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Ask Dr. Helen: How Do You Deal With a Palin Hater?

October 6, 2008 - 12:08 am - by Helen Smith
Quincy
2008-10-07 11:36:44

All your man is doing is nasty, pathetic, transparent smears. The nation is in crisis, we are fighting two wars, state budgets are affected by this crisis, foreclosures are occurring, etc., and all your man wants to talk about is Ayers.

First, McCain isn’t my man. But neither is Obama. Second, if I were debating Obama, I wouldn’t give a whit about Ayers. I’d be on him to explain his stonewalling of the reform of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Why did he block reform when he was warned a crisis exactly like this one would happen? Where was his different kind of politics when he toed the left-wing party line and helped plunge this economy into the present crisis?

Of course, McCain will not do this because he doesn’t know why the economic crisis happened. He’s a self-proclaimed economic lightweight, and at a time when someone on Capitol Hill needs to pound home that this crisis is a clear cut failure of government, he’s off railing against anonymous “Wall Street greed” like a damn fool socialist. The greedist guys in the room were shoveling money into the Democrats’ feed trough hand over fist to avoid reform and it worked. They need to be called to account over that, as do their enablers.

We won’t fix this crisis without identifing how and why it happened, and without ridding ourselves of the people responsible. While McCain goes off and acts like a city councilman with a grudge, Obama goes unquestioned in enabling this crisis.

It should be clear to everyone that putting one of the people responsible for the economic crisis in the White House is a dangerous thing to do. And I fear we’re headed that way because people like proud elitist can’t step out of the “either-or” mindset to see the truth.