Where were you, Barack Hussein Obama? Where are you now, John McCain?

You know, good old Barry likes to tell everybody "I told you so" about the Iraq war. He made an impassioned speech against the war back when he was a pissant state senator. But where was Nostradamus on the mortgage mess that led to the financial disaster that faces us now? Nowhere. His buddies at ACORN were too busy making money and strong-arming lenders into writing risky loans.

But here's the thing. As the timeline in this video shows, almost since day one, the Bush administration had Freddie and Fannie in its sights but congress didn't want to listen.

This was a failure of both Republicans and Democrats. But while Barack Obama was getting his Senate orientation and planning on announcing his run for president, John McCain was denouncing Fannie and Freddie and calling for them to be reformed and regulated more strictly. Remember these were quasi government institutions operating as a virtual monopoly with a mandate and the protection of the Federal Government. McCain was warning about this meltdown.

Why the hell can't McCain come out with a commercial showing his speech from back then and say that Barack Obama was AWOL on what has now become the most important issue of this election? Is McCain so senile that he can't remember that HE WAS ONE OF THE FEW that saw this mess coming?

Very frustrating.

Posted by Henry Louis Gomez at September 29, 2008 10:14 PM

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