"The McCain campaign sparked a furious exchange of campaign attacks with the release of an ad linking Democratic presidential candidate Obama to a former Fannie Mae chief who was forced out by an accounting scandal."

And McCain says Obama is trying to gain political advantage from the financial crisis? Lol, does this guy ever tell the truth?

McCain ad: "Bad advice. Bad instincts. Not ready to lead."

Um, well, looking at their respective picks for running mate, maybe McCain should have asked the Fannie guy for some advice, too, lol.

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 DC 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."

Washington Post July 16, 2008

Joe Biden loses Barack Obama the Catholic vote

Read all about it!

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/gerald_warner/blog/2008/09/19/joe_biden_loses_barack_obama_th

Obama: "I'll just set this one out until I know the results. That way, I can freely criticize those who actually acted."

McCain was all for bailing out the rich.. but when it comes down to the average person he is against it. McCain is one big empty suite.....

beck

Don't read much, do you?

Well, probably the most important Obama advisor for about twenty years or so (until Obama threw him under the bus) was Jeremiah Wright.

Whatever gets spewed out by the Axelrod smear machine is actually quite small in comparison to the influence that came from the Wright campaign of hatred and bigotry.

After all, isn't the financial crisis is just more "chickens coming home to roost?"

Wright man...

Wrong time...

Anybody But Obama...

AGAIN and again, we see that John McCain refuses to run on his record... for example supporting the Republican FILIBUSTER of the LILLY LEDBETTER FAIR PAY ACT!

AGAIN and again, we see John McCain 'approve this message' when the message is lie.

John McCain's biggest problem is not that he chose a running mate without any consideration whatsoever regarding the welfare of the nation.

Nope. John McCain's biggest problem is that the media (McCain: "My base") have started calling him a liar.

http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=71BBF99A-18FE-70B2-A864E9E1EC671646

Conyers Calls out McCain over Voter Suppression
@ 12:22 pm by Andy Barr
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) told John McCain's campaign Friday to take control over its supporters following reports that a county Republican chairman in Michigan planned to use lists of recently foreclosed residents to block them from voting

"It is beyond disgraceful that the Republican Party now seems to be targeting those who are suffering the most," Conyers said. "It appears that individuals who can't recall how many houses they own don't understand how awful it is to lose your home to foreclosure, and don't know that you don’t need to own property to vote in the United States of America."

"It should surprise no one that the people who gave us the worst economy since the Great Depression would now want to prevent those victimized by this economy from voting in the coming elections. Senator McCain needs to step forward now and halt the Republican Party's efforts to profit politically from the economic misery of others."

In a letter sent to the McCain, Conyers asked the Arizona senator to "repudiate any efforts of the Republican Party and any of its state affiliates to engage in voter suppression and intimidation tactics."

Jayhawk - I'll take Warren Buffett over McCain's cast of looney characters.

But then I'm probably just having a mental recession, lol.

yeah, see the problem with that is he actually has not been advising and has never been a member of the campaign. Ever. The post was notified of this as well as the McCain campaign, prior to the release of this ad. So John McCain, once again, has knowingly put out catagorically false information about his opponent. This isn't fact stretching, it is a lie, and it is a lie McCain knew about and he is doing it anyway. Hasn't 8 years of this garbage been enough? GOP was there no other candidate that could compete without this trash?

dl - Obama is doing what he can to promote confidence the Treasury Department can pull off this latest crisis management.

To me, its an example of Obama actually putting country first, where McCain just likes to talk about it.

Paul

To most, it's another case of a deer blinded by headlights. Obama needs time and 300 advisers to determine what time of day it is. It's a consistent pattern!

First the S&L, Keating scandal of deregulation, then the housing crisis policy by Phil Gram. The debt at 10 trillion, and 10 billion a month in Iraq. JOHN MACAIN IS AN ECONOMICAL TERRORIST. Country first my a$$.

Does anybody know what the famous 'community organizer' actually accomplished? Something tangible, that is!

Mccain, Keating, deregulation lobby

= a trillion dokllar bail out in the 80's

McCain Gramm deregulation lobby

= a trillion dollar bail out again now.

only difference Keating goes to jail
Gramm writes Mccain's economic policy

how many times does a politician have to be associated with the people at the center of an effort that cost us a trillion dollars before we say

"mmmm this guy should not be handed the keys to the kingdom and our economic future"

Only didfference between McCain and the S and L scandal and McCain and now...

Keating went to jail and Gramm wrote his economic policy (Gramm the guy who got paid 750 000 dollars just this past year from the banking lobby to fight for the same ongoing deregulation that destroyed us.)

Mccain didn't just put the wolf outside the hen house

He now has the wolf writing the economic policy for the hen house after he ate half the hens.

same team
same tactics
same results
throw these bums out.

Joe Biden loses Barack Obama the Catholic vote

Read all about it!

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/gerald_warner/blog/2008/09/19/joe_biden_loses_barack_obama_th

McCain Keating deregulation

a trillion dollar bail out

McCain Gramm deregulation

a trillion dollar bail out

how many times until we say enough

same team same tactics
same results

throw this bum and his cronies out.

Obama takes millions from AIG and the other companies involved in the rescue. In return, he looked the other way.