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  • Posted By: womenforsarahpalin @ 09/26/2008 11:03:17 AM

    I personally think the debate should be delayed 1 week, that way both McCain and Obama can help out with the current situation.

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  • Posted By: Guayo @ 09/26/2008 11:01:12 AM

    We have a very grave situation happening before our very eyes.
    This is like the 3:AM phone call ad, but real. It seems one candidate gets it and has gone back to Washington I tell the other Candidate: Dude, this is not time for bumper sticker rhetoric. If you do not understand the urgency and severity of this crisis: Why makes you think I will vote for you?
    We should have chosen Hillary!

  • Posted By: Nemlas @ 09/26/2008 10:42:57 AM

    Lets face it Fannie and Freddie have always been run by the Democrats. Now they want to scare us all and screw us as ususal. I am glad McCain is standing up for the Taxpayers bot Democartic and Republican taxpayers. Obama's advisors were fannie and Freddie executives.

    • Posted By: Terrell @ 09/26/2008 11:01:04 AM

      Yes, Franklin Raines is Obama's chief economic advisor. And who do you think received the 2nd most from Fannie Mae in campaign contributions in 2007? Would you believe it was a first-term Senator from Illinois whose only committee assignment is the Veterans Affairs Committee?

    • Posted By: Terrell @ 09/26/2008 10:57:59 AM

      Yes, Franlin Raines is the chief economic advisor to Barack Obama. And who do you think received the 2nd most in campaign contributions from Fannie Mae in 2007? Would you believe it was a first -term Senator whose only committee assignment is the Veterans Affairs Committee? Guess who.

  • Posted By: bob graham @ 09/26/2008 10:55:54 AM

    Tr Fed, Fannie, Freddie, and all insurance/banking giants have lobbyists who keep Republicans in their pockets, which in turn keeps the Republicans in our pockets. If you can't see the fact, thank your other part of the ultra right , the brain washing came off without a hitch.

  • Posted By: BPettengill @ 09/26/2008 10:53:46 AM

    Are you crazy? let them fail? Thousands would lose their homes, more would lose ther jobs, Millions of retirement funds would be gone in a instant. This would be more like a purchase, and the Govenment would make all of the money back plus interest. I do think the CEO's of these companies should be punished.

  • Posted By: dudelebowski @ 09/26/2008 10:53:05 AM

    I hear the beginnings of the drum beat of the angry mobs that will be in the streets protesting this massive rip off of the American public. We may be watching the beginning of the breakdown of civility as we have know it. This country is angry beyond belief.

  • Posted By: Bill Holt @ 09/26/2008 10:30:09 AM

    The last time we had a banking crisis involving banks, bad lending practices, overvalued real estate, and lax oversight it was the S&L collapse of 1990. That bailout cost taxpayers $300 billion. John McCain was right in the middle of that one too. Out of 100 US Senators, only 5 were hauled in front of the Senate Ethics committed on charges of trading influence for money during this scandal. Aside from McCain being judged as using "poor judgement" , my gripe is why didn't Senator McCain learn lessons that would have prevented the same thing from happening again? If that crisis was about lax regulation of banks and bad lending, why in the world did this happen again less than twenty years later. If McCain was really on top of his game he would have made sure those problems were fixed. I honestly believe he does not grasp the nature of the problem - then or now. After being publicly pilloried as one of the Keating Five put on trial in the Senate, he focused on Campaign Finance Laws to rehab his image. He should have used all the energy on reforming the banking laws back then so we would not be repeating this problem. He has had his three strikes with me. Out dude.

    • Posted By: freedom4321 @ 09/26/2008 10:51:42 AM

      Wow how uninformed you are. It was Barney Frank and Christopher Dodd and their democratic buddies that stopped regulation of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae that started all of this. McCain was in the middle of that Republican proposal trying to get the legislation passed. A Democratic controlled Congress stopped it. And your buddy Charles Schumer started a run on Indy Mac in California. Its Christopher Dodd and Barak Obama -number 1 and 2 in receiving contributions from Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Please look at the facts and not at the emotion of a charismatic Barak Obama who staged a brief message between acts at a German rock concert and claimed 250,000 Germans were cheering for him. Barak Obama missing in action in the Illinois legislature; voting present; Barak Obama missing in action in US Senate and voting present; Barak Obama that chairs a Senate committee that has never met. Barak Obama who has been running for President rather than doing his Senate job for the short 42 days that he was actually on the job-remainder of 2 years was taking Senate holidays; vacations; recesses and running for President. Use your head-there is no way that this professional speechmaker has any executive experience; any legislative experience; any leadership experience to be CEO of our country. No one would let him run any sizeable company in this country let alone their lives.

  • Posted By: doulosx @ 09/26/2008 10:51:02 AM

    The democrats proposed bailout contains a large contribution (20% or the return on the investment) to ACORN, an organization consistently in bed with the democrats and is corrupt to the core. No wonder the republicans refused to sign on. With a poison pill like that why would anyone think it had a ghost of a chance of passing? And besides, shouldn't any return on investment be given back to the taxpayers directly instead of being spent on more pork?

  • Posted By: TennMom @ 09/12/2008 9:28:22 PM

    Where do you people get your "news", from Rush Limbaugh? Obama did not call Palin a pig. In criticizing McCain's policies and the similarities to Bush, he made the "lipstick on a pig" comment. McCain made the same comment during the primaries when referring to Senator Clinton's health care plan. Where were all you "outraged" people then?

    God save us from the idiots who gave us George W. Bush and who want to duplicate their mistakes with
    McCain/Palin!!

    Save America - Vote Obama/Biden!

    • Posted By: retrojeannie @ 09/26/2008 10:45:54 AM

      Actually what Obama did was to say--"If you put lipstick on a pig,"---then a long pause while people laughed--then he finished the sentence. He knew what he was doing and he knew what his audience was going to think. His delivery says it all.

  • Posted By: campaignfoliberty @ 09/26/2008 10:44:13 AM

    Let Ralph Nadar, Cynthia McKinney, Bob Barr and Chuck Baldwin debate. Or G--Forbid Ron Paul. DEMAND IT or continue down the path laid out for you by your slave-masters. I am sick of us being held hostage as indentured servants to a demonic cabal of greedy psychopathic trillionaires.

  • Posted By: dtcody @ 09/26/2008 10:42:14 AM

    No bail out. Let these companies fail!!! The Democrat cry about saving these companies and not helping the home owners. Well, let them lose them homes and that will push real estate prices even lower. There are a lot of buyers who are waiting for the housing market to drop even more before.

  • Posted By: Baltimore John @ 09/09/2008 2:46:20 PM

    I am sick of many slanders against Obama (regardless of my political preference), I am ashamed of my country for McCain's foolish impetuous decision to pick a person with little experience as a VP then claim she is more ready than someone who has more experience on the national scene, I am disgusted with fellow women who cherished Hillary and her quest for presidency, but then jump to someone professing the opposite, I am tired of self righteous comments being made by the Republicans..."IT's Gods will" when their candidate dumped his disabled wife for a rich woman and whose VP candidate lies about "Bridge to No where" and who slaughters animals...I recall Gods will was to protect animals, didn't God commission Noah to build the Arc to save the animals.

    • Posted By: OnegreatNana @ 09/26/2008 10:42:06 AM

      FYI Ms, Palin is much more qualified than Obama. She has run a government (as it's leader), just on a smaller scale. The only thing Obama did "on the national scene is gather earmarks at a pace of 1 MILIION dollars a day as a senator. Yes that's right he has had 932,000 million dollars worth of earmarks since taking his senate seat.. And I suggest you go back and read your bible to see why God made the animals, and why he had Noah take them on the ark, cause I think you were sleepin for that Sunday School class

  • Posted By: littleaias @ 09/26/2008 10:41:19 AM

    Why do't they pass legislation? B/c democrats play follow the polls politics and they have no real leader.. reid and pelosi are both jokes. Democrats spend more time whining about steroid use in sports then working on a budget. So whenever anyone voices opposition they put there tail between their legs for fear of popular opinion not being on their side.

  • Posted By: campaignfoliberty @ 09/26/2008 10:40:49 AM

    Get this straight - Neither sock puppet candidate is talking about eliminating the Federal Reserve bank, or at least curtailing its ability to artificially set rates instead of letting the market do so. If I am Goldman Sachs I can get a 2% loan, buy T-Bills from the treasury, so they can issue silver certificates to the Fed, so the Fed can print money out of thin air, I get some of that Fiat currency at 2% and buy T-bills. Now bail me out.

  • Posted By: sheeplehearder @ 09/26/2008 10:38:03 AM

    Hello sheeple. Everyone needs to open their eyes. The Democrats and Republicans created this problem and are now arguing about the best way to screw us for the next several years. The saddest part is that you partisan sheeple out there are doing exactly what they want you to do; you are fighting each other instead of holding them accountable. You are willing accomplices in your own demise.

  • Posted By: sheeplehearder @ 09/26/2008 10:37:39 AM

    Hello sheeple. Everyone needs to open their eyes. The Democrats and Republicans created this problem and are now arguing about the best way to screw us for the next several years. The saddest part is that you partisan sheeple out there are doing exactly what they want you to do; you are fighting each other instead of holding them accountable. You are willing accomplices in your own demise.

  • Posted By: beezdotcom @ 09/26/2008 10:37:29 AM

    McCain probably DID learn some lessons from before - but even Bill Clinton said this week that the Dems helped to obstruct needed reforms as far back as 2003 (yay, filibusters.) Nice try to lay it all at McCain's feet, though, "dude".

  • Posted By: littleaias @ 09/26/2008 10:37:12 AM

    Bill Holt = Ignornat with a side of Liberal talking points. McCain presented legislation in regards to Freddie and Fannie to prevent our current problem..... 3 years ago. Get off your high horse.

  • Posted By: Shivas Irons @ 09/26/2008 10:37:04 AM

    There is a fly on that guys head.

    Is he a Dem?

  • Posted By: hiimrif @ 09/26/2008 10:36:51 AM

    I beleive McCain did try to fix the problem in 2005 but was stone walled by Democrats and Republicans. "I join as a cosponsor of the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005, S. 190, to underscore my support for quick passage of GSE regulatory reform legislation. If Congress does not act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system, and the economy as a whole." A quote from McCain on the floor of the senate.

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