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To: Les H who wrote (148470)	9/20/2008 8:32:18 PM
From: Les H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

The big fight of the week was over who had the most evil lobbyists on staff. The McCain campaign launched a broadside at Obama for taking advice from Franklin Raines, a disgraced former chief of Fannie Mae. But Raines was never an Obama adviser and had much less contact with the Obama campaign than a top lobbyist for Fannie and Freddie had with the McCain campaign. That lobbyist's name is Rick Davis and he's McCain's campaign manager. "People with seven glass houses shouldn't throw stones," gibed the Obama campaign. Obama himself, rising to the occasion, went after the hypocrisy of McCain's faux populist attacks on "the old boys network" in Washington when he has several of the most powerful lobbyists in town working for him. "The old boys network?" Obama said. "In the McCain campaign, that's called a staff meeting." newsweek.com