Fannie Mae-No Politics (FNMA)

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Never be confused about this: Politicians are paid advocates for their donors' views and goals, and therefore they lie a lot. That Op-Ed is a perfect example of another common politicians' tactic: when they are doing a bad thing, they simply say that the other side (in this case the shareholders are the "other side") is doing that bad thing. The politicians "changed the deal", NOT the shareholders. And it's a sly and deceptive debate tactic we see in this Op-Ed. They are saying the shareholders are the ones who now want to change the deal. Everyone knows changing the deal after it's been agreed to is slimy. So simply associating the shareholders with the phrase "change the deal" accomplishes a lot for a politician, who is being paid by some 3rd entity (banks most likely) to say something, to make a case, to sway opinion, and to just ram bad laws down our throats when those things fail. Some People who are uninformed will now wrongfully make that association in their minds even if they don't trust politicians' words. Listen to the prez carefully and you'll see he's absolutely mastered that technique i described above. Like him or not, he regularly but wrongfully and deliberately conflates issues in his statements and then with a straight face switches the blame for the bad thing onto his opposition, even when there is in fact documentation showing that he is the one who did that bad thing (whatever it might be). I've never seen anyone better at that deceptive tactic than he is.