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Originally Posted by MrLabGuy
Please...You act as if Obama has ZERO links to lobbyists. Careful using guilt by association because Obama does not hold up to that scrutiny.
Lobbyists are part of our broken government and both parties are guilty. I'm more concerned with Obama's relationships with Rezko, Ayres and his 20 year relationship with Rev Wright as well as a long list of others.
So is it quilt by association or not? Pick your poison.
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Nope. I quoted it like it was reported. I acknowledged Obama's Fannie and Freddie political contacts. I even acknowledged Obama's receipt of funds from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. So you cannot say that I inferred that Obama has ZERO political links to Fannie and Freddie.
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Originally Posted by Krimson X
That may be true, but tell the whole story, Wagner. 
Fannie and Freddie’s political contacts exist deep in the two presidential campaigns.
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I responded directly to Wagner's "half-truth" post about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
As far as Rev. Wright (to which Obama has offered as fair game during this political season) and others, I offer this:
If you are McCain or Gov. Palin it is ok to attend churches over the years whose pastors say that people who voted for John Kerry or merely criticize George W. Bush are going to hell, and that the U.S. is an explicitly Christian nation and the job of Christians is to bring Christian theological principles into government, and who bring in speakers who say the conflict in the Middle East is God’s punishment on Jews for rejecting Jesus, and everyone can still think you’re just a good church-going Christian, but if you’re Obama and friends with a Rev. Wright who has noted (as have Colin Powell and the U.S. Department of Defense) that terrorist attacks are often the result of U.S. foreign policy and who talks about the history of racism and its effect on black people, you’re an extremist who probably hates America.
If you are Gov. Palin it is ok to have a husband who was a member of an extremist political party that wants your state to secede from the Union, and whose motto was “Alaska first,” and no one questions your patriotism or that of your family, while if you're Obama everyone questions your patriotism because you do not wear a flag lapel pin or becaues you have a tenuous link to William Ayers.