If I hear one more news commentator talk about the Ayres issue, I'm gonna scream!
OK, So McCain did not bring up Ayres at the last debate because he did not want to be perceived as changing the subject and get accused of stearing off the economy. It must have taken every bit of will power he had. You know him... he is an impulsive, emotional, erratic and angry old man. I am sure that his aides (even Rove) told him, "under no circumstances should you bring up the Ayers thing... you will unleash hell because Obama will fire back about Charles Keating." But McCain is growing more and more impatient every day and so Barack should prepare for Ayres to come up at the last debate because it is McCain's last chance and he is, after all, quite the gambler.
So, while Barack has explained his affiliation with Ayres, working on a board with him, McCain has yet to explain why he has taken some 9 junkets with Charles Keating to know whether this man was a good and descent contributor. In 1989, the Arizona Republic reported that "the McCains, sometimes accompanied by their daughter and baby-sitter, had made at least nine trips at Keating's expense, sometimes aboard the American Continental jet. Three of the trips were made during vacations to Keating's opulent Bahamas retreat at Cat Cay." After McCain's realized that people were looking at Keating, he did repay Keating for some of the trips years after they were taken, after he learned that Keating was in trouble over Lincoln S & L.
McCain's handlers keep saying that McCain was exonerated and so the Obama campaign cannot imply impropriety. Bull$%^&! You cannot tell me that McCain did not subscribe to Keating's deregulation fantacy. I do not beleive for a minute that on those 9 trips, McCain told Keating what a bad idea that was and how it would undermine the solvency of S & Ls. McCain and Keating were and still are birds of a feather and John had a great affinity for people who held strong views against regulation. That was why McCain's buddying up with "Foreclosure Phil" was just so predictable.
So Barack, get ready for the Ayres thing to bubble up at the next debate and you should be ready and not accept the fact that McCain has been "exhonerated"... go with the fact that he took 9 trips to lavish resorts with Keating and then we are supposed to believe that he was not influenced by the man. And if you can mention "Foreclosure Phil", that would be a very strong and lasting soundbite. Be the attorney we know you are and show intent, general pattern and his own history to clean his clock.
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