Posted on 10/11/2008 2:40:04 PM PDT by Winged Hussar
Sen. John McCain's 2006 demand for regulatory action on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could have prevented current financial crisis, as HUMAN EVENTS learned from the letter shown in full text below. [Includes screenshot]
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It doesn’t matter. Talking on the phone last night to my Mom, a Democrat, and she says that McCain caused the Fannie/Freddie collapse.
I give up.
May the Cinco De Mayo Memo Sink Obama.
I think people of a certain age come from a time when the mainstream media was absolutely trusted. People who huddled around a radio to hear Roosevelt’s voice, or were glud to the t.v. when Kennedy was assasinated.
Those were comforting, assured voices. People ‘in the know’ who would tell you the truth.
It is very very hard for people to give that up. And so they go on believing everything the media says.
And it is hard, and disconcerting, to think that this huge powerful media is lying to you all day every day.
I have some sympathy for your mom.
The letter was written to Frist, why wasn’t anything done?
Don’t you just love it when that SNL skit pretty much backs up the REPs?
What memo is this?
OK, 0 let’s see YOUR letter. Silence and crickets.......
That’s what I thought. I can’t believe he said he wrote a letter to Bernanke. Has anybody thought to ask him about that? If you felt so strongly about it, why didn’t you throw in with Mac when he introduced legislation to that effect? Hmmmmm?
the only letter in 06 that obama wrote was for MORE subprime mtgs. i would provide a link to the FR thread, but i cant find it. i think a thread (for lurkers) with BOTH letters would be awesome. and for those of us who will link the thread to those in our email boxes!
The May 5th letter at the link:
I’ve got a brother and sister-in-law I’ve been working on. In order to keep his life from becoming a living hell, my brother will figure it out, vote for McCain and just not tell his wife. She is a lost cause. No amount of facts will matter to her. She doesn’t understand it anyway. These are people with no financial troubles whatsoever. I have no idea what change she is looking for. She can’t answer the question. When you try to discuss it with her (I’m always polite) she says she is offended and would like an apology. I’ve know this woman since she was 14 and have no idea WTH is going on with her. I just found out she’s never voted before....she’s 50. So, there you have it.
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My sister finally decided it was the Democrats fault. I almost gave up, glad I didn’t. She voted absentee for McCain yesterday, I helped her with the rest of her ballot :)I volunteered to help senior citizen groups complete absentee ballots, I have all the ammo I need to show them the Democrats are responsible.
Where was the McCain campaign with this 3 weeks ago?
Rank incompetence.
It’s too late, McCain has ceded the economy as an issue to 0bama.
He let Republicans twist in the wind and take the blame for nearly 4 weeks without as much as a rebuttal.
It’s too late for a course correction for McCain now.
And he has undermined his own shifting strategy every step of the way.
He’s turned out to be the worst Republican candidate in over a generation.
He’s missed every opportunity to make 0bama’s glaring weaknesses relevant. He’s missed every opportunity to expose 0bama’s policies and agenda for the radical socialism that it is. He’s failed to call 0bama a ‘socialist’, he’s failed to expose his DSA/New Party connections. he’s failed to call 0bama’s “95% tax cut” what it is: WELFARE.
And McCain has missed every opportunity to highlight his own leadership, experience, and independence.
He’s missed every opportunity to frame this economic crisis as being the result of the Democrat’s stubborn partisan agenda, he’s failed to name names and give the American people some Straight Talk on just who got us into this mess and how, and he’s failed to provide an American solution for getting out of it. He’s failed, and now, because of this, American freedom is about to fail.
So this is “Breaking News” posted by you and John McCain didn’t mention this in the debate, somebody is retarded. Either you or John McCain.
I’m going to sleep. Tell me which one of you is retarded tomorrow morning.
Maybe you were adopted.
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