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To: Road Walker who wrote (408387)	8/20/2008 10:47:20 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1586784

The Ethics Committee ruled that the involvement of McCain in the scheme was also minimal, and he too was cleared of all charges against him. Okay, that pretty much says it I think. McCain was criticized by the Committee for exercising "poor judgment" when he met with the federal regulators on Keating's behalf. Yet, it was established that McCain in no way acted inappropriately, in no way intervened on Keating's behalf, and was cleared of all wrongdoing. As so many have said, it was merely an attempt to get AT LEAST ONE Republican called on the carpet so it wasn't all Dems. The report also said that McCain's "actions were not improper nor attended with gross negligence and did not reach the level of requiring institutional action against him Exactly. Senator McCain has violated no law of the United States or specific Rule of the United States Senate. Uh-huh. You've just about made the case for me I think. On his Keating Five experience, McCain has said: "The appearance of it was wrong. It's a wrong appearance when a group of senators appear in a meeting with a group of regulators, because it conveys the impression of undue and improper influence. And it was the wrong thing to do." This is called integrity. The man was never charged with any wrongdoing despite every effort to hammer him. Yet, he clearly says, "Hey, it left open the APPEARANCE of impropriety, and it shouldn't have been done." And he has never, ever been involved with anything similar again. If only Obama were of that character we'd have a race. McCain would write in 2002 that attending the two April 1987 meetings was "the worst mistake of my life".[ The worst mistake of his life was doing something that was totally proper and legal, but that had the mere appearance of impropriety. I'm not sure what you were trying to do with this post, but you just further confirmed my original post, that they had absolutely NOTHING on the man. NOTHING. This is what you call "squeaky clean".