My first comment btw. I've been reading this site for awhile now (since before the primaries ended) and I find this place to be less of an echo chamber than DailyKos is (although I do like some authors there).

I didn't think Obama did well last night; but then again, everytime one of our boys did well, save Kerry's first debate, it was the indies and uncommitted folks who went for GWB. So I was pleasantly surprised to find that a similar thing happened here.

I don't know whether to feel totally happy however, as it seems to speak to the glaring reality that has always got me down: this country is kinda filled with people who don't care. I think Obama could've been professorial and could have looked smart but instead he went for the middle road and ended up looking very much like "one of us".

Which I assume was what his team has been coaching him on.

  Even though it was their bad policies that bankrupted their own Companies. They took their Company and stock shareholders over the edge of a cliff, and now expect to be rewarded for their mismanagement. These top executives knew these loans were extremely risky. But they just couldn't resist the temptation of the quick buck to be made. Pure Corporate greed.

  Any taxpayer bailout needs strict oversight and specific terms. Lack of oversight was at the core of what got us into this mess. Congress shouldn't be pressured by the White House to rush a quick, but possibly ineffective fix to this. The no oversight, no review, no challenging, no overturning in Court, part of Paulson's bailout plan is anti everything American. Was this a provision insertion from Cheney? I think I smell the foul stench of Deferment Dick in all this. This is the final step in the neo cons looting of the U.S. Treasury. The debt from this bailout, the Iraq war, the tax breaks for the wealthiest... will now total over two trillion dollars! With the National debt exceeding 11 trillion dollars! Could even go much higher.

  Once again the Bush administration acts as if their policies had nothing to do with their latest disaster. But then again, when has the Bush administration ever taken responsibility for any of its failures? The gang that couldn't shoot straight who've brought us the failures of 9-11, Iraq war, Katrina, now the Wall Street meltdown.... If Congress doesn't act quickly then the consequences will be their fault? What a crock!

 Bush and Cheney took us from surplus to record deficit, destroyed our reputation throughout the world, mismanaged their unnecessary war in Iraq. They ignore the rule of law, ignore court subpoenas to testify, trashed our Constitution and what is now our joke of a Justice Dept.... I have to laugh at Sen McSame. Ten days ago he said the fundamentals of our economy are still strong. But ten days later he temporarily suspends his campaign, almost refused to debate Obama, and now claims our economy is in such a crisis he must return to Washington to save the day.... This old man is a clueless fool who is clearly unfit to be our next Commander in Chief......

  Politicians from both parties should be ashamed of themselves if they approve this bailout. The debt to be paid by our children and grand children has become obscene. Why do we Americans continue to pay taxes? Do you like how your money is spent? Corporate bailouts, Iraq, tax breaks for the wealthiest.... If Congress wont stop this bailout, then "We The People" should. It's time for a tax revolt people! Hell, it's time for a full blown Revolution!

  A few years back it was Enron,..Arthur Andersen.... Now Bear and Stearns,..Fannie Mae,..Freddie Mac,..AIG.... It's like a Corporate crime wave swept across our nation these past seven or eight years. What Company will need to be bailed out next week, or next month? Even the Wall Street analysts don't seem to know where the bottom is here. The Bush years can't end soon enough.