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10.2.08 @ 12:01AM

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Mr. Ferrara's ideas for the McLame campaign were exactly on point. That is precisely why they will never be heeded or adopted. They make too much sense to a conservative, which McLame is not.

McLame is going to go down to defeat at the hands of the least qualified and most socialist candidate in the history of the Republic -- and a man who has proven himself to be one of the most inept campaigners in history, to boot. All because McLame would rather have the title of "Bi-partisan" and "Maverick" than win the election.

He had two issues handed to him on a silver platter, either of which would have given him the election in a landslide if properly handled -- the energy crisis and the sub prime mortgage fiasco. McLame managed to not only not take the initiative on either of those issues, he fumbled both of them on his own two yard line.

What an absolute idiot. It's a shame to tie a classy person like Sarah Palin to this jack-ass.
-- Keith Kunzler

Do you believe in polls? If you do, you would realize that a majority of Americans do not agree with pretty much every single point you raise in your article.
-- Aimable Mugara

My colleagues and I have been getting increasingly frustrated over the Obama Media's aggressive attempts to protect their candidate. I hope this article gets into Rick Davis's hands ASAP before it gets hijacked.
-- Rowene M. Fabian, MA, RN
Los Angeles, California

Ms. Pelosi finishes her sentences.

Yours is the kind of partisanship that tears this country apart for the sake of ideological games.
-- Anatoly Soshilov

This is the begining of the end of the age of the conservative. The world will be better off, trust me.
-- DH

MAY COMMON SENSE PREVAIL
Re: George Neumayr's Neither a Borrower Nor a Lender Be:

Thank you so much for taking the time and effort to write "Neither a Borrower Nor Lender Be." I love reading articles that articulate what I've been thinking, but couldn't get past the emotion to explain rationally. Love the line..."Liberalism, as an experiment against common sense, undermines every institution it touches..."

Hope you have a great day and that common sense prevails!
-- Jane

In almost every article I read online about the financial problems I read lines similar to this one from George Neumayr's "Neither a Borrower nor a Lender Be" that says, "...it is the deregulation of liberal legislators telling cautious bankers to forget their musty old rules and give bad loans to low-income, poor-credit Americans."

We are told that banks were pressured by government to extend these loans to unqualified people. If banks to a greater or lesser degree listened to the government when it pressured them to extend bad loans, then why can't the government pressure good banks to continue to lend money to good borrowers now? Why is there so much talk of frozen credit markets now when there are still a majority of banks and borrowers with good finances and credit? It does not make any sense.

I can understand why bad banks have no money to lend. But how about the good banks? They still have money to lend. That the government now says it's hands are tied regarding the economy without a costly bailout when in the past it had plenty of ability to pressure banks into lending prior to the crisis seems to smack of at least a partially-contrived crisis.
-- Steve Cade
Portland, Oregon

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