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Sarah Makes Katie Nervous
| Thu, 09-25-2008 - 12:31am |
In all the excitement of today's news I wonder how many saw the interview with Katie Couric today. Sarah did great. Katie had the nervous blinking syndrome. It was so interesting to watch Katie's reactions to Sarah - between all the blinks - I could sense some real hatred. I enjoyed watching it.
Here it is :
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/24/eveningnews/main4476173.shtml

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>You can try and spin it however you like, but the FACT is that only McCain had the foresight to see these problems and took action. That’s 100% more than either Obama or Biden who naturally did nothing. It was the Dems who rallied to kill the bill to keep Fannie and Freddie unregulated.<
McCain wasn't concerned about a financial crisis--he was concerned that Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac had pulled a few shady accounting tricks to make themselves appear more attractive. It had nothing to do with the current crisis.
>The bad mortgages are at the heart of the current “crisis.”<
OK. Let me explain this to you: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac don't make loans to people. They BUY loans from banks, just like Wells Fargo bought my
Fannie and Freddie became a key enabler of the mortgage crisis. They fueled Wall Street's efforts to securitize subprime loans by becoming the primary customer of all AAA-rated subprime-mortgage pools. In addition, they held
Continual blinking like that is a sign of nervousness. Couric clearly hates Palin and is doing everything she can to try to discredit her, but it does not work.
You mean as opposed to what they're doing, say.....now?
I think she already knew, too.
>Take away Fannie and Freddie, or regulate them more wisely, and it's hard to imagine how these highly liquid markets would ever have emerged. This whole mess would never have happened. <
Considering the tax credits that were given for taking on some of those risky loans, I don't think Wall Street would have waited very long. Yes, Fannie & Freddie are a part of the problem, but they ain't the only problem. The regulation/oversight suggested by that legislation was not designed to make sure they were buying only good loans but rather to ensure they were reporting their assets properly, as they were not doing a few years back. And Fannie & Freddie weren't the only organizations doing it.
No....it is easy to be a critic of Sarah Palin, specifically.
Why? Not because she eats mooseburgers or because her entire resume is eighteen months as the governor of a state smaller than most major American cities and before that, a mayor of a town smaller than most mid-sized COLLEGES. No, it's easy to make fun of Sarah Palin for the very reason that the McCain campaign has wisely sequestered her away from the press at every opportunity; because when she has to answer, she comes out with stuff like this (video link; transcript below):
Honest to Pete, can ANYONE tell me what any of that meant? I especially liked the last sentence, where Palin says - apparently without irony - "So....reducing taxes...has got to accompany tax reductions."
Gee, ya think?
Statements like those, marla, are the reason it's easy to be a critic of Palin specifically, not just "a new face" who's "challenging Democrats."
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