http://www.cheatseekingmissiles.com/2008/09/15/as-wall-street-melts-mccain-must-change-his-message/ Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:16:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.cheatseekingmissiles.com/2008/09/15/as-wall-street-melts-mccain-must-change-his-message/comment-page-1/#comment-790 DT Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:10:18 +0000 http://www.cheatseekingmissiles.com/?p=5823#comment-790 Obama has raised a full $395,574 from employees  of the now-bankrupt Lehman brothers, second only to Hillary Clinton. http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/Friends_of_Lehman.html?showall Obama's biggest donors: So much for the small contributor and not taking corporate money.  His largest donors are from Wall Street firms.  Guess they were hoping for an Obama bailout.  Maybe Obama should return the money so they can stay afloat. Goldman Sachs $691,930 University of California $611,207 Citigroup Inc $448,599 JPMorgan Chase & Co $442,919  Google Inc $420,174 UBS AG $404,750 National Amusements Inc $389,140 Microsoft Corp $377,235 Lehman Brothers $370,524 Sidley Austin LLP $350,302 Moveon.org $347,463 Skadden, Arps et al $340,264 Time Warner $338,527 Wilmerhale Llp $335,398 Morgan Stanley $318,070 Latham & Watkins $297,400 Jones Day $289,476 University of Chicago $278,885 Stanford University $276,038.He also received the second largest amount from Fannie and Freddie.  He has quite a few of the high paid executives and former executives of Fannie and Freddie as advisors:  Jim Johnson, Jamie Gorelick, Franklin Raines...The crisis is directly related to the subprime mortgage meltdown triggered by loosening HUD standards for loans." In recent history, HUD Director, Cuomo (during the Clinton years) pushed Fannie and Freddie into the risky sub-prime markets - the begining of the end:"[Andrew Cuomo] turned the Federal Housing Administration mortgage program into a sweetheart lender with sky-high loan ceilings and no money down, and he legalized what a federal judge has branded "kickbacks" to brokers that have fueled the sale of overpriced and unsupportable loans. "http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-08-05/news/how-andrew-cuomo-gave-birth-to-the-crisis-at-fannie-mae-and-freddie-mac Obama has raised a full $395,574 from employees  of the now-bankrupt Lehman brothers, second only to Hillary Clinton. http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/Friends_of_Lehman.html?showall
Obama’s biggest donors: So much for the small contributor and not taking corporate money.  His largest donors are from Wall Street firms.  Guess they were hoping for an Obama bailout.  Maybe Obama should return the money so they can stay afloat.
Goldman Sachs $691,930 University of California $611,207 Citigroup Inc $448,599 JPMorgan Chase & Co $442,919  Google Inc $420,174 UBS AG $404,750 National Amusements Inc $389,140 Microsoft Corp $377,235 Lehman Brothers $370,524 Sidley Austin LLP $350,302 Moveon.org $347,463 Skadden, Arps et al $340,264 Time Warner $338,527 Wilmerhale Llp $335,398 Morgan Stanley $318,070 Latham & Watkins $297,400 Jones Day $289,476 University of Chicago $278,885 Stanford University $276,038.He also received the second largest amount from Fannie and Freddie.  He has quite a few of the high paid executives and former executives of Fannie and Freddie as advisors:  Jim Johnson, Jamie Gorelick, Franklin Raines…The crisis is directly related to the subprime mortgage meltdown triggered by loosening HUD standards for loans.”
In recent history, HUD Director, Cuomo (during the Clinton years) pushed Fannie and Freddie into the risky sub-prime markets – the begining of the end:”[Andrew Cuomo] turned the Federal Housing Administration mortgage program into a sweetheart lender with sky-high loan ceilings and no money down, and he legalized what a federal judge has branded “kickbacks” to brokers that have fueled the sale of overpriced and unsupportable loans. “http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-08-05/news/how-andrew-cuomo-gave-birth-to-the-crisis-at-fannie-mae-and-freddie-mac

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