Jim Johnson's Special Interests Beyond Obama Veepstakes

"Who's Vetting the Vetter?" from Marc Ambinder notes that there are some questions about Jim Johnson, chief of Barack Obama's veep vetting squad that don't jive with Obama's new populist message of not trucking with political insiders. 

"Cognitive dissonance–Obama hits McCain on the economy, while using a shady subprime exec for a talent scout" from Michelle Malkin

"McCain going on offensive against Jim Johnson" from Jonathan Martin at Politico

"Obama vetter draws unwanted scrutiny" from Politico

"D'ohBama's Mortgage Industry Mess" from Michelle Malkin

A question we haven't asked since 2000, when Dick Cheney in essence chose himself to be vice president. But the Wall Street Journal's report on Saturday will require further comment from the Obama campaign. James Johnson, one of Obama's veepstakes supervisors, received favorable loan terms, thrice, from the CEO of Countrywide, Angilo Mozelo, while Johnson was an executive at Fannie Mae, the government-backed mortgage lender. The loans aren't illegal, but if Johnson got preferential treatment, he would have had to disclose the terms to Fannie Mae regulators.

Obama on Vettergate: