Obama: Keating Five Fair Game - Let's get ready to RUMBLE!

Posted below is an email I just received

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Obama: Keating Five fair game
Ben SmithSat May 10, 3:28 PM ET

One more report from Carrie Budoff Brown in Oregon:

Obama was asked today about DeFazio's comments Friday raising Sen. John McCain's entanglement in the Keating Five, and the Illinois senator said the issue was fair game.

The campaign issued a statement yesterday to Politico that seemed to suggest otherwise, saying there were enough differences with McCain on issues and "that is where we will focus our campaign." And in DeFazio's second appearance last night in Oregon, a rally in Eugene, the congressman omitted Keating Five from his remarks.

But today, Obama told reporters that the issue was not out of bounds.

"Congressmen DeFazio delivered a speech that wasn't my speech," he said. "I don't think there is any doubt John McCain's public record about issues that he has apologized for or written about are not germane to the presidency. I was just asked previously about a whole host of associations that are a lot more flimsy than John McCain's relationship to Keating Five and what I have said is that I can't quarrel with the American people wanting to know more about that and me having to answer questions about it."
DeFazio, an Oregon superdelegate who has endorsed Obama, told a crowd Friday in Albany, Ore.: "John McCain has already told us he doesn't know much about economics. He says we need less regulation. Hello? Wall Street, mortgage meltdown, Bear Stearns, taxpayer bailout, Enron. But I guess maybe for a guy who was up to his neck in the Keating Five, and savings and loan scandal, less regulation is better for his friends. No, that is not good for the American people."


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Gloves are off. That didn't take long. Nice that we have a nominee who's going to hit the Republican Party where it counts for a change.

It is great to see a candidate that is going to fight.

you Congressman DeFazio...

right.

all of his financial chicanery over his long period in the Senate.

Everything he has said and done needs to be tied Straight to McCain on that good old Express Train...

when a Bush was president, and a Bush was costing the taxpayers Billions in corruption... and they weren't the same Bush!

Yeah. Nail these fuckers, and remind Americans why oranized crime families should be restricted to the traditional roles of gambling, protection, and loan sharking- not being allowed to use the office of the president as a setting for Godfather IV, V, and they hope, VI.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/obama-says-mccains-keating-five-connection-is-not-off-limits/


Obama Says McCain’s Keating Five Connection Is Not Off Limits


BEND, Ore. – Senator Barack Obama said today that a scandal from Senator John McCain’s past – the Keating Five – was just as relevant to the presidential campaign as questions about who Mr. Obama has associated with over the years.

In a news conference here, Mr. Obama was asked whether his campaign intended to raise the banking scandal from the 1980s, which Mr. McCain has apologized for. Every piece of every candidate’s public record, Mr. Obama said, is “germane to the presidency.”

“I was just asked previously about a whole host of issues and associations that are a lot more flimsy than John McCain’s relationship to Keating Five,” Mr. Obama said. “What I said, I can’t quarrel with the American people wanting to know more about that and me having to answer questions about it.”

Mr. Obama’s background, ranging from his longtime pastor to his friendship with former radicals from the 1960s, has been widely debated during the Democratic nominating fight. He said he expected the same level of scrutiny would be applied to Mr. McCain.

The topic was raised briefly during a 20-minute news conference here today. It drew sharp criticism from the McCain campaign, with a spokesman saying: “Apparently, Obama’s lively calls for new politics ended today.”


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And McSame's camp is going to whine about what they just tried to pull yesterday.

McCain: The Most Reprehensible Of The Keating Five

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5908769#top

That's the sound of a great big, cold can of whup-ass being opened.




:bounce: :bounce:


We're coming to get you gramps! Can't get little Cindy-Lou to shred your way outta this one.

:bounce:

and McCain...It's about time

Mrs. Zillionaire doesn't want to show her tax returns, but there's no problem with him saving hundreds of thousands of dollars using a company jet owned by her family's company?

what is she hiding...I am sure that will be addressed as well.