What the dog didn't do...
Oct. 8th, 2008 10:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
libertangoA 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![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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.
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.
