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Obama denies Raines ties
Politico ^ | September 18, 2008 | Ben Smith

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 ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ads; denial; electionads; fanniemae; fanniemaeobama; fightingback; franklinraines; hangemall; mccain; mccainpalin; obama; obamabiden; obamafanniemae; obamafdr; underthebus
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To: RatsDawg

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.


61 posted on 09/18/2008 6:22:19 PM PDT by Wild Irish Rogue
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To: tcrlaf

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!

___________________________________________

Bingo! I agree completely.


62 posted on 09/18/2008 6:22:30 PM PDT by navymom1 (I support Free Speech. Defeat the Fairness Doctrine.)
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To: roaddog727

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!


63 posted on 09/18/2008 6:23:24 PM PDT by NOBAMA in 08 ( OBIE HUSSEIN IS AN EMPTY SUIT with NO Redeeming Value!)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD
You asked for it...

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64 posted on 09/18/2008 6:24:24 PM PDT by Illuminatas (Being conservative means never having to say; "Don't you dare question my patriotism")
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD
Yes, it's certainly getting crowded under there. And they still have to reserve a space for Ayers.

Obama is going to regret that denial. Those words are going to come back to haunt him.

65 posted on 09/18/2008 6:24:41 PM PDT by Cyropaedia ("Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principal of evil...".)
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To: yongin
Mr. Obama we are playing by your rules, you know those Saul Alinsky rules!

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.

66 posted on 09/18/2008 6:27:48 PM PDT by Rodm (Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings)
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To: RatsDawg
Washington Times 8/28/08

Screen capped for safe keeping.

67 posted on 09/18/2008 6:29:47 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (OBAMA: He was a flop before he became a flipper.)
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To: RatsDawg

“That’s not aaahhh, the, aaahhh, Franklin Raines I knew!”


68 posted on 09/18/2008 6:30:30 PM PDT by paul in cape
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To: RatsDawg
Throw another one under the bus, Michelle.

69 posted on 09/18/2008 6:31:35 PM PDT by Blogger
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To: RatsDawg

I’d love to meet Bill Burton in a bar around closing time.


70 posted on 09/18/2008 6:31:51 PM PDT by CaptRon
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To: stop_fascism
"Of course Obama never took advice from Raines. Never talked to Bill Ayers or listened to a Rev Wright sermon either."

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.

71 posted on 09/18/2008 6:35:32 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac - are not facing any kind of financial crisis,'' Barney Frank 9-10-03)
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To: mrmargaritaville
By Anita Huslin

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

72 posted on 09/18/2008 6:41:30 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac - are not facing any kind of financial crisis,'' Barney Frank 9-10-03)
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To: RatsDawg

Gettin’ crowded under that bus.


73 posted on 09/18/2008 6:43:14 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham ("The land of the Free...Because of the Brave")
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To: Rodm

“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.


74 posted on 09/18/2008 6:45:23 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: Blogger

Is his grandmother under that bus?


75 posted on 09/18/2008 6:49:28 PM PDT by CriticalJ
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To: NoLibZone

“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.


76 posted on 09/18/2008 6:55:05 PM PDT by mrmargaritaville
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To: All

Rains being discussed on Hannity & Colmes right now. No mention of Rains denying being an advisor to Obama.


77 posted on 09/18/2008 6:56:04 PM PDT by navymom1 (I support Free Speech. Defeat the Fairness Doctrine.)
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To: navymom1

ha, I was just about to post that!

Newt was tearing into Raines!


78 posted on 09/18/2008 6:56:44 PM PDT by RatsDawg (I love Palin :))
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To: RatsDawg
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.

Yeah, but I'll bet McCain has never been delinquent on one of the houses.

79 posted on 09/18/2008 7:03:43 PM PDT by edpc
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To: RatsDawg

Is it just me, or is Obama swiftboating HIMSELF?


80 posted on 09/18/2008 7:05:49 PM PDT by RockinRight (Obama who?)
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