10/06/2008

# 58, on agents of change and the US economy...

58. Yesterday, viewing Mike Huckabee's charming new talk-show on FoxNews I came across a frank comparison which hasn't received most voters attention... In less than 1,000 days as senator, Barack Obama has requested almost 1 billion dollars in pork barrel spending... In more than 7,000 days as senator, John McCain has requested 0 (zero) dollars for same harmful purpose...
In retrospective... Who has showed the better record to become a true agent of change in favor of the US economy?...

5th comment appeared in The New York Times on Oct 5, 2008...

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4th comment appeared in The New York Times on Oct 5, 2008...

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10/04/2008

# 57, on profiting unrighteously from the financial debacle...

57. One trillion dollars on mostly dubious home loans were financed between 2005 and 2007 by the semipublic mortgage corporations Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac... Those shaky operations originated the recent financial meltdown, from which Barack Obama profited politically... Truth is that in 2005 and 2006 Republicans with the leadership of John McCain wanted to reform mentioned institutions but their initiative and bill were adamantly rejected by the Democratic majority reigning since 2004 over both Senate and House of Representatives... Under same light every independent voter will promptly understand why senator Obama (in only 3 years!) became the second highest recipient of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac money, just after the longest serving Democratic senator Christopher Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee...

3rd comment appeared in The New York Times on Sep 30, 2008...

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10/02/2008

# 56, right after the US Vice Presidential Debate...

56. I truly believe that Sarah Palin passed a pivotal test and revived the enthusiasm among Republicans and -most importantly- among Independents... She proved to be knowledgeable, smart, candid, and selfconfident... The nervousness with the editing-prone Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric (who b.t.w. had a long learning process at CBS) will soon be passé...

# 55, around an article of Roger Cohen before the Vice Presidential Debate...

55. It's refreshing to learn about the perspective française of Roger Cohen on several editions of The New York Times; but after analyzing a bunch of his articles one can conclude that... a) He's not serving the American cause, easily trashing Richard Nixon and George W. Bush... He may have forgotten that with John F. Kennedy the USA was on the verge to loose the Cold War to the Soviet Union totalitarians... The world needed the guts of Ronald Reagan to a victory... b) I still agree with John McCain's patriotic statement on the American economy... Of course he wanted to correct its ailments some years before as also the current President did, finding deaf ears among the Democrats leading Capitol Hill... c) Sarah Palin happens to be a wise politician, alas not yet proficient on the prime-time arena... She will improve and show naysayers that also she -like a humble young businessman named Harry Truman- could become a promising Vice President...