Keating Five

Obama's Brilliant Shot Across the Bow

Peter J. Ognibene | Posted 11.18.2008 | Politics

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Obama made clear that he would not remain passive in the face of tactics such as the Willie Horton ad that undermined the 1988 campaign of Dukakis or the Swift Boat attacks against Kerry.

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Keep The Lipstick Off The Pig

Tom Gilroy | Posted 11.11.2008 | Politics

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However badly we'd love to flush the karmic toilet, how likely it is the forces that gave us Enron, Jack Abramoff, economic collapse and Blackwater has been humbled into changing their venal ways? Not a chance.

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McCain Took $51,400 From Partners Of Law Firm Founded By Charles Keating, Including Own Nephew

Mark Nickolas | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics

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Campaign finance records show that McCain accepted contributions from 41 partners of the law firm Keating Muething & Klekamp. As the name suggests, the firm was founded by Charles Keating.

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Being McCain Means Always Having to Say You're Sorry

Jamie Stiehm | Posted 10.24.2008 | Politics

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McCain's penchant for self-criticism extends to the end of his first marriage. He left his first wife Carol, and quickly started seeing Cindy. Yet McCain has said that was his worst moral failure.

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John McCain Needs a Permanent Time Out

Justin Frank | Posted 10.15.2008 | Politics

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McCain's behavior in the first two debates was not passive-aggressive, fear-driven, or even racist -- he was simply protecting himself from blowing his stack. Obama's calm must drive him crazy.

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Friday Talking Points [51] -- Some Positivity

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics

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While we're all waiting for someone to leak the Palin Troopergate Report (which is reminiscent of waiting for "Fitzmas" during the whole Scooter Libby...

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Cindy McCain Kept Keating Partnership After Scandal

Washington Independent | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics

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Sen. John McCain's wife and father-in-law continued a lucrative business partnership with disgraced financier Charles H. Keating Jr. for 11 years afte...

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McCain-Keating Letter: "I'm Yours Till Death Do Us Part"

Think Progress | Posted 10.09.2008 | Politics

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The Washington Times reports that in 1986, John McCain wrote a note on House stationery to Charles Keating, chairman of a failed savings and loan asso...

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It's Over

Bill George | Posted 10.08.2008 | Politics

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Just as Hillary Clinton learned in the primaries, it is extremely difficult to compete simultaneously with Obama's unwavering strategy and his unrelenting organization on the ground.

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Did McCain Compare Obama to a Nazi?

Jairus Grove | Posted 10.07.2008 | Home

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Yesterday, John McCain, rather than responding to the factual claims regarding his involvement in the Keating 5 scandal, engaged in the lowest form of...

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New Obama Keating Five movie

Alison Teal | Posted 10.07.2008 | Politics

Voters in swing states -- and this, Colorado, appears to be the mother of all swing states -- are treated to a nearly endless barrage of political advertising and discussion.

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Fellow Keating Five Member: McCain Deserves More Scrutiny

Politicker AZ | Posted 10.07.2008 | Politics

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Former U.S. Sen. Dennis DeConcini told PolitickerAZ.com Monday that he thinks Sen. John McCain's involvement in the Keating Five scandal of the late '...

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You Don't Need A Weatherman To Know Which Way The Wind Blows

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics

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Whatever you believe about Bill Ayers and the Weathermen, the fact remains that he is not running for president. But John McCain doesn't really have any other arrows left in his quiver.

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Flashback: McCain's Presidential Ambitions Raised In Keating Hearing

HuffingtonPost.com | Nico Pitney | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics

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Prominently featured in the Obama campaign's new Keating Five documentary is a former chief federal regulator named William Black, who had a front-row...

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McCain Campaign Rewrites Keating Scandal

David Donnelly | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics

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The Keating Five connections are very troubling for what they mean today -- both on economic philosophy and on McCain's willingness to get cozy with special interests.

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Obama: "We Don't Throw the First Punch, But We'll Throw the Last"

ABC News | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics

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In Asheville, NC, this afternoon, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., made a statement about today's bleak economic news, hammered Sen. John McCain's campaign ...

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McCain Still Wistful for "Charlie Keating's Shangri-la"

Tim Dickinson | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics

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McCain and Keating were much more than "social friends" as McCain's lawyer said on a conference call today. They were political business partners.

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Why Did McCain Sell Out to Big Oil? Ask Charles Keating.

Joseph Romm | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics

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John McCain's new coziness with Big Oil is in many respects just a replay of his old coziness with Charles Keating. In both cases, money and access bought influence.

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GOP Strategist: McCain "Appears Desperate"

Washington Independent | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics

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When the McCain campaign announced this weekend that it would start attacking Sen. Barack Obama via guilt by association, peddling smears about people...

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Brand Expert Scores Obama v. McCain 7 Ways

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics

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The Obama and McCain brands have been rated by branding-strategy expert Patt Cottingham of Genuine Imprints, Ltd . Her paper "Brand Obama or Brand Mc...

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McCain's "Keating 5" Scandal Involvement To Be Highlighted By Obama Campaign

The Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics

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Update 12:30pm Monday, October 6: The Obama campaign has released the full video of "Keating Economics: John McCain and The Making of a Financial Cris...

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Watchdog Group Links McCain's Ties To Freddie And Fannie With Keating Scandal

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 10.01.2008 | Politics

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On Wednesday, a non-partisan watchdog group unveiled a new ad that compares John McCain's role in the current financial mess to the Keating Five scand...

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McCain Repeating Keating Era Mistakes, Regulator Warns

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 10.01.2008 | Politics

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As the stock market recovers from its biggest single-day drop since the crash of 1987, a former federal regulator who had a front-row view of John McC...

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The Gambler

Gary Marcus | Posted 09.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Gambling, John McCain, Presidential Election 2008, Keating Five, Sarah Palin, Politics News

Is a reckless gambler who may have lost a step really the sort of person we need as the next President of the United States.

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Fox News Guest Who Mentions Keating 5 Told To "Pipe Down"

Raw Story | Posted 09.25.2008 | Politics

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The Keating Five scandal, and John McCain's role in it, has received relatively little mention in presidential campaign coverage, and at least one Fox...

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