I really disagree with this column. Ayers and Rezko and Wright will win this election. The economy stuff is too complicated for most voters.
BS. This is how simple it is;
Clinton wanted to get more poor and minorities into homes. He lowered the standards at Fannie/Freddie creating risky subprime loans to accomplish that goal. When Republicans tried to regulate Fannie/Freddie they were blocked by Dems. (show video with testimony of Barney, Shumer, Dodd, etc say there were no problems at Fannie/Freddie) Democrats not only made statements against fixing the problem, they voted against or blocked every piece of legislation to control the run-a-way subprime loan problem.
What about that is so difficult to understand?
That may be true, but the Congressional corruption and guilt-by-association stuff is not.
Palin should attack Obama, McCain needs to attack the corrupt Congress.
Many people are rightly frightened about the economy, and all the media lets them hear is Obama promising to protect them from “greed”. They need to know that Obama got a lot of campaign contributions from Fannie and Freddie, as did other politicians who swore there was no problem. We have video clips of the liberals all saying there is no problem, while McCain and others said that there was a problem brewing. It would be a devastating ad to show those clips. The simple but true explanation is that Fannie and Freddie were under political pressure to make bad loans, these bad loans were packaged with good loans to disguise the problem and these bad loans are a big part of what is undermining the economy. And this is mostly the Democrats’ doing. This is a gross oversimplification but the McCain campaign should be on the offensive. They don’t have to explain the whole economy, just the major part of what went wrong.
Yes, the column is wrong. It was the Democrats who introduced Fannie Mae into the election, with Paulson pulling his October Surprise. Sure, McCain and Palin need to address it, but it’s hardly the only thing they need to talk about.
Moreover, what needs to be done is to show how OBAMA is linked to the Fannie Mae fiasco, and the only way to do that is precisely through the Ayers connection, the Community Action stuff, and his lawsuit against a bank in Chicago for not giving out enough subprime mortgages.
It’s irrelevant that Barney Frank is guilty as hell. Let the voters in Massachusetts worry about that. McCain needs to destroy Obama, not Frank.
I agree with you. McCain can’t afford to be a one trick pony anymore. Many people do not understand the economy.
Character does count when picking a POTUS, McCain has to come at Obama from more than one angle at a time to keep Obama and his minions off guard and trying to defend on more than one subject.
Clusterf***!