Couric and Palin – Plus, Bankers’ Greed and a Bit of History

by paul on September 24, 2008

Palin talks to Katie Couric, and here’s the video:

She is so out of her depth here, repeating superficial platitudes again and again, as if somehow by repeating them they will become true, or that people will actually believe her. I feel really badly for her in this interview. I can see that she has a small modicum of charisma about her, but there’s not there there!

She says that polls don’t matter and that at the end of the day the American people will look to results. Well, John McCain voted for the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999, which made all of the mergers between banks and insurance companies possible. Before that, the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 prohibited investment banks from taking deposits. This was in response to the banking collapse of 1933, which was in part made possible by the great stock market crash of 1929.

So, because we didn’t listen to our history, we are about to repeat it. John McCain sided with the bankers’ greed and voted to go back to pre-Depression ways of doing business, and now nearly ten years later, the chickens are coming home to roost! Are those the results we should be looking at, Sarah Palin?

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