Fannie and Freddie and McSame and Obama...a picture speaks...

[Triana]

[central scrutinizer]

1. Be nice to see similar figures for 2000 and 2004

that is when the seeds of this crisis were sown, watered, and fertilized.

[pleah]

2. K&R Good to know.

:kick:

[mscuedawg]

3. Check this link...

http://wizbangblog.com/content/2008/09/16/obama-one-of-leading-recipients-of-fanniefreddie-political-contributions.php

or just faux hot air?

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. Fannie Mae former VP protests McCain ad in a letter to the NYT

To The Editor:

Yesterday, Senator John McCain released a television commercial attacking Barack Obama for allegedly receiving advice on the economy from former Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines. From the stump, he has recently tried tying Senator Obama to Fannie Mae, as if there is some guilt in the association with Fannie Mae's former executives.

It is an interesting card for Senator McCain to play, given that his campaign manager, Rick Davis, was paid by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac several hundred thousand dollars early in this decade to head up an organization to lobby in their behalf called The Homeownership Alliance. ...

I worked in government relations for Fannie Mae for more than 20 years, leading the group for most of those years. When I see photographs of Sen. McCain's staff, it looks to me like the team of lobbyists who used to report to me. Senator McCain's attack on Senator Obama is a cheap shot, and hypocritical.


Sincerely,

William Maloni
Fannie Mae Senior Vice President for Government and Industry Relations (1983-2004)

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13643.html

[beac]

5. opps! replied in wrong place. sorry! n/t

[beac]

6. Do you have a link to the article the graphic came from? If so, TY in advance. n/t

[Triana]

7. HERE...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/10/us/politics/10fannie.html?pagewanted=1

[beac]

8. Thanks!! n/t

[beac]

9. Thanks!! n/t

[BeyondGeography]

10. Hell, I've given more to Barack than some of those people

[nc4bo]

11. You can tell who these people want in the WH. So what's with all this bs that mccain keeps spewing?

about Obama being in the sack with Fannie and Freddie.

Sickening.