This one's too dumb to believe...
Actually, Obama is counting on the public being too dumb to believe it...
Yesterday, in another thread, I specifically pointed out that
Franklin Raines is Obama's economic advisor...
Franklin Raines is the former CEO of Fannie Mae...The same people that gave Obama over $126,000 in donations, ranking him second in Fannie Mae lobbyist money only behind the Banking Committee chairman, Democratic Senator Chris Dodd...
So what happens when a McCain ad points this out?...
The usual...Obama's campaign gets another one of his friends to throw himself under the bus before his Messiah gets hurt by the truth...
Obama denies Raines ties
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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:
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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.
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UPDATE: McCain spokesman Brian Rogers notes that Obama didn't contradict the claim when it first appeared in the Post.
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If you think THAT'S bad, check this out...
The orignal post on Franklin Raines I wrote yesterday had a link to wikipedia's page on him...
So what happened when this Politico article came out?...
The part where it says Franklin Raines is Obama's economic advisor has MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARED!...
Can't say if it was the campaign itself or just one of Obama's fervent supporters who wants Obama to win so badly they're willing to hide the facts, but, as you can see, somebody doesn't want the public to know the truth about Obama's and Raines' connection, and they were fast and furious today in an attempt to make it happen...
Here's the
cached version of the article BEFORE the sentence in question suddenly vanished...
As if a single declaration by Raines and a revision of Raines's bio will save Obama from the public knowing this...
Of course, Raines, Obama, and the cult-like followers will never be able to whitewash ALL of the internet like they'd want to...
Fanny, Freddie, and Obama
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"You look at Obama's economic advisers, the guys he has counted on from day one and who have raised him a ton -- and I mean a ton -- of money: Franklin Raines and Jim Johnson, both of them are waist to neck deep in the mortgage debacle."
Both Raines and Johnson have served as CEO of Fannie Mae, with Raines taking over from Johnson. Both are key political and economic advisers to Obama.
"How can Obama go out with a straight face and saw it was Republicans who made this mess, when it is his key advisers who ran the agencies that made the big mess what it is?" says a Democrat House member who supported Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. "It's his people who are responsible for what may well be the single largest government bailout in history. And every single one of them made millions off the collapse that are lining Obama's campaign coffers. If the McCain campaign lets this one go, they deserve to lose."
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