could presage the greatest ideological shift in the political terrain since at least Reagan... maybe since FDR himself.

McCain was never 'sorry' about anything except getting caught or implicated. McCain's sense of right and wrong extends only to his personal interests. Getting caught was wrong...nothing else. Seriously, when has this man ever done anything for the good of someone else...ever. It's all about him...always has been and always will be. Community volunteer???hahahahaha...only if he gets money or women.

Can't tell me his reaping such rewards from Keating never seemed suspicious to McCain??? McCain's time in government is over, he's not even a senator any longer...he's exposed the real McCain and he's unfit for any public office. His response to the Keating scandal demonstrates his long running hypocrisy.

William Black, senior regulator during the Keating investigation, was interviewed the other day on NPR.

During the interview, Black said he was in the room when John McCain and his four colleagues tried to pressure regulators to back off. Charles Keating had just told McCain & Co. to "get Black. Kill him dead!" Black thinks McCain's role in trying to prevent regulators from getting the whole story is very relevant to his role as presidential candidate. Of course, as the NPR interviewer reminded Black, one of the Keating Five Democrats, Dennis DiConcini, has said that McCain got a free ride and was the most culpable. Black agrees and describes meetings with the group:

"He was the most culpable in a number of ways. He was the only one ... who had a personal financial stake in the dispute. His wife and his father-in-law stood to lose a significant amount of money if we had enforced the direct-investment rule. The entire purpose of the meeting was to pressure us not to take any course of action against Lincoln's massive violation of rule to the tune of over $600 million."

The Team Obama Mantra for October:

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake"

Lord, but those McPain people are incompetent, bless their hearts!
What must the McPain "war room" look like? I shudder to think.

Obama ad: Voting for McCain/Palin? Then you are as ignorant as they think you are.
st john

The LA Times finally shows what many of us in aviation have known for a long time: had McCain not been son and grandson of Admirals, he'd have been bounced as a Naval Aviator for incompetence:

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-aviator6-2008oct06,0,7633315.story?page=1