What Obama SHOULD have said, responsibility

When McCain rifled off one of his pre-planned diatribes about how he is NOT George Bush and if Obama wanted to run against George Bush he should have run for office in 2004, Obama as usual responded gracefully and tactfully.  However, I wish he would have gotten a little more down and dirty with Mr McCain and said something like this.

“Senator McCain, thank you for pointing out that you are indeed not George Bush. And let me say, thank GOD you are not George Bush, look where that has gotten us in the past eight years. However, your record over those same 8 years shows that you have voted for George Bush’s policies an overwhelming majority of the time on all of the major issues of the greatest importance in this election.  Please excuse me for my confusion.  Last time I knew you were still the candidate for the same political party as George Bush.  The party whose administration has run this country into the ground over the last eight years.  Would you prefer for me to call you “mini-Bush” or perhaps “Bush Light”?  Go suck another lemon you grumpy old fart.”

I also wanted to mention something about all of this bail out bullshit.  There have been tons of fingers pointed around in regards to whose fault it is such as the greedy banks, the democrats, the republicans, the federal reserve and others.  All of these entities surely share a ton of responsibility in this mess.  However I think there is one HUGE group that is totally side stepping blame, the American public.  Sure banks gave mortgages to people that had no business receiving one. But what about these individuals taking fiscal responsibility for their decisions?  A person making 50k a year should not be buying $300,000 houses.  Nor should people that looked to buy property for the sole intention of flipping it for profit (I am one of them) be given a parachute for making a bad decision. 

America is filled to the rafters with buy now, pay for it later mentality.  We can’t be told that we need to wait for anything.  Why start with a small modest home that I can reasonably afford when I can go all out and splurge for a house that doesn’t leave me enough money to buy groceries each month?  I think the American public and their outright disregard for financial responsibility is the biggest culprit of all in this mess.  All the bail outs in the world are not going to fix that.