I’d think of her as more of a Jar Jar Binks type…

# Fannie and Freddie didn’t issue bad mortgages
# Fannie and Freddie didn’t package them into incomprehensible securities
# Fannie and Freddie were private companies that had shareholder-elected boards of directors
# 50% of subprime loans were made by originators that didn’t have any CRA review at all
# Another 30% of subprime loans were made by institutions that had limited CRA review
# CRA review had only one practical consequence: a limitation on mergers
# Congress was controlled completely by Republicans from 1995-2007 (except for a brief period of Senate control by Democrats in 2001-3
# The presidency was controlled by Republicans from 2001-7
# The regulator of Fannie/Freddie, OFHEO, was an Executive branch agency
# The problems at Fannie and Freddie were undercapitalization
# The first hint of problems at Fannie and Freddie came in 2003, and had to do with inflating earnings, not with lending standards

For more, go to http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/10/misunderstandin.html#more

and

http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2008104001/cra-blood-libel

I know, I know, it’s much more fun to be like Neil Cavuto and blame poor urban blacks for this. But hey, even Republicans have to deal with the truth without sugarcoating it with a comforting racism that falsely absolves their heroes (such as Phil Gramm).

However, the Palins have no excuse. I’m sure they wouldn’t like voters seeing video of Todd Palin’s mentor and peer member Joe Vogler founder of AIP and Governor Palin’s warm welcome to the AIP into her Governorship in her own words captured on news archives along with Vogler in his own words here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmYqRfp6-x8

“The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government,” Vogler said in the interview, in which he talked extensively about his desire for Alaskan secession, the key goal of the AIP.

“And I won’t be buried under their damn flag,” Vogler continued in the interview, which also touched on his disappointment with the American judicial system. “I’ll be buried in Dawson. And when Alaska is an independent nation they can bring my bones home.”-Joe Vogler.

I don’t know why that association isn’t discussed more.

She really meant:

I’m losing. Can we talk about Jerimiah Wright? Why aren’t we still talking about that gosh darn it! Say it ain’t so, Jimmy Willkers! I’m losing! Jerimiah Wright! Jerimiah Wright! William Ayers! He’s Muslim! He’s Black!”

McCain had said that racially explosive attacks related to Obama’s former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, are off limits. But Palin told New York Times columnist Bill Kristol in an interview published Monday: “I don’t know why that association isn’t discussed more.”

‘Isn’t discussed more?’ Governor, where were you last March, April, May and June? Jupiter? Jeremiah Wright is now the OJ case of presidential politics. His exposure is somewhere slightly to the south of Coca-cola.

Read it again, Matt. This is the “call a working black man a ni88er and a boy” old-fashioned redneck kind of racism.

Maybe Ms. Palin is taking the gloves off, but her admirers are keeping their pointy hoods on.

So awesome. Every time she opens her mouth, more Republicans decide they won’t vote, or will vote for Barr this November.

Thank you Sarah! Thank you!

You know, since you move the line every damn day, it’s really kind of hard to tell.

Most commenters on this site could answer the newspaper one with approximately a half-second of thought, and probably the Supreme Court one, too.

Perhaps Palin’s new motto should be “if you don’t know the answer, blame the question.”