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Do Veep Vetters Matter?

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The McCain camp certainly thinks so.

Since The Washington Post ran that story last week alleging that Jim Johnson may have profited off the subprime crisis, the Obama camp has called the story irrelevant and overblown.

In response, McCain spokesperson Tucker Bounds said, “There is nothing ‘overblown and irrelevant’ about millions of Americans facing foreclosure and Barack Obama entrusting his most important decision as a presidential candidate to a man who has accepted millions in special loans from a subprime mortgage lender.”

This could possibly be the first time ever that an opponent has attacked a Veep selection committee member!

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5 Responses to “Do Veep Vetters Matter?”

Avinash_Tyagi Says:
June 9th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
McCain camp is in desperation mode, probably have some really bad lobbying connections that haven’t been made public yet
Grant Gould Says:
June 10th, 2008 at 6:12 am
Given that Cheney was one of Bush’s veep-vetters, I’d say that the bar is set pretty darn low.
Rich Says:
June 10th, 2008 at 7:06 am
The people who BO holds closest and whose opinions and recommendations are taken seriously DO matter when deciding who is worthy and qualified to be POTUS.
rusty075 Says:
June 10th, 2008 at 8:39 am
this strikes me as a very odd tactic on McCain’s part, considering that Phil Graham, McCain’s campaign co-chairman, was a paid lobbiest for banking giant UBS. Johnson may have profited from the subprime mess, but Graham was paid millions to push for the deregulation that helped create it. Campaign Co-Chair is certainly closer to the potential potus’ ear than a member of a vp vetting committee is. Just seems odd that McCain would even raise the topic.
Ed Says:
June 10th, 2008 at 8:52 am
Phil Gramm, McCain’s economic advisor, deregulated the mortgage industry through the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act while in Congress, directly leading to the subprime crisis. This doesn’t even scratch the surface of Gramm’s unethical lobbying for the mortgage industry while vice chairman of UBS, which has written off $18B in bad loans, and is losing money and shedding jobs at an alarming rate.

I encourage the Republicans to shine a spotlight on this issue.

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