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A Freddie Mac Money Trail Catches Up With McCain
NEWSWEEK ^ | Sep 27, 2008 | Michael Isikoff and Holly Bailey

Posted on 09/27/2008 5:07:06 PM PDT by calcowgirl

Few advisers in John McCain's inner circle inspire more loyalty from him than campaign manager Rick Davis. McCain and his wife, Cindy, credit the shrewd, and sometimes volatile, Republican insider with rescuing the campaign last year when it was out of money and on the verge of collapse. As a result, McCain has always defended him—even when faced with tough questions about the foreign lobbying clients of Davis's high-powered consulting firm. "Rick is a friend, and I trust him," McCain told NEWSWEEK last year.

Last week, though, McCain's trust in Davis was tested again amid disclosures that Freddie Mac, the troubled mortgage giant that was recently placed under federal conservatorship, paid his campaign manager's firm $15,000 a month between 2006 and August 2008.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bailout; fanniemae; freddiemac; isikoff; lobbyists; manafort; mccain; mccaintruthfile; rickdavis
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To: calcowgirl

Old lies.


21 posted on 09/27/2008 5:41:06 PM PDT by Shortstop7
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To: BARLF

yeah, I hope cowgirl or calgirl or whatever feels really proud of herself if Obama gets in!

That’ ll show ‘em!


22 posted on 09/27/2008 5:42:01 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (GOD BLESS GEORGIA! SAVE GEORGIA, OUR ALLY, NOW!)
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To: calcowgirl

$15 grand a month over two years is $360M for services rendered. Raines took $25 million for cooking the books!


23 posted on 09/27/2008 5:42:19 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Kill 'em til they're dead, then kill 'em again!)
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To: calcowgirl

*YAWN*


24 posted on 09/27/2008 5:43:29 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: calcowgirl

Again, I ask; HOW many MILLIONS of dollars did Obama Campagin employees, Jim Johnson and Frank Raines, former CEO’s of FANNIE MAE get when they left the troubled financial giant? They got a golden parachute, right into the Obama campaign!


25 posted on 09/27/2008 5:43:51 PM PDT by tuckrdout (~ 'Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who don't.' ~)
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To: calcowgirl

thats good of you to point out. If you agree with it and are so against McCain then maybe you will be happy when Obama rapes the taxpayers, guts the DOD to extend his social welfare state to the nation. You need to get a clue or get out of America.

(http://www.usnews.com/blogs/capital-commerce/2008/2/14/obamas-trillion-dollar-spending-plan.html


26 posted on 09/27/2008 5:44:25 PM PDT by tomnbeverly (America is dying your choice is to stand and fight or cut and run.)
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham

It goes on both sides of the aisle. Davis didn’t know about it when it happened and has since stopped


27 posted on 09/27/2008 5:45:37 PM PDT by GerardKempf (Let's Get Over This)
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To: GeeMoney

Well, in all fairness, McCain DID get some. It was $862.00 if I’m remembering correctly. That’s eight hundred and sixty-two dollars. Just so we’re all clear on this point. :)


28 posted on 09/27/2008 5:45:49 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: All

I’ve got a secret...

If any Obama trolls are around, I suggest you tell him to throw his Fannie crew under the bus before Monday.

Trust me.


29 posted on 09/27/2008 5:45:56 PM PDT by AliVeritas (All stolen from http://directorblue.blogspot. com)
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To: AliVeritas

Is there any ROOM under that bus? At this point, it must be a double-decker, LOL!


30 posted on 09/27/2008 5:48:16 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Bushbacker1

That’s $360,000 over 24 months, not 360 million.


31 posted on 09/27/2008 5:48:58 PM PDT by Styria
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To: tomnbeverly
...maybe you will be happy when Obama rapes the taxpayers, guts the DOD to extend his social welfare state to the nation

I'm not happy when any politician fleeces the taxpayers and promotes destructive policy. Are we only supposed to talk about those acts when advocated by a politician(D)?

You need to get a clue or get out of America.

You need to take your meds.

32 posted on 09/27/2008 5:49:53 PM PDT by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: calcowgirl
Please ignore the fact that Obama, Kerry, and Chris Dodd are numbers 1, 2, and 3 on the Fannie/Freddy campaign funds gravy train.

Sheesh. If the media were any more disingenuously Probama, they'd have to be regulated under campaign finance rules.
33 posted on 09/27/2008 5:51:25 PM PDT by Antoninus (Ignore the polls. They're meant to shape public opinion, not measure it.)
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To: lewislynn
Posted and debunked days ago but somehow I think you knew that.

No, I was gone most of last week so I didn't know that, nor have you provided evidence thereof.

34 posted on 09/27/2008 5:52:33 PM PDT by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: calcowgirl

Wow. Not a word on Obama’s much greater connections to Fannie Mae. No media bias there. I bet if the media discover that McCain got a parking ticket in 1960, that parking ticket will be headline news for days, represented as one of the greatest scandals in world history.


35 posted on 09/27/2008 5:52:58 PM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: Popman
That “senior McCain advisor” who is afraid to tell folks about dirty Obama financial ties- is unprincipled and stupid and should be fired.

What say you, Senator McCain?

36 posted on 09/27/2008 5:53:01 PM PDT by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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To: calcowgirl

This is ridiculous.
These out of touch journalists who clearly have no concept of how the real world works actually think that the fact that Davis’ firm was retained (but did no work) by Freddie Mac while he was not even there is somehow equivalent to 0bama hiring the very Fannie Mae CEOs who brought the whole financial industry down through their fraud and mismanagement — and he hired them after they had committed this fraud and were fired!


37 posted on 09/27/2008 5:53:05 PM PDT by counterpunch (Jim Jones was a Community Organizer)
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham

Unbelievable! The MSM has not written one single article on just how much money Obama and the democrats have gotten from all of the corporations involved in this mess...nor how democrat policies have caused it...NOTHING!

It is going to be up to the new media to get the truth out to the American people!


38 posted on 09/27/2008 5:56:32 PM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: AliVeritas
I’ve got a secret... If any Obama trolls are around, I suggest you tell him to throw his Fannie crew under the bus before Monday. Trust me.

Oooh, now that sounds interesting :)

Would it have anything to do with a two word collective noun, the first word beginning with a "g" and the second a "j"....?

39 posted on 09/27/2008 5:58:41 PM PDT by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: calcowgirl
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?cycle=2008&cid=N00009638

Obama top contributors from opensecrets.org

Obama top contributors

40 posted on 09/27/2008 5:59:14 PM PDT by listenhillary (Community organizing has brought Wall Street to it's knees.That WAS the plan, right?)
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