When you go to a paintball field, does it hurt when you get shot? And do you get padding, if so how much?
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WHY The Facts The McCain video attempts to link Obama to Franklin Raines, the former CEO of the bankrupt mortgage giant, Fannie Mae, who also happens to be African American. It then shows a photograph of an elderly white woman taxpayer who has supposedly been stuck with the bill as a result of the extensive financial fraud at Fannie Mae. 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 business reporter, Anita Huslin, who wrote a 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. Since this has now become a campaign issue, I asked Huslin to provide the exact circumstances of the quote. She explained that she was chatting with Raines during the photo shoot, and asked if he was engaged at all with the Democrats' quest for the White House. He said that he had gotten a couple of calls from the Obama campaign. I asked him about what, and he said 'oh, general housing, economy issues.' ('Not mortgage/foreclosure meltdown or Fannie-specific,' I asked, and he said 'no.')
