Headline in today’s New York Times: “McCain Aide’s Firm Was Paid by Freddie Mac Through August.” It goes downhill for McCain from there: One of the giant mortgage companies [Freddie Mac] at the heart of the credit crisis paid $15,000 a month from the end of 2005 through last month to a firm owned by Senator John McCain’s campaign...
Fannie and Freddie Ties to McCain Campaign Deeper Than Originally Thought; Tucker Bounds Sets New Record for Non Sequiturs (Updated)
John McCain has been attacking Barack Obama for having ties to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. McCain’s been saying: While Fannie and Freddie were working to keep Congress away from their house of cards, Senator Obama was taking their money. He got more, in fact, than any other member of Congress, except for the Democratic chairmen of the committee that...
Do John McCain’s Speechwriters Have His Researchers’ Phone Numbers?
John McCain has been making speeches and airing ads tying Barack Obama to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. He says Obama “took more money from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac than anyone but the chairman of the committee they answer to.” Here he is saying it in Ohio: The problem (for McCain) is that Obama’s contributions were from Freddie and...
