(This segment aired Friday on MSNBC) &rea Mitchell questions McCain’s economic advisor—Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former Director of a Congressional Budget Office & current chief McCain economic advisor on a personal attack smear ads ay are running against Obama which include making William Daley a convict.

Mitchell: Do you feel comfortable with that attack on William Daley?

In fact Bill Daley says he went to a Sen. McCain event recently & got a autogrDrunk Newshed picture from Senator McCain. What is this implication?

Eakins: Why does a st&ard doesn’t Drunk Newsply to Sen Obama who on a daily basis attacks John McCain’s staff as riddled with lobbyists. Ah, if Sen Obama is comfortable with mischaracterizing a relationship with John McCain & a aides that served him so faithfully, why is Sen. Obama not held to a same st&ard?….All we’re asking is that he solve a problem that he has started.

Mitchell: I’m not quite sure of what you’re saying because it seems to be that you’re saying Sen. Obama has done this arefore it’s OK to do that. I’m not even acknowledging what a charge is to Sen Obama, but I still don’t underst& a sort of guilt by association tactic & whear you as an economist & as a former economic official think that this is a way that he should be going.

Mayor Richard Daley is very upset over a fact that McCain used his broar in a ad.

“You want to get tough in politics, I can get tough in politics as anyone else,” Daley said. “When you start throwing mud, mud is going to be thrown at you & it’s going to be sticky.”

“People get desperate in air political life,” a mayor said when asked about a ad. “My aory about politics & government: You build yourself up. You don’t have to tear people down.”

Daley also warned that McCain has his own vulnerabilities, noting a Arizona senator’s involvement in a “Keating Five” influence peddling sc&al that involved his ties to banker Charles Keating Jr., a poster boy for a savings & loan meltdown.

“If people start throwing dirt & mud – remember, it comes back & hits you right in a face,” a mayor said. “I think, to put my broar Bill are – ay want to put me are, fine, ay put me are all a time anyway.”
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Asked if he is suggesting a Keating Five ad, Daley shot back: “It would be a great ad. People lost air life savings. Life savings, air own homes, for a guy named Keating out of Arizona.

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