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...late to speed along the once-stalled negotiations. Then McCain, his Democratic rival Barack Obama and congressional leaders from both parties went to the White House for what some billed as a photo-op, a public showing of bipartisan support for a piece of legislation that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and the President himself have called absolutely vital to preventing economic collapse. Reporters waited and waited on the rainy White House driveway expecting to hear from the two candidates, only to be informed by Senator Richard Shelby, the top Republican on the Senate Banking Committee...
Oliver Hart, a former chairman of the Harvard economics department, signed the letter out of a concern that the bailout plan is being created in an unnecessary rush...
...ridiculed in 2006 for referring to the Internet as a "series of tubes" while he was chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation
...Another part of the job is choosing advisers, and in preparing for this moment, Obama consulted a glittering cast, including former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker - the man who whipped inflation - and former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, who briefly erased the deficit. Yet another role of the President is to set priorities. That's where Obama stumbled...
...Wall Street tycoons" and backroom Washington dealmakers he holds responsible for this mess. It's his nature to see problems in terms of personal culpability; while other leaders were debating the best way to set a price for distressed debt, McCain was calling for the head of Christopher Cox, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Both Obama and McCain maintained that greed is the root cause of our troubles, but in Obama's mouth it sounded like a diagnosis, whereas from McCain the word landed like an indictment...