Humpty Dumpty Falls

Feels like we're all back in preschool. Watching our financial institutions fall like dominoes. Or like Humpty Dumpty. Sat on a wall, had a great fall, all the king's horses and all the king's men trying to put him together again.

A nursery rhyme seems appropriate at a time when a presidential candidate acts like a willful child testing his parent's limits, stamping his foot and refusing to come to dinner. When the man in the Oval Office is regarded as a clown by much of the world. When a vice presidential candidate spends days cramming for a big test-- and comes out sounding less informed than a middle-schooler. Our world has become that screwy. Are we in the Twilight Zone? Or just back in preschool?

To deal with a willful child who stamps his foot, childcare experts would advise parents to remain calm and refuse to take the bait. Like Obama did. Which proves that we've all got it backwards. With all the fuss over McCain's age and experience vs. Obama's youth--it's pretty clear who is the mature grownup and who is the spoiled child.

The childcare experts would also remind us that actions speak louder than words. During his short tenure as a presidential candidate, McCain's actions speak loud and clear. Beginning with his choice of who to place a heartbeat away; his refusal to tell us how close that heartbeat might be by releasing his medical records; his transparent stunts one after another from the hurricane in Louisiana to the hurricane on Wall Street---flip flops, gaffes, outright lies, constant shooting from the hip that miss the target by a mile but hit America in the heart.

Psychologists might even agree that John McCain was right in asking for a timeout. He needs one. I almost could get myself to feel sorry for the guy. If he'd do something that makes sense. Right now what makes the most sense, if the United States is ever going to regain our footing at home and abroad, is for McCain to focus his energy and fighting spirit where it would help the most---fighting for his health after four malignant melanomas.

The rest of us need to get busy trying to help Barack Obama pick up the pieces and put Humpty Dumpty back together again.

Comments

[Blk independant]

McCain is just like that character, LOL. But to get back to serious issues, how does Palin calls Biden old when McCain is a few yrs older? Palin and Couric's transcript is over there at cbsnews, this lady is realy screwy.

[Sarkis8188]

Absolutely NO to the bailout!

There needs to be something done, we all agree... simple solution: the Fed should have a credit line ready for all banks to tap into (up to 700 billion) with low interests (example 3 to 4%, with rules that limit what they can charge you, because after all, this is your money)

This injects capital into the banks and does not allow them to gouge us 20, 25, 30% for credit!
Come on Americans dont buy the B.S.!

We are bailing out the same people that would through you out of your home in a heartbeat if it hurt their bottom line and have no problem extending credit cards to people that charge up to 30% in many cases! You dont reward companies like this,... imagine if we do bail them out...
1. your property would be owned by the federal goverment... when was the last time you tried to get someone on the phone at the DMV, IRS, or any other government agency, not a pleasant experience ... you DO NOT want to deal with the federal goverment when it comes to your home
2. Right now You have leverage over the Banks, they DONT want you to forclose, they have an incentive to work with you to make ends meet... with the bailout, you take away that leverage YOU have now
3. Banks have excess inventories? then reduce prices and allow people to buy the home of their dreams

[Blk independant]

There needs to be a bailout. Maybe not in this capacity currently constructed but a bailout is needed. Look the fact is the we are in position damn if you do damn if you dont.

1 No bailout equals, less money for the banks to lend to me and you for things like college and school or vehicles or small businesses!
2 No bailout equals bank failures which leads to nothing for shareholders which in hindsight is you and any other person who has an 401k or roth Ira, etc...because we arent getting paid if the company goes belly up.
3 No bailout equals higher interest because of lesser competition in the markets.
4 No bailout the guy on your street cant refinance his home and it gets forclosed causing your property value to decrease.
5 No bailout equal slower growth for the economy because we are trillions in debt to these foreign countries(China, Sadia Arabia, Japan, etc) these are the people who owns your home, if it still has a mortgage. If we dont pay them there money or have it ready when they want it then they wont invest in our economy. When the last time you brought something that said made in AMERICA. Guess where that flag the you got waving around comes from? You guessed it! So its imperative that this gets passed.

Congress will passed this thing November 5, 2008...As soon as they get re-elected, mark my words