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.
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?
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.
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.
Maybe you were adopted.
Send her this thread.
“I give up.”
Don’t give up, write a short letter to the editor and give this fact:
“But here, the Democrats are squarely to blame. They have resisted all attempts at reforming Fannie and Freddie, and pushed those organizations to become ever more reckless in their policies. This made the investments on Wall Street carrying those tainted mortgages go from bad to worse, and now we’re in a crisis and on the verge of a meltdown.
This is inexcusable. And if independent voters figure this out, their outrage over this situation will suddenly be directed against the party that pushed these disastrous policies.”
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=N2Y5MTc0ZTAyMmE1Mjk3NGE3OWRiY2FkMjZlN2YxYzc=&w=MQ==
Show her the “burning down the house” video and the Barack Obama & Raila Odinga videos on youtube. The first one deals with Freddie and Fannie and the second basically scares the hell out of people.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103612/posts
Good news over here, nuclear assault on Obama, up to 400 Million to be spent by the time the election gets here.
Don't give up! FIGHT like you've never fought before! You won't regret it.
My letter to JohnMCCain.com this morning...
This is not a question, it’s a comment. Tell John McCain Barrak Obama is as real an enemy of America as the North Vietnamese were, but much more dangerous, and he must fight Barrak Obama with the same mentality he fought the Vietnamese. We are in a fight with forces inside and outside our country for the founding principals of this nation. And if we don’t win, America as we have known it, is lost. This will be the greatest loss for the world in modern memory.
Obama and his supporters are cut from the same cloth as Hitler, Lenin, Mao, etc. They will do ANYTHING for power and control, ANYTHING! WE CANNOT FAIL TO DEFEAT THESE PEOPLE! If John McCain doesn’t spend every last fiber of his being to defeat this threat, he will not have lived up to his oath to protect and defend the Constitution from ALL enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC. FIGHT LIKE YOU’VE NEVER FOUGHT BEFORE! We need you to! Do not concern yourself with what the media thinks or what your “colleagues” in the Senate think. Concern yourself with the people, with AMERICA the idea. The people will love you for it, like they loved and still love Reagan.