Posts Tagged ‘keating 5’
Here it is! McCain/Keating 5: The Movie
Time for McCain’s overdue Keating Beating! Thanks Rachel Maddow!!!
Well, since McCain thought it was time to go for a racial bounce to his numbers, with a flurry of ads tying Barack to a number of shady characters, all of a particular shade, black, in order to change the topic to, hell I don’t know, what do y’all think?
Rachel (very calmly…God I love her style) decided to actually stay on topic and deal with an issue that directly relates to our current economic woes and how McCain handled a previous crisis with remarkably similar elements.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with the Keating five and S&L scandal of the 80’s please check out this segment from the Rachel Maddow Show:
Myth of a Maverick! Great name for a book
Why doesn’t BO mention the Keating 5???
Perhaps he is saving it for a later date. Or perhaps he’s waiting for the perfect moment when he desperately needs to re-take the offensive. or maybe he’s hoping he never has to go there. Or maybe he’s worried that if he goes there that McCain will go somewhere he doesn’t want to go (though I can’t imagine where that would be)
The timing is just about perfect for the Keating 5 story to re-emerge. It speaks directly to McCain’s maverick status and his honest to god ideas about reform and regulation. It also explains WHY he got so cozy with the press and decided to dish some Straight Talk.
If the Obama campaign believes that bringing up the Keating 5 incident and the SNL scandal that McCain was so intimately connected with may cause them more damage than that which is dispersed than they must have a very good reason. I mean, I’ve come to trust Axelrod’s strategies and Plouffe’s management. But, Obama says he intends to “respond directly and forcefully with the truth” and I think this qualifies.
Anyway, just my thoughts on the silence regarding the Keating 5, as well as Rachel Maddow’s…(see below)
