----- Original Message ---- ... apparently Remi does not remember the infamous Keating Five -
... from the net, a little "refresher" lesson in how recent political history has this nagging tendency to repeat itself every new generation: John McCain & The Ghost of Keating Five posted last week by Ari Berman Back in the 1980s, when the US faced a major savings & loan crisis, John McCain intervened to protect S&L magnate Charles Keating - a major McCain donor and friend--from federal regulators. McCain was later rebuked by the Senate Ethics Committee for "poor judgement" and embarrassed by the $112,000 in campaign contributions, trips and gifts he accepted from Keating. Following the entanglement, McCain became a born-again reformer and tried to scrub the Keating episode from his resume. http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters/361711/john_mccain_the_ghost_of_keating_five In fact - it has been reported that Wiki was under intense pressure from McCain operatives when the "new" S&L Scandal become issue numeror uno in the public's view - to have the pictures removed from the Wiki entry ... IOW even if they knew they could not rewrite the history of the indent (but were able to tone down some of the rhetoric) they did not want the actual "picture" of McCain there - as apparently that was too inflamatory !!! ... or else some of the expected McCain supporters don't read much but are impressed with visual images?
