>>BTW, I finally caught a few minutes to catch up on my history reading... namely, the S&L scandal of the early eighties. Don't see how different that is from what's going on now. What caught my attention? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_scandal#Lincoln_Savings_and_Loan and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Five - read the names of the five :).
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>I read it. Hmmmm, I seem to recall McCain was involved in that mess somehow but excused in some way...

For not doing anything bad per se, just "poor judgment". Now that's a sure sign of presidential material.