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NEWS ABOUT: Keating Five

Keating Five stories: 7 news summaries
COMMENTARY

We All Have Some Guilty Associations

Gail Collins has been palling around with terrorists, too

Oct 9, 08 12:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - So William Ayers once threw a house party for Barack Obama, and now Obama’s responsible for all Ayers’ misdeeds? By that standard, writes Gail Collins—who might have attended a college party with Ayers' wife, Bernardine Dohrn—"I believe I may now be held partly responsible for all... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • terrorist • Gail Collins • Keating Five • Bill Ayers

OPINION

 Why Are We Talking 
 About Keating, Ayers? 

Mac has forgotten the lessons of the scandal that made him a better man

Oct 7, 08 1:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama's camp resurrected the Keating Five as a “eye for an eye” campaign issue this week, after the McCain team revived Obama's sometime relationship with Bill Ayers, the former '60s-era radical. But the Obama folks missed what makes the 20-year-old scandal actually relevant, writes Walter Shapiro on Salon.... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Election 2008 • campaign tactics • Keating Five

ANALYSIS

Race's Sharper Attacks Run Economic Risk

Knife-fight tactics are out of place in crisis, strategists say

Oct 7, 08 6:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama and John McCain continue to sharpen their verbal barrage on each other ahead of tonight's debate, with Sarah Palin even going so far yesterday as to denounce Obama as "not one of us." But in economic upheaval, both candidates risk sounding off-message or even irrelevant, writes... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • smear campaign • character • Election 2008 • economy • Sarah Palin • Keating Five

Candidates Stock Up on Tough Talk

As promised, rhetoric takes turn for the worse ahead of debate No. 2

Oct 6, 08 5:43 PM CDT
(Newser) - The presidential race got uglier today, with both campaigns delivering on promises to crank up the pressure. John McCain worked to slow Barack Obama's momentum and Obama fought to hang on to his lead, Reuters reports. McCain asked a New Mexico audience, "Who is the real Barack Obama?" "... More »

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presidential debate • Obama 2008 • McCain 2008 • Election 2008 • Keating Five • Bill Ayers

Remember Keating 5? Obama Would Like to Remind You

Video shows Mac's ties to scandal 'similar' to current financial crisis

Oct 6, 08 7:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s campaign is releasing a video attack on John McCain’s role in the “Keating Five” scandal in the savings-and-loan crisis of the late ’80s and early ’90s, Politico reports. The video will appear online today amid what the Obama camp calls “guilt-by-association” tactics... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Tony Rezko • Election 2008 • scandal • Keating Five • Bill Ayers

ANALYSIS

 McCain Dodges 
 Keating Bullet, For Now 

Newsweek's Alter sees 'free ride' for candidate involved in 'last great financial scandal'

Sep 23, 08 3:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain is getting a free ride amid the current US financial storm, Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter told MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann last night, citing the Republican’s involvement in the Keating Five savings-and-loan debacle of the late 1980s. “McCain thinks he's getting a hard time, he's really getting... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Wall Street • credit crisis • Election 2008 • political scandal • Keating Five

ANALYSIS

Saint John Still Tainted by Senate Murk

Ethics crusader is still no stranger to
lobbying culture

Mar 27, 08 12:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - With John McCain the presumptive Republican nominee, Democrats are rushing to expose chinks in the Arizona senator's saintly armor, Michael Scherer reports in Time. Though McCain talks tough about special interests, he has often appeared to have done their bidding. He once, for example, wrote a letter on behalf of... More »

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John McCain • Howard Dean • McCain Feingold • Dish Network • Campaign Finance Reform • lobbyist • Democratic National Committee • lobbying • FedEx • Senate Commerce Committee • McCain 2008 • AT&T • Vicki Iseman • Keating Five • Qwest Communications • 1996 Telecommunications Act • Federal Communications Commission • Public Citizen

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