The moonbatosphere has been arguing for months about John McCain's part in the Keating Five scandal. Well, it seems as though Barack Obama--the man who wanted to be a "different kind of politician"--has decided to bring it up as well.
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Monday is launching a multimedia campaign to draw attention to the involvement of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in the “Keating Five” savings-and-loan scandal of 1989-91, which blemished McCain’s public image and set him on his course as a self-styled reformer.
Pushing back against what it calls McCain's “guilt-by-association” tactics, the Obama campaign overnight began e-mailing millions of supporters a link to a website, KeatingEconomics.com, which will have a 13-minute documentary on the scandal beginning at noon Eastern time on Monday. The e-mails urge recipients to pass the link on to friends.
Now, there are a couple of key differences between John McCain's Keating Five problem and Barack Obama's multiple shady character association problem.
First, something I often point out to liberals is the fact that only John McCain and John Glenn were cleared of wrongdoing in that situation. In other words, Obama can bring up Keating Five all he wants, but it just makes him look like a sack of crap, which, well, I'm not too surprised by any tactic from the Man from Chicago.
The second point is that, as the Politico story notes, Keating Five changed John McCain, setting him on the path of reform that he has adhered to for the last two decades. Mary Katherine Ham says McCain should cut a deal with Obama.
They'll stop talking about Bill Ayers as soon as Barack Obama apologizes for associating with him, the Nexis search for Ayers reaches "more than 3000 results," and he offers 20 years of public and legislative penance for perceived misdeeds. 'Round about 2028, he'll be free and clear.
Of course, Obama will do no such thing, since Ayers "social justice" education "reform" will be part of Obama's education goals, I assure you (so much for the argument "Well, so what if he was friends with racists? What's he gonna do to white people?" argument).
There is a third point here, as well. Most people don't even know what the Keating Five scandal was about, and, more importantly, it was 20 years ago. If we aren't supposed to care about Obama's associations for the last 20 years, why is a 20-year-old scandal important? The only relevance is that John McCain changed his behavior. Unlike Obama.
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