A plague on both their houses!

The less government the better. Trust your constitution that's why it was
written.

New energy will empower people to self-reliance.

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From: Jones Beene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 26 September 2008 16:08
To: vortex-l@eskimo.com
Subject: Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC News of the bailout

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... 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?



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