Time for Obama to do a Keating 5 ad?

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Chicago's Mayor Daley does. And so do I.




http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/09/mccain_attack_on_obama_and_cor.html

McCain attack on Obama and "corrupt Chicago machine" triggers Mayor Daley "Keating 5" response

You want to play rough? Let's get it on.

A new ad from Sen. John McCain's campaign accuses Sen. Barack Obama of being a product of the Chicago political machine. Convicted former Obama supporter Tony Rezko is among those referenced in the ad.

That was Mayor Daley's angry message to Republican presidential nominee John McCain on Tuesday about the McCain ad that smears Daley's brother in an attempt to tie Barack Obama to the "corrupt Chicago political machine."

In essence, Daley warned McCain that people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. He was talking about McCain's role in the so-called "Keating Five" savings and loan scandal.


"You had the Keating Five. We had the biggest scandal in America called savings and loan. The biggest scandal. People lost their homes because of greed. And no one is inferring Sen. McCain and the others, who were always known as the Keating Five. So, if people start throwing dirt and mud, remember it comes back and hits you right in the face," Daley said.

Was the mayor suggesting that Obama get down and dirty by running an ad that reprises McCain's role in the Keating Five?

"It would be a great ad. Remember: People lost their life savings, their own homes for a guy named Keating out of Arizona," Daley said.

"If you want to get tough in politics, I can get as tough in politics as anyone else. If you want to do that, then you basically bring yourself down. When you start throwing mud, mud is gonna be thrown at you and it's gonna be sticking," the mayor said.


What do you think- should the Obama campaign go there?