As McCain begins to throw stones in desperation, we will have to shatter his seven glass houses with accounts of his role in defrauding the taxpayers of $256 billion, the Mob ties to his family business and the bizarre tale of Duke Tully.
Though people have heard of the "Keating Five," few know exactly how expensive the S&L crisis was to taxpayers and the details of the prominent role McCain played.
The McCain wealth comes from a business with direct ties to the Mafia an the slaying of an investigative reporter.
Finally, the man who created McCain in his own image was a complete phony.
The last time the mortgage industry melted down, John McCain was receiving money from one of the corrupt Savings & Loan company executives -- the group that ultimately cost the taxpayers $125 billion.
Charles Keating and his Lincoln Savings had illegally invested federally insured deposits in risky real estate developments. (It was a great bet. If the risky investments succeeded, Keating won big. If they failed, the taxpayers picked up the tab.) Keating bought five senators in an effort to keep federal regulators from closing him down.
McCain took $112,000 in cash and nine trips at Keating's expense, usually to the corrupt banker's Fantasy Island retreat in the Bahamas.
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Though McCain wants to talk about passing acquintances others have made, he doesn't want to dwell on the source of his family fortune. His father-in-law, who started the beer distributorship, did time for bootlegging and later served as a front man for the Mafia in ownership of a New Mexico race track.
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In the most bizarre situation, McCain's political career was launched by a former fighter pilot turned newspaper publisher who was never in the service at all. Duke Tully put McCain in the House and then promoted him to the Senate before being exposed as a complete phony.
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So now, that McCain is desperate and launching a campaign of lies against Obama, it is time for people to know the truth about McCain.