Obama may want to back off the Keating 5

When the astronaut made way for the Boss on the Oval, 10,000 people roared in unison, "Bruuuuce!"

"You don't get introduced by John Glenn every day," Bruce Springsteen said, breaking into an impromptu version of Mr. Spaceman.

http://www.redstate.com/diaries/redstate/2008/oct/06/how-do-we-know-that-senator-obama-doesnt-car/

You're absolutely right. He'll drag John Glenn along.

I can't believe that they are bringing up the Keating 5 while John Glenn is stumping for them. How absolutely stupid can they be??? Can you imagine what kind of people Obama will have around him if he gets elected??? They are stupid.

By the way, I have met John Glenn. He is really a nice person. And very short.

http://marathonpundit.blogspot.com/2008/10/obamas-keating-five-references-add-up.html

Anyone bring up Keating, point them here and show how a DEMOCRAT said he saw nothing to indicate McCain did anything wrong.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/seton-motley/2008/10/07/mark-levin-interviews-bob-bennett-bennett-deconstructs-media-myth-rega

Bob Bennett is a man of integrity, and the Democratic half of the political Bennett Brothers. He appeared last night on Mark Levin's nationally syndicated radio show to debunk the media myth built-up around Arizona Senator John McCain's role in the Keating Five mess circa the late 1980s and early 1990s.

(Brother Bill served as Secretary of President Ronald Reagan's Department of Education and Director of President George H.W. Bush's Office of National Drug Control Policy, and is now a nationally syndicated radio host in his own right, of "Bill Bennett's Morning in America.")

Bob Bennett is an attorney, and was at the time of the Keating Five scandal hired by the Senate Ethics Committee as Special Counsel to lead the investigation into what had happened. After over a year of exhaustive examination, Bennett recommended that Sen. McCain (and Sen. John Glenn of Ohio) be exonerated of all charges having to do with the Keating scandal. The ethics committee, which was majority Democratic, rejected Bennett's recommendation.

Bennett said former Sen. Howell Hefflin (D-Ala.) insisted that the two be included in the formal public inquiry because otherwise there would have been a month of public hearings "with no Republicans in the dock." The other members of the Keating Five were Democrats.

Concluding his discussion of Sen. McCain with Levin, Bennett said "I saw nothing in my investigation that would call into question John McCain's ethics."