Via Hot Air, where Morrissey makes the same point Geraghty did: this goes beyond the election. If we aren’t clear on how the financial mess happened, it will happen again. And probably worse…….

That is why we have not heard more about the roots of all this, the people who are at the root of it all are the ones doing the witch hunt.

I like ads like this, but if the media refuses to report on any of it, and if all people hear about it is on political ads, I am not sure if they will believe it or not.

This whole thing just had to happen right before the election.

And Republicans should be making the case themselves, all most people know is that Republicans were running things for years, that is who they blame. McCain actually did try to do something about all this, but how much help did he get from a Republican Congress? Same with Bush, when he tried to do something Congress just threw it back at him.

So yeah, there needs to be ads like this, but Republicans need to explain why they waited until now to complain about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. All Democrats have to do is sit back and let the media shill for them.

Even if John McCain is reluctant to attack over the Democrats’ blocking of any reform at the two mortgage agencies, actions that lead directly to our current credit crisis, a new 527 isn’t: Obama and the national Democrats are desperately…

This kind of message needs constant repeating to counteract the notion that “deregulation” caused this crisis.

Damn straight. And it’s high time Republicans stop waiting for McCain to make the case. If he doesn’t want to make the case against Fannie and Freddie, fine, he can take his loss in November like a man. But Republicans absolutly should not sit around and wait for McCain to make the case that the Dems blocked oversight on Fannie and Freddie – we should be making that case daily, and forcefully.

It’s our brand name that will suffer uncalculated damage if we don’t fight back on this, and if we just passively sit back and accept it, waiting for McCain to do the work we should be doing, than we deserve to be tarred with the narrative that the MSM will certainly put on us.

It’s time for Republicans to stop waiting for McCain to fight for them, and to start fighting for themselves.

I was hoping that he would give us a preview of his presidency by giving us some straight talk about this current crisis, but so far it’s the Wall Street Greed meme – the same as Obama except that Obama has been emboldened to the point of blaming McCain for the crisis. And yet we hear crickets from the McCain camp.

It is certainly discouraging. Not just for the campaign, but as a preview of his presidency.

The American people want some heads. McCain needs to tell us tomorrow night that he will give them to us.

All McCain needs to do is pull out an index card and start reading the Dem/Frannie connections and corruption. And be sure to name everything, including Barney Frank’s former boyfriend.

I was with several (Dem) friends over the weekend at a college football game. All in the tank for Obama.

I asked them: “but what do you think about Ayers? Franklin Raines? Annenberg? Won’t release ANY of his college records? ACORN?”

To a person: THEY HAD NEVER HEARD OF ANY OF THIS.

Also, to a person: mocked Sarah Palin. “Why?” I asked. They had no clue Why….

all the news just says so

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These are people with multiple degrees…I was just amazed, but the media propaganda machine for Obama would do Goebbels proud.

Take off the freakin’ gloves Team McCain.

Let’s roll.

Name names. Tell us that his administration will go after Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, all other congressional members who actively received donations from FM/FM while sitting on committees that oversaw their banking practices. Bring them up on ethics charges. Then name Raines, Johnson and Gorelick and tell us that he will go after the incompetent and corrupt leadership of these two institutions.

… That’d include Frank, Dodd, Waters, Obama, Pelosi, Schumer, Kerry, the whole cast of characters. If they remain in Congress, then at least the American people deserve to have them off every committee they’ve been on that’s been involved in this “crises.” But Barney Frank has got to go entirely.

S on October 6, 2008 at 9:29 AM

We the American people voted these assclowns in and are the only ones who can remove them. If we don’t remove the majority of them on Nov. 4th then we’ll get exactly what the majority of us deserve.

Or sit back like liberals and try to figure out how to force other people to pay for it.

Unfortunately, BO is also claiming that he pushed for more oversight & reform, a claim that I find dubious, but no one has proved him wrong.

jgapinoy on October 6, 2008 at 9:00 AM

It’s 100% bold faced lie. But if our electorate isn’t informed enough to know that, he may well get away with it.

And if Repubicans insist on spending their time cutting down McCain and bashing his campaign instead of focusing their energy on Obama and his lies, well….thanks “True Conservatives” for your ideological purity. Perhaps you guys believe that you will have positions saved for you in the Obamassiah administration, or that the crocodile will eat you last.

Good luck with that

the next ad,get Maxine Waters in one,where
she says the mortgages for the poor is a
success,so,now she wants a lot more!!!

Oh ya,Maxine also says,that Raines has
done an outstanding job at running FM!!

In the meantime–this ad is extremely effective! Are they running it on TV in swing states? If so, all HotAir readers should send this group RightChoice all they can afford!

We’ve all been saying this for weeks. Why he’s not doing it? God only knows.

lorien1973 on October 6, 2008 at 10:22 AM

Not all of us lorien.

You and I, along with some other sensible minds, took some flack over this Sat. Remember?

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2008/10/obamas-rural-challenge.html

Maverick has NOTHING TO LOSE and EVERYTHING TO GAIN by doing this!

FiveWays on October 6, 2008 at 10:15 AM

We’ve all been saying this for weeks. Why he’s not doing it? God only knows.

Didn’t I spend ALL DAY SATURDAY saying this exact same thing?

This issue will be far more effective than Obama’s Ayers connection. And I hope….I PRAY…that McCain is using the Ayers/Wright/Rezko/et al connections as a smoke screen so he can lauch on the Dems and Obama’s cozy relationship with the Housing Scandal in the debates Tues. Maverick has NOTHING TO LOSE and EVERYTHING TO GAIN by doing this!

Wasn’t Obama the second highest recipient of contributions from Fannie/Fredie after Barney Frank? And why is Barney Frank leading the investigation? Shouldn’t he be the center of it?

I would be surprised if Jamie Gorelick doesn’t end up on the team – after all, she got appointed to the 911 Commission.