waynesgarden
Feathers of Steel
With all the experience he crows about, one would think that McCain would have learned from his past mistakes, especially his most monumental blunder involving his dealings with Charles Keating who swindled many millions of dollars in the savings and Loan scandal in the 1980s and 90s. McCain took gifts and contributions, trips on Keating's jet and stays at the crook's home. McCain and one of his wives (I forget if it is the current one or the one he dumped,) invested money in real estate projects with his friend. In return, McCain intervened with Federal regulators on behalf of the crook Keating, right up to the point Keating was about to be indicted, then he slunk away and later returned the gifts and contributions.
So when McCain's campaign accuses Obama of "palling around with terrorists" to imply some mythical guilt by association because he served on a civic committee wiith a certain individual, McCain literally did "pal around" with a crook that swindled Americans of their life savings.
McCain was accused but never indicted for his role as one of the "Keating Five," (invesitgators finally only criticized him of "poor judgment") but apparenty he did not learn any lessons from his intimate involvement about how deregulation of a financial industry invariably leads to the type of abuse and criminal acts that led to the Savings and Loan scandal and now the current mortgage scandal.
His hands-off policy of deregulation led to the problems we have today. McCain has experience. He just didn't learn from it.
Listen to your chickens when they say "Baawraack."
Wayne
So when McCain's campaign accuses Obama of "palling around with terrorists" to imply some mythical guilt by association because he served on a civic committee wiith a certain individual, McCain literally did "pal around" with a crook that swindled Americans of their life savings.
McCain was accused but never indicted for his role as one of the "Keating Five," (invesitgators finally only criticized him of "poor judgment") but apparenty he did not learn any lessons from his intimate involvement about how deregulation of a financial industry invariably leads to the type of abuse and criminal acts that led to the Savings and Loan scandal and now the current mortgage scandal.
His hands-off policy of deregulation led to the problems we have today. McCain has experience. He just didn't learn from it.
Listen to your chickens when they say "Baawraack."
Wayne