Because, uh, everyone knows Obama is an expert when it comes to financial crises?
Doesn't matter. He has an even chance of being Bush's successor.
Obama knows absolutely NOTHING about the economy or financial markets.
He brags about spurning a job on Wall Street when he graduated from Harvard Law School in order to become a civil rights lawyer in Chicago (helping slum landlords like Rezko loot public money and fail to deliver the housing), but if he had spent time on Wall Street he might have learned at least something about the economy.
The problem is, Obama, by virtue of his accidental candidacy (I don't think he ever expected when he started out that he would win his party's nomination this time around), is now the nominated Democrat candidate for the presidency of the United States. That means he is the de facto leader of the Democrat party, and the Democrat party is the largest political party in the United States.
Now we face an extremely serious, serious problem in our economy (notwithstanding all of the know-nothing Freepers who are whistling past the graveyard).
This requires immediate, bipartisan action. But here is Obama, completely removed from the action, travelling around the country on his celebrity campaign tour throwing out irresponsible statements to the effect "whatever they do on the bill, no one should have to give up their house."
He is a non-serious poseur, who pretends to be a unifier but has no experience in anything but partisan grievance-hustling for the dysfunctional parasite class, his constituency.
I will be very surprised if the parties, working diligently on a solution, can complete negotiations by Friday, but I will not surprised if Obama tries to shuck off responsibility and tries to pull McCain out to have their debate on Friday night, bill or no bill.
Obama doesn’t need to be an expert, nor does he need his teleprompter in the meeting. He’ll ask to bring along his experts who help him through times of trial — Michelle, and his grandmother. Yes, that should prepare him well......