Does President Bush's Endorsment Help Or Hurt McCain?

spc wrote:

Devil5052 wrote:The war's over man! Saddam & his sons are long dead!! Give it up

Somebody forgot to tell Al-Qaeda.

stockingfull wrote:Keating 5, anyone?

spc wrote:

stockingfull wrote:Keating 5, anyone?

The Ethics Committee concluded that McCain's involvement in the scheme was minimal. They had to get one republican.

At Keating's request, McCain met at least twice in 1987 with the chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board to prevent the government's seizure of Lincoln [Savings Bank].

On his Keating Five experience, McCain said: "The appearance of it was wrong. It's a wrong appearance when a group of senators appear in a meeting with a group of regulators, because it conveys the impression of undue and improper influence. And it was the wrong thing to do."

spc wrote:The the ethics committee headed by democrats hired Bob Bennett (registered democrat) as independent counsel, he recommended that John McCain be dropped from the investigation of the Keating 5. For the first time in history, the ethics committee overruled the recommendation of the independent counsel.

stockingfull wrote:

spc wrote:The the ethics committee headed by democrats hired Bob Bennett (registered democrat) as independent counsel, he recommended that John McCain be dropped from the investigation of the Keating 5. For the first time in history, the ethics committee overruled the recommendation of the independent counsel.

Care to source some of this wonderful stuff which you assert as fact?
And then explain McCain's apologetic quote (which appears to contradict your position)?

spc wrote:

stockingfull wrote:

spc wrote:The the ethics committee headed by democrats hired Bob Bennett (registered democrat) as independent counsel, he recommended that John McCain be dropped from the investigation of the Keating 5. For the first time in history, the ethics committee overruled the recommendation of the independent counsel.

Care to source some of this wonderful stuff which you assert as fact?
And then explain McCain's apologetic quote (which appears to contradict your position)?

This is the actual transcript b4 SPC changed some of Bennet's words!

TRANSCRIPT of THE SITUATION ROOM with WOLF BLITZER

BENNETT: Yes, I think so. And when they did up the Keating Five, which, you know, I don't want to sound arrogant -- I think I know more about that than anybody. I was counsel to the Senate Ethics Committee. And even though I'm a registered Democrat, I recommended that McCain be exonerated. (Changed from executed).
And I will tell you, Wolf, after investigating John McCain for a year and a half and looking under every rock, I concluded he was an honest man. (original words: a dishonest) And I basically, because of that, recommended his exoneration (execution), which I should add in full disclosure was not accepted by the committee.

Devil5052 wrote:This is the actual transcript b4 SPC changed some of Bennet's words!

spc wrote:

Devil5052 wrote:This is the actual transcript b4 SPC changed some of Bennet's words!

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/ ... om.01.html

You guy's are really grabbing at straws.
I accept your apology.

stockingfull wrote:

spc wrote:

stockingfull wrote:Keating 5, anyone?

The Ethics Committee concluded that McCain's involvement in the scheme was minimal. They had to get one republican.

Really?

At Keating's request, McCain met at least twice in 1987 with the chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board to prevent the government's seizure of Lincoln [Savings Bank].

On his Keating Five experience, McCain said: "The appearance of it was wrong. It's a wrong appearance when a group of senators appear in a meeting with a group of regulators, because it conveys the impression of undue and improper influence. And it was the wrong thing to do."

Lessee, 1987.... Wasn't that before the telecom lobbyist influence episode in 2000, where he, um, doesn't remember meeting with Lowell Paxson about influencing action by the FCC while chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee? Guess he didn't remember what had happened 13 years before?

Senator Mr.Clean has never been seriously vetted because he's never been a serious contender for very long and because he's a war-hero-POW who curses at Bush's big Dick and has given the appearance of being a maverick reformer who speaks his mind and sticks to his guns.

But, all alleged-affair distractions aside, the scrutiny of whether his walk has matched his talk was only begun by the NY Times. The substance there isn't whether or not he did something personally immoral, it's whether he is who he says he is as a public servant. And all his military credentials won't prevent the searching look at that which is coming.