Is This The Final Nail In John McCain's Coffin? Here's The Evidence.

Earlier in the campaign, John McCain said that Barack Obama was responsible for high gas prices. We all know that is a blantant lie. Drilling for more oil will not solve our fuel problems. It will keep us addicted to the same fossil fuels that are destroying our environment. Barack Obama wants to give tax credits to those producing alternative forms of fuel such as wind and solar power. I believe this is the direction we as a country should go. We should never be held hostage to oil cartels such as OPEC. Lloyd

Hello Idlewild. It's been such a long time since I've heard from you. Where have you been and what have you been doing? It's sure nice to see you here at myLot again. I agree with you in regards to John McCain's anti-regulation stand. Everywhere we have tried it has led to corruption and the American people are left to pick up the pieces. I don't want John McCain's hands anywhere near our financial, insurance and healthcare institutions. His stance on these issues remind me of the Wild Wild West where anything goes. Glad to have you back. Lloyd

I think that the environmentalists are blocking every move to uncap these wells because they are afraid they are going to harm the flora and fauna. It is the same as in Alaska, even though the place they want to drill is barren wastland and mostly ice, the environmentalists do not want drilling there for fear the drillers might harm a mosquito and I can fathom how they will stop the drilling or exploring, people standing in front so that the only way to get to the oil is to mow them down, etc.

I agree Idle. One thing that really concerns me about McCain is that he wants to drill more oil wells in the gulf. We just went through another hurrincane that destroyed a few and the oil spills are going to cause a lot of damage. We would just be putting more in harms way and not gaining anything from them for several years. There are other areas inside the U.S. that contain oil and a lot of the existing wells were capped several years ago. Why does he persist that we should drill more off shore. I makes no sense. Several years ago GM developed an electric car that they leased to several persons in California for test purposes. They later called them all back in and crushed them. The people who were testing them loved them and several wanted to buy them. The inventor who invented the batteries had a much better one he was working on that would provide a much larger mileage than the ones that were in the cars before needing a re-charge. The oil companies put so much pressure on GM that they recalled all of the cars and trashed them. This is documented and on a DVD. Now car manufacturers are tooling up to build hybrids, it's a little late! I can't vote for McCain, we need someone with a new vision for America.

There is nothing more important, at this time, than the financial wellness of our economy. Whatelse would you base your vote on that is more pressing? In my opinion, John McCain should explain his role in the failure of Lincoln Savings and Loan. He was obviously closely involved with the main characters in this scandal. Please tell the "Straight Talker" to come clean with the American people. I'm sure he has nothing to hide. lol Lloyd

There are many more important issues than something McCain was cleared of years ago. I'm no fan of McCain. There are plenty of things that he should be asked about, but this is a question for which there is already an obvious answer.

Except for Obama is neck deep in this mess, having played a big part in getting the government to mandate that banks and loan institutions take on rediculous risks so that high risk people could get mortgages.

But I will agree with you, politics being what it is, if Obama can create the illusion of a ficticious connection between the S&L mess and the current one, it does help his chances of winning the White House. It's not always facts that matter. A good rumor can do wonders.

Okay, I'll eat my words. McCain didn't vote on the repeal and Biden voted for it. Guess there is guilt all around and maybe Obama better tread lightly here.

You can read more about John McCain's involvement with the Keating Five scandal from his hometown newspaper at the following link: http://www.azcentral.com/news/election/mccain/articles/2007/03/01/20070301mccainbio-chapter7.html Did John McCain think that his attacks on Barack Obama would go uncontested? Did he think that he would be able to bring up someone who did something when Barack Obama was 8 years old without his own past misdeads being looked at? This just shows how stupid the Palin/McCain campaign is. They have no diffection. They use the same bad judgement that they will use if John McCain ever gets into the White House. Like you, I don't want more of the same of BS. Lloyd

They all may have a skeleton in their closets, but John McCain has a long history of corruption. He comes off as a hypocrite for attacking Barack Obama in the fashion that he is attacking him. He just fails to deal with the real issues facing the American people. Lloyd

I also noticed John McCain's body language. And it said "guilty, guilty, guilty". He has a lot of nerves to try and smear Barack Obama when he has more skeletons in his closet than anyone else in this campaign. He is such a hypocrite. Lloyd

You may have a point. Those on the right totally ignore how bad John McCain treated his first wife after she was injured. Yet they bring ex-President Bill Clinton into the mix anytime marital infindelity comes up. I've been saying for a long time that many on the right have their heads in the sand. They know that under the Republican leadership we are worse off than we were 8 years ago, but they still want to give the keys to the White House to John McCain, someone who is a mirror image of George Bush. With less than one month to go, I think Barack Obama needs to stay the course. Just keep doing what he is doing because it is working. I see so much desparation in the face of John McCain. John McCain has to realize that our Presidents are elected and not appointed. This may just might not be his time. Lloyd

This should be the end of John McCain. It's shows that he's always involved in things that hurt the American people. He was stupid for trying to assasinate Barack Obama's character. Now his character is on the line. Lloyd

I believe this video shows how John McCain was a main player in the Keating Five Savings and Loan scandal. It's a must see for anyone not familiar with John McCain's history of corruption. Although he wasn't convicted, he surely used bad judgement boarding on criminal. Lloyd

After the speech, Keating walked up to McCain and told him that he, too, was a Navy flier and that he greatly respected McCain's war record. He met McCain's wife and family. The two men became friends. Charlie Keating always took care of his friends, especially those in politics. McCain was no exception. In 1982, during McCain's first run for the House, Keating held a fund-raiser for him, collecting more than $11,000 from 40 employees of American Continental Corp. McCain would spend more than $550,000 to win the primary and the general election. In 1983, as McCain contemplated his House re-election, Keating hosted a $1,000-a-plate dinner for him, even though McCain had no serious competition. When McCain pushed for the Senate in 1986, Keating was there with more than $50,000. By 1987, McCain had received about $112,000 in political contributions from Keating and his associates. McCain also had carried a little water for Keating in Washington. While in the House, McCain, along with a majority of representatives, co-sponsored a resolution to delay new regulations designed to curb risky investments by thrifts such as Lincoln. Reluctant participant Despite his history with Keating, McCain was hesitant about intervening. At that point, he had been in the Senate only three months. DeConcini wanted McCain to fly to San Francisco with him and talk to the regulators. McCain refused. Keating would not be dissuaded. On March 24 at 9:30 a.m., Keating went to DeConcini's office and asked him if the meeting with the regulators was on. DeConcini told Keating that McCain was nervous. "McCain's a wimp," Keating replied, according to the book Trust Me, by Michael Binstein and Charles Bowden. "We'll go talk to him." Keating had other business on Capitol Hill and did not reach McCain's office until 1:30. A DeConcini staffer already had told McCain about the "wimp" insult. When he arrived, Keating presented McCain with a laundry list of demands for the regulators. McCain told Keating that he would attend the meeting and find out whether Keating was getting treated fairly but that was all. continued----

The first meeting, on April 2, 1987, in DeConcini's office, included Ed Gray, chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, as well as four senators: DeConcini, McCain, Alan Cranston, D-Calif., and John Glenn, D-Ohio. (Years later, McCain recalled that DeConcini started the meeting with a reference to "our friend at Lincoln." McCain characterized it as "an unfortunate choice of words, which Gray would remember and repeat publicly many times.") For Keating, the meeting was a bust. Gray told the senators that as head of the loan board, he worried about the big picture. He didn't have any specific information about Lincoln. Bank regulators in San Francisco would be versed in that, not him. Gray offered to set up a meeting between the senators and the San Francisco regulators. The second meeting was April 9. The same four senators attended, along with Sen. Don Riegle, D-Mich. Also at the meeting were William Black, then deputy director of the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp., James Cirona, president of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, and Michael Patriarca, director of agency functions at the FSLIC. In an interview with The Republic, Black said the meeting was a show of force by Keating, who wanted the senators to pressure the regulators into dropping their case against Lincoln. The thrift was in trouble for violating "direct investment" rules, which prohibited S&Ls from taking large ownership positions in various ventures. "The Senate is a really small club, like the cliche goes," Black said. "And you really did have one-twentieth of the Senate in one room, called by one guy, who was the biggest crook in the S&L debacle." Black said the senators could have accomplished their goal "if they had simply had us show up and see this incredible room and said, 'Hi. Charles Keating asked us to meet with you. 'Bye.'" McCain previously had refused DeConcini's request to meet with the Lincoln auditors themselves. In Worth the Fighting For, McCain wrote that he remained "a little troubled" at the prospect, "but since the chairman of the bank board didn't seem to have a problem with the idea, maybe a discussion with the regulators wouldn't be as problematic as I had earlier thought." McCain concedes that he failed to sense that Gray and the thrift examiners felt threatened by the senators' meddling. 'Always Hamlet' The five senators, including McCain, seemed like a united front to Black. continued-----

You can finish reading this story at: http://www.azcentral.com/news/election/mccain/articles/2007/03/01/20070301mccainbio-chapter7.html John McCain may not have been convicted, but it's obvious that he was a major player in this scandal. A scandal that cost the American people billions of dollars. Lloyd