Economy gives Obama clear leads in polls

Why would America REWARD complete Republican failure ?

We wont.

left Wing statistic bending. When McCain was up
you buried the story. God help us if this lunatic wins.
the liberal press will have to shoulder a great deal
of the blame!

Great!! Here's the economic policy team you will be voting in if you vote for Obama. It's a list of CROOKS responsible for this financial fiasco. You're going to get what you wished for.

As Fannie Mae’s CEO (1999 to 2003), Franklin Raines pulled in over $90 Million, mostly in bonuses. He was sued by the SEC and OFHEO to recover $50 Million in bonuses due to Enron-like accounting practices overstating their earnings by $10.6 Billion. Franklin took “early retirement”, paid a hefty fine and forfeited stock options valued at $15.6 Million. He is now Obama’s economic advisor for housing policy.

Jamie Gorelick was vice-chairperson at Fannie. In 1998, she received a bonus of $779,625 amidst a scandal where signatures were falsified on accounting transactions to meet earning targets. She is a leading candidate for Attorney General if Obama is elected president.

Jim Johnson was Raines’ predecessor at Fannie. He resigned from Obama’s VP selection committee after revelations he accepted a sweetheart loan from Countrywide Financial while Fannie’s CEO. He's on Obama's economic policy advisory team.

As taxpayers, we are now liable for failures in a $5.2 Trillion loan portfolio to include $780 Billion in high-risk “Alt-A” and sub-prime loans. Thanks to these brilliant economic masterminds!

All info from the Washington Post, NY Times and Wall Street Journal.

Go look it up!!

They make Rev Wright (GOD DAMN AMERICA) and Bill Ayers (BOMB the Pentagon and Congress) look like angels.

ABC poll lacks credibility. The devil is in the details and the sampling is biased. Many sites on the web are now questioning the poll process. Rasmussen has it a two point race. Much closer. Good try ABC. Won't change my vote.

Finally, a hopeful sign that Americans aren't buying the McSame LIES.

The claim that Frank Raines is an Obama adviser? An outright LIE. Raines never advised the Obama campaign on anything. The source of the lie is an unattributed newspaper article.

The claim that Jim Johnson helped pick Obama's VP? A DISTORTION, at best. Johnson was named as one of the VP vetting team, but was removed within a week of the announcement, meaning he didn't actually do any vetting.

Meanwhile, McSame's campaign manager? A lobbyist fro Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, who encouraged economic deregulation. Is that "cleaning up Wall Street?" I think not. Yet another LIE.

This kind of "reporting" is why 61% of the public thinks the media is biased and that media bias is more of a problem than large political contributions.

The "analysis" by the Globe's Mr. Rhee is based on ONE poll out of the FOUR national polls released on Monday. Why would he look at just one?

Perhaps because the other three (Gallup, CNN/Opinion Research, and Ipsos-McClatchey) show Obama leads of only 3, 4 and 1 points?

In addition, Mr. Rhee ignores the results of the THREE national polls released yesterday. Why? Perhaps because Rasmussen shows only a 2 point Obama lead and Battleground shows Obama TRAILING by 2 points. Yesterday's Hotline poll shows an Obama lead of 6 points, but even that is significantly less than the ONE poll Mr. Rhee chose to mention. Oh, and the two polls in which Obama does best over the two days happen to be the two with the smallest sample sizes.

Mr. Rhee and the Globe owe readers an explanation.

Finally some positive news. After 8 years of Bush/Republican mismanagement I was despairing for the future of our country. McCain campaigns on "country first" and then chooses Palin to be a heartbeat away from the presidency. Same old politics over what is best for the country. Why won't he let Palin talk to the press? What are they afraid of? He would also continue the disastrous Republican economic policies that led us to this financial crisis. My faith in the intelligence of the American public is being restored.

oh wow, no crooks found Obama has people who worked in the target industries up to five years ago - and found only two of them?

Not like the nineteen members of the McSame campaign who are still on the payrolls of these financial houses as lobbyists, oh no! That's EXPERIENCE, not graft and more looting!

You don't want to even start the "guilt by informal and occasional association" game here, do you No Crooks. If you (Keating) lived up to your (Keating) name, you wouldn't have (Keating) posted this (Keating) comment (Keating) now would you (Keating)?

Remember the USS Forrestal and a pilot who thought it good to show his impulsive leadership skills by sending a fun flame ball out the tail ... oh, but Bill Ayers wasn't one of the scores of people who were killed because he's such a commie!

Ron says:
"God help us if this lunatic [Obama?] wins. the liberal press will have to shoulder a great deal of the blame!"

Who are Conservatives blaming for the results of supporting GWB for the last eight years? Oh - I guess things are in such great shape that you're congratulating each other on a job well done.

No Crooks.....what about your buddy McCain.......all the lobbyists on his "team", Carly Fiorino.....got a HUGE golden parachute from HP, Mr. Davis, lobbyist who had to be paid by companies to get in to "see" John McCain as Senator, the lobbyists (not employees) of Fannie and Freddie who gave McCain's campaign $169K and Obama $16K? Don't call Obama a crook......it's John and his old cronies that are the crooks. I don't know where you get your info (apparently not from any reliable source), but you had better learn to stop, look and listen before you spew off your vitriol!

AN AMAZING FEAT OF SMOKE AND MIRRORS

If Obama wins on the economy, it will be an amazing feat of political illusion. Everyone knows that the Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac debacle has Democratic Party DNA and fingerprints all over it. Providing home mortgages to individuals, who really couldn’t afford them was essentially a Clinton-inspired social assistance program that went horribly wrong. Former Clinton (and Carter) administration officials were at the helm. These companies fostered close ties with Democratic party caucuses, made generous donations to Senators Dodd, Kerry, Obama and Clinton, and managed to avoid closer scrutiny largely through the protection of the Democrats in Congress... and of course, former EXECUTIVES working for the Obama campaign.

The Bush administration is responsible in that it did not act in an aggressive manner early on to prevent this from happening (although see below NYT quote from 9/11/2003). Wall Street excesses in greed and panic certainly played their role. Main Street made completely irresponsible choices - I mean, who buys what you can't afford? But the fact is that the debacle is largely a consequence of Democratic Party ideologically driven social engineering practices run amuck. The mess they created has become our mess, the mess of the American people! As for the latest bank bailouts , turns out you’ve just been taxed… to the tune of $2000 for every man, woman and child… thanks to the mess created by Senator Obama’s friends and associates in the Democratic Party.

And if you still don’t believe that it’s ideological – look at what they’re trying to attach to the bailout – finding a way to give “homeowners” a way to keep their houses. NEWS FLASH: until you’ve paid off your mortgage, your “homeownership” is shared with the bank you’ve borrowed from… But that’s just rich people, who can afford to give be charitable and “patriotic”… so what’s the problem, right?!?

Unless you want the Democrats to dig an even deeper hole and turn the US into a “patriotic” socialist state … vote McCain!

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From the NEW YORK TIMES (September 11, 2003) The Bush Administration today recommended the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis a decade ago. Under the plan, disclosed at a Congressional hearing today, a new agency would be created within the Treasury Department to assume supervision of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored companies that are the two largest players in the mortgage lending industry, The new agency would have the authority, which now rests with Congress, to set one of the two capital-reserve requirements for the companies. It would exercise authority over any new lines of business. And it would determine whether the two are adequately managing the risks of their ballooning portfolios. The plan is an acknowledgment by the administration that oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — which together have issued more than $1.5 trillion in outstanding debt — is broken. A report by outside investigators in July concluded that Freddie Mac manipulated its accounting to mislead investors, and critics have said Fannie Mae does not adequately hedge against rising interest rates. Among the groups denouncing the proposal today were the National Association of Home Builders and Congressional Democrats who fear that tighter regulation of the companies could sharply reduce their commitment to financing low-income and affordable housing."

8 years of deregulation. 8 years of I don't care, maybe nothing will happen and guess what. THE BUBBLE BUSTED just before the elections it could hold no more!!! Now is time for Obama to cash in.

Parading around a former second runner-up beauty queen at the UN is not foreign policy experience. Most of the American people are not quite that dumb, though that is what the McCain/Palin team is counting on. Sarah Palin's campaign slogan should be: "Let's talk about your family, not mine." She is just another typical Republican fraud who pretends to talk about keeping the government out of our lives but really believes that the Bible should be everyone's roadmap for happy living. And that we all should live our lives like hers. What a crock.

Oh so now that the polls start swinging towards Obama the right wings fanatics have to start charging media bias again. Go back to your caves with your CEO golden parachutes. Or as Phil Graham said, Stop whining!

All women need to stay out of politics! They can't handle the pressure. They're too emotional. They're just beauty queens in the race.

Look what happened in the Democratic primary. An alleged experienced woman got beat SOUNDLY by an inexperienced novice who can read and deliver a nice speech but has not one specific plan for ANYTHING!!

This country will not vote for a woman for VP or President. Not now, not in the immediate future.

Get over it PUMA's. You'll never see a woman in the White House in your lifetime.

01.20.09 = Out With The Republicans & In With The Democrats = It's Way Beyond Time For A Major Party Change!

IT"S THE ECONOMY STUPID!!!

Dear John McCrazy... contrary to your wildest nightmares (are you still on drugs?), every single poll (not your "outliers") for the past 12 months has proclaimed that the ECONOMY is the issue that concerns more than 75% of the electorate and citizens of this country. We don't really care that you think:

1. The SURGE is the most important issue.
2. We have to bomb Iran now before they bomb us.
3. We're all Georgians.
4. That Sarah Palin is qualified to be anything more than a mayor of a small town.
5. That Phil Gramm is a financial wizard because he can use a calculator.
6. That deregulation of our financial, energy, and insurance sectors is a must.
7. That you think the Fundamentals of the ECONOMY are sound.
8. That you think your POW status gives you a free pass on every blunder.
9. That $500,000 a year is middle class.
10. That Sarah Palin never took earmarks.

So now with the ECONOMY in the tank and YOUR FINGERPRINTS on the FLUSH HANDLE of Phil Gramms Deregulation Bill, you think the fact that reasonably intelligent Americans, the ones who can read, write, and watch TV... are not really lining up behind Senator Obama in HUGE numbers? Wake Up And Smell The Coffee John... it's HAPPENING!

Huh? The Diageo/Hotline tracking poll? That’s a joke right? Please look at RealClearPolitics poll of polls and basically it is tied with the margin of error.
The more people find out about Barack Obama the more McCain gains. The economy will play into McCain’s hands because Obama is painfully inexperienced in everything.
Fannie and Freddie backed bad loans because all the “Community Organizers” demanded that people have a “right” to own a home. So the bad loans were backed by those entities.
Guess what people; owning property is not a right or civil right or some sort of perverse “Social Justice”. It is a fraudulent American Dream. Crack down on who gets loans. That solves the problem. If you don’t have 10% plus down you should not even be looking at a house to buy.
Go GOP!

I don't think the American people agree with people that advising Obama on the economy because of their blurry backgrounds.We prefer the right type of economic advisers that have clean hands especially with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and Wall Street.When the mote is in the eye there is no way that person can see clearly and it's better not to be infront of the audience.So ther'e's the burden Obama is carrying into the election plus he never run anything in his life so are we kidding ourselves here.You know people there are more than three hundred million people and fifty states not fiftyseven with a landmass million miles that Barrack Obama with no executive experience not even a manager and now he thinks he just snab his finger and everything appear infront of him?Oh no! this is serious stuff people I don't think he can even manage a catastrophe please,please American people lets be honest here and do the right thing and elect John Mccain and Sarah Palin they do have more experiences on their side.

"...giving Obama the first clear lead."

I believe the *news* part of this story is that this is the *first* time a somewhat reasonable attempt at a poll showed one of the candidates with a *clear* lead, that is, one beyond a "statistical dead heat." That is new and worth reporting, but doesn't mean that other polling updates will show the same. It was interesting that this poll showed a lead swap from the last survey, possibly indicating that the poll doesn't have an inherent partisan bias that some polls seem to maintain within their margins of error.

Get a grip about media bias; it's everywhere, so find multiple news sources and try to figure out what makes sense, not just what supports your beliefs.

Polls, polls, polls... All the right wing hate radio loving republicans are panicing cause they see the race finally slipping away. Because people are finally seeing Obama as the president who can be intelegent on this issue. They finally see the only color that matters in this country, the color of money. So all you conservatives (you know the people who say they want small government, but have the biggest, want no regulations on a free market and watch as it collapses around us and want freedoms, except those on who you marry, what you can do with your body or in your bedroom) are running scared because the American middle class are seeing you for what you are. In the hands of your nut bag, moonbat religous biggots, corrupt, greedy corporations that would just have the poor working in factories back before unions were created and your oligarcy where only the rich rule.

The Media is only bais to Money, that is it. If you want just your view point then go read the Herald or watch Fox. The Media is not one united group and each network has a niche to fill. Fox is blantently republican and NBC is democrat. ABC and CBS are pretty much forgetable and CNN seems the most neutral, mostly. These groups are owned by corporations and thier only purpose is to make money for the shareholders. They go after the most juice stories because that gets the biggerst audience. Palin is a big story cause she is an unknown and as all unknowns become huge at first and deminish over time. The Republicans are very smart in how they handle her because if she were to just come out at day one and give us all the full story in front of a press group that could ask questions then her star would dwindle in a few days and she would become just another politician in this race. But by limiting access and handling her star dwindles slowly and they can, as they have stretch this for weeks.

Liberial Press/Left Wing Media...Do these people watch Fox News or read the Boston Herald or the New York Post?

Good God!

I don't take national polls too seriously as they are merely a snapshot of a moment in time. However, the momentum seems to be shifting to Obama right now given the dismal economic situation, the need to understand the important of collaboration with respect to foreign policy and the fact the "the Straight Talk Express" of John McCain and Sarah Palin has become the "No Talk Express" at a time when the American people want answers.

Go to Real Clear Politics.com to see all of the polls together in a list, showing the dates the poll was taken (critical in determining impact of issues), the size of the sample used (also critical in determining the range of error), whether the sample was RV - registered voters of LV - likely voters. They average all of the polling data together for a total score. Watch out for old polling data, especially in the key battleground states. Anyone who likes polls and wants follow the Gallup daily tracking and the others, this is the site for you.

I love how everyone blames the GOP... funny since Congress is being controlled by the Dems who have done NOTHING!

but believe what you want....

Woo woo woo!!! Cry me a river!! Your honest, wife abandoning, war mongering, bottom of his class, candidate is looking like what he really is, incompetent to run America. Get over it!

Next time nominate an experienced Leader who has a strong academic background, who has a moral consciensness, who knows how many houses he has, who doesn't sleep in the bed with rich lobbyest, who doesn't agree 95% of the time with a president who also is incompetent. Why would we want more of the same! Please!!!

Polls? And clearly biased ones at that? Are you kidding me?

Anyone who hasn't made up their mind about this election hasn't been paying attention - to this campaign or politics for the last 70 years. There are no surprises here.

Obama is a solid member of the neosocialist left determined to change what is left of American capitalism first into a full blown social democratic state and then into a purely socialist state. Like all politicians, he is willing to say or do anything to reach this ideological end. Duh.

McCain is a moderate Democrat determined to make the middle work. The fact that he is also a defense hawk doesn't make him a Republican, nor does the fact that he chose Sarah who is. Who he is or how he will govern has never been in question.

In one sense, both Obama and McCain are right. Obama will do his best to bring incremental, but very real change - to statist socialism. McCain is right that he has always been a maverick and will take on his own party to make the middle of the road work.

All of the talk in the world won't change this fundamental difference. If you want to move this country farther down the road to socialism, Obama and the Democrats are your clear choice. If you really do want the bipartisanship middle of the road approach many profess to want, McCain is your choice. If you want something else, too bad, so sad. If you don't know what you want, call yourself an independant and make up your mind over the trivialities of the moment.

It really is just that simple.

Finally now these rednecks can shut up

Its to bad that those yelling about Obama's donations from Feddie and Fannie can not read as well as they write. McCain has received over $160,000.00 from the executives of those two companies. Obama has received $120,000.00 from the rank and file employees. Based on those figures who is the one in favor.

A feirnd recently told me that if Obama gets elected the stock market will go
haywire.... now he says he was wrong and that Obama seems to be the only one sounding like a real leader. I think this is reflective of the swing in poll numbers.

I have to concur with a few of the posters here- most of the National Polls are a statistical dead heat, with Obama leading by 1-2 points. More importantly the electoral college map shows a disturbingly equal split among the battleground states- again the majority of the battleground states are dead heats. But even if you award states to the side with a 1-2 pt lead, you still can't decide the race. I came up with Obama 269 to McCain 265 with NH a tie...can you say hanging chad?.....At any rate the polls make the headline here look like pretty irresponsible journalism- shame on you, Foon- you should have taken a class in statistics to go along with your journalism major.

James Stevenson,

Are you blind, do you watch TV at all are you a tree hugging liberal who does not believe in television.
CNN the most neutral.
ABC and CBS not matter.

Are you just plainly gone. ABC and CBS are more watched the CNN or Fox because they are non-cable stations, that alone gets the more ratings than any cable station. CNN could not be anymore democratic and liberal even if they used a Donkey as thier station symbol. And ABC and CBS, watch Charlie Gibson give the news or interview and trust me, you can tell which way he's pulling. CBS - Dan Rather during the last election practically cheered when Kerry won a state and snarled when Bush won a state. ABC's cheif political advisor, gee who is it? Georger Stephanopoulos, only Bill Clinton's main man for his two terms, I wonder which way he's voting this year. So if George is on say "Good Morning America" I wonder when they ask him a "political" question about an issue, I wonder which candiate he portrays in a better light, mmm, I wonder. I have no idea, you jackass.
You can vote for either candidate, but don't say the media is mostly biased towards money. It's biased because of where it money may come from to some extent, but anyone who has a job on the station will depict their views in the way in which they see it, it's only natural. Trust me, I worked in news and studied media in college, news and stations is not "neutral", in fact far from it. You could take a story and portray it either way you want to push your view across without the viewer knowing.

I don't know whether the pro-Republican comments here are from McCain campaign plants or just people with some bizarre agenda that I don't understand. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out who trashed the economy, and wasting your energy trying to fabricate some BS story about a "neosocialist left" (whatever that is) just makes you look like a liar. The lead is real... the lead will grow. There is no way McCain will convince the average American to elect another Republican - his party hurt them too badly. The legacy of GWB is already written. From Iraq, to Katrina, to the economy - three words: "worst president ever." Even the "good" McCain (i.e., back when he used to be a stand-up guy) couldn't overcome that legacy. The "evil" McCain has no chance.

All you Dems just read post #11 over and over until you get it.

It is simple math for McCain. Who cares about the national polls. He wins FL, VA, OH, IN, NV where he is currently leading that give him 265, and then all he has to do to get one of CO,WI, MN, PA, MI, latest poll in MI has him up 3.

This thing is done.

To the republicans who posted above: I'm not a Democrat by any means, but who do you think is paying for the bail-outs now? Who do you think is calling for the bailouts?

Perhaps we should let the financial system go to the dogs. Maybe poverty will teach you a better lesson about the past 8 years of mismanagement.

How is it that all of the right wing deregulators, that supported Phil Gramm and his Enron based economics are now whiners?
After Obama is elected President, I think that he should appoint Bill Clinton to reolve the economic catastrophy that President Chaney and Vice President Bush has led this country into.
Senetor McCain, we do not need another Teddy Roosevelt now, we need a Franklin D. Roosevelt. As for Gov. Palin, there is no national office for Dog Catcher

Love these delusional liberals who REFUSE to disuput the FACTS that Fannie and Freddie OWNED the democrats (including Obama who received buckets full of cash from them) with their contributions and that continued efforts to reign them in over the last 5 years were trashed by Barney Frank and company. So, continue to laud the "experience" of the most liberal member of the senate and who is lost without his teleprompter and who picked a VP who puts his foot in his mouth daily.

Obama has a 9 point lead nationwide

its the economy stupid!

How is it that all of the right wing regulators, that supported Phil Gramm and his Enron based economics, are now the whiners?
After Obama is elected President, I think that he should appoint Bill Clinton to resolve the economic disaster that President Chaney and Vice President Bush led this country into.
Senator McCain, we do not need another Teddy Roosevelt now, we need another Franklin D. Roosevelt. As for Gov. Palin, there is no national office for Dog Catcher, even if you were qualified.

Thank God people are starting to come to their senses!!!! McCain has been spreading nothing but lies and the bias republican media has been eating it up. You really think McCain cares about anyone other than the oil companies and himself??? I am not voting for a party, I am voting for a leader. I have decided what thing are the most important and based my decision on the candidates past records. It also bothers me the sexism scam that is going on in this campaign. Yes, it is going on but in the McCain camp. When will Palin be fair game for a real interview? McCain, Obama and Biden have all had to take tough questions so why shouldn't she??? If any of the men decided to HIDE from questioning they wouldn't even stand a chance. This proves what little confidence they have in selecting her as vice. Don't get me wrong, I love a woman is in this race but they know they picked the wrong woman. I'm sure they are fearing, among many things, that the "female vote" they are relying so heavily on is going to find out she is against the rights of women and animals for starters. At least bother yourselves not to listen to reporters - TV and print, find out what is really going on. One last note, I wouldn't vote for McCain simply because he has Fiorino, Graham & Rove (indirectly of course), on his team. These people could care less about us!

O.K. REMEMBER THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL......JUST TO REMIND YOU..........
MILTICULTURAL VOTERS AND WOMAN VOTERS.... McCain voted NO........
FUNDING HEAD START PROGRAMS McCain voted NO
MY WORRY IS McCain's age.....He is so out of toutch with today.....
and the working class people......He can't help you because he doesn't
even know you exist..never did......How long do you think a man his age can
stay healthy under the stress of today's problems...I am not only talking about
his body but more so his mind........I was just wondering...... I wonder is JWB would
come and help him out.....

McCAIN HISTORY CANNOT BE REWRITTEN - WHY OBAMA SHOULD LEAD IN POLLS
Since 1989, the financial services, insurance and real estate industries have contributed $23.8 million to McCain's campaigns, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. This sector far outspent any other industry in making donations to the Arizona senator.

In the 1980's McCain was involved in the Keating Five scandal, that epitomized Washington's culture of corruption. He and five other senators tried to intimidate federal bank regulators on behalf of McCain friend Charles Keating, an Arizona real estate developer and owner of Lincoln Savings and Loan, who had raised $1.3 million for the politicians.

In the 1980s he also favored the deregulation of the Savings and Loan industry, which led to the industry's collapse and a taxpayers' bailout of more than $500 billion.

In 1999, McCain supported the banking industry's top priority, the Gramm-
Leach-Bliley Act, which turned out to be a major disaster.Orchestrated by Senator Phil Gramm of Texas, the bill further deregulated the banking and insurance industry and is directly responsible for the current wave of home foreclosures and bank failures. It tore down the last remaining legal barriers to combining commercial banking, investment banking and insurance under one corporate roof.
Phil Gramm, McCain's top economic advisor and former campaign co-chair, was the chief architect of the deregulation laws. Like McCain, Gramm was a free-market fundamentalist and a puppet of the financial industry.

In 2000 McCain blocked efforts to close the deregulatory "Enron" loophole which ultimately caused their collapse and is still being used by energy traders to game gasoline prices.

September 2008 - McCain Campaign, in order to deflect attention from his own actual involvement, launches attack ads trying to link Obama to the Failed Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae. One of the big facts McCain is the $112,000 in INDIVIDUAL EMPLOYEE DONATIONS to Obama, which McCain tries to make look like he's "in bed" with F&F and "on the take".....

BUT..to McCain camp's great annoyance, the truth got out. McCain received $169,000 from F&F and their affiliates AND two Freddie board members (Boisi & Hohlt, also a Freddie lobbyist) are bundlers who've raised between $100,000-$250,000 for McCain!I

Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae paid $3 or 4,000,000 to McCain Campaign Manager, Rick Davis'lobbying firm in order to avoid any regulation of the mortgage companies and because of "his closeness to Senator McCain", logic would suggest that common wisdom was that closeness to Senator McCain = good for Dergulation. 20 of McCain's campaign and top contributors were lobbyists for Fannie & Freddie. McCain's top policy advisor, Charlie Black, was an F&F lobbyist for 10 years.

In fact, McCain announced his transition chief, if elected, would be William Timmons, a lobbyist for Freddie Mac who received $260,000 from them in 2008.
And while McCain attacked Obama for hiring Johnson, a former F&F executive, to conduct his VP search, McCain had Arthur Culvahouse, a former Fannie exec, do his search!

Finally, yesterday William Maloni, Fannie Mae Senior Vice President for Government and Industry Relations (1983-2004) wrote a letter to the editor of NY Times denouncing McCain as a "hypocrit" and his attck ad as "a cheap shot".

In 2008, just a short time ago, McCain said "Deregulation has been good for the economy...I am a Deregulator."

McCain can claim to be a born-again Regulator and a cokeyed Populist, but he can't rewrite his history and his history, combined with his dishonorable deceitfulness, is an indictment of his qualifications for the presidency.

I am almost afraid to comment since there are so many emotions involved in this presidential campaign....But here goes:

Do you know anyone who has lost a home within the last 4 years?

Do you know of anyone who is within 5 years of retirement...and is worried about what is happening to their nest egg...which now is questionable whether there is a "nest" or an "egg" anymore?

Do you know of anyone who can't aford medical insurance and was just given a
pink slip with COBRA attached?

These are real problems and I do know/am related to someone who is in the midst of these experiences.

Rethoric about "left wing" and "delousional liberals" and "whose to old" and "whose to black" and whose "pro this and anti that", "my goodness not a woman"......doesn't solve problems nor does it allow for rational thinking about our problems...all American's problems.

No matter who wins the White House, Americans need to begin to stand up for what it means to be American...let's all work together to get ourselves out of the mess we all helped to create!

......."Running quickly toward the door to miss the raw eggs headed my way"

I agree with Jean. Americans - we are in trouble. The current administration was the worst ever in the past 250 years. Yet, finger pointing and blaming will not solve our problems. The intense partisanship is a big part of our problem right now. We need to band together to solve our problems.
It's not left vs right or rich vs poor. We can only solve the bad state of affairs by finding common ground and working together.
Don't let your congressman approve the bailout package until you have reviewed the details. The Devil is in the details!

What we are seeing is a shakedown of our economic and social system in which the power of the haves has been disproportionately greater than it should be, and the power of the average Joe has been less than it should be. Imagine-CEOs with 20 million dollar severance packages, and a poor person dying because they can't afford surgery. Insane! Our country is better than that!
Have we lost all sense of perspective on greed, fairness and decency? Well, the system is giving us a huge wake-up call!

On September 19th, Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal suggested that it may not matter much who is elected president. Each will have the same awful deck of cards to play. Still, it feels like it is time for a change, and it matters a lot because of the appointments to the Supreme Court and other long term appointments. It is really time for a new metaphor, not for someone who has been schooled in anger for generations (McCain's father and grandfather were admirals, thus war is likely to be a more viable option in foreign policy than it is for Obama).

The irony now is that Paulson is suggesting a government program (?!) that really seems new dealish in its scope to rescue Wall street bad boys and girls. And Paulson is a Republican!

I don't get it. What is Obama's plan for the economy. I know he plans to give tax breaks to the middle class but I don't really think it will have a huge impact on the economy. We're talking about banks giving out predatory loans and gas prices going sky high through speculative trading. I can see that giving more money to middle class Americans can increase spending but I don't see how it can work when you are essentially taking it from rich people. Rich people have a large influence on the economy and if you take money away from them and give it to the poor, how would that change the way consumers spend money. Someone please explain to me

Wednesday, October 15 is the last day to register to vote in Massachusetts.

Too often people voice strong opinions on their candidate or the challenger; however, neglect to vote.

Now is the time to put your vote where your "mouth" is.

So, ron, does that mean we can blame you for the last 8 years of Bush?

Posted by ron September 24, 08 10:42 AM

left Wing statistic bending. When McCain was up
you buried the story. God help us if this lunatic wins.
the liberal press will have to shoulder a great deal
of the blame!

unenrolled, McCain has ties to Fannie and Freddie, too. What is your point? Most of Washington has ties with with both.

The basic question with the election is, do you want a republican or a democrat in the white house? Personality is useless. Which party's platform will lead the country in a better direction?

Posted by unenrolled September 24, 08 02:27 PM
Love these delusional liberals who REFUSE to disuput the FACTS that Fannie and Freddie OWNED the democrats (including Obama who received buckets full of cash from them) with their contributions and that continued efforts to reign them in over the last 5 years were trashed by Barney Frank and company. So, continue to laud the "experience" of the most liberal member of the senate and who is lost without his teleprompter and who picked a VP who puts his foot in his mouth daily.

I think we are over simplifying if we think a party is the cause. It is a the American system and the elite class made up of the wealthy and politicians who allowed this to happen. We are a nation in love with money, greed and power no matter whether you are from the GOP or a Dem.

At this point I am simply relying on who can bring out the biggest change (and radical) in a very real sense for once, someone who has been there for 30 years? Probably not. But it is ridiculous to say that one party is not responsible here...they all are as are all of us who believed that we could continue to live forever beyond our means financially or natural resources.

What is wrong with all you right wing nutjobs always wanting to pass the buck when things don't go your way?? To the person who stated the Dems have been in office for 2 years and done nothing......that's because they don't have ENOUGH MAJORITY to do anything!!! (although, thank God that looks like it is going change this year) It AMAZES me that most of the people who support these criminals benefit the least!!! How can anyone possibly look at the last 8 years and think they have been good???!!!! Or for you people ignorant enough to believe the Dems have been in power for 2 years, how can you think the previous 6 years produced anything good??? This has been the highest spending administration in US history!! What is wrong with you people????

Total hack reporting but what do you expect - its the Globe - here is the poll disclosure - 38% of poll respondents consider themselves Democrat - 28% Republican - and then this- "This Washington Post-ABC News poll was conducted by telephone September 19-22, 2008, among a random national sample of 1,082 adults, 916 registered voters and 780 likely voters. The survey includes additional interviews with randomly selected African Americans, for a total of 163 black respondents. The added interviews (commonly referred to as an "oversample") were completed to ensure there were enough African American respondents for separate analysis;" so let me get this straight - more D's and more blacks and Barry's up by 9 - total hack reporting and poll - wake up!

People lie in polls. Don't believe polls. They are VERY misleading. Those so called undecided / independents have just about made up their minds regardless of what polls say. We'll have to see on election night if their minds swing left or right.