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If I were to be able to whisper some campaign advice in McCain's ear, it 
would be this:

Barring the world becoming much more cataclysmic in the next four weeks 
(which is likely) or Obama stepping in it big time (which is unlikely) McCain 
has 
one and only one chance to turn this around.  Tonight in the debate, he must 
make it clear to the people who is really responsible for the financial 
meltdown:

Obama is s community activist and community orgnizer.  This is his MO and the 
glasses though which he views the world, the hammer with which he swings at 
all nails real and imaginary.  The Association of Community Organizations for 
Reform Now (ACORN) pushed for legislation to make loans easier to get for the 
"poor".   It was the sympathetic ear of the Clinton administration that 
worked 
to deregulate the banking industry and specifically reformed Freddie and 
Fannie to make it easier to get mortgage loans.  It was Barney Frank's 
paramour, 
Herb Moses, who held a high position at Fannie Mae from 1991 to 1998 while 
Frank 
was chairman of the senate banking committee, who designed the programs for 
the subprime lending market.

A Democrat undertaking all the way.

True enough that all who came later, presidents, congress, senate, both sides 
stood by while all this played out.  You can't make a no-down-payment, no 
proof of income loan to every person in the ghetto and illegal imigrant 
without 
making those same loans available to veryone.  During the run up of housing 
prices, many were frustrated when they went to qualify for traditional 30 
year 
loan with a down payment to buy that $100K house only to find that the person 
with the ARM toxic liar's loan  qualified for $150K on the same house.  And 
so 
the whole market was ratcheted up.

All the present financial woes trace their origin to the community action 
mucking by ACORN and the subsequent donations from Freddie and Fannie to the 
representative to turn a blind eye, the five top recipients being Democrats 
and 
include Frank and Obama.

History has taught us one thing clearly, the programs to give the poor 
disadvantaged a hand up never work, they most often backfire as the current 
(ho, 
hum, don't make me laugh) housing bubble so well illustrates.

McCain must outline the cause of this succinctly and point out that Obama's 
'change the way we are changing the changes'  is nothing more than a warmed 
over Clinton policy based on the already proven failure of wrecking the 
economy 
in order to bootstrap the "disadvantaged".

That's the same approach that Mugabe tried to sell in Zimbabwe.  If we just 
give the poor black Zimbabweans a hand up by turning over all those white 
owned 
farms, they will thrive.  In fact, the are starving.

One chance.  See tonight if he takes it.<BR><BR><BR>**************<BR>New 
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