The committee that is investigating Palin's alleged abuse of power is composed of 8 Republicans and 4 Democrats, and she said that she would cooperate fully with them. The investigator hired by the committee is a Republican appointee who is specializing in victim's rights. Now that Palin is the GOP VP candidate, she has done a 180, and claims that the investigation into her actions is "partisan". I guess it is, since 2/3 of the committee members are Republicans. Somebody has been drinking the Kool-Aid but it's not Palin's critics in this matter - it's the people who believe the McCain campaign's disinformation on the investigation.
What you forget is that Governor Palin discovered corruption in Alaska and went against her own party (Republican) and really stuck it to some of the politicians there. The Republican establishment in Alaska does not like Governor Palin. Neither does the oil industry since she raised their royalty rate.
Issues is what Obama has been addressing from the beginning.
With rhetoric. If he wants to really address the issues, he needs to stop traveling around giving grand speeches with a teleprompter and take McCain up on his townhall debate challenges. That would give people a true comparison of the candidates and their policies. If Senator Obama knows what he is talking about, he could say, "...but Senator McCain, your idea is not going to work, and here's why..."
It's clear the McCain campaign is out of ammunition and desperate to trow firebombs at anything that doesn't remind the public of his SHAMEFUL life long support of deregulation - 26 years worth. Now he is trying to turn around and create some Mortgage Funding entity to commit a TRILLION DOLLARS of the country's funds to bail out the mess that he has in large part been to blame for?
Deregulation was not shameful; as a matter of fact, it was essential for opening up Wall Street to minorities and ending the strict reign of the good 'ole boys club on Wall Street, along with allowing American corporations to become the most efficient in the world and allowing for an enormous amount of wealth and job creation.
One other thing to keep in mind: the financial institutions that have collapsed as of late were all very highly regulated, such as the investment banks, Fannie, Freddie, etc...the institutions that are pretty unregulated, such as hedge funds, have seen few, if any, blowups.
He expects that the country should not only pay the bill for his 26 years worth of supporting the very thing that he has helped cause, but that the country should now elect him to give him more power to savage the economy further?
Senator McCain saw this problem coming back in 2005 and tried to do something about it with the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005, but was stonewalled on the issue by both Republicans and Democrats. He is not like Senator Obama who has taken a tremendous amount of money from Fannie and Freddie.
And prior to de-regulation, the economy used to perform far more poorly. One of the main things believed to have caused the current crises was the failure of the Fed to raise interest rates as well. Extensive regulation is not some magical method for keeping things under control.
Senator Obama expects us to elect him when he essentially wants to take us back to the same policies that plagued the economy with problems prior to deregulation.
Or what about this issue? Let's talk about McCain's plan to privatize Social Security how about? He says that the Stock Market is a Casino? And his plan would put at risk something like 25% of the trillions needed to properly fund Social Security?
No one is going to "privatize" Social Security, what they are talking about is working out a way to give the system the benefits of privatization with the security of the government.
And if it was not for the Democrats, Social Security never would have ended up in any financial trouble in the first place. You need to read about the history of Social Security and how the government robbed it.
But, oh I see you want to talk about Obama consultants? You want to throw out ridiculous accusations like McCain did today while he stands there saddled with his own Phil Graham stink - calling Americans whiners - while McCain opines on the soundness of the fundamentals - playing the part of Herbert Hoover - head in the sand - as the economy teeters on freefall? That's not leadership.
The fundamentals of the economy are fine; as for Gramm, that was a stupid comment, but no different really than Senator Obama's pastor saying vile and hateful comments about America either. As for Herbert Hoover, he did not have his head in the sand. He was correct during the 1929 crash that the economy would correct itself. What he did not realize (and no one would until years later) was that the Federal Reserve system did not keep the banking system solvent, which caused the economy to implode, and spiral down into a depression.
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Wasn't that the biggest load of crap? I think that one probably backfired on them. No one (hopefully) believed the mock indignation. I don't think that incident demonstrates that republicans are bad at reasoning so much as it demostrates that certain leaders in the republican party think that the American public are bad at reasoning. I don't think democrat leaders are much better in this regard. I'm thinking about Bill Clinton saying "I did not have sex with that woman."
