October 1, 2008 - Finally, in the middle of all the bailout talk someone -- the Huffington Post -- is bringing up the Keating Five, an offshoot of the S&L debacle that should have (and almost did) cost John McCain his career. We'll leave to Huffpost to go through the details (short version: everything...
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September 25, 2008 - Looks like the McCain campaign is trying to jump on a whole lot of grenades at once. The media is really getting sick of Sarah Palin playing hard-to-get. Rick Davis's consulting firm has been...
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September 24, 2008 - John McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis, owns a company that received payments from doomed mortgage company Freddie Mac. Davis had consulted for...
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September 23, 2008 - A CNN poll found that Americans blame Republicans over Democrats for the economic crisis by a 2-to-1 margin. That means for every time someone blames a Democrat for ruining the countr...
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September 23, 2008 - John McCain is getting slapped around in the media for his bumbling economy talk. After his "fundamentals of the economy are strong" line and his "I'm gonna fire the SEC president even though that would be impossible for me to do" bullcrap, even...
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