Look at two things McCain has done:

1) Health care — not only would McCain tax health care benefits. Not only is a tax credit a long-tiresome gimmick that nobody likes or respects. But McCain's plan “allows” people in one state to buy health insurance plans in other states if the people want that. Now consider this not from the deeper meaning of it as regards federalism, but just the practical and economic implications. First of all, who says the lower-cost-plan states will agree to having people from higher-cost states elsewhere swamp them, or allow anyone out of state to buy plans at all? The feds don't have the actual right to order the states to accept the outsiders. Of course, these days the feds can do whatever they want, so they would doubtless order all states to accept anyone, no matter from where in this country. But as the Iowa state insurance commissioner noted, if someone in Iowa buys a plan in, say, New York or California, and has problems with payment, or doctors in Iowa won't accept the payment schedule, there's nothing the Iowa commissioner can do. And with all that extra paperwork, does McCain's plan include more money that ought go to the states to pay for this? Or is this yet (I suspect) another federal unfunded mandate?

2) The Democrats have been often horrible in office. One of the worst is from a notorious family — Andrew Cuomo is his name. He did a lousy and questionable job in the federal government. (Many know his father, who was sought in 1992 as the Dem nominee, and made a whiny-loser lousy speech at a Dem convention once that to this day the liberal media label one of the best speeches, if not the best, of all time.) One of the presidential candidates, in discussing the current economic concerns and poor behavior by government and the financial industry, has said (in addition to wanting to fire SEC commissioner Christopher Cox) that he would like to see, of all people, Andrew Cuomo(!) as a new SEC commissioner!

Believe it or not, that candidate who said that is none other than John McCain.

[burying head in hands]

Obama should take the populist route– and play off McCain's gaffes on the
economy and portray him as too removed from everyday life to feel regular
folks pain.. ie if he loses a house it won't matter because he doesn't
even know how many he owns. If he has to sleep in his car he can choose from
13 of them.* *

After a lot of reading, I am very concerned about this bail-out package.

The scale of it . . . and the speed people want to rush it through . . . is very disturbing.

As you say, it seems not to hold anyone responsible. I am thinking a lot of folks are concerned about this.

I think this issue overwhelming benefits Obama (not so much Congressional Democrats though). He seems serious and intelligent and someone who thinks about issues, instead of simply having advisors. Hahahaha….and I am not even an Obama supporter. Yes, the economy can be a transformative issue!

All we should be asking is who can get us out from under this– do we want the executives and investors to swim and US taxpayers to sink?

I am fascinated by this, as it seems to me Obama is FAR ahead of McCain on issues.

Health care: Obama +1 McCain 0
Economy: Obama +1 McCain 0
yada yada

That seems to be true . . . certainly by the Democrats . . . as evidenced from the fine detective work over at Jawa, tracking down the PR firm (Winner & Associates), with direct connections to Axelrod, Obama's own Karl Rove . . . that was responsible for producing “viral, grassroots” videos promoting lies about Palin (e.g., that she was an Alaskan separtist . . . a smear even the New York TImes has retracted).

Check it out: http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/194057.php

Of course, no sooner had Jawa posted its findings then a sweeping series of deletions hit YouTube etc. as Winner & Associates sought to cover their tracks.

This is, of course, classic Karl Rove (see his use of cutouts to smear McCain in SC in 2000).

Deniability must be preserved to protect Obama. The cutout accounts are being eliminated. Democrats can count on their friends in the media not to investigate or report on this in any way. After all, there are potential FEC violations here.

Yes, focusing on the issues, indeed JSpencer.
Karl Rove would be, grudgingly, admiring of these Democrats.