"Unfortunately for McCain, we're living in the Google era." (updated)

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Desperate

10.06.08 -- 2:30PM By Josh Marshall
McCain Camp: Keating Five Didn't Really Happen.

Late Update: Unfortunately for McCain, we're living in the Google era.

In a conference call with reporters, attorney John Dowd was asked about a specific part of the Keating Five inquiry, the fact that Cindy McCain and her father had invested in a Keating strip mall.

"It was part of the inquiry, but it did not -- John was unconnected to that and unaware of it at the time, and did not participate in it," Dowd said.

But thanks to the quick research skills of Democratic partisans, here's John McCain's answer to an attorney who asked him about that very investment during the ethics committee hearings in 1991.

"Sometime in 1986, I was told by Mr. Delgado, who was Executive Vice President of my father-in-law's company, that they were going to invest in a shopping center and that the investment -- the project -- was being put together by a subsidiary of American Continental," McCain said. "He later told me that they -- that that had happened. And I had no interest in it and just noted in passing that this investment took place."

The attorney asking the question during the hearing? John Dowd.

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Friggin liars!

LOS ANGELES — Former Lincoln Savings & Loan chief Charles Keating Jr. pleaded guilty Tuesday to four counts of fraud in a deal with prosecutors that allows him to go free, bringing a close to a case that epitomized the S&L scandal of the 1980s.

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As part of the deal, Mr. Keating submitted a financial statement verifying he had no financial resources in the United States or overseas that would enable him to pay $1 million in fines called for in the four counts involved.

Without the plea agreement, Mr. Keating faced a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release, plus the fines and possible restitution to victims.

Mr. Keating had served nearly five years in prison before the federal conviction was overturned on grounds some jurors had learned of his earlier conviction in state court and discussed it in the jury room. Despite finding that the jury had based its verdict on the courtroom evidence, Judge Pfaelzer ruled that jurors' exposure to outside information denied Mr. Keating a fair trial.

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1. So Keating didn't go to jail? And the other Senators... still smilin'? Hmm?

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4. He spent five years in jail, and plea bargained his way out of more time. n/t

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2. No better quote has been spoken.

I think it sums up brilliantly why McCain was born to lose this election.

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9. Someone should investigate John Dowd.

Why did he lie?

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11. It's their Modus Operandi

More ongoing contradiction from the "party of personal responsibility".

And you're right...they should look into Dowd's statements. The more they get away with being loose with the truth, the more comfortable they get with doing it unapologetically and out in the open. It's as if people are afraid to call them on it for some reason.

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3. One of the comments on that link

said:

"There are no personal ties that Obama has that have not been scrutinized and responded to (thank you Hillary!) Most of them are foolish anyway. McCain's personal ties are still a ticking time bomb. Phil Graham and the architects of this mess of an economy we find ourselves in. They are McCain's "personal ties" not Obama's".

In this regards, we do have to thank Hillary clinton for bringin up the personal attacks early on OBama. The american ppl will react to this negatively and will think McCains camp is out on a whitch hunt against Obama. - which he is anyway -

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7. It was BS then and is BS now. On the other hand, this is about McCain

GUILT BY GUILT....

Second, as Ben Smith noted, "(T)he story of McCain and Keating is not guilt by association; it's guilt by guilt. McCain's problem isn't that he knew Keating in activities unconnected to his wrongdoing; it's that Keating, in the course of his wrongdoing, gave McCain money and tried, with a bit of success, to use him to influence regulators. It's also part of the case Obama's making that McCain has opposed necessarily financial regulations."

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5. not to mention youtube!

youtube is kicking mkane and pailen s aaaasss!!!

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6. Gotta' love The Google! n/t

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13. The economic crisis isn't going to disappear, and

neither should this.

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8. McCain’s Apology Undone; Will His Reputation Follow?

McCain’s Apology Undone; Will His Reputation Follow?

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10. K&R to shine more light on McLiar !! //nt

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12. Yeah,

he tried to lie about it this morning. By this afternoon his apologists and surrogates were trying to claim he was innocent.

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14. McCain on K5: "...it was the wrong thing to do, and it will be on my tombstone and deservedly so."

Yep, too bad about that there Google, John Sidney McCain III.