The RNC today released this 30 second spot:
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The New York Times (the same publication cited by Sarah Palin for her Ayers attack on Obama) says:
With Mr. McCain and Republicans slipping in the polls as the economic crisis spreads, they have begun to attack Mr. Obama’s character in the hope of, as one McCain adviser put it, “turning the page on the financial crisis.” But such a tactic carries its own risks because Mr. McCain is not without his own questionable associations. As a member of the Keating Five in the 1980s, he was rebuked by the Senate for “poor judgment” after he met with regulators investigating one of his major political donors, Charles H. Keating Jr., who later went to prison after his savings and loan collapsed, at great cost to taxpayers. There is also the risk that such attacks will be seen as petty at a time of a national economic crisis.
There are two candidates in this race who have been rebuked for their unethical conduct by bipartisan committees. One is John McCain:
Keating and his associates raised $1.3 million combined for the campaigns and political causes of all five. McCain’s campaigns received $112,000.
The investigation ended in early 1991 with a rebuke that McCain “exercised poor judgment in intervening with the regulators.”
The other is Sarah Palin:
Investigator Stephen Branchflower, in a report to a bipartisan panel that looked into the matter, found Palin in violation of a state ethics law that prohibits public officials from using their office for personal gain.
Oh and by the way, over the past seven days, the Dow had its worst week in history.
