The Republicans are not saying there was too much regulation… In fact, it is quite the opposite.

This may be the source of your confusion: Ideally, from the conservative perspective, divorce the government from Fannie and Freddie altogether or, as a compromise, ensure strict oversight. Since the first wasn’t going to happen, several Republicans have pushed for the second, including Mr. McCain.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081010/ap_on_re_us/connecticut_same_sex_marriage

I know many will disagree with my opinion that this is a good decision. But that is what democracy is all about — and that’s why even if you disapprove of gays marrying, you should be pleased that minorities are accorded basic rights by the court.

Ann Stanley appears to have a strong conviction that education was a priority. Most college freshmen who discovered they were pregnant in 1961 didn’t finish their degrees or enroll in a new university months after the birth of their child. His mother did manage to finish her degree before they moved to Indonesia and somehow picked up a masters and ph.d while spending good part of her adult life outside of the United States.

Considering her pursuit of higher education, it doesn’t surprise me that she put an effort into supplementing her son’s education.

Name me ONE program Obama had the guts to admit at the debate, that he would have to cut from his agenda, due to the financial crisis.

He couldn’t do it.

I thought that was pretty significant. And yes, my reaction was the same: the coward voted present and avoided taking a stand that might alienate someone… AGAIN.

And BTW, I do believe McCain said we’d have to make some sacrifices around Social Security benefits. I immediately the ‘pubs I’m in contact with to tell them that that is a really bad thing to be saying to folks my age, whose retirement planning factored in the existence of social security and who (sorry to bring this up again, folks) RENT due to not having enough money to buy a home at today’s prices, with a responsible mortgage, which means that I won’t have a home to reverse-mortgage later.

Like the Great Depression, it won’t be easy and it won’t be quick but I would like to see some of that sacrifice start at the top and work its way down to us “peasants” for a change. McCain is not only expressing his willingness to try but has given us a plan (freeze on spending). And I don’t care if he borrows from FDR’s creative file if he needs to.

But Soertoro/Obama is still stuck in campaign mode, dithering over which speech will get him the most votes. When you’re drowning it doesn’t hurt to hope you won’t but you have a better chance of surviving if you latch onto anything that floats by that can keep you from sinking.

As for the housing bubble itself and the associated meltdown in the financial markets that we’re seeing now, don’t you dare try to blame it on the Republicans. For the most part, it has been the Democrats who insisted on making vast sums of money available to people with little or no capacity to service those loans, who were successful in getting government backing for those loans, and who protected institutions like Freddie Mac from calls for more stringent regulation in return for gobs of campaign cash. Granted, the moron in the White House, as usual, sat there with his thumb up his ass and did nothing to stop it. But the Democrats have far more dirt on their hands with regard to the housing bubble than the Republicans do.

Of course, the typical clueless American voter doesn’t understand that, and this financial crisis that was largely of the Democrats’ own making is going to quite likely wind up electing one of their own as president.

And who is riding to the rescue? Obama?
Please!

We expect economic expertise from a novice, organizer, and an enforcer…not I!

Obama sure uses her for political purposes, doesn’t he?

I find it deeply offensive.

If he had any character at all, Obama would have titled his book “Dreams my MOTHER taught me I could achieve.”

Dreams of his father? All delusional. The man deserted him, and died an unemployed alcoholic, with wives and children strewn all over the landscape.

His MOTHER gave him his dreams.

And yet, he was “too busy” to be at her deathbed.

I’m not impressed.