LETTER TO EDITOR: A way out of this jam

Sen. John McCain asked us to “fight with me” at the Republican National Convention. We cannot fight with him if he chooses not to lead us in the fight. The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) voter fraud is destroying any sense of honesty and fairness in this election. Americans are ready to fight. Where is government intervention at this juncture?

Speaking of intervention, Martha Stewart was handed a prison sentence for an offense far less than those of Rep. Barney Frank and Sen. Christopher J. Dodd with their Fannie Mae and Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. (Freddie Mac) fiasco. When will they go to jail? Or do they receive a “get out of jail free pass” because they serve in our corrupt Congress?

JAN HERRON

Evergreen, Colo.

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I don’t understand why the McCain campaign can’t match the fire, passion and ideas of his supporters. In Wisconsin they told him to get mad about the economic mess.

Instead, the campaign responded with a rambling message of mortgage buyouts that even Sen. Barack Obama considered. Sen. John McCain has refused to outline how this mess was created in 1999 when Fannie was thrown into the subprime mess under President Clinton with the pressure of Sen. Christopher J. Dodd and Rep. Barney Frank.

If Mr. McCain would have come out against the rescue plan and demanded a clean bill - without the pork he has railed against - he would have been in the driver’s seat with the American public.

But he has yet to make a distinction between himself and the Dodd-Frank Democrats who continued to push for no-income-documentation mortgage loans even when they were in charge of oversight for the last two years. In fact, Mr. Frank continued to insist that Fannie and Freddie were in great shape under his oversight. All this while for three years Mr. McCain had his name attached to a bill that would have regulated Fannie and Freddie.

Liberals are pushing their socioeconomic policies on Americans. Rep. Tom Tancredo, Colorado Republican, says that 10,000 foreclosures have occurred in his district by illegal aliens.

When is the McCain campaign going to wake up and stop the William Ayers association and bring this back to the real economic and socio-economic issues? Mr. McCain is our best way out of this jam, but if he is unable to articulate the situation, he does not deserve to be our next president.

SETH KANFER

Arlington