I hope everybody here understands that the Obama campaign probably has at least one Keating Five ad teed up for whenever the McCain campaign decides to go after his associates’ ties to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Keep that in mind when you root for McCain to go after Obama on his campaign members’ corruption.
Big S on September 18, 2008 at 12:20 PM

There is also this.

McCain team includes 83 Wall Street lobbyists

Didn’t find that in the MSM. They must be biased towards McSame.

From the NYT: By STEPHEN LABATON The Bush administration today recommended the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis a decade ago. Under the plan, disclosed at a Congressional hearing tod…

So who wrote these defenses of the subprime market and the advice that people have to handle their own losses?

I’m confused ed, are you saying that people aren’t responsible for buying homes that they couldn’t afford?

:)

* Lending institutions created by the federal government…

* Led by guys hip-deep in Clintonism…

* The overhead and foot-soldiers of whom give to Obama’s campaign 3-to-1 over McCain’s…

* …and they fail…

* …and the Democrat Congress, the leader of whom admits that they’re running to hide because they don’t know what to do…

* So, Obama blames McCain by tying him to Bush…whose “fault” it is…”entirely”….

…I’m no economic genius (as my resume will attest), but up until that last, we were hip-deep in party-line Leftist Democrats. Now, they’re on Obama’s staff? And the campaign numbers are close?

At what point did this nation pass through the looking glass?

Penny Pritzker, Obama’s national finance chair was partially responsible for one of the greater banking collapses in American history.

Penny Pritzker, Obama’s national finance chair was, with her family, the half owner of Superior Bank, which was shut down in 2001 by the FDIC after it had lost nearly all of its more than $2 billion of assets on bad loans to high-risk borrowers, federal regulators said.

Pritzker also served as finance chair for Obama’s Senate run, and supported him during his time in the Illinois state legislature.

One reason Pritzker may have been enamored with Obama was his willingness to press legislation that loosened state regulatory policies for land developers and multi-family property owners.
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=13897

It is predictable that Obama will have to throw three more bodies under the bus.

The McCain camp should make the growing body count a line of attack against Obama’s center of gravity (character & judgment).

The campaign could be saving some of this stuff to drop at the debates. Has Obama responded to whether or not he thinks the AIG bailout was the correct move? – rw

Not that I know of. The last I heard BO was calling for “restraint from both sides” was thinking of voting “present” on the issue.

Obama has not mentioned the Keating Five yet, but has McCain brought up Obama’s call to make the assault weapons ban permanent?

Extra credit: Write a 100-word essay on the previous Obama double-talk scandal in which Goolsbee was involved.

Can I just do Biden and copy/paste one of yours?

Both McCain and Palin gave really good speeches. New stuff from both.

Connie on September 18, 2008 at 12:48 PM

I was wanting Mcain/Palin to get agressive- but Damn!

This was a body blow to Obama-boy!

Your essay question, class, is this: Which presidential campaign represents change and reform on economic policy, and which represents more of the same?

Ed will have to give me an Incomplete on this assignment.

Yeah, Obama hangs with the wrong crowd. But frankly, he could have the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost as his advisors and I still wouldn’t vote for him. He’s too arrogant and hell-bent on socialism to listen to anyone.

I think McCain-Palin should focus on their core beliefs – low taxes, job creation, government reform, and reducing spending – and not engage a ‘guilt by association’ message. Too much negativity will suppress voter turnout imho.

FiveWays on September 18, 2008 at 12:42 PM

Both McCain and Palin gave really good speeches. New stuff from both.

The two institutions have long been run not by bankers but by retired political figures, predominantly Democrats. From 1991 to 1998, Fannie Mae was headed by James Johnson, a longtime aide to former Democratic vice president Walter Mondale. Johnson’s successor, Franklin Raines, had served as budget director to Bill Clinton. Jamie Gorelick, vice chair of Fannie Mae from 1998 to 2003, served as deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration.

An Obama heckler in the crowd and McCain goes off the cuff and calls Obama out on his refusal to have townhall debates!

THAT, MY FRIENDS WAS A GOOD-OLE FASHIONED THROW-DOWN!

Maverick brought one from the floor!

Todd Palin was in the most prominent spot behind him on stage – not bad.

Now a moonbat flipped out and disrupted the speech. That kind of crap will do nothing but help McCain: “Americans want us to stop yelling at each other” “if they want to yell, tell them to yell at him (Obama) and we can stand together at these town halls”

FINALLY! They’re punching Obama right square in the damn face! They’re going after the role the Dems played in Fannie/Mac and they’re calling out Obama’s advisors Johnson and Raines!

Go Maverick! Pound these bastards!