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  • CNN, THAT figures!

  • and this is CNN?!

  • In This Clip, From 0:15 To 0:53, It Was NBC News' NBC NIghtly News With Garrick Utley's Weekend Edition's Report On Keating Five Problem Scandal On Sunday Evening, November 11, 1990.

  • In This Clip, From 0:08 To 0:15, It Was CBS News' CBS Evening News With Dan Rather's Report On Keating Five Problem Scandal On Tuesday Evening, September 18, 1990.

  • also, this video failed to mention that the other 4 members of the Keating FIVE scandal were democrats. Oops.

  • This is pitiful Huffington Post. It doesn't surprise me that just a few months before the Presidential election they would run such a blatant smear job on a Republican candidate. What this video fails to mention is that McCain was CLEARED OF ALL CHARGES and at worst showed poor judgement in attending the meetings in the first place.

  • The statistics tell the truth. The Republicans desroyed the middle class. It's the blame game. However they have have held the power in the house for 22 of the last 30 yrs. That means it gave them years & yrs to (22 yrs.) to build our Nat'l debt of more than 10 fold. So, 18 months later they expect it resolved by President Obama? Get real. 83% of all U.S. stocks are in 1% of the people. 1.4 milion Americans- personal bankruptcy since 2009, 40% employed arein svc. job. The lists goes on!

  • It's only fitting that the Republican party had a presidential candidate who has a corrupt sense of ethics and was involved in a scandal. He was talking shit about he's a maverick and he'll change Washington? Whatta fucking joke. It's interesting how this wasn't a huge topic in the during the election. Here is my hypothesis, McCain couldn't touch the topic of race with Obama b/c of this scandal. If he brought up the race card then the DemocRATS would have brought up the Keating Five.

  • If only that had gotten anywhere near the Acorn coverage.

  • @BufordStone Agreed!!! or if the iraq war protesters before the invasion got as much boosting up as the tea baggers. American media sucks ass doesn't it ??? lol

  • first you get the money.............then when you get the money you get the power..............because you need the power to protect the money!

    thats why so many millionairs are in the senate.....

    not for the salary but to protect their family's wealth and interests against the government and against others.

  • Were not Keatings customers insured so that none of them ended up losing any money?

  • I don't care what u believe, but u can bullshit about charles keating for the next century, but stay ignorant about him and other corporate rich theives u seem to fight for!

  • Insurance is bullshit, it don't help anyone. It's another government fraud to fool the masses like the president!

  • I'm tired of assholes like u starting shit with me and having no brain to learn anything but only use it to waste peoples time. Either get real or shut the fuck up asshole! I got better things to do than argue with an ignoramus!

  • Arch Stanton

  • what the fuck u talking about someguyyt?

  • it appears u keep shit stirred up! it seems u didn't read my comments! Get a life ya bastard!

  • You just mad cause i tell it like it is. I'm on about real stuff and u on about something fictional. Get ya head out of the fantasy and come back to reality. But it appears u can't deal with it. That's on you not me! Life is not a John Wayne movie!

  • the good the bad and the calligraphypen

  • u must be really bored to think urself highly above others. It just goes to show ur a lowlife loser with nothing going for himself and yet ur 49.

  • ur life is a waste ya bitch!

  • I might prefer to live in a fantasy world than in a world with a homosexual illegal alien for a president.

  • your just as dumb as george bush. u don't know about history at all or this country. ur 49 and pathetic. This is all you have to show for it?

  • I'm not an expert on banking regulations. Some are better than others. You want some history? Go to Israel to the ashen remains of the city of Sodom. Find one of the sulfur balls of which there are millions scattered throughout the ashes. Bring it back and put it in your wok and watch it burn a hole through it.

  • ur stupid, that's science not history. For a guy who is 49, you could it least put it in the right category or get the category/subject right!

  • you must have failed and quit high school

    and not have graduated!

  • u must be really bored. One, i've got better things to do then have my time wasted by an ignoramous who wants to show how dumb he really is.

  • btw, hawaii became the 50th state 2 yrs before Barack Obama was born in Hawaii. how is that for history? That means Barack isn't an illegal alien. Damn you're a fool.

  • @calligraphypen respect your elders hes 49 you dipshit...

  • Hey your both slaves on this planet. why dont you collaborate to become free. enough bullshit, dont become a devil like the people who rule you. peace is awesome my friend...

  • Charles Keating did no deliberate harm to anyone. His only crime was trying to make his customers rich.

  • basically ur saying that the only politicians who don't have a crime are republicans? funny cause the truth is all politicians whether GOP, democrat or liberal are actually the same they are playing as if they are on different teams. They are all guilty of crimes.

  • while u complain of all the corporate executives and presidents are taking our money and getting rich and u are getting poorer, i don't wanna hear it cause there only crime was getting rich while (the customers) were not getting rich but losing their money!

  • But during that scandal, when (the customers) didn't get their money, where did the money go? I mean it's not like Charles Keating took their money and made them poor.

  • Where does your money go when you buy the Brooklyn bridge off of somebody?

  • u seem to be an expert on charles keatiing you tell me!

  • why don't u ask a rich person that question like charles keating? he's the one with all the money!

  • I'm not going to change my opinion or feelings about corporate theives and these other theives making money of the american people getting rich every second! I hate all theives but if u are the one fighting for them, we'll always be on the opposite side. So get real or shutup!

  • I'm just telling it like it is, if u don't like it, run home to ya mama or shutup and deal with it!

  • Why didn't the mainstream media cover this as much as they did Ayers and the "possible" link between him and Obama. HMMMMMMMMM. I thought they were all liberally biased and in favor of the democrats. HMMMMMMMMM. Well Fox is is "fair and balanced" why didn't they bring it up??? HMMMMMMMM. I'm confused.

  • McCain didn't want to win. He had better things to do.

  • CROOKS, CROOKS and MORE CROOKS ... and that goes for 99.9% of Politicians !!!! They all need to be lynched !!!

  • dont you see this is why we all messed up now... from people like him...

  • Too all you McCain supporters, fuck you. Second, deregulation has caused this economic crisis.

    Get real.

  • This economic crisis has been caused by murder. If all of the babies murdered since 1973 were out buying houses and refrigerators and furniture to put in them, there would be no economic crisis. If we could only get the bank regulators to ban abortion.

  • oh you don't make sense until i read ur last sentence.

  • McSame is toooooooooooooooo old!!

  • "in what respect charlie?"

  • McCain is a war hero. However, the Keating fiasco demonstrated that he could be easily swayed by these greasy con-men.

    Has he learned from his mistakes? The nature of politics surrounds people with such unsavory characters.

  • Not to mention the discipline problems and a record of crashing seven planes.

  • Check out my vids on mccain!

    many are being spammed and censored.

    find all the facts.

  • Do these facts include information about the Keating five?

  • OBAMA/BIDEN 08!

  • Screw you I'm voting Ron Paul! XD

  • Oh how we forget! If McCain becomes President we deverse what we get. People thought voting for Bush once and ever twice was a good idea......my poor, sick country...

  • I was just reminded of this and right now I'm trying to figure a way to get this news to some of my family memebers without crossing their republican interests.

  • Fuck McCain!

  • He felt justified cheating on his wife for 5 years as she held on to hope he would outgrow that phase,

    but what he did was eventually leave her for one of the bimbos.

    Keating Five lined his pockets well enough that he shouldn't need to scam us anymore, but I doubt he'll

    stop this late in the game.

    Not convicting McCain sent a message to corporate criminals that America is not concerned.

    Electing McCain President should not even be an option.

    McCain is not his brother's keeper.

  • at least he was the only Senator to testify against Keating in the civil trial. The other 4, did not want any part

  • "worst ethics scandal in history of senate"

  • americans will know about this corruption is you email to friends and friends do the same. I've done that and has been an eye opener to all. NO TO McSAME/ Falin

  • this was a bargain tho, cost only 500 billion as compared with the current bailout of 800 billion so mccain saved taxpayers 300 billion. fuzzy math

  • McCain has the stench of corruption and smear attacks on him. He and his corrupt VP are dirty smear merchants.

  • Americans should know about keating five! I don't know why Obama's campaign is not speaking of this.. I know they don't wanna play the dirty game Republicans are playing, but people got to know about this.

  • This video proves how McCain has been a lying shithead accessory to grand theft of taxpayer money -- YOUR money -- for the last twenty years. McCain is NO "maverick": he has had his nose up the ass of highly-placed thieves for most of his Congressional career.

  • LOL felt sorry for him. Lmao thats how congressional investigations end? lolololololol

  • Mccain mind set is to manipulate...thats all you need to known about him....mccain did do something illegal..they felt sorry for the bastard..because of his POW CRAP....and slaped his broken waist

  • I think we have bigger things to worry about than a couple million dollars.

  • LOL!!!!!!

    You really have no fucking clue do you?

  • John McShame is F**king Crazy

  • Senate Ethics committee cleared McCain and Glenn wrong doing. the Other three were not. BTW, McCain was the only republican. the other 4 were democrats. mmmmm?

  • There is no comparing the indiscretions of Obama and McCain.

    Obama attended a church with a pastor whose enthusiasm for "thou shalt not kill" and "thou shalt not steal" go so far as to condemn the United States.

    Obama participated in the same charity as a man who in the '60s planted a bomb at a statue dedicated to riot police casualties in the 1886 Haymarket Riot.

    McCain took bribes in Keating Five scandal.

    Keating Five is worse than going to church or doing charity.

  • OBAMA/BIDEN 08!

  • Notice at the second debate, McCain steered clear of Ayers. I thought he was going to take off his "boxing gloves". Looks like he bit off more than he could chew.

    That One '08!

  • of course this doesnt tell the whole story. mccain was exonerated (sp). he used bad judgement, but did NOTHING illegal or unethical. and no, im not a republican nor am i voting for mccain.

  • Taking gifts over $50 when you're a Congressman is ILLEGAL.

  • You are all missing the point you should be scared! Terrorists, Terrorists, Terrorists. Are you scared yet? Obama is a buddy with a terrorist... Are you scared yet? Terrorists, Terrorists, Terrorists. Still not scared? Weapons of mass destruction. Still not scared? (insert BS distorted claim here). By the way, we never got the real terrorist that dropped 2 landmarks in N.Y. but we did take your wallet while you weren't looking. That's not the issue here though, be afraid we like you afraid.

  • Show me some proof that obama is a terrorist bitch

  • um, I think you missed my point or didn't read the whole thing. note the part where I said (insert BS distorted claim here). I was commenting more sarcastically that they dwell on fear so they can rob you blind. I already voted early for obama so chill out a little.

  • Obama has no afffiliation with terrorists you twat, his neighbor was found to be a terrorist in '72, Obama was 8.

  • worst 'for mccain' text ever

  • Yep, I get it...McCain & (convicted felon)Keating were joined at the hip; both John & Cindy McCain hung out with the (convicted felon) Keating. Interesting how republicans are so worried about Obama (who was 8 yrs old) when (accused)Ayers was involved in radical politics...as opposed to McCain who was 50 yrs old and fully engaged in shady, sleazy activities with his friend and benefactor (convicted felon) Keating.

  • Do you have mental illness!

  • mccain=Bush

  • Menana, terrorism is conveniently defined. You think Keating 5 can't be described as terrorists themselves merely because they haven't committed any physical crimes against the country. But have you ever conceived that terrorists could also commit economic/financial crimes against the state, or better yet, those who violate the constitutional law and using politics as their shield.

    Oh, well, accept for Obama. He's an exception to you people. He's the only politician who is a terrorist.

  • VTV, you indeed have my respect. I wish my born again Christian friend Jason wouldn't fall for this garbage, but he eats it up.

  • McCain is a crook, just like the rest of them. He just hides it behind his service and patriotism. If you don't believe that you're a fool.

  • McBush is the worst administration in the history of the USA. GW is to America what Caligula was to the Roman Empire. The damage that his madness has caused is irreversible! Caligula Bush, Nero McCain, Tiberius Cheney and Jezebel Palin still have nearly three more long months of damage to inflict on America, and yes they have caused more destruction to America in the last eight years than terrorists ever could have dreamed of doing in a century. Can someone say Amen?

  • mccain isn't innocent...he was rebuked...

  • Typical(FOX NEWS) ROVIAN ORWELLIAN MEDIA: LIE to the American people, omit the truth. Obama's ties to Bill Ayers were at best, benign; Obama was working to make Chicago a better place for those hardest hit. John & Cindy McCain, with all their money, couldn't resist NINE free round trips aboard Keatings private jet. McCAIN TOOK $112,000! McCain IS TAINTED..and cannot be trusted. They let him off easy for his role in ursurping regulatory benchmarks, because he was a "hero". mccain is a bum.

  • yeah, and you can't really talk about ayers without talking about g. gordon liddy. You should make sure the skeleton you claim is in your opponents closet isn't in yours first.

  • You hater's really scare me. You're just what Obama wants and needs! Stupid people who don't look up facts and actual info. Check out the Keating 5 facts. I'd rather have someone involved in the Keating 5 than someone who's best friends are terrorists. Too bad you guys won't be around to blamw when he ruins this country.You're like little sheep being led to the slaughter.. Bye Bye, little sheep, LOL!

  • mccain is friends with g. gordon liddy.

  • That's funny. The lemming offering guidance to the sheep. Enjoy the cliff...

    Btw, the Keating 5 actually happened, the Obama terrorist thing is speculative at best (and BS). I think that makes a difference.

  • (my comment is directed a Menana2u)

  • MCCAIN IS CLEARLY AN ASSHOLE.

  • Wake up people! Don't let your party affiliations and racism blind you from the facts. There are a lot of criminals mascarading as politicians and "businessmen". The American people always pay for their crime. ALWAYS!

  • McCain is finally paying for the crime like OJ and now he'll do the time.

  • Mc Cain you are a LIAR! YOU WILL NEVER HAVE THE PRESIDENCY!!! NEVER NEVER NEVER! THE AMERICAN PUBLIC IS WIDE AWAKE PAL, and WE ARE WATCHING! NOT ON OUR WATCH!!! GO OBAMA!

  • LIAR McCain. worst than Laden, Saddam combined to Americans.

    Here is how Morning starts if McCain is President:

    Good Morning my Fxucking Americans and Joe Six Packs and Hockey stick in moms.

    I am leader of Bikini 5.

  • thank you for this post. we need to appeal to the loyal republicans. they know that they are playing with fire. they know that their lives much worse because of the last 8 years but it is too hard to admit that you are wrong and then have nowhere to go. we must stop the name calling and reach out a hand. respect and care for your lost republican. they need a new home.

  • Here is a fact. Obama was only 8 years old. I

    repeat 8 years old. Palin was in Pre-K.

    Palin has no credibility in her attacks on character.

  • You are right! Palin has no grounds to attack anyone either! SHES DODGING AN INVESTIGATION ON ETHICS VIOLATIONS! she betrayed her own office. SO hahahhahahahhahah, GO OBAMA!

  • so many fucking morons, so little space.

  • John Mccain is NOT good in ECONOMICS according to his own statement. His economic policies are MORE OF THE SAME BUSH'S FAILED POLICIES subscribed by Phil Gramm, his economic advisor. Phil Gramm called us a 'NATION OF WHINERS'. McCain DIVORCED his first wife after she had a surgery and had trouble walkig, and McCain married this beer heiress. McCain is just an OPPORTUNIST. McCain even LIED about Obama's TAX CUTS, LIED about Obama's age appropriate education for kids to protect themselves,etc.

  • McCain's a crook.

  • Oh gee, McCain ran round on his ex-wife. I suppose you're fucking perfect? WTF up people. Gee. I'd rather have a person who cheated on is wife, than a mand who hates the country and wants to see it destsroyed. You're right. What goes around, comes around and thank God!

  • What about all your left wing bias TV? More those than repub. Fox actually does give both sides and allows intelligent people to make the decision. These LWB stations want the Obamabots to eagerly follow. Just as you're doing. BY the way, Ayers may have done this many years ago, but is still unrepentant and hates this country. I'd rather have McCain, than someone who is so radical and left wing lib that the Dem's are starting to question him. Follow him little sheep...right to the slaughter...

  • Obama > McCain

  • fox news gives both sides?

    compare obama's interviews on fox to mccain's or palins interviews on fox.

    its an obvious bias, and you're drinking the Kool-aide

  • you an idiot,,Fox is Bush owned

  • What bafoon claimed Fox was non-biased? Fox is the American version of Al-Jazzera. It's based on a radical opinionated view of religious extremism and racism.

    I'm a born again Christian and appalled that Fox is considered a news source on network television.

    Anyone who watches or subscribes to the views of Fox and claims to be a Christian is a Hypocrite period.

    Don't take my word for it dust of your Bible and read what it says about lies, hate mongering and racism...

  • Actually don't believe the myths on Al Jazeera. It's a very solid and completely secular news network. Watch it for yourself, it's website is in English. It's really not all the different from any American source, expect that its somewhat more critical of American and Israeli policy. You will be shocked if you actually watch it.

    Fox news though, right on there.

  • sheesh, what bible did you read? There are plenty of lies, hatemongering and racism in mine.

    Lies: Noahs Ark, it also contradicts itself quite a bit, which mean one of the two contradicting statements can't be true.

    Hate: Gods wrath on the unbelievers.

    Racism: A more lenient code of slavery for some than others.

    lots of sexism too.

  • God bless the Obama campaign for running the John McCain / Keating Five ad. John McCain needs to realize that what comes around, goes around. My advise to Mr. McCain is that he'd better slap a muzzle on his 4-eyed lipstick wearing Pig or suffer the consequences because payback is a motha phuka...

    ...Obama / Biden 08 !

  • You're right John and Cindy McCain "sneaked around" behind the back of poor Carol Shepp McCain who had been mamed in a car accident and was basically raising their 3 kids ALONE.

    And, Let's not forget that this KEATING 5 SCANDAL is the excuse Cindy McCain used to justify her thievery of prescription PILLS from her own non-profit company.

    Cindy McCain managed to destroy countless lives in her "cover-up" and the Doctor's license was revoked. He can never practiced again.

  • The only people more corrupt than McCain during the S&L crisis were the ones who limited his punishment to a reprimand for poor judgement. Foxes in charge of the henhouse.

  • John McCain has ALWAYS been a corrupt person.

    How dare Sarah bimbo Palin talk about anyone, when SHE is acturally under federal investigation for CORRUPTION and ABUSE OF POWER....RIGHT NOW...RIGHT NOW !!!!

    There are Anti-Palin Protests taking place right now in Alaska that the media won't broadcast.

    McCain/Palin = AN AMERICAN DISGRACE

  • Obama knows some guy who was bad when he was 8 years old. McCain was himself bad as an adult - as a Senater. And he was not cleared, he was found to have acted inappropriately. He's a lying snake. He lies about his own past and about Obama'a. McCain should know that association equals guilt - or at least it does with Obama - but not for him apparently. Honorable people judge themselves the hardest. Crooks judge everyone else the hardest. Nixon revisited.

    good point averybadself

  • Obama supporters look like idiots! Robert Bennett, (a Democrat) was special counsel to the Senate Ethics Committee during the Keating Five investigation, he said "if there is one thing I am absolutely confident of, it is John McCain is an honest man...there was no evidence against him..." Bennett said McCain was included in the public inquiry because otherwise there would have been a month of public hearings "with no Republicans in the dock." The other members of the Keating Five were Democrats.

  • Obama supporters, you are idiots. Robert Bennett, (a Democrat) was special counsel to the Senate Ethics Committee during the Keating Five investigation, said, "...if there is one thing I am absolutely confident of, it is John McCain is an honest man. ...there was no evidence against him..." Bennett said McCain was included in the formal public inquiry because otherwise there would have been a month of public hearings "with no Republicans in the dock."

  • John McCain is DANGEROUS.

    He certainly can't be trusted.

    McCain Sucks!

  • I can't help but think how rabid republicans would get if Obama was involved in the Keating 5. Oh you guys would be foaming at the mouth trying to get a piece of him. Well guess what? It's McCain!! Live by the sword, die by the sword. Can't wait to see what he says to millions tomorrow after this circulates to all those voters. Now What? HA!!

  • Retards. Obama knows some guy who was bad when he was 8 years old. McCain was himself bad as an adult - as a Senater. And he was not cleared, he was found to have acted inappropriately. He's a lying snake. He lies about his own past and about Obama'a. McCain should know that association equals guilt - or at least it does with Obama - but not for him apparently. Honorable people judge themselves the hardest. Crooks judge everyone else the hardest. Nixon revisited.

  • The McCains and Keatings going to Bermuda together is a smokescreen?!

  • you know nothing

  • 1. he was NOT cleared, he was censured

    2. he is the one who started fighting dirty in this campaign

    3. his Sr. campaign manager, rick davis, was paid thirty thousand dollars per month by freddie/fannie for "exclusive access to john mccain" that does not sound like a reformer to me

    4. keating business partner cindy mccain, wife of mccain, made millions on the keating 5 scandal in which thousands of people lost their life savings....how can you defend this man???????????????????

  • This does sound pretty unethical. Really sleazy politics. Exactly the opposite of what McCain says he is about.

  • Gas bag McCain is one corrupt piece of pig shit. The more you dig, the worse it smells. He's not fit to be a crossing guard, let alone president.

  • Did you WATCH AND LISTEN to the video> Cindy McCain had DIRECT financial involvement with Charles Keating. John McCain had a serious conflict of interest, yet he went ahead and interfered with a FEDERAL REGULATOR on behalf of Keating. These are facts.

  • well i really didn't care about this but mccain decided to go low and i guess the dems decided to use this. mccain i just want to hear about the real issue...... the economy and job loss, education, health care and i really don't care about some dude named ayers and if obama is his pal.... i need to know what u are going to say about millions of us lossing our savings... pls answer me.

  • So I guess McLame does have knowledge of how the economy works. He's now fucked it up twice! lol

  • McCain WAS CLEARED OF any wrong doing.. NoBama's campaign is bringing this out because of the radical terrorist that NoBama pals around with is coming out.. This is a welcomed outbringing.. It shows that NoBama agrees that Character is VERY IMPORTANT to this election!!!

  • bill ayers was never convicted of anything, doesnt stop mccain camp from going after that

  • McCain isn't "going after" anything... that the majority of American's aren't concerned about... Ayers got off on a technical issue and is proud of what he done.. He even stated on Sept. 11, 2001 that he wish he had done more bombings... If that doesn't phase you...that says a great deal about YOUR CHARACTER!!!

  • he said that before 9/11 and it wasnt published until the day of 9/11, and he didnt say he wish he had done more bombings, he said hed wish we would have done more...AS A COUNTRY

    maybe if you care about facts instead of getting all your information from fox news, i could take you seriously

  • Yes he said that MANY TIMES before 9/11 and YES he did say it on Sept. 11th.... You are correct he did not use the verbiage "more bombing" he simply said he wish we had done more..... (more of what- BOMBING... that is what he did... remember?) or does your media source not state these facts?

  • I could give a F!! if you take me seriously or not I care about MY COUNTRY more than you obviously do... you are the one making light of some asshole domestic terrorist... NOT ME...

    FYI- you are clueless as to what news I watch... but you obviously acknowledge that FOX is the only network that's not in NoBama's pocket...

    So stop watching NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC and CNN and start researching your facts is you are going to allow your mouth to over load your ass....

  • then where do you get your news? drudge report? fox? newsbusters? youre the one with the fucked up facts, i corrected your failure of a post and you claim i dont know the facts?

    "some asshole domestic terrorist", youre judging him off of something he did 40 years ago, in that case is it ok for me to say that mccain a baby killer? youre logic is terrible and your facts are fucked, please grow up

  • who cares. this is npot gping to save the economy. i want mccain to explain his position on the economy... not gossip

  • oh please get life that old fart is busted sarah palin is a uneducated trash mccain is a criminal and his wife is addicted to drugs

  • you are as educated as they come aren't you?

  • Typos...excuse me, I'm not as perfect as Bush. NOT! Yes I am very educated but I know some people think education is Elitist...(sigh) It was two o'clock in the moring. deserve...even. Can you understand it now?? Probably not....

  • I agree with the comment below, but i think the point everyone will make is "who started this ruck, bringing up dubious connections simply because they sat at the same table somewhere", ant that was started by the mccain camp

  • I met Charles Keating about two years ago. As I recall in the hearings McCain was found to be innocent not charged with anything but poor judgment. Every American has had poor judgment one time or another. What about Sen. Obama and his friends, my mother taught me, "Birds of a feather flock together" is he being tolerant of HIS friend's bombings or does he Sen. Obama Have poor judgment? Ask yourself these questions?

  • You should really check your facts before repeating what you hear. With the internet at the end of your fingertips I don't understand how there can be so many people ignorant of the facts. Google is your friend. Use it.

  • have you actually read his book, or just the smears on him? When someone says his mother taught him something, it doesn't mean he necessarily is in agreement with the statement. Also its notable that any of the time obama may have had contact with ayers - was when ayers was a community organizer and a board member - not a Vietnam protester. McCain was buddies with keating through the scandal. Lets talk about anti-semites and racists, literal witch-hunters and secessionists acquaintances too.

  • Ok, driubi, let's talk about witch hunters. Search Muthee Palin Witch and you'll see the video of Palin's preacher Muthee getting the witches out of her pocket and money into it. While Palin stands there praying with him. For real. It's freaky.

  • indeed, palin's religious beliefs scare the shit out of me.

  • driubi back to the book thing:

    First whos book? Sen. McCains? Sen. Obamas? or William (Bill) Ayers? They all have written books and all have smears as you would say against each one of them, all three of them have done wrongs and rights. You are accurate to some degree that Obama wasnt friends with William Ayers when he was a protestor of the Vietnam Conflict, he was just in middle school right?

  • Ayers words of when he bombed or didnt bomb the pentagon, ''Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon,'' he writes. But then comes a disclaimer: ''Even though I didn't actually bomb the Pentagon -- we bombed it, in the sense that Weathermen organized it and claimed it.'' So, would Mr. Ayers do it all again, he is asked? ''I don't want to discount the possibility,'' he said.

  • And Obama still chooses to be a friend to a man that wouldnt discount the possibility of bombing again if the USA got into a conflict he didnt agree with.

  • I dont think Keating was right in his dealings and the law dealt with him, he severed time in prison, Sen. McCains friend had to face the consequences coming to him. Obamas friend hid out after he bombed or didnt bombed the pentagon, the center for the U.S. Department of Defense, the location for the defending of Our flag, and what it stands for. If we didnt have that flag we might not be able to blog this freely, McCains fought to keep what the flag represents.

  • We live in a free county if you dont agree with the Constitution of the United States there is no laws holding us back from moving, Our nation is great and Id much rather see a man in office who has or had a friend whos have been sentenced for laws broken then on a man who associates with a man who breaks the law and runs from the law. Who do you want to be your Commander and Chief?

  • Do you have proof that Ayers broke the law? A lot of people talk about breaking the law - talking about breaking the law isn't a crime. At least it wasn't until this administration smeared shit stains all over the bill of rights. Are you suggesting that members of congress that voted for this (including john mccain) should move to a different country?

  • Its just sad. When Ayers supposedly bombed the capital Obama was 8 years old. He served on a board at a university with him. Obama didn't hire Ayers to work on the board so there is a big difference between Obama's association with Ayers and McCain's association with Keating. Obama doesn't go on family vacations with Ayers. Don't even bring up Rev. Wright because he told the truth about America some of you just weren't ready to hear it. America's govt has demonized people of color.

  • Oh Charlie you are joking right? "America's govt has demonized people of color." They have? We arent in a the nineteenth century anymore. One word: dictionary. Use one.

  • And because and you mentioned Rev. Wright, I must comment on Rev. Wright. Under the US Constitution "Wright" has the right to freedom of religion and speech. And your man Wright went to left field with a speech of hate: a speech that attacks a person or group on the basis of race, religion, gender, or sexual orientation. I dont want a man like Sen. Obama who has sat under a ministry whos core values are so radical.

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