It seems that the Washington Post says that Franklin Raines really wasn’t an Obama adviser. And by the way, you can’t believe what we write in our newspaper. Talk about boosting the brand.
The Obama campaign last night issued a statement by Raines insisting, “I am not an advisor to Barack Obama, nor have I provided his campaign with advice on housing or economic matters.” Obama spokesman Bill Burton went a little further, telling me in an e-mail that the campaign had “neither sought nor received” advice from Raines “on any matter.”
So what evidence does the McCain campaign have for the supposed Obama-Raines connection? It is pretty flimsy, but it is not made up completely out of whole cloth. McCain spokesman Brian Rogers points to three items in the Washington Post in July and August. It turns out that the three items (including an editorial) all rely on the same single conversation, between Raines and a Washington Post reporter, Anita Huslin, who wrote a Style section profile of the discredited Fannie Mae boss that appeared on July 16. The profile reported that Raines, who retired from Fannie Mae four years ago, had “taken calls from Barack Obama’s presidential campaign seeking his advice on mortgage and housing policy matters.”
So yeah. Obama seeking advice from Raines is not the same as Raines advising Obama.
Well there is at least one impossible thing there I can believe before breakfast. Hope and Change people. Hope and Change.
Cross Posted at Power and Control
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6 responses to “Washington Post Says: Don’t Trust Us”
I’m with the Wash Post on this one.
I mean, using the Wash Post as source? That’s just stupid. They work at too low a level of facts to be useful as an informational source.
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At least they’re honest. So far I have read two other bloggers quoting Otter from Animal House:
“You f*cked up. You trusted us.”
I still like the Post, or any dead tree news source. When you have to sleep outside or in your car, you can use it as supplemental insulation in a pinch.
Yes, I once was homeless.
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