Carol McCain story removed, though it's elsewhere now
Sarah Palin today was quite defensive today in describing her "racially charged" comments Re: terrorists associated with Barack Obama. She may or may not have been given that authority; maybe she was over reaching a tactic; it's all unclear, but what's not is the fact that the Obama campaign has just Greenlighted the FINAL ANVIL that'll crush McCain's chances in November
Democratic surrogates say they've been given the go-ahead from the Obama campaign to mention John McCain's associations with S&L kingpin Charles Keating and other historically tarnished creatures when asked about Obama's connection to ex-Weatherman William Ayers.
A senior Democrat who has had contact with Obama's high command points to Democratic strategist Paul Begala's comments on this morning's Meet the Press.
That segment again
We'll see how far McCain & Co want to stray from the issues, but make no mistake, the Gun is now out of the holster and you can hear it cocking...
Other potential negative associations for McCain are his long-time South Carolina consultant, Richard Quinn, a publisher of a Southern heritagte magazine, and John Hagee, a pastor whose endorsement McCain solicited and later rejected.
B.O.O.M.!
UPDATE: Thanks to renior, here we go...
Barack Obama's allies warn that John McCain's attacks on the Democrat's character will lead to the political equivalent of mutual assured destruction: fire your big weapon at your own peril.
B.O.O.M.!
Several Obama surrogates said his supporters may start reminding voters of McCain's ties to Charles Keating, a convicted savings and loan owner whose actions two decades ago triggered a Senate ethics investigation that involved McCain as one of the "Keating Five."
B.O.O.M.! B.O.O.M.!
Rep. Rahm Emanuel, a Chicago Democrat and Obama supporter, warned against McCain's strategy.
"If we are going to go down this road, you know, Barack Obama was eight years old, somehow responsible for Bill Ayers," he said. " At 58, John McCain was associating with Charles Keating."
"If we really want to talk who is associating with who, we will," Emanuel said. "The American people will lose in that transaction."
B.O.O.M.! B.O.O.M.! B.O.O.M.!
Clean Hands? Check
More Relevant Association? Check
Certain Unquestionable Damming Associations? Check
Update II: Americablog will be devoting the next week to digging out all the details of the Keating Five scandal, and they start with some new Info I haven't seen before and is a really juicy place to start...
When the story broke, McCain did nothing to help himself. "You're a liar," McCain said when a Republic reporter asked him about the business relationship between his wife and Keating. "That's the spouse's involvement, you idiot," McCain said later in the same conversation. "You do understand English, don't you?" He also belittled reporters when they asked about his wife's ties to Keating. "It's up to you to find that out, kids." The paper ran the story.
Update III: The GOP is apparently going to stretch to try and do a quantitative thing vs. qualitative on the associations count matter... I'm sorry, but this won't work. Hillary's people didn't even go there; I really honestly think they're just consulting the emails and Hillaryis44 right about now...
Update IV: I was watching TV so I missed all of this, but WOW: http://www.keatingeconomics.com/
Muther Fucking WOW!!!!!
Pushing back against what it calls McCain's “guilt-by-association” tactics, the Obama campaign is e-mailing millions of supporters a link to a website, KeatingEconomics.com, which will have a 13-minute documentary on the scandal beginning at noon Eastern time on Monday. The overnight e-mails urge recipients to pass the link on to friends.
The Obama campaign, including its surrogates appearing on radio and television, will argue that the deregulatory fervor that caused massive, cascading savings-and-loan collapses in the late ‘80s was pursued by McCain throughout his career, and helped cause the current credit crisis.
Obama-Biden communications director Dan Pfeiffer said: “While John McCain may want to turn the page on his erratic response to the current economic crisis, we think voters will find his involvement in a similar crisis to be particularly interesting. His involvement with Keating is a window into McCain’s economic past, present, and future.”
Now, One Request: Tell Tom "The Tool" Brokaw, if Ayers is on his Flash Cards, then Keating must be as well...