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Obama Under Republican Ethics Fire Over Housing (Obama Is "Turning The Page" Alright - Backwards
AFP ^ | 6/10/2008 | Staff

Posted on 06/10/2008 8:08:22 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist

... McCain's campaign and the Republican National Committee (RNC) fastened on a Wall Street Journal report that said that Jim Johnson, the mortgage executive leading Obama's vice presidential hunt, had received preferential home loans.

... the Republican's chief economic adviser Doug Holtz-Eakin said the reported loans to Johnson from Countrywide Financial raised troubling questions.

"And I thought it was remarkable that Senator Obama could talk about housing, talk about ethics, and fail to mention that he entrusted the single most important decision in his campaign, the choice of the vice presidentil running mate, to a gentlemen, Mr. Johnson, who benifitted from preferential lending at Countrywide and state financial payouts," he told reporters.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; barackobama; blueturban; carter2; carterredux; cultureofcorruption; democrat; democrats; democratscandals; election; electionpresident; elections; homeloans; jimjohnson; obama; obamahousingscandal; obamatruthfile; propagandawingofdnc
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Obama attacks McCain over the housing mess, and yet here he is with this Jim Johnson scandal.

Obama - after being challenged over this - fired back at McCain and tried to accuse him of the same thing. Nothing new here for Obama.

McCain, though, said that the man that Obama accused was no longer in his employ, and was an unpaid volunteer, not an advisor like Jim Johnson.

In the end, Obama is no more "turning the page" with Jim Johnson than he is with having Eric Holder - an old Clinton crony - being on his team to find a VP for Obama.

If anything, he is turning it backwards.

1 posted on 06/10/2008 8:08:22 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
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What say you?


2 posted on 06/10/2008 8:08:49 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist (Keep working! Welfare cases and their liberal enablers are counting on you!)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

” He’s not the same Jim Johnson that I’ve known for the past 20 years”, Obama said.


3 posted on 06/10/2008 8:10:40 AM PDT by Eurale
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Honestly? As a nation, we’ve pretty much accepted the fact that long-term Washintonites are all pretty much corrupt. So what’s the big story here? He got a favorable loan rate? Yawn.


4 posted on 06/10/2008 8:11:06 AM PDT by Hildy
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To: Hildy; All

Problem is, Obama said that he was a “new kind of politician.”

He said that he was going to “turn the page.”

So, you pretty much admit that Obama is lying about both.

BTW, remember Tony Rezko?

Another housing scandal for Obama.

Rezko is a longimte friend of Obama’s and held fundraisers for Obama.


5 posted on 06/10/2008 8:13:11 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist (Keep working! Welfare cases and their liberal enablers are counting on you!)
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To: Eurale

Add Jim Johnson to the list of items (wife, church,radical buddies) we’re not allowed to ask about.


6 posted on 06/10/2008 8:14:10 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Obama does not get to decide what anyone gets to talk about.

Each person decides that for themself.


7 posted on 06/10/2008 8:15:24 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist (Keep working! Welfare cases and their liberal enablers are counting on you!)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Rezko is a longimte friend of Obama’s and held fundraisers for Obama.
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Obama is a crook and a lying hypocrite. He is a radical liberal. Both one in the same in reality. This info should surprise nobody. McCain has more campaign fodder than he will ever need ALREADY. Now he should really put it to work.


8 posted on 06/10/2008 8:18:19 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

I just love that headline. Those biased republicans, dredging up scurrilous ethics charges against fine upstanding Democrats in some sort of attempt to derail Obama’s march to glory.


9 posted on 06/10/2008 8:18:53 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Et si omnes ego non)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
Add Jim Johnson to the list of items (wife, church,radical buddies) we’re not allowed to ask about.

You forgot his ears.
10 posted on 06/10/2008 8:19:18 AM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
Whether it be domestic issues, economic issues, social issues, or foreign policy and the war, Barack Hussein Obama is the apex of the hate-America, domestic enemy in this country. His election as president would be the greatest coup any enemy has ever scored against this country and could easily lead to the worst, horrific disaster in our nation's history.

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

11 posted on 06/10/2008 8:20:06 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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“So what’s the big story here? He got a favorable loan rate? Yawn.”

The big story is that in 2006, the Dems and the Marxist Media hammered on ‘Republicans’ as being ‘corrupt’ in order to secure the dems a victory in the House and Senate.

All the while, they ignored every evidence of Democrat dirty dealing and now they have a Presidential Candidate who just loves to surround himself with ‘dirty dealers’ and might just be as corrupt as they come.

Stay tuned.........


12 posted on 06/10/2008 8:21:56 AM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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I just love that headline. Those biased republicans, dredging up scurrilous ethics charges against fine upstanding Democrats in some sort of attempt to derail Obama’s Long March to glory.

There, fixed it.
13 posted on 06/10/2008 8:22:51 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
I say that Obama is a typical Democrat feather merchant. This turkey is a carbon copy of Jimmy Carter.The Donks just don't get it.
14 posted on 06/10/2008 8:25:17 AM PDT by ANGGAPO (LayteGulf BeachClub)
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To: penelopesire

The REALLY big story is on the front page of the Washington Post today...how Fannie Mae is directly responsible for the subprime mess. It’s about damn time somebody got this story right. This is the REAL scandal that Jim Johnson needs to answer for, as well as Barack Obama and all of his Democrat friends on Capitol Hill who have blocked any kind of regulation or oversight of Fannie Mae for years.


15 posted on 06/10/2008 8:26:38 AM PDT by Dems_R_Losers (Obama is a Neocommunist)
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To: Army Air Corps

Thanks!


16 posted on 06/10/2008 8:28:42 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Et si omnes ego non)
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To: Dems_R_Losers

Excellent Point!

Headed to find the article.


17 posted on 06/10/2008 8:30:31 AM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Obama, when you sleep with dogs, you will wake up with fleas. I am sincerely pleased that many people retain their sanity and are exposing you for the liar that you are.


18 posted on 06/10/2008 8:31:04 AM PDT by vpintheak (Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked. Prov. 25:26)
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To: ClearCase_guy

I am still amazed that a major political party in the most powerful nation on Earth has selected a completely clueless dumbass as their nominee. The man doesn’t have the résumé to be a dog catcher in a one horse town, let alone be president of the US.


19 posted on 06/10/2008 8:34:00 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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"In the end, Obama is no more "turning the page" with Jim Johnson than he is with having Eric Holder - an old Clinton crony - being on his team to find a VP for Obama."

Eric Holder is at the heart of a bigger scandal...for much closer to election time...in that it was Holder who "secured" and "vetted" Billionaire felon Marc Rich's last minute Clintonian pardon.

20 posted on 06/10/2008 8:39:11 AM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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