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To: FocusNexus
This is from September...

Fanny, Freddie, and Obama

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Another close political adviser, in fact the one man responsible for rallying support for Obama early on among Congressional Democrats, is Rep. Rahm Emanuel, who served on the Board of Directors for Freddie Mac after leaving the Clinton White House. According to Freddie Mac insiders, Emanuel during his time on the board opposed every reform proposed by the Bush Administration that would have impacted Freddie and Fannie Mae....

27 posted on 11/07/2008 5:16:12 AM PST by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: mewzilla

Rahm is in this Fannie-Freddie mess so deep it’s amazing- and yet Obama CHOOSES him for arguably the most important position in the White House.

Let’s speculate about how far the Fannie-Freddie congressional investigations will go now...

Emanuel was also given astounding MILLION$ in campaign contributions from...Lehman..Goldman Sachs..Morgan..etc..


30 posted on 11/07/2008 5:23:25 AM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: mewzilla

Reference bump! Thanks! ;-)


44 posted on 11/07/2008 5:35:57 AM PST by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here. ;-)
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To: mewzilla
Emanuel during his time on the board opposed every reform proposed by the Bush Administration that would have impacted Freddie and Fannie Mae....

Does the truth matter with any of you people, Mccains campaign manager was doing the same to prevent change at freddie and fannie. As was lobbyists for banks, builders and realors. The majority of congress was bought and paid for on this issue.

75 posted on 11/07/2008 6:03:14 AM PST by org.whodat ( "the Whipped Dog Party" , what was formally the republicans.)
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