Obama opens door on the Keating 5 scandal in his speech today!

A snippet from Obama's kick butt speech in Golden Colorado:

http://thepage.time.com/obamas-remarks-on-confronting-an-economic-crisis/



Oh, yeah. It sounds familiar. "Confident of their clout in Washington"? That would be a reference to the Keating 5, including one John McCain.

Obama can't name names but we sure can!

AS soon as I heard "savings and loan" I knew he was teasing the subject. I hope he develops the theme!

and then drop it like a hammer, once adequately framed.

It's more of a warning to grampy. Like, "Oh, yes, you lying old fart. I am going there. Just try me"

he just gives the media a bone, and maybe they'll pick it up and run with it. we'll see if that happens.

If the m$m picks it up, he can build the talking points around what's covered by the m$m. If they don't he has to shift tactics a bit.

I think it's a shrewd move on the campaign's part; you KNOW Olbermann and Maddow will run with it and I wouldn't be surprised if Matthews does as well.

that we are not alone.

Probably has something to do with the unwritten "Senate rules of etiquette"

to do much more but mention the news reports. Mccain has NO defencse on this issue; saves lots of campaign resources there's no need to cover it with ads because the press is on it.

Even though the nominal subject for debate next Friday is National Security, surely some time will be devoted to the biggest story this month, the financial hurricane hitting Wall Street again.

IMO, sooner or later, Obama is going to tie the S&L crisis twenty years ago to today's mortgage derivatives mess. Wouldn't it be great if he did it during a debate?

Good for the goose, but the gander (no gender discrimination intended), gets the shit kicked out of her.

hallejuiah!

bet McCain is squinching his sorry asshole right now.

and hoping that obama will bring out more details soon, about Keating 5 and the Neil Bush S&L, and now I hear Jebbie was somehow involved in the latest scam - Lehman.

o m g

could this really be happening?

Silver State Bank.

with the Andrew Mccain story, not Obama.

just the hint of it will get some people all over it, Obama himself doesn't have to say a thing in detail...... yet.

but if th media makes a story out of this first, then O will jump in with both feet.

smart smart

Much more effective that way.


Obama and his team are playing this perfectly.

I didn't like it at first but it obviously struck a chord. McCain surrogates trying to bat it down with stuff like inferring that McCain invented the Blackberry.

Heh. Playing chess is right.

The McCain campaign could, of course, call it sexist, and further erode their credibility. The McCain campaign could just launch into another character attack on Obama, which sets up another out-of-touch round of response ads by the Obama campaign, since Obama's reference to the S&L debacle is directly related to the issues Americans are currently facing.

I think Obama has struck the perfect tone, which puts the McCain campaign in quandry. I predict that they will take an all of the above approach and call it sexist, and launch into another round of character attacks that are unrelated to the issues.

:headbang:

Keating time


:woohoo:

...and sending a signal to the McCain camp, that he'll cross it if they don't quit their
lying their shameless, disgusting campaign of perversity.

I personally, would love it, if Obama brought up Keating. It's the truth. It's on record.
Why do we allow these Republican thugs to silence us when there is a record of corruption
when it relates to McCain and Keating??

You can damn well bet than McCain would be using it every other day against Obama!

If McCain can produce an ad that depicts Barack Obama as a pervert who wants to teach children
about "comprehensive sex" then surely, Barack Obama can talk about the fact that McCain's
history includes his entanglements in the Keating 5 scandal.

Did everyone see the parting shot of Obama in that "kindergarten sex" ad??? Joe Scarborough, a
hard-right Republican, even commented on how unfair and sleazy that picture was. It was Obama
looking down--and smiling in a suggestive way--as if he was looking at a child, in a sexual manner.

I am so disgusted and upset by that ad--that I can barely stand! I think it's the worst
political campaign ad EVER made. EVER!!

They do this, and we're shy about mentioning the other side's real scandals and illegal activities?

start naming names, but if the press doews it it's WAY more effective.

Sooooo close.

with the recent economic news. That news + Keating 5 + Phil Gramm (sp?) + record of deregulating everything = Obama wins (I hope)

and total grasp of the mindset about the average American voter. What most of the political junkie set here at DU don't seem to realize is that, for the most part Joe Sixpack has never even heard of the Keating 5 scandal. Even those that remember hearing something about that do not remember what it was about. Had we just brought it up, as many have been screaming to do, they would have looked at it as just 'old news', something McCain had 'obviously' been cleared of enough that it didn't interfere with his career. They never would have gone into the details, not seeing what it had to do with NOW.

With the present economic crisis however, the stage has been set to educate them. Obama wants us all to have a working understanding of how the policies of deregulation led directly to the present crisis. If, in that process, McCain's involvement is brought up ... well it has relevance, doesn't it?

And yes, if the press are the one's to bring up the scandal ... and how can they not given the circumstances ... well so much the better. Like it or not the press has more credence to the uniformed than our candidate, any candidate really. In the eye of Joe Sixpack, the 'press' doesn't have a vested interest in what they believe and so has no reason to lie to them. We know better, but then, WE pay attention.

Our guys 'get' that timing is everything :popcorn: This is going to be fun to watch! Popcorn anyone?

He talked about regulation, deregulation, free markets, capitalism, the crazy ideology of laissez faire capitalism. There were 2,500 of us in Lockridge Arena at the Colorado School of Mines and we sat spell-bound like we were auditing a master lecturers' series. Absolutely amazing. There was no rah-rah, no music (except at the end. Obama was fierce and chock-full of policy.

I have pictures, but I'm in my 50's and don't know how to download.

And maybe you can get one of those brilliant engineering students to help download the pics because I know we'd all love to see them!