He should forget about what McCain does
Not necessarily - the contast is important
September 16, 2008, 2:15 pm
Obama Scoffs at McCain Economic Panel
By Jeff Zeleny
GOLDEN, Colo. – Senator Barack Obama scoffed at a proposal offered Tuesday by Senator John McCain to create a commission to study the calamity in the nation’s financial markets, declaring: “We know how we got into this mess.”
“Instead of offering up concrete plans to solve these issues, Senator McCain offered up the oldest Washington stunt in the book –- you pass the buck to a commission to study the problem,” Mr. Obama told an audience here. “But here’s the thing – this isn’t 9/11.”
Mr. McCain, in a round of morning television interviews, proposed creating a panel to study the upheaval on Wall Street similar to the one that investigated the Sept. 11 attacks. Such a group, he said, could “get to the bottom of this and get it fixed.”
On the second day of a campaign trip to Colorado, Mr. Obama seized upon his rival’s idea and offered it as an example of how he believes Mr. McCain had failed to present a serious plan to deal with the economic crisis on Wall Street and beyond. His campaign on Tuesday began airing a television commercial mocking Mr. McCain for declaring one day earlier that “the fundamentals of our economy are strong.”
“It’s hard to understand how Senator McCain is going to get us out of this crisis by doing the same things with the same old players,” Mr. Obama told a cheering crowd of about 2,000 people here. “Make no mistake: my opponent is running for four more years of policies that will throw the economy further out of balance. His outrage at Wall Street would be more convincing if he wasn’t offering them more tax cuts.”
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