[zhoukies]

...money from Fanny Mae and Fredie Mac? Barrack always tells us that he won't accept pac contributions. Yet he is all over the news as the number 3 receiver of political contributions from these agencys. Should not the Obama campaign admit they are in bed with the government pork barrel gravy train, and opponents of private enterprise? Should they admit it is they that are trying to put lipstick on a pig, and the pig is the failure of socialism to compete with freeer republic economies?

[tickled blue]

He received money from individual doners. Get over it. McCain's own lobbyists/advisors have made far more--millions on fanny and freddie deals.Aquiles Suarez, listed as an economic adviser to the McCain campaign in a July 2007 McCain press release, was formerly the director of government and industry relations for Fannie Mae. The Senate Lobbying Database says Suarez oversaw the lending giant's $47,510,000 lobbying campaign from 2003 to 2006.And other current McCain campaign staffers were the lobbyists receiving shares of that money. According to the Senate Lobbying Database, the lobbying firm of Charlie Black, one of McCain's top aides, made at least $820,000 working for Freddie Mac from 1999 to 2004. The McCain campaign's vice-chair Wayne Berman and its congressional liaison John Green made $1.14 million working on behalf of Fannie Mae for lobbying firm Ogilvy Government Relations. Green made an additional $180,000 from Freddie Mac. Arther B. Culvahouse Jr., the VP vetter who helped John McCain select Sarah Palin, earned $80,000 from Fannie Mae in 2003 and 2004, while working for lobbying and law firm O'Melveny & Myers LLP. In addition, Politico reports that at least 20 McCain fundraisers have lobbied for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, pocketing at least $12.3 million over the last nine years.

[ObaMoose]

Anytime someone mentions Fanny Mae and Obama I just start to giggle. Don't you know that most of McCain's staff are former Fannie Mae lobbyists including his campaign manager?