Posted on 09/18/2008 5:44:59 PM PDT by RatsDawg
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."
Raines said in the statement through the campaign, "I am not an advisor to Barack Obama, nor have I provided his campaign with advice on housing or economic matters."
Obama spokesman Bill Burton added an attack:
This is another flat-out lie from a dishonorable campaign that is increasingly incapable of telling the truth. Frank Raines has never advised Senator Obama about anything -- ever. And by the way, someone whose campaign manager and top advisor worked and lobbied for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shouldn't be throwing stones from his seven glass houses.
UPDATE: McCain spokesman Brian Rogers notes that Obama didn't contradict the claim when it first appeared in the Post.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
McCain has thrown a grenade into the rat hole.
They’re all turning on each other.
I hope to see Obama/Rezko/ Obama Ayers /Obama/Wright
/Obama Phleger/
Obama/Michelle/ Obama/ Pakistani Muslim Roommates for Years and Years/
Obama/ Hut Bother /Obama/Community Agitator/ Obama/ Chicago Corruption/
Obama/Empty Suit and Empty Resume
and Obama in his own “ ahhh,ahhhh,ahhhh, I’m so tired, I have no idea what I’m saying “ ...
ads in the future.
Kudos to the McCain Ad Team.
There will not be any investigation of Fannie Mae. PERIOD.
It involves:
1) Too many Democrats
-and-
2) Too many BLACK Democrats
That’s a DOUBLE Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free Media Card!
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Bingo! I agree completely.
Sounds lke a direct hit abeam at the waterline just under the bridge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OBIE is crying his stinking eyes out and screaming for his NANA to kiss it and make it better!!!!
As Donald Trump said today, the Jerk just limped across the finish line and he wasnt big enough to recognize Hillary!
Obama is going to regret that denial. Those words are going to come back to haunt him.
Sorry we've upset your apple cart, Sorry we've got you bamboozled.
We are playing by your Alinsky rules and the only thing that matters is winning.
We need to keep rubbing that open wound, we need to keep applying pressure
to your stinking sagging campaign.
Just wait until our October Surprise comes out about what you did during those college years
and those buddies of yours. Oh yeah, Saul would be proud of us.
Screen capped for safe keeping.
“That’s not aaahhh, the, aaahhh, Franklin Raines I knew!”
I’d love to meet Bill Burton in a bar around closing time.
Never attended Columbia or Harvard either.
No records exist to prove he took any classes or penned a thesis.
Obama like his mother and her parents are ghosts.
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 16, 2008; Page D01
In the four years since he stepped down as Fannie Mae's chief executive under the shadow of a $6.3 billion accounting scandal, Franklin D. Raines has been quietly constructing a new life for himself. He has shaved eight points off his golf handicap, taken a corner office in Steve Case's D.C. conglomeration of finance, entertainment and health-care companies and more recently, taken calls from Barack Obama's presidential campaign seeking his advice on mortgage and housing policy matters.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/15/AR2008071502827.html
Gettin’ crowded under that bus.
“Mr. Obama we are playing by your rules, you know those Saul Alinsky rules! “
We should all read Alinsky and apply his methods to defeating the left. Many of them revere Alinsky, and think that he was unstoppable- imagine their concern when faced with an enemy they KNOW is unstoppable!
Hillary pulled back from Alinsky in her campaign, but Barack pured it on. He never once made a statement with content.
Is his grandmother under that bus?
“under the shadow of a $6.3 billion accounting scandal”-I’m not sure what to make of this. If there was some type of “scandal” that implies that there was some illegal activity going on-so why wouldn’t it be investigated. I know, I know-Black, Dem-double get a free pass from the media card.
Rains being discussed on Hannity & Colmes right now. No mention of Rains denying being an advisor to Obama.
ha, I was just about to post that!
Newt was tearing into Raines!
Yeah, but I'll bet McCain has never been delinquent on one of the houses.
Is it just me, or is Obama swiftboating HIMSELF?
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