McCain and Keating
The Obama campaign has created a new website with a short video on McCain and his relationship with Charles Keating. If you have no idea about the Keating Five, you should definitely check it out.
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And the Gloves Come Off
The Obama campaign is not going to sit by and let McCain and Palin bring up bogus attacks against him without reminding people of the skeletons in McCain’s closet.
Marc Ambinder reports:
Democratic surrogates say they’ve been given the go-ahead from the Obama campaign to mention John McCain’s associations with S&L kingpin Charles Keating and other historically tarnished creatures when asked about Obama’s connection to ex-Weatherman William Ayers.
A senior Democrat who has had contact with Obama’s high command points to Democratic strategist Paul Begala’s comments on this morning’s Meet the Press.
Begala noted that McCain once “sat on the board of a very right wing organization,” the U.S. Council for World Freedom, led by a retired Army Maj. General named John Singlaub. The Anti-Defamation League allegedly called the CWF’s parent organization a gathering place for racists and anti-Semites.
It was said months ago that if it got really dirty, the Obama campaign was willing to go there right along with McCain…it’s a shame it’s come to this, but it has.
Marc Ambinder (October 05, 2008) - Democrats To Raise McCain Associations To Keating, Others.