“Sen. McCain bragged about how as chairman of the Commerce Committee in the Senate, he had oversight of every part of the economy. Well, all I can say to Sen. McCain is, `Nice job. Nice job.'” -Barack Obama
This past week was the week of the economy, as Wall Street tanked and we looked to the candidates to see what THEY would do in the situation (we really didn’t believe that Bush could do anything and, leaving the control of all of this to Secretary Paulson, we were right.)
Barack called together a committee of economic stars (Rubin, Volcker et al) and appeared Presidential, while McCain and Palin held a “Town Meeting” to blame Obama for the entire economy. And, unbelievable as it seems, most of the press noticed this, too.
Rachel Maddow summed up McCain’s week on Friday night.
In the coming week, with Bush’s (read Paulson’s) request for $700 Billion Bucks to buy up bad debt, we will have to watch how the two candidates continue their economic campaigning.