Obama top contributors from opensecrets.org
Posted on 09/27/2008 5:07:06 PM PDT by calcowgirl
Few advisers in John McCain's inner circle inspire more loyalty from him than campaign manager Rick Davis. McCain and his wife, Cindy, credit the shrewd, and sometimes volatile, Republican insider with rescuing the campaign last year when it was out of money and on the verge of collapse. As a result, McCain has always defended him—even when faced with tough questions about the foreign lobbying clients of Davis's high-powered consulting firm. "Rick is a friend, and I trust him," McCain told NEWSWEEK last year.
Last week, though, McCain's trust in Davis was tested again amid disclosures that Freddie Mac, the troubled mortgage giant that was recently placed under federal conservatorship, paid his campaign manager's firm $15,000 a month between 2006 and August 2008.
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Looks like the MSM is hot on the trail of the cause of the financial meltdown: Republicans!
Give me a break!!!! These two morons are clueless. Geesh! No wonder the best they can do in life is work for Newsweak!
Lies and damned lies
This was debunked when the NYSlimes reported it, so now Newsweak will give it a try.
Amazing, that fact that the media is looking at Davis because McCain campaign pointed out the Obama conflict of interest.
Move along, nothing to see here.
Newsweek has been in the tank a LONG time.
And where is the report that Obama’s campaign has directly received over $48.000 per year from Fannie Mae? Newsweek is straining at a gnat and swallowing a donkey. If we are going to compare the money that campaign advisers have received, Obama’s adviser Franklin Delano Raines received over $90M in six years.
Remarkably, the $126,000 in Fannie Mae donations to the Obama campaign go completely unmentioned.
This is really getting tedious. The only thing that was missing from this story was an Obama voiceover telling us that he approves of it.
What else was missing is tha fact that Davis has been on a leave of absence from the firm and is not drawing any salary or compensation.
I’ll give you credit girl, you’re consistent.......against McCain. LOL
Isikoff proves himself to be a joke once again.
Yep and “deregulation” is how the Republicans caused this mess.
Call the McCain truth squad./s
With all the ties between the Democrats and Freddi and Fannie and this is the best that Newsweak can come up with?
Yeah, Freddie paid McCain’s campaign manager’s FIRM, so much money. Probably paid his cousin’s, mother in law’s, neighbor, some money too...oh no!
HOW many MILLIONS of dollars did Obama Campagin employees, Jim Johnson and Frank Raines, former CEO’s of FANNIE MAE get when they left the troubled financial giant? Did they answer that question? Did they answer why Obama got 5X more money: $500,000 from Fannie Mae?
Just leftist democratic propaganda.
And so was Frank Raines, who also works for Obama.
Funny how you can tell from the thread title that it is from an MSM source. No MSM headline would ever knit Obama’s brow.
Regurgitated old news. Posted and debunked days ago but somehow I think you knew that.
It’s amazing. There are people on FR who never post anything about Obama, just about McCain, Rudy, and Lieberman. I sometimes wonder what they are up to.
Top Recipients of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Campaign Contributions:
1. Dodd, Christopher D-CT $133,900
2. Kerry, John D-MA $111,000
3. Obama, Barack D-IL $105,849
4. Clinton, Hillary D-NY $75,550
They won’t report this, will they?
Old lies.
yeah, I hope cowgirl or calgirl or whatever feels really proud of herself if Obama gets in!
That’ ll show ‘em!
$15 grand a month over two years is $360M for services rendered. Raines took $25 million for cooking the books!
*YAWN*
Again, I ask; HOW many MILLIONS of dollars did Obama Campagin employees, Jim Johnson and Frank Raines, former CEO’s of FANNIE MAE get when they left the troubled financial giant? They got a golden parachute, right into the Obama campaign!
thats good of you to point out. If you agree with it and are so against McCain then maybe you will be happy when Obama rapes the taxpayers, guts the DOD to extend his social welfare state to the nation. You need to get a clue or get out of America.
(http://www.usnews.com/blogs/capital-commerce/2008/2/14/obamas-trillion-dollar-spending-plan.html
It goes on both sides of the aisle. Davis didn’t know about it when it happened and has since stopped
Well, in all fairness, McCain DID get some. It was $862.00 if I’m remembering correctly. That’s eight hundred and sixty-two dollars. Just so we’re all clear on this point. :)
I’ve got a secret...
If any Obama trolls are around, I suggest you tell him to throw his Fannie crew under the bus before Monday.
Trust me.
Is there any ROOM under that bus? At this point, it must be a double-decker, LOL!
That’s $360,000 over 24 months, not 360 million.
I'm not happy when any politician fleeces the taxpayers and promotes destructive policy. Are we only supposed to talk about those acts when advocated by a politician(D)?
You need to get a clue or get out of America.
You need to take your meds.
No, I was gone most of last week so I didn't know that, nor have you provided evidence thereof.
Wow. Not a word on Obama’s much greater connections to Fannie Mae. No media bias there. I bet if the media discover that McCain got a parking ticket in 1960, that parking ticket will be headline news for days, represented as one of the greatest scandals in world history.
What say you, Senator McCain?
This is ridiculous.
These out of touch journalists who clearly have no concept of how the real world works actually think that the fact that Davis’ firm was retained (but did no work) by Freddie Mac while he was not even there is somehow equivalent to 0bama hiring the very Fannie Mae CEOs who brought the whole financial industry down through their fraud and mismanagement — and he hired them after they had committed this fraud and were fired!
Unbelievable! The MSM has not written one single article on just how much money Obama and the democrats have gotten from all of the corporations involved in this mess...nor how democrat policies have caused it...NOTHING!
It is going to be up to the new media to get the truth out to the American people!
Oooh, now that sounds interesting :)
Would it have anything to do with a two word collective noun, the first word beginning with a "g" and the second a "j"....?
Obama top contributors from opensecrets.org
Yea and? How much has Franklin Raines received and has he even admitted to being an advisor for 0bama? Is he or is he not one of the hundreds 0bama needs to breast feed him? At least we know who McCain’s advisors are.
“The only thing that was missing from this story was an Obama voiceover telling us that he approves of it.”
You may have just uttered the most concise summary of this election.
The UNIVERSITY of CALIFORNIA is the SECOND BIGGEST CONTRIBUTOR TO OBAMA?
DON’T THEY GET THEIR MONEY FROM STATE FUNDS?
Love it! And they’re so totally f-ed today, LOL! Great ‘investment strategy,’ Fellas! That Barry guy is paying you back in ACES.
*Shakes Head. Walks Away.*
Has Newsweek done anything on Franklin Raynes?
Has Newsweek done anything on Franklin Raynes?
Has Newsweek done anything on Franklin Raynes?
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