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

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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here's another article not yet cited by the mccain campaign or the media.

washington post (july 17, 2008)

Figures in Both Campaigns Have Deep Ties to Mortgage Giants

campaign money for many Democrats, and even more Republicans, in the House and Senate. The campaign cash cracked the $10-million mark a while ago.


The companies have been famous for hiring big political names. Among them: former Clinton budget director Franklin Raines, Democratic operative Harold Ickes, Republican lobbyist and fundraiser Wayne Berman and former Republican congresswoman Susan Molinari.Fannie, Freddie Takeover May Mean Lobbying Curbs : NPR

Looks like both sets of hands are dirty.

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Why in the hell would you grin at such a thing???

It isn't good for America.

It isn't good for your candidate. It isn't good for McCain.

The only reason I can think of is because you are from the same f**king group of a**holes who would rather win an election than the war, who would be glad to win an election using any means foul or fair, no matter the evidence, no matter what happens to America.

I think you need to re-think what this election is all about. It's not a God damned football game. It's about who we are going to trust with our very future in the most crucial era this nation has seen since WWII.

Please review what it means to be a rational, patriotic American.

I think you've lost sight of the big picture.

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Every step taken toward the installment of Sharia law will be justifiable to the person who values appearance more than freedom and democracy.

I am feeling incredibly agitated at the blatant, obvious, egregious chicanery on the part of the Obama campaign.

Incredibly agitated.

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Every step taken toward the installment of Sharia law will be justifiable to the person who values appearance more than freedom and democracy.

Back at ya:

Reagan infamously thought trees created the greenhouse gases that caused global warming thereby wasting valuable time and diverting funds and resources away from research efforts that could have helped head off this problem years earlier.

- he spent billions on his Strategic Defense Initiative (aka the "Star Wars" missile defense system), which was never completed (or even proven to work), based on the premise of not only defending the US from Soviet missile attacks but also on his sincere belief that it would protect the US from alien attack (I am not making this up).

- he took about six years to acknowledge that AIDS was a serious public health problem that needed to be addressed and researched and not just an issue to pander to the "moral majority" conservatives with by baiting gays and denouncing the homosexual "lifestyle choice."

And, as reported in Newsweek:

- he failed to shrink big government, contrary to one of his supposed claims to fame. The number of federal employees actually grew by 7 percent during his two terms.

- federal spending also increased as a proportion of national output.

and

- while, committed to balancing the budget, he ran the largest peacetime deficits in American history and tripled the national debt.
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, in a pre-taped video eulogy, celebrated Reagan as being responsible for ending the Cold War "without firing a shot." Well, maybe the US themselves never actually fired any shots but there were plenty of proxy battles between the two Cold War superpowers in Central America (Nicuragaua, El Salvador etc.), Africa and most notably, Afghanistan where the CIA armed and trained the anti-Soviet freedom fighters like Osama Bin-Laden who would later morph into the Taliban and groups that would form the basis for the Al-Qaeda terrorist network.

The re-casting of Reagan as the reason for the end of the Cold War, the major point being advanced in the media's revision of Reagan's legacy, is either outright false or, at best, an arguably incomplete analysis. Soley crediting Reagan without acknowledging the contribution of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev ignores key facts such as:
- the economically weak Soviet communist empire would have likely collapsed anyway without the effect of them trying to keep up with the US military build-up under Reagan (although, admittedly, it might have taken a little longer than it actually did).

- the Soviets themselves realized economic collapse was inevitable without serious reform and brought in Gorbachev knowing that they needed a leader strong enough to stand up to the Politburo and make the institutional reforms necessary to save the Soviet empire.

Contrary to the picture painted last week of Reagan being a benign and warm president eternally optimistic about the future of America, I remember Reagan as being painfully disconnected from much of America and antagonistic to the poor, minorities and gays either because of policies he supported or through his public addresses which were often infused with loaded codewords like the infamous "welfare queen" which helped stir up anti-poor and black sentiment.

Much of the Reagan legacy remains with us today: the fiscal policy of using tax cuts as economic stimulus on the basis of the "trickle down theory," now known as "Reaganomics," was widely-discredited (and consided a failure) after his presidency until Bush reintroduced them to little or not effect. The Bush senior administration is littered with old Reagan era staffers and Bush is still actively advocating the SDI missile defense system even though, in a post-9/11, post-Iraq world, it seems pretty obvious that the paradigm for future armed conflict has probably shifted away from the dueling superpower model. Even his choice for National Security Advisor, Condoleezza Rice a Sovietologist and expert cold war theoretician, is a throwback to the Reagan era of thinking about the world around us. Notes from a Different Kitchen

Nope, Sparky, I'd say the Republicans of the past thirty years have cornered the revisionist history market!

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In 2006 John McCain tried to prevent this mess and the Democrats stopped him.



Hot Air Blog Archive McCain’s attempt to fix Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac in 2005; Update: Obama can’t get AIG right

Raines is a guilty party. Obama is as thick with him as he was with Ayers, Rezko, Auchi and the rest.

The only difference is that now we see an example of Obama's pattern exposed before our very eyes.

And the Obamabots will continue to deny it and support this con-man.

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Every step taken toward the installment of Sharia law will be justifiable to the person who values appearance more than freedom and democracy.

Oh yeah, Sparky, I can repost too donchaknow?

Back at ya:

Reagan infamously thought trees created the greenhouse gases that caused global warming thereby wasting valuable time and diverting funds and resources away from research efforts that could have helped head off this problem years earlier.

- he spent billions on his Strategic Defense Initiative (aka the "Star Wars" missile defense system), which was never completed (or even proven to work), based on the premise of not only defending the US from Soviet missile attacks but also on his sincere belief that it would protect the US from alien attack (I am not making this up).

- he took about six years to acknowledge that AIDS was a serious public health problem that needed to be addressed and researched and not just an issue to pander to the "moral majority" conservatives with by baiting gays and denouncing the homosexual "lifestyle choice."

And, as reported in Newsweek:

- he failed to shrink big government, contrary to one of his supposed claims to fame. The number of federal employees actually grew by 7 percent during his two terms.

- federal spending also increased as a proportion of national output.

and

- while, committed to balancing the budget, he ran the largest peacetime deficits in American history and tripled the national debt.
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, in a pre-taped video eulogy, celebrated Reagan as being responsible for ending the Cold War "without firing a shot." Well, maybe the US themselves never actually fired any shots but there were plenty of proxy battles between the two Cold War superpowers in Central America (Nicuragaua, El Salvador etc.), Africa and most notably, Afghanistan where the CIA armed and trained the anti-Soviet freedom fighters like Osama Bin-Laden who would later morph into the Taliban and groups that would form the basis for the Al-Qaeda terrorist network.

The re-casting of Reagan as the reason for the end of the Cold War, the major point being advanced in the media's revision of Reagan's legacy, is either outright false or, at best, an arguably incomplete analysis. Soley crediting Reagan without acknowledging the contribution of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev ignores key facts such as:
- the economically weak Soviet communist empire would have likely collapsed anyway without the effect of them trying to keep up with the US military build-up under Reagan (although, admittedly, it might have taken a little longer than it actually did).

- the Soviets themselves realized economic collapse was inevitable without serious reform and brought in Gorbachev knowing that they needed a leader strong enough to stand up to the Politburo and make the institutional reforms necessary to save the Soviet empire.

Contrary to the picture painted last week of Reagan being a benign and warm president eternally optimistic about the future of America, I remember Reagan as being painfully disconnected from much of America and antagonistic to the poor, minorities and gays either because of policies he supported or through his public addresses which were often infused with loaded codewords like the infamous "welfare queen" which helped stir up anti-poor and black sentiment.

Much of the Reagan legacy remains with us today: the fiscal policy of using tax cuts as economic stimulus on the basis of the "trickle down theory," now known as "Reaganomics," was widely-discredited (and consided a failure) after his presidency until Bush reintroduced them to little or not effect. The Bush senior administration is littered with old Reagan era staffers and Bush is still actively advocating the SDI missile defense system even though, in a post-9/11, post-Iraq world, it seems pretty obvious that the paradigm for future armed conflict has probably shifted away from the dueling superpower model. Even his choice for National Security Advisor, Condoleezza Rice a Sovietologist and expert cold war theoretician, is a throwback to the Reagan era of thinking about the world around us. Notes from a Different Kitchen

Nope, Sparky, I'd say the Republicans of the past thirty years have cornered the revisionist history market!

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