An interesting historical read about the current economic crisis.

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

McCain’s attempt to fix Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac in 2005

With the financial sector in turmoil today, the media and the politicians have started throwing around blame with the same recklessness as lenders threw around credit to create the problem. Politically, the pertinent question is this: Which candidate foresaw the credit crisis and tried to do something about it? As it turns out, John McCain did — and partnered with three other Senate Republicans to reform the government’s involvement in lending three years ago, after an attempt by the Bush administration died in Congress two years earlier. McCain spoke forcefully on May 25, 2006, on behalf of the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005 (via Beltway Snark):

follow the link and read the rest... follow every link on the page... do a web search and see just how much money Obama has taken from certain lobbyists from certain mortgage companies.

[SaGa]

wasnt it in the range of 30 million that obama got. if i remember correctly