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Obama lies about Fannie/Freddie connections

McCain launches a new ad that accurately connects former Fannie Mae exec Frank Raines to the Obama campaign.  Obama retorts that McCain’s making stuff up and smearing him, asserting that Raines has never advised him in any capacity at any time.

There’s just one problem with that: Obama is, as usual, lying through his arugula-eating teeth.  Observe the following two excerpts from the Washington comPost:

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 D.C. 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. (From July 15, 2008 – Ed.)

In the current crisis, their biggest backers have been Democrats such as Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher J. Dodd (Conn.) and House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (Mass.). Two members of Mr. Obama’s political circle, James A. Johnson and Franklin D. Raines, are former chief executives of Fannie Mae.  (From August 27, 2008 – Ed.)

Funny how the Obamessiah has never challenged the veracity of these stories in the comPost, but now that McCain is running commercials that simply restate the comPost stories, suddenly McCain’s lying. 

Either the comPost is wrong and McCain is simply repeating bad information, or the Obamaliar is playing fast and loose with the truth yet again.  Call me crazy, but I’m leaning towards the latter.  Either way, though, McCain can’t be lying.

September 19, 2008 - Posted by crushliberalism | corruption, McCain, Obama, shameful