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Old 09-30-2008, 09:57 AM   #8 (permalink)
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We have seen Barack Obama's campaign ads citing John McCain's connections to lobbyists. But we haven't heard about some of those Obama advisers, or where some of his money has come from.

His top economic advisers include Robert Ruben, former and current Wall Street top executive, and Jim Johnson, who was found to have foisted some of the Fannie Mae frauds on us and collected $21 million in compensation in one year during that fraud. Then there were the revelations of his sweetheart deals with Countrywide Mortgage as he was named to lead Obama's vice-presidential search committee. He immediately resigned.


Fannie Mae is the mortgage backer that was essentially a government-owned corporation and now is in receivership. It's reported that Fannie Mae made significant contributions to politicians, the top five being Democrats. And whose name is third on the list? Barack Obama -- behind only Chris Dodd and John Kerry. Obama received $105,000 in two years
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