Daleys Defend Family Honor In Face Of McCain's Chicago Ad

Mayor Daley lashed out at John McCain Tuesday after the Republican nominee included Daley's brother, former U.S. Commerce Secretary Bill Daley, in an attack ad tying Barack Obama to "the corrupt Chicago political machine."

Daley, as quoted in the Sun-Times:

"You had the Keating Five. We had the biggest scandal in America called savings and loan. The biggest scandal. People lost their homes because of greed. And no one is inferring [wrongdoing by] Sen. McCain and the others, who were always known as the Keating Five. So, if people start throwing dirt and mud, remember it comes back and hits you right in the face. [...] It would be a great ad. Remember: People lost their life savings, their own homes for a guy named Keating out of Arizona."

Watch Mayor Daley and Bill Daley call out McCain:

Earlier Tuesday, Bill Daley defended himself against the charges that he worked as a lobbyist and had ties to the indicted fundraiser Tony Rezko.

"The whole thing is an outright lie," Daley told Chicago Sun-Times columnist Michael Sneed. "The ad claims I'm a lobbyist. I've never been a lobbyist! My son, Bill, was a lobbyist five years ago. I don't know what they're talking about."

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Daley, who has begun polling for a possible 2010 gubernatorial run, said McCain even called him "the greatest U.S. Commerce secretary ever" at a conference 18 months ago.

McCain "voted for me to be commerce secretary," Daley told the Sun-Times' Lynn Sweet. ''I am part of the Evil Empire? It's not the John McCain that people respected for so many years in Washington."

Sweet sorts out the rest of the charges in McCain's ad and the extent of Obama's involvement in Chicago's "tribal politics" and reform efforts here.

Watch McCain's "Chicago Machine" ad:

Comments

[Madmac]

Message to McCain, you don't frack with the Daley's. And do you REALLY want to go there with Rezko, some of his Links to the republicans are even stronger, U.S. Attorney purge anyone?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-rezko-rove-fitzgerald-web-apr24,0,2332070.story

[Yorksgal]

McCain - it wasn't the Keating Four - you were involved hence the Keating Five!! Look in the mirror McCain .....
From the Seattle Times – September 4, 2008

During the (Keating Five Scandal) investigation, McCain revealed he and his wife, Cindy, had not reimbursed Keating for thousands of dollars in flights on his company jet to the Bahamas. The McCains blamed each other, reported McCain biographer Robert Timberg, causing the first rift in their marriage.
Then, The Arizona Republic published a report about an investment that Cindy McCain had made with her father in a shopping-mall project owned by a Keating company.
In 1991, McCain, along with his four Democratic colleagues, was found guilty by the Senate Ethics Committee of using "poor judgment" for attending the meetings with regulators on Keating's behalf.
"I watched John just crumble," Cindy McCain told Timberg. "I've seen the glow go out of him. This is a guy who could reach for the stars, and now he can't — or he won't."

[rwe]

Bill Daley was involved with Billy Clinton in Nafta ... he is the lobbyists lobbyist....Blago, Stroger, Rham Emmanuel and Barack and Emil and King Richie...

[Zingaro Zorro]

A night train named 'Keating Five' left Chicago no long ago to meet the Straight Talk Express head-to-head.

[47th]

Bill Daley was one of President Clinton's point men on NAFTA. There, I said something negative about Bill Daley. There is terrible corruption in Chicago,and it hurts working families (the people that Obama champions) the most! I like Obama, but he needs to call Daley out on Corruption, bad schools, an appalling lack of affordable housing, etc. while Daley looks to waste billions on the Olympics! Obama doesn't need this provincial crook to win the Presidency.

[Zingaro Zorro]

Night train coming. Keating Five.

[Serious Lee]

There is corruption in Chicago. There is no need for the McCain camp to "make things up!"

[Zingaro Zorro]

No corruption in the Keating Five Scandal or the life of the Maverick, then?

[deliriousgod]

McCain's wife used his weight to strongarm doctors working for McCain's charity to keep her in wall-to-wall prescriptions. He said he didn't notice anything odd about his wife.

[haveitoldyoulately]

When the day comes McCain or any one can say anything negative about Bill Daley....is the day to commit them.

Just goes to show what an evil individual McCain has become.....he'll turn on his own mother to be president