McCain is making a strategical mistake by playing the populist and trying to show that he “feels people’s pain” rather than showing off his deep understanding and knowledge of the current crisis, through his attempted reform measures of Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac over the last several years.
He’s running as a maverick who will reform Washington, and yet he has so far punted a perfect opportunity to demonstrate that by calling out all of his Washington friends who have paved the way for the collapse today. He says he’ll make pork-barrelers ‘famous’ so why isn’t he making Chris Dodd, Franklin Raines, and Robert Rubin famous right now?
McCain needs to get back on track and go back to focusing on Washington instead of Wall Street.
he has to do both. he can’t sound like a cold CEO that just rattles off points
“…He put Fannie Mae’s [former] CEO, who helped create this problem in charge, of finding his vice president. That’s not change — that’s what’s broken in Washington,” said McCain.
Exactly. McCain needs to be very detailed and aggressive about the reform measures he promoted and how these reforms were rejected. Instead, we see people like Obama who got big contributions from the scammers and the MSM eagerly repeats it when Obama blames capitalism. And the MSM does not question the political connections of those who ran Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac into the ground. The MSM will not ask any tough questions. McCain needs to say what the MSM and the Democrats will never say.