Love Letter from Charles Keating to John McCain

Image from source, Think Progress

While the right-wing screeches endlessly about Barack Obama's tenuous connections to various people they consider to be unsavory, they continue to ignore John McCain's very real connections. For instance, Charles Keating. He's the guy who greased several Senators, known collectively as "The Keating Five," for preferential treatment in the Savings and Loan scandal of the early nineties. And John McCain was one of those Senators.

And McCain can't simply brush Keating off as a casual acquaintance. Check out the love letter sent by Keating to McCain. . .

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Keating to McCain in 1986: ‘I’m yours til death do us part.’

The Washington Times reports that in 1986, John McCain wrote a note on House stationery to Charles Keating, chairman of a failed savings and loan association who went to prison in the late 1980s. In the letter, McCain apologized for listing Keating as part of his Senate campaign finance committee. Keating wrote in response: “You can call me anything, write anything or do anything. I’m yours till death do us part". . .

Read more at: Think Progress

Thanks to Stupid Monkey Planet for the link.