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UncleSam
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Not true
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10/3/2008 1:20:27 AM
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I got this same email, and checked into it. (Myth Buster, why am I doing your job?) Turns out that none of it is completely true, most of it contains the barest hint of once being almost true, and part of it is a bald-faced lie.
"Although at least some of these men have had connections to the Obama campaign at one time or another, none of them has (or apparently ever had) ongoing roles with that campaign as chief economic advisors.
>>>Franklin Raines has had some dealings with the Obama campaign, but he never held any actual position within the campaign, and his involvement with it was not nearly as substantial as implied here. As the Washington Post reported when a McCain campaign commercial attempted to link Raines with the Democratic candidate, the whole substance of the connection between the two men was that Raines "had gotten a couple of calls from the Obama campaign" in which they talked about "general housing and economy issues."
>>>In May 2008, Senator Obama (who at the time was the Democratic Party's presumptive presidential nominee) tapped Johnson to lead the group that was vetting potential vice-presidential running mates for him. Johnson resigned from that position a month later after news accounts surfaced that he had received more than $2 million in home loans at below average market rates from Countrywide Financial (a partner of Fannie Mae).
>>>Tim Howard, the former CFO (chief financial officer) of Fannie Mae, was caught up in the same accounting scandal that undid Franklin Raines, and (like Raines) resigned from the company in 2004. We haven't yet found any substantive connection between Tim Howard and the Obama campaign, however, much less any information supporting the claim that Howard is (or was) a "Chief Economic Advisor to Obama."
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