We’ve heard that he’s been in the senate for a long time, that he was captured during the Vietnam War, and that he is a “maverick.” But during a time when banks are failing due to deregulation shouldn’t we know that Senator John McCain was involved in a bank scandal in the ’80s? He was good friends with Charles Keating who ran the Lincoln Savings and Loan. He helped Keating get away with millions of dollars as taxpayers had to bail out Lincoln Savings and Loan costing us, the taxpayers, billions of dollars. Now he wants to be President when banks again are collapsing? Here’s some details:

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John “Senator Hothead” McCain too unstable to be president
McCain and his embrace of Jerry Falwell
McCain/Hagee ‘08
John McCain: The Double Talk Express
McCain, the Candidate of Double Speak & Scandal
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