It was an interesting town hall debate, where McCain proposed a spending freeze, while also offering up, rather out of the blue, a proposal to buy all the individual homeowner's mortgages at great cost. That home suggestion was probably his big effort to try to turn things around: a dangled carrot for the economically gullible. Which homeowners will get relief, and who would distinguish between the deserving and the undeserving?
Packed in between those two proposals, is a lot of, uhm, incongruity. If spending is frozen, where will the money come from to buy the mortgages?
Also, don't know if Meg Whitman, formerly of Ebay, is the solution to our financial problems, despite McCain tossing her name into the potential treasury secretary mix. (We also know good and well, once in power, he would not choose Ms. Whitman).
We are not sure either candidate gained a lot of ground. Well actually, McCain certainly gained no ground. He talked a lot in that faux sincere voice, sucking up to the audience with a bunch of "thank yous" and "my friends". McCain also exhibits a rather proprietary relationship with all things military as well, as though that relationship bestows infinite wisdom. We won't get into McCain referring to Obama as "that one." It was probably accidental disrespect.
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