Slog - Comments on More McCain Ties to Freddie Mac http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/more_mccain_ties_to_freddie_mac Perhaps this is why the McCain campaign worked so hard earlier this week to paint The New York Times as out to get their man? Because they knew another shoe was likely to drop in the Times, and they wanted it to be perceived as part of a vendetta, not as a solid piece of investigative journalism? Anyway, here's the other shoe: One of the giant mortgage companies at the heart of the credit crisis paid $15,000 a month to a firm owned by Senator John McCain’s campaign manager from the end of 2005 through last month, according to two... Copyright 2008 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:55:10 -0800 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:14:08 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Danisparanoidandhysterical http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aSKSoiNbnQY0

]]> Danisparanoidandhysterical http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/more_mccain_ties_to_freddie_mac#c1148868 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/more_mccain_ties_to_freddie_mac#c1148868 2008 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:02:37 -0800 Comment by d.b.kieneker Let's here it for the paranoid and hysteriacl in thew world..

with out you.. there would be nothing worth raising our eyebrows over...

]]> d.b.kieneker http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/more_mccain_ties_to_freddie_mac#c1148880 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/more_mccain_ties_to_freddie_mac#c1148880 2008 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:12:43 -0800 Comment by Non I imagine in my mind Uncle Sam shaking down, -upside down- from their ankles, the Republican party. And it makes me smile.

]]> Non http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/more_mccain_ties_to_freddie_mac#c1148885 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/more_mccain_ties_to_freddie_mac#c1148885 2008 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:17:48 -0800 Comment by Karlheinz Arschbomber What a fucking shocker... not.

You'd think the Carly Fiorina $45 mil payoff, and th fedit Phil Gramm conection would be enough, but the McCain SpoogeWagon sloshes on...

]]> Karlheinz Arschbomber http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/more_mccain_ties_to_freddie_mac#c1148886 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/more_mccain_ties_to_freddie_mac#c1148886 2008 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:23:39 -0800 Comment by monkey I can't wait for the debate!!!

]]> monkey http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/more_mccain_ties_to_freddie_mac#c1148892 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/more_mccain_ties_to_freddie_mac#c1148892 2008 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:36:05 -0800 Comment by John Bailo
The only real "different" stand a candidate could take would be 100 percent opposing the AIG bailout.

Neither candidate has done that.

So what is the point of criticizing.

They are both the puppets of the insiders.

]]> John Bailo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/more_mccain_ties_to_freddie_mac#c1148899 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/more_mccain_ties_to_freddie_mac#c1148899 2008 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:51:32 -0800 Comment by PopTart As much as it would be nice to make this crisis entirely about the evil Republicans and how they've fleeced the American people, both political parties have enough connections to the mess to keep the finger pointing and counter finger pointing going for a long while. For example:

Raines, Johnson, Preitzger (sp?).

Dodd and Obama were the top recipients of contributions from Fannie/Freddie.

Barney Frank insisted there was no problem with Fannie/Freddie as Democrats in Congress blocked moves to put in oversight a few years ago.

Biden voted in favor of Gramm-Leach-Bliley, President Clinton signed it.

Now that is not to say that there weren't lots of mean old Republicans making hay as well, I'm just saying that we need to recognize that it took a bi-partisan effort to fuck us up this badly.

]]> PopTart http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/more_mccain_ties_to_freddie_mac#c1148901 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/more_mccain_ties_to_freddie_mac#c1148901 2008 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:54:16 -0800 Comment by snarky 15k a month. Not bad for a no show.

]]> snarky http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/more_mccain_ties_to_freddie_mac#c1148907 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/more_mccain_ties_to_freddie_mac#c1148907 2008 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:09:44 -0800 Comment by Danisparanoidandhysterical PopTart@7

You have more perspective than Eli, the "journalist."

]]> Danisparanoidandhysterical http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/more_mccain_ties_to_freddie_mac#c1148938 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/more_mccain_ties_to_freddie_mac#c1148938 2008 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:49:35 -0800 Comment by Eliisastupidfuckingcreduloushack http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:SN00190:@@@P

Eli, do you do any original reporting? You're as radioactive as Josh Feit and ECB.

]]> Eliisastupidfuckingcreduloushack http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/more_mccain_ties_to_freddie_mac#c1148943 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/more_mccain_ties_to_freddie_mac#c1148943 2008 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:06:23 -0800 Comment by danrand What does Cumo have to do with this? He 'regulated' F and F through HUD to increase home loans to the poor in the name of social engineering and Bushie sold it as the Ownership Society. Both parties hands are filthy.

]]> danrand http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/more_mccain_ties_to_freddie_mac#c1148979 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/more_mccain_ties_to_freddie_mac#c1148979 2008 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:14:58 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Got Socialism?

With John McCain and his henchman Karl Marx Rove you do!

It's what they're about - Socialism, for the Party Elites, paid for by the middle class taxpayers who don't deserve tax cuts.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/more_mccain_ties_to_freddie_mac#c1149010 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/more_mccain_ties_to_freddie_mac#c1149010 2008 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:17:21 -0800 Comment by raindrop Still, not nearly as obnoxious as Franklin Rains's massive payola to Obama. Nor as obnoxious as Barney Frank saying the institution was alive, well, and solvent.

]]> raindrop http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/more_mccain_ties_to_freddie_mac#c1149052 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/more_mccain_ties_to_freddie_mac#c1149052 2008 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:05:34 -0800 Comment by max solomon FASCISM is the merger of government & corporate power. this is FASCISM, not socialism.

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/more_mccain_ties_to_freddie_mac#c1149078 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/more_mccain_ties_to_freddie_mac#c1149078 2008 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:14:08 -0800