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A 2005 Video of Fannie Mae CEO Shown Affirming his Connection to Congressional Black Caucus and Barack Obama, Where is the Media?
In a 2005 video Daniel Mudd, at the time the interim CEO of the catastrophically failed mortgage lender Fannie Mae, affirmed his fealty and that of Fannie Mae to the Congressional Black Caucus. The top three campaign donation recipients were Democrats, number two of which was Barack Obama, yet the media is laying mum on these facts. One wonders what would be going on in the media if John McCain were a top recipient of campaign donations from a market crashing, government bail-out getting organization like Fannie Mae?
The three top campaign donation recipients from Fannie Mae were all Democrats. Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) got $165,000, Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) was given $126,349, and failed presidential candidate Senator John Kerry (D-MA) took $111,000 from the folks at Fannie Mae. Is this information getting out there?
Most of the top Fannie executives were also Democrats each of whom worked closely with Democratic presidents and Barack Obama. Franklin Raines, Clinton White House budget director, ran Fannie Mae and pocketed $50 million. Jamie Gorelick was a Clinton Justice Department Official (famous for adding to our intelligence failures helping cause the attacks on 9/11) was paid $26 million. Jim Johnson, who most recently served on Obama's VP search committee, was the CEO of Fannie Mae and has also made millions. These Clinton/Obama associates sat at the head of a failing financial agency all the while raking in millions and donating hundreds of thousands to top Democrats.
So what, you may ask? Well, there is a reason that these Fannie Mae officials donated to Democrats. It was because Democrats continued to stymie Republican efforts to fix these failing lending agencies. Democrats protected these rotten lending practices and the Fannie Mae executives knew who were the sugar daddies that needed greasing.
Why aren't the media reporting these connections?
(H/T Andrea Shea King of the Radio Patriot)
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They are waiting...
September 20, 2008 - 23:48 ET by JWFThey are waiting for the people that are checking the pulse of the nation.
Talk radio, blogs, and NB baby!
Also they are waiting for the board game.
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2008/09/obamonpoly.html
At least John McCain is
September 21, 2008 - 06:15 ET by motherbeltAt least John McCain is bringing it up in his stump speeches.
I thought they would have to talk about it, if for no other reason than to accuse McCain of "mudslinging." But they don't want to invite any more attention to it, so they let it go.
They don't accuse McCain of
September 21, 2008 - 07:49 ET by kgThey don't accuse McCain of mudslinging. They accused him of out and out lying.
"Forget change, I want improvement!"
These numbers are
September 21, 2008 - 15:05 ET by docbfungible...I have seen them all over the board...It looks like a derivitive formula---'pick the answer you want and work backwords'.
Obama's Lost Soul Tour
September 20, 2008 - 23:52 ET by Lame CherryMr. Huston,
There are numerous struggling people attaching themselves to Barack Obama.
The greed group you note above are in equal to a group I was invited to meet in the Obama "security fest". Being puzzled in who these 3 people were, I did a little research and they fit a pattern of Obama supporters being failures looking for a way to redeem themselves.
I post it below from my blog for readers. I feel honestly sorrow for these people as they are being preyed on and it is distressing seeing them being so used.
Obama: The Broken Souls Tour
Broken souls are the key words to remember.
My
best friends at the Obama campaign invited me to hear speak three of
their "finest" to which I was so completely thrilled as it is so
interesting examining what group type just attaches themselves to
Barack Obama.
Michelle Obama said American is broken, well the
people who cling to Mr. Obama on the broken souls tour are just that in
cast off, broken people.
The three experts Barack offered up
were Ambassador Robert Gelbard, California Congresswoman Ellen Tauscher
and the ever lovely, Major General Paul Eaton.
I doubt the Obama campaign wants the following information out on their three spokespeople who are to, in quote to:
"discuss
Barack Obama and Joe Biden's plan to create a stronger America and a
safer world, and provide the care and benefits our nation's veterans
deserve."
So what kind of world does Robert Gelbard envision?
For
starters Mr. Gelbard was Bill Clinton's special representative to the
Balkans. The Balkans one might remember were Yugoslavia, but that
nation was broken up on a fake cover story of ethnic cleansing by
Serbs. Last year, it was revealed that numbers of dead Muslims were now
voting in the current elections. So much for the cover story to destroy
a nation.
So what was Yugoslavia really about? The same thing
Georgia is about in Soros types stealing from small nations raw
resources and oil pipelines. This is what special representatives do in
selling their principles for the brass ring.
They are rewarded with
being ambassador to the cesspool of Indonesia by the Clintons, gee the
same home nation of native son, Barack Obama, and after the Brzezinski
comrades seem to turn that into a central Asian Muslim upheaval for
September 2001, Mr. Gelbard "retires" in 2001 and becomes part of what
is now, L-1 Identity Solutions.
What is L-1 Identity Solutions?
Just a huge corporation selling facial identification software,
electronic passports (as if there is not enough problems with the ones
law enforcement has to check currently) and border management for such
mammoth accounts of the United States and Saudi Arabia to profit off of
in the insecurity of needed new security. All of which would not be
necessary if Brzezinski had not been creating Muslim terrorists to
fight Russia in the first place which led to 9 11.
Mr. Gelbard
though after being dumped by the side of the road by the Clintons,
apparently not noticing Muslim upheaval in Indonesian terrorism, was
awarded by Colin Powell in 2002 with the Distinguished Service Award by
the State Department.
To fly so high, be so distinguished with
numerous commendations from the government, being smarter than all,
used by all, selling your soul out for profit as you are passed over to
never be Sec. of State, and then limping along as a broken soul one
attaches themselves to Barack Obama as Hillary Clinton wanted no part
of you in her campaign.
Gelbard was probably promised a job thirty other people are being promised by Obama as Sec. of State.
Next we have Ellen Tauscher. Ms. Tauscher is the rare little girl who loves things that go boom when set off by James Bond.
The
reason she is pictured with Joe Lieberman is she of the Democrats who
voted for war with President Bush. One can find Ms. Tauscher pictured
with the strategic command, with nuclear scientists and she just loves
all things US Military.
For this love affair fetish, she was
castigated, thrashed, crucified and demonized by her liberal Democratic
Party. While she does head the U.S. House's Strategic Forces
Subcommittee only due to Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer backing her in
the House, she is the little lost girl of things which go boom, tossed
aside by the Clintons and desperately clinging to messiah Obama like
Gelbard trying to find someone to love her.
She has most likely been promised Sec. of Defense just like the lost soul below.
Major
General Paul Eaton is such an interesting expert of defense for messiah
Obama to wow the masses, until one finds this lost little boy was a
disaster cut loose for one massive failure.
Pictured at left is Paul
Eaton congratulating Iraqi soldiers. If one remembers the stories of
Iraqi soldiers running away at the start of the Surge, which the Bush
Administration was taking major hits on, it was Paul Eaton who was in
charge of training the Iraqi army in 2003 to 2004.
It was
Eaton's responsibility to train the Iraqi army and in his training they
instead ran away. Eaton was re stationed at the time to Fort Monroe,
Virginia overseeing US training and doctrine, but "retired" in 2006.
In
military terms, that appears like most of John Kerry's generals who
were deliberately flushed by the Bush Administration as they were
political appointments who didn't comprehend a thing about military
doctrine.
Eaton would upon "retirement" go on a savage
wanderlust slamming Rumsfeld, the Pentagon and Bush in the New York
Times in his true political calling.
As this is an Obama "expert" on the military, it is necessary to examine Paul Eaton.
First,
Iraq under Rumsfeld was to have enough troops which Mr. Eaton knows as
it was Turkey who did not allow the northern division of US forces in.
America though by God's Grace achieved instant liberation of Iraq.
Mr.
Rumsfeld had plans for Iraq to be liberated, not exposing huge numbers
of US forces to guerrilla warfare terrorism and for the US to occupy
fire bases while Iraqi forces took immediate control.
Instead, Colin
Powell, awarding Mr. Gelbard of Balkan fame, changed the game and
initiated for his CFR Rockefeller bosses an occupy Iraq policy in
nation building.
Nation building in this case is code for, create a
terrorist kill pit in Iraq that lures terrorists from Muslim nations to
be killed there. At least, that is what was sold to Bush 43 without
informing him or Rumsfeld of the killing which would occur to US
Soldiers and that by miracle huge amounts of oil would be siphoned off
by the same European Marxists working with Saddam before.
Once
Bush 43 figured out what kind of scam Colin Powell was working, one
notices this lost soul now sniffing around Obama was the first person
"retired" by Bush 43.
The political whore that Eaton is knows
very well all of this and as he is responsible in great part in setting
back Iraqi forces it is equally time this Obama lost soul has his own
reality check.
Paul Eaton is like the other two Obama shills
pictured below in Wesley Clark and Colin Powell. Now John McCain is of
the old military code who will defend rice self inflicted shrapnel in
his butt John Kerry, but Eaton, Clark and Powell are of the desk jockey
set who savage US Soldiers and this blog has reached it's end in
keeping quiet on the Obama generals.
I'm
not pleased with the following outing, but as the old guard will not do
it, for the good of this nation in protecting it from Barack Obama the
reality of what is the US Military in parts needs to be explained to
people who have never been in service or who have never been in a
combat unit for their tour.
I have circled above on the right,
but on the left lapel area of these three generals something which
needs a great deal of explanation as it is the highest honor, badge and
earned award any United States Soldier ever has placed on them.
That
is why it is on top of the ribbons. It ranks next to the Purple Heart
and if one ever asks the old Veterans what matters to them, it is the
CIB, Combat Infantry Badge.
The CIB started in World War II as a
token of somehow honoring the Infantry Soldier who was dying in mass.
Gen. Patton once stated it was a medal he sincerely wanted as it was
the highest of honors. Gen. Patton though did not ever have a CIB as
honor would not permit him even as a commander who had been in combat
from pinning one on as it was deemed the honor of the enlisted Infantry
Soldier.
Thee only way any American can pin that sky blue badge on
with a musket at it's focal point surrounded by a wreath is to engage
an enemy in combat who is trying to murder them and to then kill that
enemy.
The CIB is thee warriors rank and the Veteran wears that
earned honor knowing very well that a Private wearing that outranks a 5
star General, because they are a Combat Soldier.
That left breast on
any uniform is where the eyes of all knowing soldiers scans immediately
for this unheard of medal. It is the pecking order medal and those who
have it are a cut above the rest of humanity and there is an unspoken
code about all of this which does not filter into the conversation.
So
one notices that Clark and Powell both have CIB's. Now for the facts.
Clark and Powell were both desk jockeys in Vietnam. In military
circles, the prestige of the CIB is well known. Officers bumping around
HQ shuffling papers get the smirks from combat officers who have CIB's
as the two will never meet.
The military has compassion on the dish
washers, latrine burners and on officers like Clark and Powell to let
them all be medal winners too. So they round up the cooks and latrine
scrubbers and send them out on patrol with a Wesley or Colin who only
read about war in tactical manuals and sure enough the officers like
Wes lead their troops into a Vietcong ambush to which Wes gets strafed
by an AK 47 four times and Clark with Powell go home with Purple Hearts
and shot up troops, some in body bags and some in hospitals for months.
See,
these liberal honchos have been getting away with this and slamming
McCain and the old guard for a long time as the Vets did their fighting
and will not fight their own, and, fawnlings in the liberal press eat
it all up as not one of them knows enough about combat to understand
what is really going on.
Clark and Powell got their CIB's for
jewelry prestige and are a wee bit different than a Grunt or a Sgt. on
patrol from a fire base for their entire tour earning that CIB for
service they are stuck in without the cold beer and air conditioning at
the base officer's club.
So there is a little bit of difference in medals on officers like Powell and Clark than those on a mustang or a Grunt.
If
one notices, that Mr. Eaton has been left out of this, there is a
reason in this grand Obama supporter in that you will notice he does
not have a blue badge in a CIB, but has instead an EIB.
The EIB
is an "Expert Infantry Badge". One receives an EIB for putting on
bandages, loading a pack and knowing how to unload a gun.
For some
reason Mr. Eaton in command of infantry divisions and 3 wars going on,
he somehow never found his way into combat but did find his way into
finding Barack Obama after what appears the Bush Administration had
enough of him and other generals and ambassadors and "retired" them.
Mr.
Eaton did though give America the grand Stryker Brigades out of Fort
Lewis. For a refresher course, the Army decided in Iraq to use Stryker
Brigades instead of M1 Abrams tanks. The Strykers were chewed up and
spit out by terrorists.
American Soldiers in real combat soon
figured out mounting a Ma Deuce with sheet metal on the top of a truck
or hummer was more effect and millions cheaper so they could afford
body armor.
The great legacy of Major General New York Times Propagandist for Obama, Paul Eaton.
These
three though, Gelbard, Tauscher and Eaton are Obama's lost souls
looking for a Jimmy Carter and Zbigniew Brzezinski second chance at
being loved again in the disasters they brought on America and
themselves by trying to redeem themselves and make failed policy work a
second time.
In chivalry, Ms. Tauscher is an American who tries
her best, but she is not even a Joe Lieberman who can get booted out of
his party, stand on his own and take flack. No, she has to run to Obama
and delude herself like all Blue Dogs that she is accomplishing
something too.
A Blue Dog Democrat is like the prostitute who sits
in Church swearing she loves Jesus, but by afternoon one finds them on
the street corner selling themselves again.
One can not Ms. Tauscher
state you love the US Military when your Barack is on record stating he
is going to gut the US Military, throw more human target Soldiers into
Afghanistan for his own surge, told Iraq to leave US Soldiers in harms
way to get them murdered so his campaign would benefit and is bent on
disarming the American Militia by raising ammunition prices 500% and
taking guns away from United States Citizens.
It is the saddest
of situations to see 3 noted Americans of some accomplishment who
because of their own failure or fetish have been so wounded that they
are running to Barack Obama trying to make him out to be defense expert
to try and resurrect their failed careers.
campaign keep feeding
this blog all of this information, it will be breaking the stories they
give, exposing the failures and disasters the Barack Obama literally
attracts these types and for as long as my new best friends at the
Obama syndicate is bringing to America.
The lost souls tour of Barack Obama.
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Surprised?
September 20, 2008 - 23:57 ET by Warner Todd HustonWho could be surprised, eh?
»→ Lame
September 21, 2008 - 06:34 ET by Cool ArrowTime to quit your day job and go to full time analysis.
Lately you seem to have an uninvestigated angle to everything.
Might want to invest in a text editor compatible with NB software so the lines flow more smoothly, but the content is full of drilldown insight.
"Read my lips. I would not be anybody's Vice President" - Joe Biden 08/07
YOU'RE PAYING FOR OBAMA'S GREED
September 20, 2008 - 23:56 ET by john5750McCAIN REPEATEDLY WARNED OF THIS CRISIS AND TRIED TO PASS LEGISLATION TO PREVENT IT.
"I join as a cosponsor of the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005, S. 190, to underscore my support for quick passage of GSE regulatory reform legislation. If Congress does not act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system, and the economy as a whole." -Sen. John McCain
OBAMA TOOK MORE LOBBYI$T MONEY THAN ANY OTHER SENATOR. INCLUDED IN THOSE MILLION$ WAS MONEY FROM HIS FRIEND AND ADVISOR FRANKLIN RAINES AT FANNIE MAE WHO MADE $90 MILLION HIMSELF. OBAMA WAS PAID TO STOP McCAIN'S LEGISLATION SO THE CORRUPTION COULD CONTINUE. HE DID.
McCAIN-PALIN 2008 and HILLARY-ANYBODY 2012
Where's Bush? GOP?
September 22, 2008 - 17:05 ET by Sergeant ROCKAre they scared of Barney Frank???
PALIN/McCain 2008
This IS a very legitimate story...
September 21, 2008 - 01:03 ET by ImAllRightThese are the posts that I come here to read about, not that Biden story from earlier today that had me fuming (certainly a bit too much now that I look back on it.)
Granted, McCain did recieve in the hundreds of thousand as well, but Obama in a MUCH shorter time recieved well over what McCain had in a decade plus from these companies, and the contributions' to McCain were not from the corporate level.
The MSM is more focused on sensationalsim instead of issues like these that are indeed very important to know about as they directly correlate with the issues.
I just hope that people are curious about the candidates this election cycle and make a point to research and compare the positives and negatives of all of the candidates. When stories like this arise it is imperative for the media to do their job and report, which it seems they have no intention of doing. Great job Warner.
"Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man." - Ronald Reagan
Correct me if I am wrong.
September 21, 2008 - 01:32 ET by JWFSen. McCain received zero dollars from Fan/Fred.
Please correct me if I am wrong.
You're wrong - - I think McCain got 20,000 From FHA-FNME
September 21, 2008 - 08:37 ET by JayTeeWhen you give so much money to the Dems, you drop some chump change on the republicans to keep up appearances.
But you know, keep it under 6 figures for the non-supporters.
The Republican Revolution will not be Televised
Sweet Mortgage Deals!
September 22, 2008 - 16:40 ET by Sergeant ROCKAnd McCain didn't get any sweet mortgage deals like some of the democRATS did.. Dodd comes to mind for instance.
PALIN/McCain 2008
opposites
September 21, 2008 - 10:56 ET by dmntd1His position in rank was exactly opposite from Sen Obama's. One was second from the top, the other second from the bottom. Guess which is which.
Fascism is a religious conception in which man is seen in his imminent relationship with a superior law and with an objective will that transcends the particular individual - Mussolini
Imagine that...
September 21, 2008 - 06:48 ET by sentforth5satan will not report on his own activities.
You know, I'm just sayin' is all....
Once again, we're losers! I
September 21, 2008 - 08:30 ET by billbOnce again, we're losers! The market collapses because of fraud. I reach 70 1/2 years old this year. IRA rules require that anyone reaching this age MUST take out a portion of their IRA savings. At this age I don't have any make up time, but am being forced to sell at a loss! Any financial advisor will advise NOT to sell at this time. So now I must take the loss.
THIS LAW NEEDS TO BE SUSPENDED, AND THE CROOKS JAILED!
Please note contributions from the securities and investment
September 21, 2008 - 10:53 ET by Prester John...industry as a whole. Any guess as to who the top two recipients are? Hint, they're not Republicans.
Barack Obama (D)
$9,873,356
Hillary Clinton (D)
$7,376,070
John McCain (R)
$6,893,293
Rudolph W. Giuliani (R)
$5,019,595
Mitt Romney (R)
$4,883,137
Christopher J. Dodd (D)
$2,876,532
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Obama and the crisis
September 22, 2008 - 16:23 ET by east tennessee johnSo Obama blames the economic crisis on the shredding of consumer protections and dismantling of concsumer regulatory protections by the Bush administration. Did he name any SPECIFIC protections or consumer regulatory protections that relate to this credit meltdown? No stealth Marxist Barack did not. He just used the Bush Boogeyman as the cause, and all rational examination stopped, particularly injthe economically monronic national press. For those interested inthe truth, you may want to examine the following events.The repeal of the Glass-Stegall Act in 1999, which removed the firewall between commercial and investment banks. Surprise, surprise, Robert Rubin, Obama advisor,and Wall Street insider of the highest magnitude, was instrumental in getting this done. Pushing the limits, beginning in 1998, of the Community Reinvestment Act. This led to an explosion into the market of riskier, sub-prime loans. The complete politicalization of, with mega millions of political donations and interest group supportto provide cover for the utter non management on anything that approaches a fiscally sound basis,of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The 2 most responsible persons, suprise, suprise again, serve as advisers to Barack. They individualized profits for themselves and their supporters while socializing the risks,and Obama did nothing. The final component was the sale of the loans in the marketplace an "mortgage-backed" investment securities.Presumably meeting the now non-existant "conformity" standards of the Democratically controlled "regulatory" agencies. Leading the way was Bear Stearns. Take greed, no oversight, corrupting bureaucrats buying cover with donations and look the other way money and do this in the capital markets and presto, a credit crunch that impacts the entire economy. I bet my simple explanation is closer to the truth that Obama's Bush Boogeyman. Any takers? Besides, does Obama even understand the problem? What economy is he talking about? If the source of the financial collaspe is due to a credit crunch caused by the failure of the mortgage markets, and it is,how is this due to deregulation? What was deregulated to cause the mortgage/credit crisis? Please explain in detain rather than talk about the Marxist explanation for the "failures" of the current economic philosophy. Afew weeks ago Obama"s secular friends made a big deal about Jesus supposedly being a "community organizer." Financial market crisis from Obamaian ACORNS grow and he was an ACORN field trainer. Try being honest, just once,
jaime gorelick
September 22, 2008 - 17:00 ET by tonemeisterjaime gorelick, the mere mention of the name summons the vomit reflex!.the same jamie that nixed the cia and fbi from sharing information on possible terroist plots. she might as well have chipped in on the flight training tuition for the 9/11 hijackers.the same person who sat on the 9/11 commission.the same one who skated with a proported 23 million from fannie/freddie.