Jack & Jill Politics

The Keating 5 video is smoldering. Love it!

I can't wait for the debate tomorrow night. Mcshame is running scared, and he is desperate!!!! LOOSER. His beady, shifty little eyes, stiff body and lying gibberish will be front and center in the town hall. He's got everything to prove. I know that SOB is some angry. I was out today, all day canvasing and talking to undecideds. It's very therapeutic and the best weapon to use against the Mofos!

Thanks to all for posting and keeping the truth coming!!!!

McCain was as deeply involved as any other senator in the Keating 5---except he played the media to his advantage and and waged an "innocence" campaign on TV and radio---using, you guessed it--his POW status as a distraction from his unethical actions. McCain was handled with kid gloves in the scandal---he was/is as guilty as keating himself.

From the Phoenix News Times
McCain: The Most Reprehensible of the Keating Five by Tom Fitzpatrick
November 29, 1989

You're John McCain, a fallen hero who wanted to become president so desperately that you sold yourself to Charlie Keating, the wealthy con man who bears such an incredible resemblance to The Joker. Obviously, Keating thought you could make it to the White House, too.
He poured $112,000 into your political campaigns. He became your friend. He threw fund raisers in your honor. He even made a sweet shopping-center investment deal for your wife, Cindy. Your father-in-law, Jim Hensley, was cut in on the deal, too.

......Since Keating's collapse, you find yourself doing obscene things to save yourself from the Senate Ethics Committee's investigation. As a matter of course, you engage in backbiting behavior that will turn you into an outcast in the Senate if you do survive.

They say that if you put five lobsters into a pot and give them a chance to escape, none will be able to do so before you light the fire. Each time a lobster tries to climb over the top, his fellow lobsters will pull him back down. It is the way of lobsters and threatened United States senators.

And, of course, that's the way it is with the Keating Five. You are all battling to save your own hides. So you, McCain, leak to reporters about who did Keating's bidding in pressuring federal regulators to change the rules for Lincoln Savings and Loan.

When the reporters fail to print your tips quickly enough--as in the case of your tip on Michigan Senator Donald Riegle--you call them back and remind them how important it is to get that information in the newspapers.
Last Friday night, on The John McLaughlin Show, which features well-known Washington journalists, the subject of the Keating Five was discussed. Panelist Jack Germond suggested that three of the Keating Five were probably already through in politics.

So you spend your days desperately trying to make sure you will be one of the survivors. You keep volunteering to go on radio and television stations to protest your innocence. Last week you made ABC's Nightline.

Not long before that you somehow managed to get James Kilpatrick, the national columnist, to write a favorable paragraph about you. Last Sunday morning, you made it to national television again; this time on ABC's This Week With David Brinkley. You smiled at the panel with your usual studied insouciance. Sitting next to you was Senator John Glenn of Ohio.

Brinkley, Sam Donaldson, and George Will were the interrogators.
It was a sobering scene. There you sat with Glenn, both sweating before the cameras, waiting to answer questions: two badly tarnished American icons.

No one forgets that Glenn was the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth. You won't let anyone forget that you were a prisoner of war. But you have played that tune too long. By now your constant reminders about your war record make you seem like a modern version of Arthur Miller's tragic failure Willy Loman.

Clearly, both you and Glenn sold your fame for Charles Keating's money.

It was a Faustian bargain. It was also a bad joke on the rest of us and a disaster for many old people who lost their life's savings to Keating.

The money was never really Keating's to give. But he never would have got his hands on it if you and the rest of the Keating Five didn't halt the government takeover for two long years while Keating's people continued their looting.

And now, the tab for the Savings and Loan heist must be paid from taxpayer pockets.

On Sunday, Senators Dennis DeConcini, Alan Cranston, and Riegle refused offers to appear on the Brinkley show. What must we make of that?

You, the closest of them to Keating and the deepest in his debt, have chosen the path of the hard sell. You may even make it out of the pot, but to many, your protestations of innocence taste like gall.

You are determined to bluff your way. You will stick to your story that you were acting to help a constituent and intended to do nothing improper. The very fact you attended the meeting makes you guilty, just as every man who entered the Brinks vault went to prison.

Keep telling them that it wasn't that you were bought off but that Charlie Keating got special help only because he was one of the biggest employers in the state.

Just keep sitting there and staring into the camera and denying that Keating bought you for money and jet plane trips and vacations.

So what if he gave you $112,000? Just keep smiling at the cameras and saying you did nothing wrong.

Maybe the voters will understand you took those tiring trips to Charlie's place in the Bahamas in their behalf. Certainly, they can understand you wanted to take your family along. A senator deserves to travel on private jets, removed from the awful crush of public transportation.

You sought out a master criminal like Keating and became his friend. Now you've discarded him. It shouldn't be surprising that you are now in the process of selling out your senatorial accomplices.

You're John McCain, clearly the guiltiest, most culpable and reprehensible of the Keating Five. But you know the power of television and you realize this is the only way you can possibly save your political career.

It must be a bitter pill for John to see it all slipping away. He prostituted himself and betrayed people who loved him for a political career, and now it's all slipping away....

TruthSeeker: Annnnd, ALL of "Miss 'Whateva' Cindy's MONEY cain't BUY the PRESIDENCY!!

As to . . PILLS. . .

That's either what's RIGHT -OR- what's WRONG with "McAncient!" :>)

Annnnd, "Miss'Whateva' Cindy CAN GET THOSE!! :>) :>) She has - EXPERIENCE!!! :>) :>)

Obama just does stuff on a whole 'nother level!! I would love for McPain to try and put together a similar website about the William Ayers bs.

McWrong sounded a little pissed today with his speech. Obama should do a Saaphyri tomorrow and ask him during the debate, "You mad, huh?"

And then he should offer McCain some lip chap.

Check out this video of McCain commenting on Rick Renzi being "innocent until proven guilty." McCain's hypocrisy is so obvious yet the msm lets him get away with this crap.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9QPA8tb17s

Below is from thinkprogress.org

McCain witholds ‘judgment’ on Renzi indictment.
By Matt Corley on Feb 22nd, 2008 at 5:29 pm

Rep. Rick Renzi (R-AZ), who is a member of Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) National Leadership Team and a co-chair of his Arizona Leadership Team, was indicted this morning for extortion, wire fraud, money laundering and more. Asked to comment, McCain refused to pass “judgment” on Renzi, claiming that he doesn’t “know enough of the details.” As TPM’s Paul Kiel notes, McCain claimed similar ignorance when it was first revealed that Renzi was under federal investigation.

UPDATE: On a blogger conference call today, McCain said that Renzi “would probably step down as co-chair of his Arizona campaign.”

Talk about turning up the heat on the stove... mccancient's blood will be boiling by tomorrow night.

I hope OBAMA hits him with the side eye and a "what did I do?" routine....

baratunde: STRATEGY! STRATEGY!

1. MONDAY - Make the KEATING - MCAncient VIDEO public!

2. TUESDAY - DEBATE "MCAncient"

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! MOVE THOSE CHESS PIECES - Mr. Obama!! :>)

Obama-Biden '08!!

Green lady, break out that choir robe..... Let's see if Mccain will want to school OBAMA ABOUT tactics and strategy again on Tuesday night. LOL

rorysmamma: Choir Robe - cleaned, pressed and ready for wearing!! :>)

Annnnd, "rorysmamma had a 'cute' baby"! :>)

Did the video get pulled? I watched for about 2 minutes; it froze; I refreshed the page, and now ... gone.

RonnieB: I picked thisup while viewing the video on You Tube.

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Hope this helps! :>) Sincerely: Ms. "TECH.-CHALLENGED" :>) :>)

Thanks GreenLady!

RonnieB: My pleasure! :>)

baratunde! Checking my watch! It's been, at least, 24 hours since this video has been out.

WHAT!? No "push back" AD from "McAncient"? Hmmmmm?

WAITING! :>)


P.S. Will be doing some Obama-Biden work - ALL DAY! L8R!

I'm going to blunt.

It's about time.

Take on the gloves and beat the living shit out of McCaint with brass knuckles.

I'm tired of these mofos.

Hello!

rikyrah: Co-signing! Annnnnd I wouldn't mind seeing some "hair pulling" on "The Gov."

-Uh, forgive me Lord! I really am NOT a violent person! :>)

I can imagine Gramps has steam coming out of his ears and wants to pop Barack one across the lips right about now. Should make for a very entertaining debate tomorrow.

EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT! OLD MAN SPONTANEOUSLY COMBUSTS! FIRST TIME EVER! READ ALL ABOUT IT!

Town: LOL! :>) Annnnnnd WAITING!! :>)

baratunde: Thanks for "BRINGING IT!"

Sitting down! Lunch ready! Pushing "start button"! Blissfully ENJOYING!!! :>)

Obama-Biden '08!!

he's BRINGING IT