08-27-2018, 02:18 PM
(08-27-2018, 02:07 PM)Millhouse Wrote: Overall I believe McCain was a good man and a great American.
There are things such as him being part of the "Keating Five" scandal as it became known, and his pro-hawk stances on Iraq in which he later regretted, will be stains on his political career, especially the Keating deal. I think if anything like that happened today, I dont see how a Senator can survive it with social media and the internet. But because it happened in the late 1980s, it was much easier for people to forget and not dig into like they can today.
I think you underestimate the tolerance of the American people for the type of scandal that was the Keating situation. Even in the age of social media, that sort of thing happens all the time and the majority don't seem to care.
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