McCain attack on Obama and "corrupt Chicago machine" triggers Mayor Daley "Keating 5" response

Chicago Sun Times by Lynn Sweet, Fran Spielman | Sep. 23, 2008 (News Report)

You want to play rough? Let's get it on.

A new ad from Sen. John McCain's campaign accuses Sen. Barack Obama of being a product of the Chicago political machine. Convicted former Obama supporter Tony Rezko is among those referenced in the ad.

That was Mayor Daley's angry message to Republican presidential nominee John McCain on Tuesday about the McCain ad that smears Daley's brother in an attempt to tie Barack Obama to the "corrupt ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Sep 26, 2008 - 12:10 PM PDT
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 by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2008

The response out of Chicago to Republican McCain's attempted mud throwing at Obama invokes the idea of bringing the Keating Five story back to the forefront. One problem is that a large number of younger voters have only a vague idea of that McCain scandal. The story does not provide links to the history, but a good capsule is provided at http://www.azcentral.com/news/specials/mccain/articles/0301mccainbio-chapter7.html Republican McCain received a lesser censure only because Republican Robert Bennett was trying to focus blame on only the Democratic senators involved in the scandal. The intimate involvement of McCain in a previous financial disaster that directly was escalated by McCain's corrupt interference with the ... More »

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