Obama, More Smoke More Fire

I was reviewing some of my Obama stories, of which some of them are linked below. Many of those stories deal with Obama's associations with what can be best described as "questionable" people. Now there is another to add to that list. Soon after Obama secured the Democratic nomination, he announced that he formed a team to aid him in selecting a Vice Presidential running mate. One of Obama's choices was former Fannie Mae CEO Jim Johnson, whose associations with sub-prime lender Countrywide Financial touched off another controversy for the Democratic Nominee. Johnson was reported to have received over 7 million dollars in "sweetheart" loans from Countrywide. Anyone who has listened to Obama speak over the last year or so, must have heard him rail Countrywide by name in light of the sub-prime lending crisis. So what does this mean? Obama and his campaign staff are pretty sharp, so I find it hard to believe that Johnson's appointment was an oversight. It is more likely that even "the candidate of change" still defers to the Washington insiders. Johnson resigned last week from Obama's VP search team.


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