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The McCain Mortgage Plan: Yet Another Reason McCain Is Not Qualified to Be President

Posted on October 10, 2008

When John McCain, onstage on Tuesday night, said It's my proposal, it's not Sen. Obama's proposal, it's not President Bush's proposal. But I know how to get America working again, restore our economy and take care of working Americans... people were confused: If McCain had a mortgage plan, why hadn't he offered it for inclusion in the Paulson-Dodd-Frank bill? How, in fact, was McCain's plan different from the mortgage-relief plan that Frank and Dodd had moved through congress in the summer? By the following morning, it was clear how McCain's plan was different: it was principally a no-string...

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economy , housing