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OBAMA'S BUS
NY Post ^ | 6/12/08 | NY Post Editorial Board

Posted on 06/12/2008 4:37:07 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom

It's getting a little crowded under Bar ack Obama's bus. Washington power broker James Johnson got tossed under yesterday - joining Chicago wheeler-dealer Tony Rezko, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and the entire Trinity United Church of Christ. Officially, Johnson said he was leaving a three-member committee charged with vetting potential Obama running mates so that his ties to a mortgage company wouldn't become a campaign distraction. Fact is, Johnson had already become radioactive; the campaign would've been nuts not to jettison him. Now Obama needs to turn his attention to another member of that committee - Eric Holder, a former No. 2 in the Clinton Justice Department who played a key role in processing the infamous last-minute pardon of the notorious tax-cheat fugitive Marc Rich. (The committee's third member is the dowager princess of American politics, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg - by definition, above reproach.) Johnson once headed the quasi-governmental mortgage agency Fannie Mae; his parting compensation totaled $21 million - rather than the $6 million that was publicly reported. He was also part of an elite group that got more than $7 million in below-market-rate personal loans from Countryside Financial, a key player in the subprime mortgage meltdown. The lucky borrowers were all designated by the company as "Friends of Angelo" - Angelo being Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo. This is significant for two reasons: * Fannie Mae is in the business of buying up mortgages - and Countrywide is the nation's No. 1 mortgage lender. * Obama on the stump has castigated Countrywide. Indeed, his campaign attacked Hillary Clinton because one of her strategists did PR work for the company. As for Holder, he helped push the pardon on behalf of Rich's lawyer, former Clinton White House counsel Jack Quinn

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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: sameoldsameold
The Obamanation is just another politician, and not a very good one at that. Unfortunately it looks like the GOP has chosen a candidate who is too stupid to exploit it.
1 posted on 06/12/2008 4:37:08 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

The Magic Negro has a Magic Bus.


2 posted on 06/12/2008 4:42:52 AM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
You can buy the Magicnegro Bus for 100 English pounds...

....NO! too much.


3 posted on 06/12/2008 4:43:47 AM PDT by Vaquero (" an armed society is a polite society" Heinlein "MOLON LABE!" Leonidas of Sparta)
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To: sportutegrl

A video spoof MUST be done...


4 posted on 06/12/2008 4:44:41 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Vaquero

You caaaaaaaaaan’t have it.
I want it, I want it, I waaaaant it....


5 posted on 06/12/2008 4:46:10 AM PDT by Hatteras
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
Just wait until he has to throw Mrs Grievance Michelle Obama under there too!
6 posted on 06/12/2008 4:49:28 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Vaquero

I don’t want to cause no fuss
But can I buy your Magic Bus?

Noooooooooooooo!........


7 posted on 06/12/2008 4:49:42 AM PDT by Hatteras
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To: Hatteras

P..pp..people say he is a clown...
Jajust because he ***** around...

Talkin ‘bout Obamination...


8 posted on 06/12/2008 4:49:55 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: M. Thatcher

ping


9 posted on 06/12/2008 4:50:40 AM PDT by IncPen (We are but a moment's sunlight, fading in the grass ...)
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To: All
It's getting a little crowded under Bar ack Obama's bus. Washington power broker James Johnson got tossed under yesterday - joining Chicago wheeler-dealer Tony Rezko, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and the entire Trinity United Church of Christ.

Don't forget obama's grandmother.

10 posted on 06/12/2008 4:53:32 AM PDT by new cruelty
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
It's getting a little crowded under Bar ack Obama's bus.

Washington power broker James Johnson got tossed under yesterday - joining Chicago wheeler-dealer Tony Rezko, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and the entire Trinity United Church of Christ.

Officially, Johnson said he was leaving a three-member committee charged with vetting potential Obama running mates so that his ties to a mortgage company wouldn't become a campaign distraction. Fact is, Johnson had already become radioactive; the campaign would've been nuts not to jettison him.

Now Obama needs to turn his attention to another member of that committee - Eric Holder, a former No. 2 in the Clinton Justice Department who played a key role in processing the infamous last-minute pardon of the notorious tax-cheat fugitive Marc Rich. (The committee's third member is the dowager princess of American politics, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg - by definition, above reproach.)

Johnson once headed the quasi-governmental mortgage agency Fannie Mae; his parting compensation totaled $21 million - rather than the $6 million that was publicly reported. He was also part of an elite group that got more than $7 million in below-market-rate personal loans from Countryside Financial, a key player in the subprime mortgage meltdown.

The lucky borrowers were all designated by the company as "Friends of Angelo" - Angelo being Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo. This is significant for two reasons:

* Fannie Mae is in the business of buying up mortgages - and Countrywide is the nation's No. 1 mortgage lender.

* Obama on the stump has castigated Countrywide.

Indeed, his campaign attacked Hillary Clinton because one of her strategists did PR work for the company.

As for Holder, he helped push the pardon on behalf of Rich's lawyer, former Clinton White House counsel Jack Quinn

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...

11 posted on 06/12/2008 4:54:04 AM PDT by OKSooner
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To: mylife

I just learned how to post pix, yesterday. I guess I need to get started.


12 posted on 06/12/2008 5:00:53 AM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: sportutegrl

Get busy!

Gotta go to work. Cyas later


13 posted on 06/12/2008 5:02:54 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: sportutegrl

That magic bus better be four wheel drive to pull itself over the pile of flesh it’s now parked on...


14 posted on 06/12/2008 5:31:58 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: sportutegrl

That magic bus better be four wheel drive to pull itself over the pile of flesh it’s now parked on...


15 posted on 06/12/2008 5:32:09 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: sportutegrl

Lots of room under this bus...

Plus it's Canadian, so if you get run over, you get free health care! Actually, in Canada, getting run over might be considered free health care!

16 posted on 06/12/2008 6:57:49 AM PDT by gridlock ( If Obama becomes "suddenly" radioactive, the Supers are going find new respect the Popular Vote.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

17 posted on 06/12/2008 12:01:37 PM PDT by doug from upland (Stoppi..ng Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

18 posted on 06/12/2008 5:23:09 PM PDT by new cruelty
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