McCain: The Most Reprehensible Of The Keating Five -1989 article

[Liberal_in_LA]

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1989-11-29/news/mccain-the-most-reprehensible-of-the-keating-five/

You're John McCain, a fallen hero who wanted to become president so desperately that you sold yourself to Charlie Keating, the wealthy con man who bears such an incredible resemblance to The Joker.

Obviously, Keating thought you could make it to the White House, too.
He poured $112,000 into your political campaigns. He became your friend. He threw fund raisers in your honor. He even made a sweet shopping-center investment deal for your wife, Cindy. Your father-in-law, Jim Hensley, was cut in on the deal, too.

Nothing was too good for you. Why not? Keating saw you as a prime investment that would pay off in the future.

So he flew you and your family around the country in his private jets. Time after time, he put you up for serene, private vacations at his vast, palatial spa in the Bahamas. All of this was so grand. You were protected from what Thomas Hardy refers to as "the madding crowd." It was almost as though you were already staying at a presidential retreat.

Like the old song, that now seems "Long ago and far away." Since Keating's collapse, you find yourself doing obscene things to save yourself from the Senate Ethics Committee's investigation. As a matter of course, you engage in backbiting behavior that will turn you into an outcast in the Senate if you do survive.

[Gabi Hayes]

1. that link gives the overview, and well expresses the outrage, unfortunately unrequited,

that, ironically, at the end, forshadowed his successful use of TV to climb over the other lobsters in the pot. the following story gives more of the details, and shows just how slimey McCain was then, alienating even his former campaign chairman, Warren Rudman. he really is the lowest form of slime ever to run for president, and that's saying a whole lot

http://graphics.boston.com/news/politics/campaign2000/news/Pluck_leaks_helped_senator_to_overcome_S_L_scandal+.shtml

[Usrename]

11. The lowest form of slime ever to run for president.

He's exactly like Dubya, except that he never has been the complete coward that Dubya is. Other than that though...

[Submariner]

2. I'd like to see this story resurrected and chatted about

on the cable news shows. They could gnaw on this bone and Obama could label McSame as the crook he is. Thanks for finding this article.

[Liberal_in_LA]

13. You are welcome.

[Sherman A1]

3. And, The Republicans like to question Obama's

(or any other Democrats) judgement! The Keating Five is just the tip of the iceberg in McCain's lack of good judgement. He is really nothing more than a spoiled rich kid that wants to be President and where have we seen that before?:banghead:

[NewJeffCT]

4. great find - thanks for posting it

maybe you can cross-post on other liberal sites - DailyKos, TPM, etc?

[liberal N proud]

5. They just keep on taking America for a ride

And America just keeps on enjoying the screwing they get.

[Supersedeas]

14. but but but Clinton and Obama, will they-can they stop fighting among themselves--the Media focus

is almost comical

[formercia]

6. Some people don't know better than to expose themselves

to public scrutiny. McCain hasn't got a clue.

The threadbare 'War Hero' schtick is about to blow away as the dust it should have been long ago.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

7. I can't wait for them to holler youthful indiscretion. n/t

[Vinca]

8. Keating Five? What Keating Five? Not discussed in MSM today. nt

[Supersedeas]

9. more history the so-called professional pundit would rather American voters forget

[chat_noir]

10. please crosspost in DU Research Forum

There are no posts on the Keating scandal in the 2008 Opposition Research: John McCain thread. The Keating scandal should have its own "talk box"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_oet&address=358x2860

[Gabi Hayes]

12. I just put it in, along with the Globe article I linked, which gives a much more detailed

account of exactly HOW McCain got off the hook