What the dog didn't do...

[libertango]

A surprising opening (IMHO) that Obama gave to McCain in the debate, and McCain didn't follow up on (transcript still here):

OBAMA: "And the reason that it's a problem to go shopping state by state, you know what insurance companies will do? They will find a state -- maybe Arizona, maybe another state -- where there are no requirements for you to get cancer screenings, where there are no requirements for you to have to get pre-existing conditions, and they will all set up shop there.

That's how in banking it works. Everybody goes to Delaware, because they've got very -- pretty loose laws when it comes to things like credit cards."

For all that I'm an Obama supporter, as soon as he said that I worried about a retort from McCain that would run along the lines of:

"My friends, this is what I mean by the pervasiveness of corruption in Washington. Because Senator Obama picked as a running mate a man who helps the credit card companies in Delaware and is in their pocket, as his sponsorship of the bankruptcy bill showed."

It never happened, though.

When I mentioned this to akirlu, she was of the opinion that McCain just isn't fast enough on the uptake for that kind of give-and-take.

In one way, I'm glad for that. In another, it's painful to watch. Right now, McCain is getting lapped around the track of this campaign.

Comments

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that mention of Delaware immediately made me think, "Joe Biden (D-MBNA)." (Well, except I couldn't remember the bank and had to google it just now.)

Of course, whenever I hear Schumer talking about the Wall Street crisis I think of his good friends in the hedge fund scam industry.

[farmgirl1146.livejournal.com]

akirlu is right, "McCain just isn't fast enough on the uptake for that kind of give-and-take." Also, McCain just doesn't see the world in those terms. I doubt that he even knows that one pays off credit cards because someone else (bookkeeper) does it for him with someone else's money (Cindy's).

I like to see him lapped twice. The specter of election fraud is huge. Unless there is such a wide margin that the discrepancies cannot be disguised, McCain could still "win."