McCain Debate Questioner: "I Actually Did" Know Fannie

MSNBC:

I tried to get in touch via Facebook with Oliver Clark, the man who McCain said probably didn't know what Fannie Mae was before the financial crisis (at Tuesday's debate). Apparently others have done the same. He just posted the following on his Facebook page:

How did I feel about Sen. McCain stating "You probably never heard of Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac before this."
Well Senator, I actually did. I like to think of myself as a fairly intelligent person. I have a bachelor degree in Political Science from Tennessee State, so I try to keep myself up to date with current affairs. I have a Master degree in Legal Studies from Southern Illinois University, a few years in law school, and I am currently pursuing a Master in Public Administration from the University of Memphis. In defense of the Senator from Arizona I would say he is an older guy, and may have made an underestimation of my age. Honest mistake. However, it could be because I am a young African-American male. Whatever the case may be it was somewhat condescending regardless of my age to make an assumption regarding whether I was knowledgeable about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

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Comments

[peskyliberal]

I'll be willing to bet that Oliver Clark knows more than Sarah Palin.

Any takers?

[whit4brains]

I'll pass. But I would vote for him before I would ever vote for her just from reading this article.

[oldfart1]

I'd be willing to bet he knows more than McCain.

What does McCain know? He was in the bottom 1% of his class, and probably wouldn't have graduated if his father hadn't been an Admiral.

Oliver Clark already has a Master's degree and is a serious student. He's still learning. McCain never really even started.

All we hear from him now is what he's been coached to say.

Have you seen the video on McCain's temper? One of the testimonials comes from the person who was Chairman of the Arizona Republican party when McCain was first elected Senator.

[robXdion]

THANK YOU. Serve this fool up. These are the kind of black men I know that should have been on that stereotype indulgent CNN race special.

[peskyliberal]

HEAR! HEAR!!

MSM seem to shy away from those kind of black men. I don't know why, because they are not that hard to find.

[robXdion]

Because it ruins their sense of supremacy. I was thoroughly disgusted with Soledad O'Brien. She was boasting about her blackness but it seems she doesn't think very highly of black men. People act like Obama is soooo different. He's not. I look and act virtually the same way in a suit and tie and you'd be amazed the hateful stares that attracts in ANY state.

[levelshot]

McCain thinks all undecideds are ignorant and stupid like their base of love information of pavlov's voters.

[apoyo]

At least he didn't say: that one doesn't know about fannie and freddie.

[shubes61]

i bet he did once he and cindy left the auditorium.

[LWilkinson315]

Wow this guy is more qualified to be VP than Palin :)

WTG Mr. Clark

[LadyM9]

McCain was condescend­ing--every­one has heard of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac at one time or another.

[mj11051]

I betcha Palin the Pitbull hadn't heard of it before now

[LWilkinson315]

There used to be a Fannie Mae infomercial that used to come on tv......I do think most folks have heard of them before