I found this on Air America's site and thought it made a lot of sense. Basically I hope you all will tell me that this 'October Surprise' won't go down like this --
The timing of this horribly unpopular bailout will allow McCain to vote against this bill and Bush with inpunity, making him look like a populist Maverick, while Obama will be tied to it and look like he's on the side of Wall Street kleptocrats.
Here's the link:
Bailout Bill = October Surprise
If someone's already covered this, please kick my ass then refer me to the link.
Senator Bernie Sanders: October Surprise
By Thom Hartmann
Is the October Surprise this year the economic crisis, and Bush's proposed
$700 billion bailout of the billionaires?
The latest Rasmussen poll, conducted Monday September 22nd after the entire weekend of Paulson and the administration carpet-bombing the media, shows that only 25 percent of Americans support using taxpayer dollars to bail out bankers and investment firms, while 44 percent of Americans actively oppose
it.
Senator Bernie Sanders suggests we could soon see a Reed-Pelosi-Bush bailout bill, and that this could be the October Surprise, the game-changing event, that ties Barack Obama to George Bush and cuts McCain away from Bush.