Who’s responsible for the subprime mess? Check it out.
The world of tolerance that the Obamaites want us to embrace, filmed at New York’s Upper West Side on September 21 of this year.
By the way, am I the only person in the United States who questions the assumption that credit will dry up if Congress doesn’t bail out the banks? Anyone else ever heard of private capital?
Gone Insane
The MSM, docile for so many years about the Bush administration, has flipped its collective lid about Sarah Palin, making itself the focus of so-called “news” stories while ignoring events of actual substance, like her visits this week with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
Sarah Palin can’t win for losing. She’s treated with venomous condescension on the one hand for her supposed lack of foreign policy experience, then excoriated when she meets with heads of state, and why? Because her campaign hasn’t given the press the access they, in their infinite wisdom, believe they deserve.
As far as John McCain’s wish to postpone the first Presidential debate until the negotiations on the infamous bailout deal are over: seems to me that the next President, be it McCain or Obama, really needs to be involved in this, and postponing the debate for a week wouldn’t be the end of the world.
Whether or not McCain or Obama has economic expertise is totally beside the point: that’s not their role. Rather, as the titular heads of their respective political parties, they have to have a seat at the table.
This bailout is historic, both in terms of its size – potentially over a trillion dollars – and its precedent-setting nature. It is a shift to pure socialism in the ravaged, beating heart of world capitalism. It is also at the center of this campaign’s major issue: the state of the economy.
Thus, first-hand knowledge of both the negotiation process and those involved with that process are not just political niceties, they are crucial components in setting the context for the next President’s economic policies.
Anyone who doesn’t understand and support the importance of participating in the development of “corporate memory” probably has never been in a leadership or policy-making position themselves. And, as is the case with Palin, the media’s inability to grasp this is makes me more than a little sick with disgust.
Furthermore, I don’t appreciate the Obama campaign’s temper tantrums in reaction to McCain’s wish to postpone – not cancel – the first debate. It doesn’t portend well for Obama’s ability to roll with the punches or to distinguish between important versus trivial matters in responding to the unexpected. It certainly says nothing good about his leadership abilities.
The Obama campaign’s current emotional overreactions to virtually every obstacle or slight, real or imagined, are wearing me out.
According to the Chicago Tribune, Obama’s original political strategy was the “2010-2012-2016” plan: Governor or re-election to the Senate in 2010, then a bid for the White House in 2012 at the earliest.
Too bad for the rest of us that he didn’t stick to it.
THE Campaign Issue
McCain has started to hammer on the Fed’s bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, but he should be concentrating not on Obama’s alleged ties to their former executives, but on this insight from today’s Boston Herald:
“However, the historic federal action could cause
The Sleaze Goes On
Both the Obama and McCain campaigns continue their ignominious barrage of silly, finger-pointing nonsense, and the press hasn’t seemed to learn to ignore it.
Obama’s latest ad to the Latino community is the most egregious in that it’s composed of bold-faced lies about McCain’s position on immigration. See Ruben Navarrette Jr.’s guest editorial at CNN.com for details.
Meanwhile, McCain’s claim that campaign contributions have put Obama is in the tank for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is a real stretch of a sensible person’s credulity. Here’s the details, also from CNN.
Sex Ed and Kindergarten
It must be that very few pundits in the left-leaning MSM have actually read the text of SB0099, the Illinois General Assembly bill supported by Barack Obama which intended to amend the state’s sex education curriculum.
I say this because having read the bill, I think that anyone who claims that McCain “lied” is flat-out wrong.
With All That Money, Where’s Your Mouth?
The Obama campaign continues to rake in its millions, and meanwhile, the Democratic party is stalling an up or down vote on an important piece of consumer protection legislation, the Credit Cardholders
If It’s Not Scottish…
Thanks to Tikkabik for this link to Craig Ferguson, host of the Late, Late Show: “If you don’t vote, you’re a moron”
She’s not Scottish, but Noemie Emery’s column Forgive Me Not: McCain does not owe the press an apology is also recommended.
Despicable
Without knowing the background behind it, just hearing about the Obama campaign’s cheap shot at John McCain – that McCain doesn’t know how to use a computer – was enough to raise my hackles.
More Good Reading
An analysis by John Coleman, Chair of the Department Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, shows that John McCain does, in fact, deserve the maverick mantle.
According to Professor Coleman, McCain bucked the Republican party line more consistently than either Obama or Biden differed from the Democrats. It’s a complex analysis and worth reading.
Creeps
My political preferences are explained in part by the fact that I can’t relate to people who flaunt their big, fat egos. In fact, I find them repulsive and creepy.
Last evening, I was minding my own business playing billiards at the timeshare resort to which we belong. The billiards table is located in a large recreation room which also holds the resort’s indoor pool.
While I was playing, a couple of older ladies came in to swim. They were noisy, but I figured that was their prerogative, so I minded my own business and didn’t interfere with their fitness ritual.