Opinion: McCain-Palin vs Obama-Biden and the risky politics of bailouts

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An interesting gap developing between the financial bailout philosophy of the John McCain-Sarah Palin Republican ticket and actually what the Barack Obama-Joe Biden ticket didn’t say about the financial turmoil today.

Both McCain and Palin made it clear they do not support the federal government using taxpayer money to bail out private firms like Lehman Brothers.

Obama, as is his rhetorical habit, chose to turn the issue into an attack on the Bush administration, which is not up for re-election, in another attempt to tie Bush and McCain together. He did not formally address the propriety in his view of government saving such a private company.

Peter Viles, our colleague blogger over at L.A. Land, has already posted the full story on today’s big story. Go here.

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--Andrew Malcolm