Even though I as an independent will be voting for Mr Obama, I fear the people who will really be running the Government. The likes of Harry Reed, Nancy Pelosy(sp?) and Barney Frank, the chairman of the ways and means committee. These are all the same good ole, same o same o partisan hacks that haven't yet taken responsibility for the mess with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. If Obama wants to be an agent of change, he can't do it with those three. They are absolute liars. I distinctly remember a televised hearing on regulatory oversight of those two mortgage giants where Chairman, Barney Franks blasted the regulators and their concerns regarding the poor quality loans that they were filling their respective portfolios with and how much problems they expected down the road. Congress Woman Maxine somebody or other lead the charge stating what a wonderful job that the banks and Freddie and Fannie were doing and accused the regulator of trying to cause a problem where there wasn't any. Barney Frank then continued on with the accusations and flat stated that there were no issues to be resolved and basically dismissed the regulator.
The main reason I remember this was that I recall thinking if someone talked to my face like that. I would be standing on their chest. Now this had to be in 2006 as I was still working in the lending area of one the large banks that are now being bailed out at our expense.
The campaign ads that I have seen from both parties for months now make me nothing but angry with their lies and deletions and distortions. But what really depresses me is that so many Americans just suck up all of this crap and nod yup yup and go back to watching their TV as if everything that they just heard is the truth.
We as an electorate have to stop fighting them damned democrats or those damned republicans and recognise who exactly is "the enemy". We need to be educated in the facts and when a candidate gets elected we need to hold them responsible to do as they said that they were going to do.
We have got to stop being smugly satisfied that our candidate won and then think everything is OK now. It is not. Those 35,000 lobbyists are out there already planning their strategies no matter who win the congress and the presidency. You can bet your booties that none of those wonderful influence peddlers do not have yours and my best interest in mind.
It would be great if we had a viable Independent Party, that could swing the power base in Washington when necessary.
Power to the People!
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