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<\/a><\/p>\nThat’s all they have. I remember getting chastised on LGF and Ace for mentioning that they would drag out that corpse. In fact, I suspect it’s why so many Democrats supported McCain in the 2000 primaries – because he was vulnerable on the Keating Five issue.<\/p>\n
Months ago, it looked like Obama could stay above the fight and avoid bringing up that non-event in Congressional history, well, non-event as far as McCain is concerned. Here’s the history from Bloomberg<\/a>;<\/p>\n During his first Senate term, Arizona senator McCain and four Democrats faced accusations of improperly intervening with federal regulators on behalf of former savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating in the 1980s savings-and-loan industry collapse. The five senators took contributions from the Arizona businessman and while the Senate Ethics Committee reprimanded McCain, it cleared him of wrongdoing.<\/p>\n Ethics Committee Finding<\/p>\n The Senate Ethics Committee, chaired by the late Alabama Democrat Howell Heflin, ultimately found that McCain had “exercised poor judgment.” Since then McCain has worked to reach across the aisle on legislation to strengthen ethics rules and on other issues such as immigration, where he formed an alliance with Massachusetts Democratic Senator Edward M. Kennedy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The Democrat controlled Congress cleared McCain of wrong-doing. Hmmmm.<\/p>\n And who were the “Keating Five”?<\/p>\n