Did you read the last paragraph of your citation? [...]

And that statement rated mostly true was, Obama received more money.

Nevertheless, the center's information does reflect which candidates are getting the most money from Fannie and Freddie employees. There are other ways to parse the campaign finance numbers, but McCain is correct when he says Obama got the second-most money on a list compiled by a respected, nonpartisan campaign finance watchdog. He would have been more accurate if he would have noted that he was talking about Fannie and Freddie employees. We rate his statement Mostly True.

The source for this data is the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, which has compiled a list of which political leaders received the most money from employees of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Obama's campaign cites this source to back up its claim that John McCain has received more than $2-million from big oil.

McCain’s Campaign Manager Linked to Mortgage Giants
The New York Times has revealed Senator John McCain’s campaign manager Rick Davis was paid nearly $2 million to serve as president of an advocacy group set up by the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. As president of the Homeownership Alliance, Davis earned more than $30,000 a month for five years to beat back regulatory challenges as they began buying riskier mortgages with implicit federal backing.

Yeppers... Agents are blameless. Lenders are blameless. Blame the people they conned. After all, they are the product of our educational system.

This is all very fundamental stuff to the nature of governance and social responsibility... there has been an accelerating trend for the last century (really the last millennium) to make how we live the primary responsibility of the government and not the individual.

this paves the way for the Amero...Then roll the big 4 into one currency.stay tuned the best is yet to come.

This Economic Crisis is very confusing. Who's right? Who's wrong? Who's to blame?

Surely, you don't really think that you can blame the deficit on one party, do you?

Does anyone remember the Community Reinvestment Act, 1977 I believe? It was enacted by Congress requiring lenders to make funds available to low and moderate income families, even if they were not credit worthy by financial institutions standards. It was revised in 1995 to encourage urban development. Google the act read it through then decide who's responsible for this mess we are now in.

My opinion, it's a combination of everything, the act that mandated funds are made available to those who couldn't afford mortgages, the lenders who approved more than borrowers could handle financially and the people who accepted the loans that were well beyond their means.

I'll ignore the attempt to blame this on Carter (seems odd that an act passed in 1977, which clearly worked for decades is now the whipping boy), and take your advice to follow the money.

So by the last few years banks no longer had to care about the mortgages they issued. They weren't planning on holding them. They would issue mortgages, bundle them as investment vehicles, then sell them. Freeing up more capital to do it again - making a profit on each step.

While some congressmen undoubtedly were bought (and look at who controlled the committees when these regulations were removed), the money ended up as bonuses in the pockets of bankers and brokers.