Mr Obama retorted by talking about Mr McCain’s role in the Keating Five scandal, part of a savings-and-loan fiasco in the 1980s.

奥巴马则反唇相讥地扯出了麦凯恩在19世纪80年代的“基廷五人组”丑闻中扮演的角色。

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