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Joseph Romm: Obama or 527s Must Tell Keating Five Story

It foreshadows McCain’s ethical collapse, his coziness to fat cats, and his economic non-policy.

Here’s a nice excerpt:

The other crucial point to hammer home is that McCain acted unethically back then and he is acting unethically today with his dishonest and dishonorable campaign. Obama is finally starting to make a good case about McCain’s dishonor and his corruption — and I was very glad to see Senator Claire McCaskill repeat and expand upon the dishonor and dishonesty message on Maddow Tuesday night.

But what the public needs to see to really absorb this message is the back story. They think McCain has a long history of being a high-integrity maverick, which makes it hard to sell the notion that he is suddenly changed. But McCain has no such history. Quite the reverse.

If you read the whole sordid story here (excerpted below), you’ll see there is no reason for the Obama campaign to steer clear of Keating. Obama has already been directly attacked for his connection with Chicago businessman and political fund raiser, Tony Rezko — and he no doubt will be again. But McCain was, as we’ll see, infinitely closer to then Arizona businessman and political fund raiser, Charles Keating — and McCain, unlike Obama, actually did something wrong.

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