The reality is that McCain owns more houses than he can count, and like other aging white Baby Boomers, wanted prices to continue to rise no matter what. His nest egg was at stake. He can try to bring up ACORN and Obama’s support of reduced lending standards, but he and the rest of the Repubelickans controlled the Senate AND Congress for the first several years of the Bush administration.
What stopped them from getting the legislation passed to restore lending standards to pre-Jimmy Carter? We can only speculate. My guess is stated above
They may have controlled the congress in '03, but Dems still had control of several key committees and ruthlessly blocked the big F/F reform bill in committee (party line vote).
I agree that Repubs did not do everything they could have done, but there were two rather huge roadblocks by the dems that would have largely averted the crisis in the first place.[/quote]
The Republicans have no balls, and everyone who voted for them got tired of it. They constantly whine about being defeated by the Democrats instead of actually pulling out any wins. It’s pathetic. No one likes a bunch of losers. “Americans hate a loser” as George S. Patton said.
[quote]AssOnGrass wrote:
Aragorn wrote:
My vote is for worst campaign imaginable.
I thought Obama was running a train wreck of a campaign thinking he was going to lose this election, now I think McCain’s campaign has turned into more of a wreck and it it seriously jeopardizing him.
On the other hand, I think it is not unreasonable to think we will see a 2000 all over again but with a larger percentage of the popular vote going to Obama and the electoral college going for McCain.[/quote]
I’ve been flabbergasted by the way McCain’s run his campaign for months and months now. I never actually saw any good strategy in his campaign until the Palin pick, which is jeopardizing him now again, and then when he went back to DC, which he failed to capitalize on and is now hurting him.
I would have been beating Obama mercilessly with the Fannie and Freddie club for a while now. And I would have capitalized on the DC trip during the debate as well. His window’s gone for that now, but it could have been huge. In response to the bailout question, McCain had a chance to layout everything he wanted in a bill and then to say, “and I don’t want the american taxpayer to foot the bill! and here’s how we can do it… that’s why I went back to DC” and it would have been huge.
I thought Obama’s campaign has been running very well. They’re doing what they need to do to avoid being hurt–keep the image up and keep the specifics vague. Downplay the associations. Really, I’m not sure what I would have changed in terms of major strategy. The more specifics you learn, the more many people dislike Obama. The more associations people believe, the more they dislike Obama. etc, etc. So they’re doing what needs to be done, and staying on track with the positive campaign feel (officially).