Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due: A Minor Rant

[craz3z]

I'm already tired of hearing GOPers (Palin) and pundits (Buchanan - by the way, whatever happened to Bay?) blaming the financial crisis as the iceberg that sank McCain's presidential hopes. If you want to be President then the one thing you should expect is that unexpected events will certainly be thrown at you along the way. The key is how one responds to these events. It wasn't the meltdown that sank McCain but the way he reacted to it. I'm grateful that this happened when it did because it gave us a chance to evaluate how each candidate responds to true crises. We don't often get an opportunity like that BEFORE a President takes office.

I know that's only one of many reasons that showed McCain was NOT ready to lead, but it was a major one for many voters.

[unpossibles]

1. agreed. As someone else said, "Obama was affected by the crisis too"

And frankly, even if the crisis is what did it, we should see this as a shining example (yet again) of why Republican ideology doesn't work.

I suppose we have to thank them for their avarice: they hastened their own demise by getting greedier and greedier, to the point where most of America was not willing to accept their excuses and finger pointing anymore.