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| Sun, 09-21-2008 - 9:38am |
So now the McPain campaign is saying that the Obama campaign is 'using the economic crisis' to advance their campaign. Just curious - isn't this another way for the McPain campaign to use the economic crisis??? Kind of like the pot and the kettle thing going on here? Maybe it is just sour grapes since McPain sounded out of touch when he said last week that the fundamentals of the economy were sound? Then on the other hand McPain is criticizing the Obama campaign for not coming out with a plan right away - wouldn't that be using the crisis as well?
McCain: "We must not bailout the management and speculators who created this mess. They had months of warnings following the Bear Stearns debacle, and they failed to act.â€
McCain also called for “strong and effective regulation†of the financial services industry, which he has done repeatedly over the past few days of the financial meltdown, but something he has not always supported. McCain called for deregulation of the banking industry in his support of the 1999 Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which knocked down the obstacles between banking, investment and insurance companies."
Palin: "“Disappointed that taxpayers are called upon to bailout another one,†she said. “Certainly AIG though with the construction bonds that they’re holding and with the insurance that they are holding very, very impactful to Americans so you know the shot that has been called by the Feds its understandable but very, very disappointing that taxpayers are called upon for another one.†"
I guess if you can't utter a coherent statement or feel you have to rush in to issue a statement before considering the implications you might need to deflect the negative attention you receive from your actions. Personally, I prefer a president who takes the time to check with financial advisors before issuing a statement that later has to be back peddled.

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Yes Republicans at their best.
My daughter has a good friend who made less than $25,000 a year
Interesting, Obama did receive roughly $126,000.00 in donations; $6,000 from the fannie and freddie the companies themselves but $120,000.00 came from individuals, like you and me, who happen to work at these companies. These people, donated to him because he is their candidate of choice and have no power to influence policy. McCain only received a little over $2600.00 from individuals and none under companies name. On the other hand, I found the following information on another blog which refers to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Directors,Officers and Lobbyists that made contributions to each candidate. By these numbers, I'm thinking if anybody is beholding.... well you can figure it out.
From the Federal Election Committee/NYT
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
Directors/Officers/Lobbyists
Contributions
Name .................McCain............Obama
----------------- ------ -------
Geoffrey Boisi..........$70,100............$0
Alfonse D'Amato ........$30,800............$0
William Lewis, Jr............$0 .......$4,600
Herbert Allison, Jr..........$0........$2,300
Brenda Gaines ...............$0........$2,300
Jerome P. Kenney ........$2,300............$0
Patrick Swygert .........$1,000........$1,000
Robert Glauber .............$0....... $1,000
Daniel Mudd ............$1,000............$0
John Sites ............$1,000............$0
Louis Freeh ...............$200............$0
Others(29 lobbyists)....$63,500........$4,800
-------------------- ---------- -------
Total..................$169,900 ......$16,000
Edited 9/21/2008 3:41 pm ET by patemuse
Very interesting.
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