To quote Flounder in Animal House: "Oh boy, is this great!The New York Times is reporting that John "The Maverick" McCain's campaign manager was paid $30,000 a month for five years to work for an advocacy group set up by the recently-bailed-out mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to defend them against stricter regulations. That's not a typo. That's $30,000 a month.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/us/politics/22mccain.html
McCain has been campaigning, as the article points out, as a critic of the two companies and the lobbying that kept them from greater oversight and regulation.
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McCain's propaganda machine seeks to turn everything (i.e. the truth) on its head. Orwellian, isn't it?
And then there was Phil Gramm, who still "unofficially" advises. . .
As Eric just commented, McCain and his campaign (the Bushies) will just lie their butts off about it. The Fourth Estate needs to do it's damn job and quit obscuring bald-faced lies in order to be so-called fair and balanced. Not all lies are equal, and not all political turn-abouts (like McCain's recent conversion to being a regulation guy) are equal either.
30,000 a month. That's a figure most normal people can barely comprehend.
Have you seen, by the way, that McCain, in addition to his 7 non-elite houses, also owns something like 13 non-elite cars? The Obama family owns ONE. Oh, and one more thing, Cindy drives a car that's not even registered in her name--it's registered to her beer distributorship.
Side note - every time I visit and see your "The Soundtrack of my Life", I laugh. I've listened to it a couple of times and it never fails to make me feel like at least $30000. Should I visit it monthly to get my money's worth?
Erik-
Who said it? Disraeli, maybe? "Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely." He's throwing away every bit of everything that had any shred of respectablity in order to win.
Macguffin-
This has been going on since Reagan. There was a book back then, "On Bended Knee" about how the press cowtowed to Reagan. And now with the industry in a free-fall, it's gotten even worse. Thank god, at least, for blogs.
Bubs-
Yeah, he's in touch with the common guy. Not an elitist like Obama is.
When he couldn't answer the question a few weeks ago about how many houses he has, I kept thinking back to Bush being amazed by the grocery store scanner. Out of touch.
Dale-
But Dale-- you really do light up my life!
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