Does anyone know if this is true re: Fannie Mae Exec.'s

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FRANKLIN RAINES: Does Raines now work for the Obama Campaign as Obama's Chief Economic Advisor?

TIM HOWARD: Is Howard a Chief Economic Advisor to Obama under Franklin Raines?

JIM JOHNSON: Was Johnson hired as a Senior Obama Finance Advisor and has be been selected to run Obama's Vice Presidential Search Committee?

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1. first two are hoaxes

Here's the Chief Economic Advisor presently:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_B._Krueger

don't know about the 3rd

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3. there's a bit of truth to the 3rd one

obama did initially hire him, but then resigned him a couple months later.
he was never paid anything.

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7. Thanks

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2. snopes knows: FALSE

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/fanniemae.asp

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6. Thanks

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4. Raines is a target among the wingnuts - But it was the Bush administration that let him

off the hook in 2004 after he was caught fudging Fannie Mae financials.

Throw that at them.

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5. Thanks.