Thread: BO's Terrorist Friends

The Keating Five were five United States Senators accused of corruption in 1989, igniting a major political scandal as part of the larger Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s. The five senators, Alan Cranston (D-CA), Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ), John Glenn (D-OH), John McCain (R-AZ), and Donald W. Riegle (D-MI), were accused of improperly intervening in 1987 on behalf of Charles H. Keating, Jr., chairman of the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association, which was the target of a regulatory investigation by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB).The FHLBB subsequently backed off taking action against Lincoln.

Lincoln Savings and Loan collapsed in 1989, at a cost of $2 billion to the federal government. Some 23,000 Lincoln bondholders were defrauded and many elderly investors lost their life savings. The substantial political contributions that Keating had made to each of the senators, totalling $1.3 million, attracted considerable public and media attention.

Here is a public statement that has been endorsed by 900 fellow educators and scholars so far:

We write to support our colleague Professor William Ayers, Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago, who is currently under determined and sustained political attack. Ayers is a nationally known scholar, member of the Faculty Senate at UIC, Vice President-elect of the American Educational Research Association, and sought after as a speaker and visiting scholar by other universities because of his exemplary scholarship, teaching, and service. Throughout the 20 years that he has been a valued faculty member at UIC, he has taught, advised, mentored, and supported hundreds of undergraduate, Masters and Ph.D. students. He has pushed them to take seriously their responsibilities as educators in a democracy – to promote critical inquiry, dialogue, and debate; to encourage questioning and independent thinking; to value the full humanity of every person and to work for access and equity. Helping educators develop the capacity and ethical commitment to these responsibilities is at the core of what we do, and as a teacher he has always embraced debate and multiple perspectives. ...

^Yep, like the nice help to students from Mao, Lenin, Hitler, Khomeini...
I abhor these personal attack ads, but if McC is going to do it, he should have stuck to Wright, Rezko and the Chicago goons.

Originally Posted by Begbie

The Keating Five were five United States Senators accused of corruption in 1989, igniting a major political scandal as part of the larger Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s. The five senators, Alan Cranston (D-CA), Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ), John Glenn (D-OH), John McCain (R-AZ), and Donald W. Riegle (D-MI), were accused of improperly intervening in 1987 on behalf of Charles H. Keating, Jr., chairman of the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association, which was the target of a regulatory investigation by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB).The FHLBB subsequently backed off taking action against Lincoln.

Lincoln Savings and Loan collapsed in 1989, at a cost of $2 billion to the federal government. Some 23,000 Lincoln bondholders were defrauded and many elderly investors lost their life savings. The substantial political contributions that Keating had made to each of the senators, totalling $1.3 million, attracted considerable public and media attention.

McCain was exonerated; freed from any question of guilt.

''I found nothing in my investigation which caused me to question Senator McCain's integrity,'' said Robert Bennett, the Washington lawyer who was special counsel to the ethics panel during what is called the Keating Five investigation. Mr. Bennett, more recently, has been one of President Clinton's lawyers.

Senator McCain had taken $112,000 in Keating-related campaign donations, trips aboard Mr. Keating's corporate jet and family vacations at the executive's Bahamas hideaway. While legal, these gifts made his attendance at the meetings with federal regulators all the more questionable. (The other four senators had also taken large contributions from Mr. Keating, some of them far more than Mr. McCain.)

Before the controversial meetings, Mr. Keating had called Senator McCain a wimp, because he would not intervene for him more aggressively with the regulators, and the two men never spoke to each other again. And once the regulators told the senators that there was a criminal referral on the Keating case, Mr. McCain dropped the matter entirely. (Mr. Keating was eventually convicted on state and federal fraud charges and served four years in prison. He now lives in Arizona.)


But Senator McCain was the only Republican embroiled in the affair, and Democrats on the panel would not release him, even at the urging of his friend Mr. Rudman, who was then a senator and the senior Republican on the committee.


''McCain was going to remain their Republican hostage, no matter what,'' Mr. Rudman wrote in his memoir, ''Combat.'' The ethics investigation took two years to complete, which taught Mr. McCain he could not rely on the go-along-get-along ethos of the Senate in an era of growing partisan rancor.

Senate Inquiry In Keating Case Tested McCain - New York Times


McCain didn't pressure the regulators like the three Democrats. Three of the democrats didn't seek re-election. The word was they needed a Republican in the net so it wouldn't solely be a Democrat scandal. Begbie's post proves the effectiveness of the 'include a Republican' strategy: "accused of corruption"

^Doesn't matter, according to the same criteria that's being used to slur and impeach Obama's character all that matters is that McCain knew the guy (well enough to take money from him too, apparently).

You can't have it both ways.

Bill Ayers wasn't a terrorist. He said so himself.
He's just a freedom fighter.

Originally Posted by attaboy

Originally Posted by Begbie

The Keating Five were five United States Senators accused of corruption in 1989, igniting a major political scandal as part of the larger Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s. The five senators, Alan Cranston (D-CA), Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ), John Glenn (D-OH), John McCain (R-AZ), and Donald W. Riegle (D-MI), were accused of improperly intervening in 1987 on behalf of Charles H. Keating, Jr., chairman of the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association, which was the target of a regulatory investigation by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB).The FHLBB subsequently backed off taking action against Lincoln.

Lincoln Savings and Loan collapsed in 1989, at a cost of $2 billion to the federal government. Some 23,000 Lincoln bondholders were defrauded and many elderly investors lost their life savings. The substantial political contributions that Keating had made to each of the senators, totalling $1.3 million, attracted considerable public and media attention.

McCain was exonerated; freed from any question of guilt.

Are you claiming he didn't take money from Keating ?

Odd that this is contrary to the evidence at the time.

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

^Yep, like the nice help to students from Mao, Lenin, Hitler, Khomeini...

Oh, are these guys professors at Illinois university as well? Fancy that!

Originally Posted by Milkman

Folks,

The Bill Ayers story is very OLD.

Very, very, old.

Well, Let's Get This Fucking Straight: Bill Ayers is Not a "Former Radical"

He is a current radical.

He is former terrorist.

And a proud, unrepentant one at that

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Originally Posted by Mr Earl

Bill Ayers wasn't a terrorist. He said so himself.
He's just a freedom fighter.

Right...well, this video says it all: OBAMA- His Friends

Originally Posted by sabang

I met Ronald Biggs once.

I did too...at least that's what these 'mates' of mine claimed he was - at a little sorie at his apt in Rio. Just an old drunk - reminded me of a lot of 'em in Pattaya...

Barack Obama’s claims that he had no idea about William Ayers’ violent, radical history are simply false:

Was Obama Ignorant About Bill Ayers? Of Course Not.

Videos: The Ayers connection; Update: Obama doesn’t read newspapers?

William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn were very open, even boastful about their past. How many times does Barack Obama think he can get away with his “see no evil” act?

There has been a number of posts saying how Obama's relationship with the group Ayers has been a part of (the Annenberg foundation) is questionable and that Obama must, obviously, share the same views as Ayers since he has been to six meetings of the group.

So when the Annenberg Foundation's founder, Leonore Annenberg, announced her endorsement, you can imagine the uproar! It's bad enough that you have a Presidential candidate on the Board of this radical group, but to be endorsed by the founder! It practically screams out that the candidate is a radical leftist bent on destruction of the United States!!!!



Is that silence I hear from the right? How can that be? Isn't this association proof of Obama's treasanous nature?





Oh, wait. It appears she endorsed John McCain. LOL

I hope he is a radical leftist. And I hope he burns this motha down.

Originally Posted by spiff

There has been a number of posts saying how Obama's relationship with the group Ayers has been a part of (the Annenberg foundation) is questionable and that Obama must, obviously, share the same views as Ayers since he has been to six meetings of the group.

So when the Annenberg Foundation's founder, Leonore Annenberg, announced her endorsement, you can imagine the uproar! It's bad enough that you have a Presidential candidate on the Board of this radical group, but to be endorsed by the founder! It practically screams out that the candidate is a radical leftist bent on destruction of the United States!!!!



Is that silence I hear from the right? How can that be? Isn't this association proof of Obama's treasanous nature?





Oh, wait. It appears she endorsed John McCain. LOL

Well, you obviously haven't absorbed this damning evidence, have you?

You know, sometimes it pays to apply one's own scrutiny to material before linking and quoting it.

Btw, Andy Martin was identified by The Nation and The Washington Post as the primary source of rumors that Barack Obama is a closet Muslim. LOL

Oh, wait. It appears she endorsed John McCain. LOL

This is a lame and impotent line of attack for mccain (and an even stupider thread topic).

What a joke.

Originally Posted by pai nai ma

This is a lame and impotent line of attack for mccain (and an even stupider thread topic).

What a joke.

Perhaps, but it seems to be gathering traction with recent revelations revealing that Ayers wasn't "just a guy in the neighborhood" and how Michele Obama worked at the same law firm in the late 80's as Bernadine Dorhn.
Ayers and Obama had control of the distribution of 100 million dollars in South Chicago. Your kidding yourself if you think that isn't significant.
And now that Barry has been caught with his pants down again, he's going to be properly fucked.

David Horowitz on Ayers:

I interviewed Ayers ten years ago, in a kindergarten classroom in uptown Manhattan where he was employed to shape the minds of inner city children. Dressed in bib overalls with golden curls rolling below his ears, Ayers reviewed his activities as a terrorist for my tape recorder. When he was done, he broke into a broad, Jack Horner grin and summed up his experience: “Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.”
What I saw was a shallowness beyond conception. All the Weather leaders I interviewed shared a similar vacuity. They were living inside a utopian fantasy, a separate reality, and had no idea of what they had done. Nor any way to measure it. Appreciating the nation to which they were born, recognizing the great gifts of freedom and opportunity their parents and communities had given them, distinguishing between right and wrong – it was all above their mental and moral ceiling. In the days ahead, this is one of the dangers we face.

Wiki states-

CNN's review of project records found nothing to suggest anything inappropriate in the non-profit projects in which the two men were involved.

Internal reviews by The New York times, The Washington Post, Time magazine, The Chicago Sun-Times, The New Yorker and The New Republic "have said that their reporting doesn't support the idea that Obama and Ayers had a close relationship".

Bill Ayers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Yawwnn. Next?

Originally Posted by sabang

Wiki states-

CNN's review ...........

Yawwnn. Next?

McCain wins of course. Goanna!