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McCain Effort to Tie Obama to Fannie Mae Woes Sets off Political Brawl

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Nambe (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Sep-19-08 02:20 PM
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McCain Effort to Tie Obama to Fannie Mae Woes Sets off Political Brawl
Source: Congressional Quarterly

Republican presidential nominee John McCain sparked a furious exchange of campaign attacks Thursday night with the release of a television ad linking Democratic nominee Barack Obama to a former Fannie Mae chief who was forced out by an accounting scandal.

The ad accuses Obama of using Franklin Raines as an adviser, a claim based on a July Washington Post profile of Raines that reported he had "taken calls from Barack Obama's presidential campaign seeking his advice on mortgage and housing policy matters."

The Obama campaign disputes that Raines ever advised Obama or the campaign.

Raines, who served as head of the White House Office of Management and Budget under Bill Clinton, left Fannie Mae in late December 2004 amid allegations of accounting irregularities, saying he was holding himself accountable by taking an early retirement. Fannie Mae agreed to pay $400 million in fines in the wake of the scandal. ...

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/politics2955173 ;_ylt=AlIDL_AgK8_E0jGMBULaGvys0NUE

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   OK, Now, Go For Keating Five  Me.   Sep-19-08 02:34 PM   #1 
   You beat me to it! Keating Five time!  McCamy Taylor   Sep-19-08 02:34 PM   #2 
   Keith Olbermann suggested that on a national broadcast.  Nambe   Sep-19-08 05:57 PM   #9 
   he wants to go THERE?  CitizenPatriot   Sep-19-08 02:46 PM   #3 
   Yep,  Spritz57   Sep-19-08 02:50 PM   #4 
   hit him back with the keating five.  alyce douglas   Sep-19-08 02:57 PM   #5 
   keating five and all the lobbyists/bushies working for him now....!!!!  radfringe   Sep-19-08 03:11 PM   #6 
   Yup, Keating five  Cronus Protagonist   Sep-19-08 05:07 PM   #7 
   KEATING FIVE that asshole right back. IT'S HIGH TIME WE KICKED McGRAMPY IN THE BALLS.  NoodleyAppendage   Sep-19-08 05:31 PM   #8 
 
Me. Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Sep-19-08 02:34 PM
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1. OK, Now, Go For Keating Five

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McCamy Taylor (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Sep-19-08 02:34 PM
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2. You beat me to it! Keating Five time!

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Nambe (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Sep-19-08 05:57 PM
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9. Keith Olbermann suggested that on a national broadcast.

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CitizenPatriot Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Sep-19-08 02:46 PM
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3. he wants to go THERE?
PHIL GRAMM.

Oh, and by the way, McCain/Gramm -- FUCK YOU. Shame on you, you have NO honor or integrity. This is the LAST straw.

FANNIE AND FREDDIE'S BIGGEST LOBBYIST ENRON LOBBYIST DEREGULATOR OF BANKS/MORTGAGES/INVESTMENT CO/INSURANCE CO/

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Spritz57 (353 posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Sep-19-08 02:50 PM
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4. Yep,
time to light'em up!

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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Fri Sep-19-08 02:57 PM
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5. hit him back with the keating five.
enough.

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radfringe (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Sep-19-08 03:11 PM
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6. keating five and all the lobbyists/bushies working for him now....!!!!

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Cronus Protagonist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Sep-19-08 05:07 PM
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7. Yup, Keating five
They could also destroy this Mccain ad as more evidence of his lying, dishonorable ass.

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NoodleyAppendage (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Sep-19-08 05:31 PM
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8. KEATING FIVE that asshole right back. IT'S HIGH TIME WE KICKED McGRAMPY IN THE BALLS.
I'm so friggin' sick of playing defense to these fuckers. GO FOR THE THROAT AND TEAR IT OUT, GODDAMN IT!

J

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