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OBAMABUS FEEDS ON FRANKLIN RAINES!

The ad worked.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  September 18th, 2008 at 07:49 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

Hit him again, Johnny:

The campaign puts out a statement from former Fannie Mae chief Franklin Raines, disowning ties to Obama, after a McCain ad attacked him for the ties.

The Washington Post reported — with the kind of blind sourcing that suggests the source was Raines — that Raines had “taken calls from Barack Obama’s presidential campaign seeking his advice on mortgage and housing policy matters.”

[blah blah blah denial denial denial blah blah blah class warfare class warfare class warfare blah blah blah]

UPDATE: McCain spokesman Brian Rogers notes that Obama didn’t contradict the claim when it first appeared in the Post.

And that’s why you do ranging shots.

Video revisited below the fold.

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  • gamecock

    response by McCain

  • PaulJansen

    Period. Full Stop. End of story.

    Warfare class my ass.

  • NightTwister

    …and it lands deep in the cheap seats.

    We aren’t worthy.

  • speciallist
  • BuckeyesforMcCainPalin

    This is what they need to be doing. Not lipstick on a pig or sex ed.

  • Moe_Lane

    By the way, watch the profanity.

  • redneck_hippie

    pitiful Obama.

    The cloud of corruption follows him every step he takes.

    I pray we don’t get stuck with this turkey.

  • Moe_Lane

    …OR THE WORST:

    Yes, she’s covering him.

  • PaulJansen

    Better we should pursue wacky conspiracy theories as to why our economy is currently being flushed down the toilet.

    Then act accordingly.

  • Moe_Lane

    …that questioning the rationality of other posters is good for your long-term survival here. It’s, well, not.

    So I’m going to need you to apologize to specialist for being impolite. Next post, please.

  • IBleedRed

    I smell a troll.

  • simpson316

    Ads like this are home runs!

  • RedFox84

    Lasted about seven times longer than most.

  • speciallist

    n/p

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  • GARepub

    I am tired of the nonsense.

    I like the ad. Of course Raines now has tire track on his back.

    Neither one of the candidates has any idea how to fix this mess, but I trust McCain a whole lot more than Barry, Pelosi, and Reid.

    BTW – I really enjoy this site. Any idea when the server errors will be taken care of?

  • kowalski

    So back in July when Obama was riding high, it was just fine for the Washington Post to say Raines was taking calls from Obama’s campaign, but now that Fannie Mae has gone all desquamated, they want nothing to do with him.

    Whew.

    Later on in the article, the WaPo quotes Raines:

    He’s taken to repeating an old saw, “If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.”

    And now the Obama campaign wants nothing to do with him giving them any advice, and apparently neither does he. Maybe his dog should get a dog! With friends like these, it makes sense.

  • IBleedRed

    I believe I heard that Obama has several other top advisors who were also heavily involved in the Fannie/Freddie situation. Is that correct?

  • speciallist

    n/p

  • speciallist

    n/p

  • SeanH90050

    Please, we all know the list of cronies! Go with it!

    I’d love to see an ad attacking his tax “breaks” too.

  • digitalhap

    “That’s not the Franklin Raines I know…”

  • speciallist

    Barry: “Alright John…you are activities director…find something fun to do…and…would you get her OFF the Sauce!”

  • tankertodd

    All they can do to counter this, other than throw the people under the bus, is to bring up their nonsense of McCain owning a lot of houses.

    Hmm, which is worse:
    1. Owning a lot of houses
    2. Taking advice from a guy who enriched himself at the expense of taxpayers

    Or another one. Which is worse:
    1. Voting for earmarks before voting against them
    2. Always voting for earmarks – lots of them – and not declaring any attention to change the behavior.

  • StopTheInsanity

    Raines has never been a part of the Obama campaign. Why is McCain even dwelling on this when so many of his insiders are deep into Freddie and Fannie?

  • StopTheInsanity

    That’s actually incorrect. Johnson had ties to them but was released in June. McCain has at least 20 or so advisers tied to Freddie, Fannie, and various other interests.

  • Berean

    I know we have some sort of troll marker, and it looks like we need it here.

  • goldenboy

    Isn’t Stop the Insanity the name of a diet?

    Are the deep Fannie insiders you speak of a lobbyist who may have done some work along the way and a board of directors guy who sits on many boards of directors?

    Not the same as a CEO and other high profile insiders who gave most of their money to Congressional demoncats, and who proudly supported the CBC and gave over 140,000 dollars to your man BHO in exchange for protection from McCain’s efforts to reform Fannie and Freddy.

    Man, it must be hard to hear all this new stuff. They don’t tell that to the Obamabots during the re-education sessions.

  • morganm

    At least not once their usefulness has ended. I await the Obama campaign’s demand for a retraction on the story. Maybe you can do that for him, since you’re so sure he wasn’t involved.

  • Cowboy

    Obama takes their money. Lots of it.

  • Cowboy

    Obama takes their money. Lots of it.

  • morganm

    Why isn’t Obama upset at the paper? McCain can’t use that information, even after it’s been in the public for months?

    I’d love to hear your definition of ‘ties’, but I call being the 2nd largest recipient of contributions from them a ‘tie’.

    Johnson was going to lead the search for a VP until this started getting public– but long, long, looooong after Johnson ripped off the taxpayers. Obama’s judgment still blows.

  • LostSoul

    Here is some more links showing Obama’s connection to Freddie and Fannie Democratic Black Caucus and Fannie and here is McCain calling Obama out on some of his other lies Obama’s supporters. Here is why the situation at Freddie and Fannie wasn’t stopped Blocked Reform Package. Obama is great for taking credit for other peoples work why doesn’t he actually take credit for a bill he actually co-sponsored like this bill Obama’s Bill you can also read more about it here Obama’s Great Bill.

  • tgharris

    I get a kick out of the people saying McCain is “lying” when the ad uses the Washington Post as an easily verifiable source.

    Somebody’s lying here folks. But it ain’t John McCain.

  • tgharris

    You just don’t recognize him because he’s all squished up under the bus.

  • bs

    Nowhere in the posting or in the ad does anyone claim that Raines was “part of the Obama campaign.” He can advise without being employed by them or even being on the staff as a contractor. Happens all the time.

    Oh, and I take it by the absence of whining about the rest of the ad that you concur that your man-god has no economic background. Thanks for the confirmation on that one.

    Now crawl back under your bridge. Every time you show up, things start to smell around here.

  • StopTheInsanity

    Republican buffoonery.

    Both candidates have taken money from Fannie and Freddie, BUT the thing is, only one of them are parading around as if he hasn’t done so (the guy from the Keating scandal, of course). To those who say there are multiple Fannie and Freddie zombies (lobbyists, whatever) embedded within the Obama campaign, I challenge you to name a few that are currently working within Obama’s circle. You’ll be hard pressed to do so, primarily because most of those guys are too busy working on McCain’s campaign (along with the guy who sold out McCain’s daughter as an illegitimate black child a few years earlier).

    And, in regards to Obama’s economic background, the reason MOST Americans trust Obama is because he’s done something Republicans haven’t—wait for it—that’s right, he hasn’t RUINED the economy. I’m a moderate and I’m still waiting to hear the cowardly right take the blame for their mess. Instead, McCain, who FUNDAMENTALLY LOVES DEREGULATION, is masquerading as if he’s a populist and desires formal regulation. And people thought John Kerry was a flip-flopper, wow!

  • Jeff_Emanuel

    ..he didn’t take money from the Fannie & Freddie folks? And Obama is admitting he did?

    Really?

    What impersonators are you watching, Mr. Create-My-Own-Reality? Because while saying that might make you feel well and good, it has the small downside of flying in the face of, you know, reality.

  • shawng

    You sure now how to quote the Obama Kool-aid crew’s diatribes.

    McCain isn’t for deregulation. Never has been. He’s actually been for streamlining regulation all along. The patchwork of agencies is a mess. It helped create this crisis. I don’t like McCain at all, never have. But he’s always been right on this.

    2005, McCain called for reform of GSEs saying this would happen if it wasn’t changed. Dodd, Obama, Kerry, and HRClinton stopped his bill.

    Them’s the facts. Obama ‘should’ know how to fix the economy. He’s directly responsible for helping break it.

  • itrytobenice

    I especially love the AoS. I hope the RNC has enough money to tattoo that one on everyone’s brain this fall.

    Thanks.

  • redneck_hippie

    =

  • IBleedRed

    From 1989 – 2008, Obama received $126,349 from Fannie/Freddie. In the same time period, McCain received $21,550. That places Obama at #2 (right behind Dodd) and McCain at #62.
    The striking thing is that Obama was only in office for 3 and a half years during that time period, and McCain was in office for the whole 10 year period.
    But don’t let these facts interrupt you. I think you were getting ready to say something about tingling feelings running up your leg.

    And the Republicans have ruined the economy? Americans trust Obama because he hasn’t?
    So where was Obama the last few years when McCain was pushing for reform of Fannie/Freddie? Oh, that’s right – he was OPPOSING that along with his Democratic cronies. Guess he didn’t want to interrupt his flow of contributions. As a matter of fact, many Republicans – even W himself – have been calling for YEARS for the reform of Fannie/Freddie. Oh, but it’s the REPUBLICANS who have ruined the economy. Gotcha.