Vote on performance, not promises
Hat tip to Daring Fireball:
Krugman wrote yesterday: “This administration, elected on the promise of change, has already managed, in an astonishingly short time, to create the impression that it’s owned by the wheeler-dealers.”
Come on, guys. That shouldn’t be a surprise. Anyone paying attention knew Obama was one of the top Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac beneficiaries. Anyone paying attention knew that the Obama campaign deliberately enabled fraudulent donations. He’s also one of the top AIG beneficiaries. When he said he was going to spread the wealth around, what did you expect? That he was going to spread it to you?
Don’t vote on promises; vote on record and performance. There are no surprises here.
- Credit-card experts explain the extent of Obama’s deception: Ed Morrissey at Hot Air
- “The value of ignoring the AVS responses is that multiple invalid transactions may be made without fear of being rejected by the authorization systems. This means that the real owner of the credit card account is willing to allow multiple transactions to be made on the account using different names and addresses that under normal conditions would be denied.”
- Daring Fireball: John Gruber
- I’ve added John Gruber’s Daring Fireball to the blogroll for the technology section of Mimsy. He provides a running commentary on usability for computers and the web, and other technology issues, with a heavy Apple focus.
- Fannie, Freddie Salve Lauded
- "There were quite a few lobbyists retained by Fannie and Freddie who tried to influence Sen. McCain, but they never were able to get their hooks into him," said Anne Canfield, who heads the Consumer Mortgage Coalition, a lending trade group that has advocated for overhaul of the government-sponsored enterprises.
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- I expected the New York Times to be silent on the illegal donations that the Obama 2008 campaign encourages. I should have known better: they’re trying to cover for the campaign. But the bigger issue is that laws that don’t get enforced are counterproductive; they encourage dishonesty and lawlessness.
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