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(USA Today) Amusing John McCain angrily rebuts a Drudge story that he's done favors for lobbyists, says his record makes it clear he's never helped anyone   (blogs.usatoday.com) divider line 15
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Diogenes [TotalFark] 2007-12-21 04:13:56 PM  
See, now that's a clever headline right there. I don't care who you are.

/golf claps

 
Reverend Otis 2007-12-21 05:18:32 PM  
McCain-Feingold? Never heard of it...

 
Todd300 2007-12-21 05:44:48 PM  
John McCain can't even keep the Ron Paul signs down from around his Phoenix office, let alone do anything worthwhile in Washington.

 
Hang On Voltaire [TotalFark] 2007-12-21 05:51:17 PM  
Has he forgotten about Keating?

 
21-7-b 2007-12-21 06:05:41 PM  
i'd forgotten about mccain. what's he running for these days, scout troop leader or something?

 
JesusKnowsKungFu 2007-12-21 06:18:40 PM  
Who cares? Did you know that Iranian Muslim Terrorists took hostages in the 80's? AND released them the first hour Ronald Reagan took office!
Vote Rudy

 
mistahtom 2007-12-21 06:20:08 PM  
John McCain? Who is that?

 
macdaddy357 2007-12-21 06:42:49 PM  
McCain was one of the Charles Keating Five.

 
GodsTumor 2007-12-21 06:46:37 PM  
I'll follow Osama bin Laden to the gates of hell...
Right after I take a nap!

 
Necrosis 2007-12-21 06:53:43 PM  
Is Drudge pushing any particular candidate? I don't pay any attention to them/him.

McCain might come from behind given the problems with all the other Republican candidates, but we'll see...

 
Falcc 2007-12-21 07:22:16 PM  
Necrosis:
McCain might come from behind ...


Well he is in the right party for it.

 
atlanta_ufo 2007-12-21 08:24:33 PM  
"I've never done any favors for anybody -- lobbyist or special interest group -- that's a clear, 24-year record," Republican presidential candidate John McCain said a short time ago in Detroit.

In 1989, the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association of Irvine, Calif., collapsed. Lincoln's chairman, Charles H. Keating Jr., was faulted for the thrift's failure. Keating, however, told the House Banking Committee that the FHLBB and its former chief Edwin J. Gray were pursuing a vendetta against him. Gray testified that several U.S. senators had approached him and requested that he ease off on the Lincoln investigation. It came out that these senators had been beneficiaries of $1.3 million (collective total) in campaign contributions from Keating.

This allegation set off a series of investigations by the California government, the United States Department of Justice, and the Senate Ethics Committee. The ethics committee's investigation focused on five senators: Alan Cranston (D-CA); Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ); John Glenn (D-OH); John McCain (R-AZ); and Donald W. Riegle, Jr. (D-MI), who became known as the Keating Five.

After months of testimony revealed that all five senators acted improperly to differing degrees, the senators continually said they were following the status quo of campaign funding practices. In August 1991, the committee concluded that Cranston, DeConcini, and Riegle's conduct constituted substantial interference with the FHLBB's enforcement efforts and that they had done so at the behest of Charles Keating. The committee recommended censure for Cranston and criticized the other four for "questionable conduct."

 
atlanta_ufo 2007-12-21 08:27:07 PM  
Sorry about the underlines

 
FuriousGeorge945 2007-12-21 09:28:02 PM  
That headline is a little redundant; McCain does everything angrily.

 
Unleft 2007-12-22 09:02:04 AM  
McCain was one of the earth, like every other nation on the Ron Paul express, and then I see him with Ron Paul in 1988, for god's sake. I'd sure as hell vote for him, but people like him we would be overly farked. I'm not a Ron Paul nut, but without people like you keep on saying that. But I'm sure you enjoy feeling superior voting for x, and you can continue acting like a self-righteous political pariah.

 
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