Quick, who said?
a) “I think, still the fundamentals of our economy are strong.”
b) “The American economy is in a crisis”
c) “The greed and corruption that some engaged in on Wall Street and we’ve got to fix it.”
d) “We will clean up Wall Street. We will reform government.”
Answer: John McCain, all of the above.
Incredibly McCain, on the same day, began his Monday saying the economy was strong, but after seeing the Dow drop 500 points turn an about face and say that it was in a crisis. Further, he has loudly and repeatedly donned the traditional Democratic cloak as the new superhero to reform, regulate and thereby restore prosperity while he has been part of the big money taking politicians in charge that helped create this mess.
John McCain has been an erstwhile member of the Republican trickle down, de-regulators who has voted with President Bush 95% of the time, and now he is saying he will adopt what is bedrock Democratic policy.
One more question: who’s the better Democrat, one who has been one and acted like one from day one, or one who fought Democratic policy and who now, on the eve of an election where he is about to be defrocked as an aider and abettor of the Wall Street carnage is doing a 180 to proclaim his change of heart to Democratic principles?
Intellectual honesty knows the answer to that, but I will spell it out. The better, and only, Democrat in this race, the one who will oversee proper regulation, a change of tax laws that will indeed restore Clinton level tax rates (hardly onerous, the top rate being just under 40%), and more help for workers suffering from a distressed economy is B-A-R-A-C-K O-B-A-M-A.
You can sit down now Mr. McCain, but thank you for your support of the Democratic principles. Oh, and you don’t have to be president to help, just support the new measures, the ones you now say you’ll lead to have enacted.
And one final request: if you really have a secret plan to capture bin Laden, why won’t you share it until you are elected? It might be the all-American thing, the right thing, to speak up NOW, if you have some special information that could help in his capture. To wait is un-American. To delay what may strengthen our national security in a vain effort to win votes from people who should know better might reasonably be called by what it is: traitorous.
Richard F. Dawahare 9/18/09
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