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not2needy1 year, 2 months ago
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Now Obama needs to do some more exposes`, and let the world know how Johnny kept Cindy out of prison after she committed forgery, fraud, theft and smuggling drugs internationally. Let the world know the kind of man John McCain is bit by bit.
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Then do another one about his record as a student at the academy, the number of planes he crashed and how many he was responsible for killing as the result of the fire on the ship Forrester*.. Then he went out to party, said he needed R
John McCain is truly a dispicable man! Everything he has done needs to be exposed. People can change, but he has been the way he is since he was a toddler! Per his own parents, his temper was so violent when he was a mere toddler that he would hold his breath until he passed out, they had to dunk him in cold water to revive him.
Is THAT the man you want with his finger on the button? If he is, God have mercy on you!-
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Georgia501 year, 2 months ago
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The Democrat investigating the Keating 5 found absolutely no wrongdoing by McCain. He went to his Crat taskmasters and told them McCain should not be part of the investigation.
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The filth told him he could not let McCain go because it would look bad for them...all the other 4 were Democrats.
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ADAGUY1 year, 2 months ago
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"The Democrat investigating the Keating 5 found absolutely no wrongdoing by McCain."
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When did you start listening to the democrats?
http://www.propeller.com/story/2008/10/06/lets-not...-
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Klarissa1 year, 2 months ago
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BB641 year, 2 months ago
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It's clear you've never read or heard both sides of the McCain divorce. After John came back from Vietnam, he was a changed man. Actually both people were different people when they separated and divorced. War will do that to you. It changed me and certainly my wife.
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Instead of ripping on a vet, why not explain how Barry could manage to sit in a Afro centrist church preaching hate and separatist for 23 years. How about releasing his real birth certificate. His campaign kick off planned in Ayers home. Better yet, explain how he's let his 1/2 brother living in Africa live on less than a dollar a month. Hope and change, yea right. Just another liberal from the long line of do as I tell you to do not as I do.-
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Progressive1 year, 2 months ago
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Yeah, I've read both sides and stick by my version. A member of my family was a POW with McCain at the Hanoi Hilton, but he didn't dump the woman who raised his children alone during the 6 years he was MIA/POW. Even Nancy Reagan, who gave Carol a job at the White House, shunned McSame after he dumped her for Cindy. Carol says the marriage ended because "John wanted to be 25, not 40." And why is Cindy's haf-sister voting for Obama? Could it be because Cindy declares herself an "only child" and hasn't given her a penny? Wright is old news and even neocons know damn well Obama's birth certificate has been authenticated by factcheck.
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ETproductions1 year, 2 months ago
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Georgia50 wrote: "The Democrat investigating the Keating 5 found absolutely no wrongdoing by McCain. He went to his Crat taskmasters and told them McCain should not be part of the investigation."
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Not true. The Senate is a very collegial club. They don't discipline their own easily. They publicly criticized McCain for exercising "Poor judgment". Cranston was "reprimanded". Riegle and DeConcini were "Criticized for acting improperly". McCain and Glenn got off with "Exercising poor judgment".
You try loosing 150 billion dollars of taxpayer money outside the Senate, and you get a whole lot worse than "Exercising poor judgment" or -- shudder -- "A reprimand".
The telling point is that the whole debacle was brought about by McCain's passion for deregulation and laissez-faire capitalism -- and McCain learned NOTHING from it. He's been busily deregulating us into the 700 Billion mortgage meltdown.
He now claims he's going to "Clean up the greed and corruption on Wall Street and K Street. Riiiight. Erm, that's what the regulators you hate actually are for, Senator.-
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Klarissa1 year, 2 months ago
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In April 1986, she and her father invested $359,100 in a shopping center project with Phoenix banker Charles Keating.[15] This, combined with her role as a bookkeeper who later had difficulty finding receipts for family trips on Keating's jet,[22] caused complications for her husband during the Keating Five scandal, when he was being examined for his role regarding oversight of Keating's bank.
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BB641 year, 2 months ago
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Unlike most of you lefties, even though I'm a Republican I have friends on both sides of the isle. I know Bob Bennett and in an open discussion with a few cigars and brandy, he was very clear, the attacks on McCain were prosecutorial misconduct and done as a political cheap shot.
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Oh, in case I didn't mention it, Bob was also appointed to handle the investigation. He is a life long Democrat and worked with me on a number of legal issues.
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lfergie8121 year, 2 months ago
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Georgia50
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The whole thing was squashed because the whole Bush family was knee deep in the scandal and daddy was the president at the time.
http://members.tripod.com/rationalrevolution0/war/...
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cowboygrandpa1 year, 2 months ago
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Ifergie812:
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See that is where GW learned it from. Reagan and his Daddy.
McCain is a straight out liar. He probably used his POW status to slide by just as John Glen probably used his astronaut fame.
Either way, McCain needs to just stop lying and admit he is in over his head.
He probably thinks if he gets to the Whitehouse he will score some strange like Clinton did. LOL-
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lfergie8121 year, 2 months ago
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When this whole Savings and Load scandal broke I was wondering why it was all swept under the rug and with me being in the generation that witnessed the JFK assassination and seeing the Warren Report that followed it didn't surprise me that the government would somehow cover their posteriors on this but this had a smell to it. Republicans would have done anything to destroy the Democrats at that time just as they caught them in the "Post Office Scandal" a few years later. so when this was suddenly hushed up with the taxpayers paying the bill, I knew there was something that the American people weren't being told. If the FBI was allowed to continue their investigation, it would have made daddy look bad so the rest is history.
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dunkirk1 year, 2 months ago
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Sounds like a case of poor judegement by McCain . SO we have McLame making bad decisions on fianancial matters costing people their life savings. Yeah lets see if hes learned his lesson. Altho if you look his push for deregualtion has led to the disaster we;re facing now. And CPns the part you always leave out when you mention the bill he was for well after it wasw being tossed about and defeated by a REPUBLICAN controlled committee was he was FOr Deregulation BEFORE he was against it BEFORE he was for it again. WHatever the people want to hear is what McSame will say. Lets not forget what the Republicans objected to in teh original bailout wasnt 700 billion going to Wall Street but the call for OVERSIGHT on how the money is used and accountability.
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Klarissa1 year, 2 months ago
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This is a long and complicated story about how Obama backers were behind the mortgage industry meltdown. It hast to start some where, so lets start with a well known Chicago name Penny Pritzker. It starts with a bank failure.
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Unfortunately, this wasn't the case for the 1,406 people who lost much of their life savings when Superior Bank of Chicago went belly up in 2001 with over $1 billion in insured and uninsured deposits. This collapse came amid harsh criticism of how Superior's owners promoted sub-prime home mortgages. As part of a settlement, the owners paid $100 million and agreed to pay another $335 million over 15 years at no interest.
The uninsured depositors were dealt another blow recently when the U.S. Supreme Court let stand a lower court decision to put any recovered money toward the debt that the bank owners owe the federal government before the depositors get anything.
But this seven-year-old bank failure has relevance in another way today, since the chair of Superior's board for five years was Penny Pritzker, a member of one of America's richest families and the current Finance Chair for the presidential campaign of Barack Obama, the same candidate who has lashed out against predatory lending.
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Lurch1 year, 2 months ago
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That is blatantly wrong.
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They found that McCain had done plenty wrong, actually the most wrong. But McCain was in political survival mode, on TV every chance he had explaining to all who would listen how he was a POW.
Behind the scenes, McCain was placing all the blame and focus on the others. He was truly a backstabber and a phony. McCain took more money and favors from Keating than anybody in the world. He should have been charged with felony tax dodging, which he only admitted to after caught. You or I would have been, but then again we`re not former POWs like John keeps reminding us every time he is politically in trouble. -
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TheVisionary1 year, 2 months ago
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Obama will likely not hit McCain hard enough on Keating 5 because that isn't his style and some people may consider it "too old" considering it happened about 20 years ago. I wouldn't call McCain "truly a dispicable man" despite the fact that I do not want him to be our president and fear his presidency as much as I did Bush's. I would call Cheney a despicable man, but McCain is a man driven by a kind of blind ambition to be president despite having no real plan for bringing this country out of the rut it's in.
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Klarissa1 year, 2 months ago
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//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Five
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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.
After a lengthy investigation, the Senate Ethics Committee determined in 1991 that Alan Cranston, Dennis DeConcini, and Donald Riegle had substantially and improperly interfered with the FHLBB in its investigation of Lincoln Savings, with Cranston receiving a formal reprimand.
Senators John Glenn and John McCain were cleared of having acted improperly but were criticized for having exercised "poor judgment".
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72LIAME1 year, 2 months ago
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RE' USS FORRESTAL---IT WAS HIS PLANE THE "BOMB\" FELL OFF OF---HE WAS IN THE COCKPIT--WAITING TO TAKE OFF..WHY DID THE BOMB "DROP" OFF???
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HOW DID A MAN WHO CAME IN ALMOST DEAD LAST IN HIS CLASS AT THE NAVAL ACADEMY--GET SENT TO NAVY FLIGHT TRIANING???
MAYBE WHEN YOUR DAD IS AN ADMIRLA???? WHY DID HE NOT GET WASHED OUT ???MAYBE BECAUSE HIS DAD WAS AN ADMIRAL???
A CASE COULD BE MADE--MCCAIN IS A SCREW UP,,WITH POWERFUL FRIENDS...
HE TAKES THE SIDE OF MEXICAN WORKERS OVER AMERICANS..HE WANTS CHEAP SCAB LABOR FOR ALL HIS RICH FRIENDS...
NO FRIEND OF THE AMERICAN WORKER..-
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beavith11 year, 2 months ago
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how's about you stop screaming?
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it wasn't his plane the bomb fell off. redo your research. then let it go.
when you come out of a military academy, you make choices as to what job you want to head to next.. you get matched up with available openings. let it go.
72Lame.. let me ask you a question... what do you call the guy that graduates last in his medical school class? doctor.
all graduating members of an academy are highly functioning individuals half are going to finish in the upper half, half are going to finish in the lower half. let it go.
as far as getting washed out, there's no way for you to know. the only folks that would know are the naval academy. are they talking? let it go.
a case could be made that he's ascrewup, but it wouldn't be very compelling. let it go.
he takes the side of mexican workers over americans? WTF is that about? let it go.
you've made mistaken/unsubstantiated allegations. you've got nothing. let it go.-
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lfergie8121 year, 2 months ago
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Are you talking about the party animal John McCain of the Naval Academy?
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http://www.usvetdsp.com/jan08/mccain_military_reco...
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Klarissa1 year, 2 months ago
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The Forrestal Disaster, July 29, 1967
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At the time of this incident Lt. Cdr. McCain already had flown several bombing missions over North Vietnam from the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal. As he was in his A-4 Skyhawk, loaded with two, 1,000-pound bombs and waiting on the carrier deck for his turn to launch, a Zuni missile accidentally fired from another aircraft, swooshed across the carrier deck and struck either McCain's plane or one next to it.
That triggered a fire and a series of bomb and missile explosions that killed 134 sailors. McCain himself barely escaped alive. He quickly leaped from his plane into the pool of burning jet fuel that immediately surrounded him. About 90 seconds later he was blown 15 feet back when the first bomb “cooked off” and exploded, killing several nearby firefighters.
James M. Caiella has written a scholarly article about the disaster, which appeared in the Fall 2003 issue of Foundation magazine, a publication of the National Naval Aviation Museum, located in Pensacola, Fla. Caiella, who is now associate editor of Proceedings and Naval History magazines, published by the U.S. Naval Institute in Annapolis, generously shared with us copies of some key documents which he obtained from the Navy under the Freedom of Information Act. They include a typed transcript of the sworn testimony that McCain gave less than two weeks after the disaster, on Aug. 5, 1967, and also a written statement he submitted prior to his testimony, describing the first moments of the disaster:
McCain, 1967 statement: I heard a loud explosion and immediate fire all around the airplane . . . Smoke and flame were around the cockpit so I unstrapped . . . and unplugged my oxygen hose, keeping my visor down. I looked to the aft of the airplane and saw nothing but flame and I could see burning fuel in front and around the airplane but it did not look too bad to the forward. I opened the canopy and walked out on the refueling probe and jumped from the end of it, landing just on the edge of the fire and rolled clear..
McCain said that he rushed to help another pilot who had gotten out of his plane and had jumped into the flames and rolled clear, but was still on fire. -
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MagicStarER10 months, 1 week ago
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Not to mention the little detail that Admiral McCain (John McCain's father) who has the dubious honor of being the guy who ordered a stand-down and would not permit our guys to defend the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty! Crooks, both of them!
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Question for McCain: Who is Putin?
McCain Answer: President of Germany (??? Duh!!!)
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amervtrn1 year, 2 months ago
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If you are playing the blame game or fighting the party wars, you are a Loser. This has been coming on for over forty years. Educate yourself. Do not let rhetoric lead you. Those who fail to remember the lessons of the past are condemned to repeat them.There is nothing here we have not seen before.
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lfergie8121 year, 2 months ago
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If you would have said 30 years I might be inclined to agree but you're right. This whole crisis was brought on by politicians on both sides that took money from the bank lobbyist in exchange for deregulation. For the Republicans to blame the Democrats for the economic collapse in their campaign ads is ludicrous and insults the intelligence of the American people.
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Endoscopy1 year, 2 months ago
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Typical neophile smear story. This video shows only a totally super biased version of what happened. In both houses there is a bipartisan ethics committee. Equal numbers of both parties. These people take their job seriously.
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There were 5 Senators who attended that meeting.
Alan Cranston (D-CA)
Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ)
John Glenn (D-OH)
John McCain (R-AZ)
Donald W. Riegle (D-MI)
Notice that there were 4 Democrats and 1 Republican. These are the Keating 5 that the Liberals like to try and hang around McCains neck.
Problem with this hack job.
2 Senators, John Glenn and John McCain, were exonerated of any ethics violations.
3 Senators,Alan Cranston, Dennis DeConcini, and Donald W. Riegle, were found guilty of ethics charges and were censured.
Three Democrats found guilty. And neophile thinks to try and blame McCain for what he was found NOT GUILTY of doing.
With regards to finance of the mess we are in.
The CRA created under Carter and signed in 1977 and modified in 1992 under Clinton and went into effect in 1995 caused the sub prime loans and FORCED banks to have a good CRA rating if they wished to expand and add new branch offices. So they made bad loans as a cost of doing business forced on them by the banking regulators.
In 2000 Clinton asked congress to modify the regulations. In 2003 Bush requested congress to look into the problem that Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac were getting into.problems. In 2005 and 2006 the same thing happened. The Democrats howled and charged all kinds of mean and nasty things on the part of the man bringing the facts of his investigation to congress. There are videos of them. Barney Frank said that there is nothing wrong with Fannie and Freddy. Threats of a filibuster in the senate can kill any bill if the party out of power wants it killed. So in 2005 the bill was reported out of committee and that was all.
What did McCain say?
I join as a cosponsor of the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005, S. 190, to underscore my support for quick passage of GSE regulatory reform legislation. If Congress does not act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system, and the economy as a whole.
I urge my colleagues to support swift action on this GSE reform legislation.
The Democrats refused to listen to McCain and the rest is history. Thank you Liberals and Democrats for creating this mess in the first place and then refusing to fix it while it was still easier to do..
Typical neophile smear job full of twisted facts. Are you proud of smearing an honorable man. Of course you have no concept of honor from the stories I see you push here at Propeller. And you are a scout.-
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Progressive1 year, 2 months ago
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"I join as a cosponsor of the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005, S. 190, to underscore my support for quick passage of GSE regulatory reform legislation."
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How come he didn't join it until a YEAR after Chuck Hagel sponsored it?-
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Tangent0011 year, 2 months ago
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Why did S.190 never make it out of a REPUBLICAN-controlled committee?
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Simply put, it was very bad legislation that would have, among other things, allowed Fannie and Freddie to expand into MORE areas of residential finance (can you say, "Bigger bailout"?).
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lfergie8121 year, 2 months ago
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Very good Endo. Four Democrats and one Republican so why didn't George H W Bush who was president at the time try destroy the Democrats and leave one fairly new Republican senator out to dry. Because his boys were knee deep in the scandal also and he wanted the investigation into the Savings and Loan scandal to stop.
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You point out that the Democrats refused to listen but in reality it was the Republicans that refused to listen to John McCain's grandstanding. If McCain was truly against deregulation why would he have Phil Gramm, who pushed the deregulation bill in 1999, as his financial adviser? Because McCain's as phony as a three dollar bill, that's why. -
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lfergie8121 year, 2 months ago
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“Campaigning in Camden, SC, McCain said ‘I am a proud Republican conservative with a 17-year record of voting, not rhetoric, but voting against higher taxes, for smaller government, for less regulation.’” [Greenville News, 1/10/00]
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“I Have A Long Voting Record In Support Of Deregulation.” McCain, at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing as having said, “I have a long voting record in support of deregulation.” [St. Petersburg Times, 6/5/03]
In the Immediate Wake of Bear Stearns, McCain’s Response Was to Call for Less Regulation. In a major economic speech, after offering a diagnosis of the troubles facing the housing and financial markets, John McCain’s proposed solution was less overall regulation. “In financial institutions, there is no substitute for adequate capital to serve as a buffer against losses. Our financial market approach should include encouraging increased capital and financial institutions by removing regulatory, accounting and tax impediments to raising capital.” [McCain speech, 3/25/08] -
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Tangent0011 year, 2 months ago
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"The CRA created under Carter and signed in 1977 and modified in 1992 under Clinton and went into effect in 1995 caused the sub prime loans and FORCED banks to have a good CRA rating if they wished to expand and add new branch offices. So they made bad loans as a cost of doing business forced on them by the banking regulators."
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First off, the CRA 'went into effect' when it was passed in 1977 and was designed to prevent the practice of 'red-lining' whereby a bank could refuse a loan based solely on the house being in a 'bad (usually minority) neighborhood'. The facts are, one half of the current bad sub-prime loans were issued by private mortgage firms that were not under CRA regulation at all. Another third were loans by CRA regulated banks, but had nothing to do with CRA compliance. That leaves one sixth of existing bad paper that MIGHT be attributable to CRA. But then, when CRA was weakened, sub-prime loans INCREASED.
No, it was the gradual elimination of the Glass-Steagall Act and legislation that allowed mortgage firms to merge with insurance and other financial firms, effectively creating the 'financial services' industry. These new mega-entities operated with fewer and fewer regulations, shuffling bad debt around to make themselves look far healthier than they actually were. And THAT, my friend, was started by the veto-proof Republican congress of 1999. -
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Lurch1 year, 2 months ago
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McCain was caught redhanded, as the worst of the Keating Five. He had taken the most money and gifts, and had become personally involved with advancing Keating`s business schemes.
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However, McCain went on a nation-wide TV blitz reminding everyone he was a tortured POW.
Behind the scenes, McCain added up all the illegal gifts and immediately sent a check from his wife`s account for all the back taxes he had illegally evaded.
He played the sympathy card in public while playing the CYA card in private as well.
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