Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Family Security Matters Briefings - Week of 10/13/08

Obama - 'Spread the Wealth Around' Reveals Socialist Plan for America

At a recent campaign appearance in Ohio, Sen. Obama was approached by Joe Wurzelbacher, a hard working plumber, who has concerns about Obama's proposed tax policies. FamilySecurityMatters.org's Pam Meister had a candid conversation with him about confronting Obama who says his plan is to tax small businesses making $250,000 and above and, yes, "spread the wealth around." Go here to read the complete interview.

For McCain to Win, He Must Name Names on the Mortgage Meltdown
By Joel Himelfarb

John McCain has belatedly started to name names - pointing to the role that Democrats like Barney Frank and Chris Dodd played in the collapse of the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which helped trigger the U.S. economic meltdown. To be sure, Republicans are hardly blameless. Although the White House points out that it repeatedly tried to get Congress to reform Fannie and Freddie, the Bush Administration doesn't talk about its own role in the manic, bipartisan push to "expand homeownership" - whether the beneficiaries were prepared for it or not. Under HUD Secretaries Mel Martinez and Alphonso Jackson in particular, the administration constantly took credit for increases in minority ownership over the past seven years. Of course, we now know that much of this "success" was a sham, padded by Fannie and Freddie's work to make loans to people who were terrible credit risks - the very people who can't pay their mortgages today. [more...]


McCain Needs to Tap Romney and Giuliani - Will Announcing Cabinet Positions Now Help?
By Nicholas Guariglia, Ryan Mauro

Sen. McCain is on course to lose this election. In our last article, detailing how McCain could turn the campaign around, we finished by saying "The McCain campaign must again change the dynamics of the race as described, or it must begin preparing its face-saving argument that a close second was honorable in such a tough political environment." Unfortunately, McCain's current path is leading to a third course of action: preparing an explanation for being defeated in a landslide. With less than 30 days to November 4th, McCain is in desperate need of a game-changer, a gamble only rivaled by the pick of Gov. Sarah Palin to be his running mate. [more...]

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