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Oct. 5th, 2008 03:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catsittingstillThe Economist had economists rate Obama and McCain on how well they would handle the economy. The results are here.
In other news, Sarah Palin accused Obama of "palling around with terrorists" because Obama once served on a charity board with Bill Ayers, who was a member of the Weather Underground, despite the fact that (emphasis mine)
Andrew Sullivan, whom I had thought conservative, has a poor opinion of Palin's performance in the VP debate, and what it means for women. He also has an opinion on the attempt to shut down the investigation of Troopergate. I've got to say, along those lines, that I'm put off enough by the Bush administration's blatant and repeated attempts to restrict the information that would make it possible to determine if they were breaking the law or not--the sort of information that other administrations (since Nixon's) have published without question. Under the circumstances, to see the McCain campaign treading in the Bush administration's footsteps in this would be deeply disturbing to me even if I otherwise favored McCain.
In other news, Sarah Palin accused Obama of "palling around with terrorists" because Obama once served on a charity board with Bill Ayers, who was a member of the Weather Underground, despite the fact that (emphasis mine)
The White House hopeful, who was a child when Weather Underground was active, has denounced Mr Ayers' radical past.And the New York Times has an article about Fannie and Freddie Mac and the mortgage mess here. Democrats do seem to have been heavily involved, though the Republican administration helped. Err... "helped."
Andrew Sullivan, whom I had thought conservative, has a poor opinion of Palin's performance in the VP debate, and what it means for women. He also has an opinion on the attempt to shut down the investigation of Troopergate. I've got to say, along those lines, that I'm put off enough by the Bush administration's blatant and repeated attempts to restrict the information that would make it possible to determine if they were breaking the law or not--the sort of information that other administrations (since Nixon's) have published without question. Under the circumstances, to see the McCain campaign treading in the Bush administration's footsteps in this would be deeply disturbing to me even if I otherwise favored McCain.
