I've already given Barack Obama hundreds of dollars, I've been engaged in trying to help him and Democrats however I can. But the events of the last two days have got me downright scared of the hearing the words "President John McCain."
I'm ready to redouble my efforts.
I shouldn't be surprised that John McCain is ready to put country last to appear "mavericky" on this bailout plan, but I am. I'm afraid that he and his house Republican friends are playing with fire that even George Bush isn't willing to touch and that we're all going to pay dearly for it if the voters do not soundly reject him and his ideas.
I don't support giving a $700bn blank check to Henry Paulson, but with the Democratic additions that he seemed ready to accept, it seems this plan could help restore confidence and do more good than harm. What does McCain do? Swoop in and throw everything in the shitter because he wanted to be seen as doing something.
If should be obvious to everyone that these stakes are much too high to play the game of the railing against the "Bush-Pelosi" plan. It should be obvious that we cannot sit on our hands for four months and wishfully wait for President Obama to sort it all out. If it's not obvious that these ideas are silly, I've got some WaMu shares to sell you.
Maybe you'd be right to ask me why this surprises me at all. Maybe it's cause I have a shred of optimism left, that I believe Obama when he says there actually are matters so grave that they should get us to stop playing political games. Hell, the Democrats are working with George Bush on this. Some people sure as hell see this for what it is.
I don't really have time to go to Michigan and canvass, but I'm going to go to Michigan and canvass. I can't really spare more money to give to the Obama campaign, but I'm going to find a way to spare it. I have to, because John McCain is batshit crazy and must be stopped.