So what's this new crap about Obama's VP vetter the McCain camp is throwing out?

[FVZA_Colonel]

I've heard they're now alledging that a member of his VP search committee (who it has been known was employed Fannie-Mae) was also implicated in the coruption there. But wasn't it also the case that this man, I believe Johnson was his last name, left Fannie-Mae as far back as 1998?

[Motown_Johnny]

1. I think it is true, but who cares.. He picked Biden and Biden is as clean as they come

No there there

[FVZA_Colonel]

3. I know the man worked at Fannie-Mae.

But didn't he leave as far back as 1998? And isn't there no evidence that he benefited from any corrupt activity, unlike Raines (who never gave advice to Obama)?

[me b zola]

12. Johnson headed Fannie **BEFORE** deregulation

Johnson was CEO before deregulation and when the company still did a decent job. This attack is nothing more than muddying up the waters.

[FVZA_Colonel]

13. Then he did leave in 1998?

I'm guessing leaving before the Gramm bill would mean he did.

[zanne]

2. Yup. It's a non-story with no staying power. nt

[hedgehog]

4. More to the point, didn't Obama drop him from the committee

as soon as the question was first raised last summer?

[windbreeze]

8. Yes....n/t

[FVZA_Colonel]

9. I think that's true, but I'm not sure.

And even then, there stands no evidence of him benefitting from any wrong-doing. And even then, he is only one man in comparison to at least twenty lobbiests on McCain's campaign with ties to Fannie-Mae or Freddie-Mac.

[No Elephants]

15. Yes.

[melody]

5. It's a straw at which the GOP is grasping n/t

[Median Democrat]

6. McCain Trying To Distract From Charlies Black and Ricky Davis

Who are prominent high level CURRENT members of McCain's campaign, who were also longtime lobbyist for Fannie Mae and Freddie-Mac. McCain is trying to avoid pressure to fire them given his rhetoric about firing Chris Cox.

[FVZA_Colonel]

14. He was just looking for a scape-goat.

No matter how much some pundits try and shift that to looking like "the elites dismiss it but average Americans like McCain's forcefulness," he was trying to scape-goat someone for the failed policies he's championed for years.

[fed_up_mother]

7. It's true, but several of McCain's advisers were also involved with various

corporations going bankrupt. Some were lobbyists for those corporations. I think he has even more ties than Obama.

[FVZA_Colonel]

10. I thought he hadn't been implicated in the corruption there?

[AtomicKitten]

11. In their words .... old news.