Obama’s Latest Change

by Heywood U. Reedmore -- June 11, 2008 at 12:53 pm | In 2008 Election | 1 Comment

According to The Caucus:

James A. Johnson, a leading member of the vice-presidential search team for Senator Barack Obama, quit his post with the campaign today after he and the campaign came under sustained Republican fire in the last several days for several favorable loans he had received.

“Jim did not want to distract in any way from the very important task of gathering information about my vice presidential nominee, so he has made a decision to step aside that I accept,” Mr. Obama said in a statement released by his campaign.

Question: How can Johnson resign if he didn’t work for Obama in the first place?  Perhaps Senator Obama can offer us one of his trademark “clarifications” on that point.

 

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  1. [...] Before Jim Johnson stepped down from Obama’s campaign, the Presidential candidate said the questions about Johnson were just “a game.”  Now it seems we’re getting a glimpse at the reasons why Barack Obama thought it was no big deal that Johnson received cheap mortgages from Countrywide’s CEO, Angelo Mozilo.  According to the Wall Street Journal, other prominent Dems have been skipping through the mortgage market, hand in hand, with their “friend” Angelo.  Apparently, Johnson told his Democrat colleagues where preferential loans could be gotten for people in power.  [...]

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