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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TideGlider who wrote (140030)	10/3/2008 7:37:14 PM
From: jlallen	2 Recommendations Respond to of 173976

Yet another lie....

To: TideGlider who wrote (140030)	10/3/2008 8:54:01 PM
From: Skywatcher	1 Recommendation Respond to of 173976

regarding the continued LIES of McBush about Obama's people helping in the campaign... on top of which there is complete and utter truth to the fact that HIS main MAN has TAKEN $500,000 from Fannie Mae through his consulting company since 2004 The three men detailed really did work for Fannie Mae, although the financial problems are far broader than just Fannie Mae. But the real untruth comes when the email tries to connect them to Barack Obama to make a political hit. None of these men were economic advisors to the Obama campaign. Franklin Raines once told a Washington Post reporter that he got a “couple of calls” from “someone in the Obama campaign.” This is the entire basis of the charge by the McCain campaign that he’s an “advisor,” a charge that the Post characterized as “clearly exaggerating wildly.” And the second man, Tim Howard, seems to have had no contact with the Obama campaign whatsoever, and has certainly never been a Chief Economic adviser. Jim Johnson was tapped to lead the Vice-Presidential search by Obama, but he resigned that position very early in the process and never advised on any economics matters. As usual with these emails, they facts are just wrong, the implications are smears, and the overall thrust is entirely misleading. Here’s Snopes calling this email “False”: snopes.com And here’s the Washington Post article on the Raines exaggerations: washingtonpost.com