[Always Right]

Is the McCain softening the last few days due to a fading bounce or the financial markets issues?

The negative attacks by Obama on McCain about the economy are having some effect, and McCain has not been very good in his response.

[impeachedrapist]

I’m actually thankful the polls have closed back to about even, as could have been anticipated before the conventions. I was getting sick and tired of the manic phase (”It’s a landslide, baby!”) of PBD. So now we can settle back into the depressive (hysterical handwringing “woe is us”) phase of PBD for a while.

[puroresu]

The problem is, explaining this meltdown to the public will require addressing the issue of whether or not minorities should be entitled to loans they can't pay back. I wonder if McCain will have the nerve to address that, with Obama and the media ready to pounce with the “racism” charge.

That's how Katrina became a GOP debacle. It was a Dem mayor who failed to fully evacuate the city, and a Dem governor who waited two days to invite FEMA in. But because the stranded people in New Orleans were (in Wolf Blitzer’s words) “so very black” the meme was immediately created that Bush didn't care about them because of the color of their skin. Bush was afraid to fight back because the howls of racism grew louder each time, as he would be accused of attacking a black mayor and black residents for not getting out of there themselves.

The only way for McCain to fight back on this is to be willing to weather a “racism” charge. He may decide, like Bush, to just keep his mouth shut and take the blame for the debacle rather than risk such a charge. Does anyone here think McCain has the political nerve to say that minorities who aren't financially qualified for a home loan shouldn't get them?