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    Day By Day by Chris Muir September 20, 2008 – “Don’t Mess with Texas”

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    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    When Flap was at OU (Oklahoma University) we had another sign in response to the University of Texas’  “hook ’em horns” and it wasn’t with two fingers.

    Looks like Flap’s two college alma mater’s the University of Southern California and OU may face off this year in the BCS Championship Bowl.

    Flap can only hope: “Fight On” and “Boomer Sooner.”

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    • So now, the Post says McCain "is clearly exaggerating wildly in attempting to depict Franklin Raines as a close adviser to Obama on 'housing and mortgage policy.'"

      But the McCain commercial never called Raines a "close adviser" or a close anything. As far as "housing and mortgage policy," given that the Post had written — and has not retracted — that Raines had discussed "mortgage and housing policy" matters with the Obama campaign, in what sense is that a wild exaggeration?

      Oh, and by the way, just for good measure, the Post brings up the racial issue, too — noting without any other comment that the McCain ad "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."

    • Just FYI, former Fannie Mae CEO, Jim Johnson donated $1,000 to Obama back in 2003.

      Then he maxed out $2,300 to Obama's primary fund and then another $2,300 to Obama's general election fund in September of last year.

    • With record ratings resulting from her appearance on the FOX News Channel, Palin Derangement Syndrome has begun to target those who merely interview the Alaskan governor as well as the candidate herself.

      Yes, to gain the approval of Sarah Palin's liberal enemies, the interviewer apparently must insult her, question whether she can be trusted around teenage boys, or ask about her private (yet somehow hacked) emails.

      Of course, that Sean Hannity was granted this interview, as opposed to Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews or Whoopi Goldberg, was bound to set off this crowd. And we should have seen the personal insults coming a mile away
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      The MSM are the gatekeepers of the media world.How dare you treat a conservative civilly or ask them legitimate questions?
      The MSM bias is as pervasive as ever.

    • You know what's really the motivation behind that McCain ad spotlighting Obama's ties to Fannie Mae mismanager Franklin Raines, don't you?

      Racism.

      Time magazine’s Karen Tumulty tells us so. She says so based on the fact that McCain campaign isn't running an ad spotlighting Obama's ties to white guy/horrible Fannie Mae mismanager Jim Johnson, even though they, uh, are.

      Team McCain is unimpressed.

      This is the same Karen Tumulty who linked to my debunking of the "whitey" tape rumor, but still said that "Obama sleuths" had found the similarity to a 2006 novel. Apparently the "Obama sleuths" found it before I wrote about it, and just didn't feel like telling anyone.

      Look, if she's just gonna repeat whatever Obama spokesman Bill Burton tells her, shouldn't he get the byline?

    • While Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has produced a television ad criticizing Sen. John McCain’s position on equal pay for women and pointing out that women in America are paid only 77 cents on the dollar compared to men, Obama pays his own female Senate staffers, on average, only 78 percent of what he pays male staffers.

      Women on McCain’s staff, meanwhile, earn 24 percent more on average than women on Obama’s Senate staff. McCain also pays his female Senate staff members a higher average salary than his male Senate staff members.
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      Just words, baby

    • His own newspaper has twice reported the relationship between Raines and Obama, and on one of those occasions, Raines was their source:

      * 7/16/08: “In the four years since he stepped down as Fannie Mae’s chief executive under the shadow of a $6.3 billion accounting scandal, Franklin D. Raines has been quietly constructing a new life for himself. He has shaved eight points off his golf handicap, taken a corner office in Steve Case’s D.C. conglomeration of finance, entertainment and health-care companies and more recently, taken calls from Barack Obama’s presidential campaign seeking his advice on mortgage and housing policy matters.”
      * 8/28/08: “In the current crisis, their biggest backers have been Democrats such as Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher J. Dodd (Conn.) and House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (Mass.). Two members of Mr. Obama’s political circle, James A. Johnson and Franklin D. Raines, are former chief executives of Fannie Mae.“