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Here is more information, clearly not “independent” relevant to the current election campaign. The source of this video is http://www.keatingeconomics.com. The NY Times has a brief story about this at http://www.nytimes.com/external/gigaom/2008/10/06/06gigaom-obama-puts-keating-economics-short-online-9540.html. The LA Times story is here http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-keating7-2008oct07,0,7970180.story. The second video below is CNN’s review of the video pronouncing the video TRUE.

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 Please note that the investigation cleared John McCain of all criminal wrongdoing; instead the Senate Ethics Committee reprimanded him for “poor judgement”.

Disclosure: I am a Barack Obama fan.