Massachusetts Democrant

It's the Economy, Stupid Part Deux

I'm not how the McCain campaign thinks that people have now forgotten about the economic mess, but I sure know why. After his disastrous handling of the bailout and related issues pushed the election strongly in Obama's favor, the latest desperation pass is to try and change the conversation. The problem is, both campaigns can pretty much square off on the guilt by association or more mudslinging. People have pretty much factored all that in, let it blow by and what do you have left? It's the economy, stupid!

Well, the  "bailout" didn't stop Wall Street from tanking further today. The downward spiral continues unless there is a way to handle the crisis on existing mortgages that real folks have, and the country as a whole regains economic confidence. And lordy, I'm no economist, but I have a pair of eyes and have a healthy skepticism about any relief plan that is suppose to trickle down. I've seen enough of those.

Want to get the full debunk of the McCain mythology? This will do it- http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/23316912/makebelieve_maverick/print

Tomorrow night's debate is being moderated by Tom Brokaw, the questions coming from citizens. I wonder what's on people's minds.....?

Now mind you, there is still a month to go and in politics anything can happen and you always work like you are dead even the night before the election.  And Dems can be pretty good at shooting themselves in the foot (or elsewhere) also. I went to my local Dem town committee recently and there was a speaker from the Progressive Democrats of America, a group which apparently evolved out of the highly successful Kucinich campaign </sarcasm>. This person referred to Obama as perhaps too centrist.

What's amusing is for all the talk about who can work in a more bipartisan way, McCain's record is as conservative as Obama's is liberal, and for both of them, that's a lot. But you know though, sometimes it ain't what you say, it's how you say it. Sometimes there really is cooperation across party lines, Ted Kennedy and Orrin Hatch seem to be able to do this on a number of issues, most recently on the Serve America Act.