John McCain's campaign is the most despicable, insulting, and hypocritical in American history. Today, in the annals of the conservatives without conscience, we get the story that John McCain's campaign manager was paid over $2 Million by Freddie and Fannie to gain access to McCain - not only as Senator, but as future president in order to derail regulation and oversight.
Of course we all know, John McCain's campaign is run by literally hundreds of lobbyists and Bush-men, including at least 83 who are Wall Street lobbyists, but the most damning case is that of McCain's own campaign manager, Charlie Black:
Senator John McCain's campaign manager 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, current and former officials say.
But last week the McCain campaign stepped up a running battle of guilt by association when it began broadcasting commercials trying to link Mr. Obama directly to the government bailout of the mortgage giants this month by charging that he takes advice from Fannie Mae's former chief executive, Franklin Raines, an assertion both Mr. Raines and the Obama campaign dispute.
Sickening! Baseline decency is not entirely dead either in Washington or on Wall Street, and the truth is coming out:
Incensed by the advertisements, several current and former executives of the companies came forward to discuss the role that Rick Davis, Mr. McCain's campaign manager and longtime adviser, played in helping Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac beat back regulatory challenges when he served as president of their advocacy group, the Homeownership Alliance, formed in the summer of 2000. Some who came forward were Democrats, but Republicans, speaking on the condition of anonymity, confirmed their descriptions.
The depth of the actual depravity would be inconceiveable if it weren't part of the pro-lie McCain campaign.
"The value that he brought to the relationship was the closeness to Senator McCain and the possibility that Senator McCain was going to run for president again," said Robert McCarson, a former spokesman for Fannie Mae, who said that while he worked there from 2000 to 2002, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac together paid Mr. Davis's firm $35,000 a month. Mr. Davis "didn't really do anything," Mr. McCarson, a Democrat, said.
While it appears that Rick Davis "did nothing" to justify these massive payments, what he did do was sell access to a powerful, sitting senator and potential future POTUS. Clearly the current value of 7 pieces of silver for selling out your country is now approximately $35,000 per month, and that's before last weeks massive flight to quality.
Throughout the primary season, John McCain proclaimed himself a "footsoldier in the Reagan Revolution" and "primarially a De-regulator". Now as the credit crisis has exposed the vast lie of crony capitalism and Supply-side Reaganomics, McCain wants you to believe he's a trust-busting Teddy Roosevelt regulator ready (literally) destroy evil and greed with the power of his leadership.
Check-mate. McCain is the problem. His ideology, his actions, his cronies were the architects of this disaster. He rode in to Washinton on the failed ideology which created this disaster. His right-wing orthodoxy makes a belly laugh of his current populist posturing.
When a revolution fails, usually the leaders are lined up against the wall. In the George Bush / John McCain shadow of America, they're made president. It's time to leave this nightmare in the realm of folklore as a bedtime story to horrify children.
It's time for America to reclaim its greatness as the true moral leader of the world. Obama/Biden '08
If you read the comments, it is shocking how vehemently people are defending Palin.