I see Fit’s still running around spreading the lies of Rick Davis’ relationship to Fannie Freddie…. Some just don’t give up, eh?

For those curious, Doug and I already ran this gambit. Start reading the conversations about Rick Davis being a “lobbyist”… right.

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Thanks Ric. I had not seen the video.

“I won’t have to worry about putting gas in my car. I won’t have to worry about paying my mortgage. If I help him [Obama] he’s going to help me.”

If these Obamatons really believe Obama will take care of every problem in their lives, even the mundane things like gassing up the car, then they are in for a disappointment.

But come to think o fit, Obama might be qualified to pump gas:

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I am a former obama suporter for the first time in my life I will vote a complete republican ticket obama is the most unqualified most unknown candidate he has the shady history with ayers that he has lied about from just a guy in the neighborhood to I thought he was reformed farricon wright resco how any one could accept these relationships and not question them is beyond me if it were Mcain or Palin the press would be all over it how can you accept the press and media shoving this down your throat are you all drinking the koolaid they did in jones town and look what happened there the FACTS he has voted to raise taxes 95 times 75% of his votes were present not yea or nay what the hell is that Palin has much more practical experience than obama ever has she has actually run something please take off the blinders think for your self do not let the media do it for you look at this link the last 30 seconds says it all http://video.nbc6.net/player/?id=797441

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I guess I have the last word since MH tells us this is her ‘last time repeating’ herself.

MH has given her best effort in attempting to prevent Davis looking as tho’ he lobbied Freddie Mac, but the McCain campaign’s retorts are so poor to be beneath embarrassing countering the multiple claims that Davis’ lobbying firm was picking up $15,000 a month from Freddie Mac, right up until it was taken over by the feds, despite it not being on ‘Open Secrets’ list of clients (as if Open Secrets holds the God-sent touch of who’s who in lobbyists). As Romano explains it:

So far, Team McCain has attacked the messengers–as usual–but they haven’t disputed the allegations, except to say Davis isn’t profiting personally from Freddie Mac and therefore doesn’t have, according to the Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder, a “direct financial conflict of interest in helping McCain develop policy.” But that ignores the larger issue: whether Freddie put Davis’s firm on retainer because of Davis’s relationship with McCain. “The story’s not about profit,” writes Ambinder. “It’s about influence buying.”

http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/09/24/on-davis-s-ties-to-freddie-mac-mccain-gets-boomeranged.aspx

That’s right, it’s about influence pedaling.

So let’s step back and look at what we learned. McCain has been passing the claim that the credit crunch on Wall Street “started in the Washington culture of lobbying and influence pedaling.” In a interview with Harwood last week McCain said about Davis:

“My campaign manager has stopped that, has nothing to do with it since and I’ll be glad to have his record examined by anybody who wants to look at it.”
(In a conference call with the NYTs Davis use a similar argument with the reporters stating he’s now completely detached from F&F.)

So the NYTs examined McCain’s statement, and Davis’; which leads us to Curt’s post here that claims the NYTs is a biased news organization and is supporting Obama, and plus the new revelation that Davis was, until the fed stepped in, getting 15,000 a month from Freddie.

As everyone recalls, McCain told the public last week that Obama had “associations” with former officials at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is a scandal, that he can’t be trusted and put out attack ads to that affect. So this has only heightened the story, if true, that McCain’s campaign Manager is one of those Washington insiders milking F&F.

Now it’s possible McCain didn’t really know Davis was secretly dipping from Freddie, that could be a defense. He could argue he was simply mislead by Davis.

Would McCain, you may say, be pushed to such dramatic levels??? Yes, now I believe so.

Here’s why:

The lobbying firm of McCain campaign manager Rick Davis has been on retainer for embattled Freddie Mac, source say, as reported by the Associated Press, Washington Post, New York Times, [Newsweek] and Roll Call.

You gotta have some serious stones to run a spurious TV ad assailing Obama for tenuous ties to former Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines when your campaign manager’s lobbying firm is still being paid by Freddie Mac. (To be clear, the McCain TV ad attacking Obama for his Jim Johnson ties was a completely fair and clean hit.)

But maybe today’s news partly explains Mr. Schmidt’s jeremiad against the New York Times when the subject of the Davis-Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae ties were raised on a conference call earlier this week. The Times reported that Davis “was paid more than $30,000 a month for five years as president of an advocacy group set up by the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to defend them against stricter regulations…”

“Serious stones,” indeed.

Obviously what happened is the advertisements pissed off current and former executives of the two companies, they started coming forward to the press and wanted to discuss Davis’ role with F&F. Some who came forward were Democrats, but Republicans, speaking on the condition of anonymity, confirmed their statements.

Whether the story is true or not is now front and center, it’s boiling in the MSM, ready to spill over, creating a hot toxic soup, and finally an awkward position for McCain campaign. The story is not going to go away now, even when Davis ducks from under the spotlight, skipping a Wednesday lunch with reporters sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor. If avoidance of the press doesn’t work for this week, what then? If one can’t just let it air out, dry, and become a forgetfulness, as the press doesn’t seem to believe Davis, will ducking the press help? The MSM thinks it is true, whether or not MH’s ‘suggestion’ is that it is not true.

Therefore, what is the next move McCain campaign to do? Will McCain let go of Davis, with just over a month left until the election? Or, will he keep him on, hold him to his chest as his campaign manager, hoping the press will ease off, not spot lighting the hypocrisy?

This is where the story has led us, and i find it couldn’t be more appropriate state for such a lobbyishly laden campaign.

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I have no idea what Capatelli is talking about. Strikes me that the panicked ones are those that slide thru here, taunting and parroted talking points heavy, and facts light.

SpongeDoug… LOL Good one, Word.

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Can’t believe that a black man with progressive views is going to win, can you?

What does his skin color have to do with anything? Are you a racist, Jim?

You’re like a soaked sponge… unable to absorb any more.

Keep waterboarding SpongeDoug, Mata…when it comes to facts, oversaturation is a beautiful thing.

Besides, you have a reputation to live up to.

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Um, no Jim that is you on th Left spouting out lies about Palin and McCain.

I sure hope that it does not happen. We do not need someone farther to the left than Carter to send the economy over the edge. We are still trying to get out of Carter’s mess today

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Panic is setting in, huh guys?

I’d be getting pretty shrill too, if I were backing McCain, that is.

I had a cousin who would always scream at the refs whenever his team was losing. “They’re just against us, that’s all!!!”

Can’t believe that a black man with progressive views is going to win, can you? Cry, whine and slander all you want. It won’t work this year. Atwater is dead. Rove is a has been. And this Steve what’s his name is living in the past. You’re done. This is going to happen.

Ha ha.

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For the last time, Doug… then I’m done repeating things to you that you’re just not picking up. You’re like a soaked sponge… unable to absorb any more.

Third, if the NYTs and Newsweek sources are correct relating to us that they never saw Davis work for Freddie Mac, it makes the story worse not better for Davis.

No, no and no. It does not make it worse. Just because the NYTs and Newsweek never saw any of the consulting work that Davis did in conjunction with the Homeownership Alliance, PAC meetings, or other public promotions that company did doesn’t mean he didn’t perform tasks outside the media’s attention.

Obviously they are oblivious to the fact that the Alliance… along the DHS… created emergency pamphlets and instructions for Katrina.

McCain complains endlessly in his read speeches that “lobbyists, politicians, and bureaucrats who succeeded in persuading Congress and the administration to ignore the festering problems at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac” are the villians.

And we’ve already proved the Rick Davis is not a “villian” lobbyist. And well McCain should complain about those villians. This crap started with Carter, Clinton dug it in deep (CRA changes commencing Jan 1st, 1995… coincidently a great legacy for the DNC Congress’s exit in 1994) and the Barney Franks/Chuck Schumer’s etal made sure that easy money and Fannie/Freddie cooked books stayed in high gear ’til we are where we are today.

Now that you’ve finished with all this bulls#*t about McCain and Davis, why don’t you go make a donation to that genuine villian politician who *was* on the take from Fannie Freddie… It’s the same guy who was working with ACORN to make sure the money for the low budget housing stayed flowing like a flat out faucet. I believe his name’s Obama. He’s got another big campaign party to throw, and needs your cash.

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