The Obama Campaign has decided that rather than "being a distraction" in the campaign, talking about the friends one keeps is most definitely on the table. 

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Monday will launch a multimedia campaign to draw attention to the involvement of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in the "Keating Five" savings-and-loan scandal of 1989-91, which blemished McCain's public image and set him on his course as a self-styled reformer.

McCain was of course already tried and found NOT GUILTY of any wrong doing in this association. The fact that this appears to be the very worst that Obama's formidable campaign can dig up on the Senator is a testimony to the Maverick's character and a sign that Obama is worrying people are going to learn  the extent of the bad associations he has made over the years.

Bring it on Obama!