Here’s some straight talk from December 17, 2007: “Now, I am not an expert on Wall Street. I am not an expert on some of this stuff. I have studied carefully this latest proposal by the Secretary of the Treasury, and all I can tell you is, one, I am glad he is there. Everybody thinks that Hank Paulson, the Secretary of Treasury is respected in world markets.”
And yet despite his lack of expertise and his respect for Hank Paulson, McCain decided that he needed to fly to DC and go bust up a bipartisan agreement between Paulson, Senate Republicans, and most Democrats siding instead with the joke plan of the hard-core right.
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