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Originally Posted by pbear19
Back to a topic from pages 2 and 3, about the comment from McCain that a questioner probably didn't know what Fannie Mae was. Here is the response from the questioner, as copied from Facebook on FirstRead:
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archi...9/1523335.aspx
And one other fun part to quote from the same link:
Am I reading the reference to 'Ques' correctly, or is this something else? |
What percentage of voters do you think knew what Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were six months ago? I think maybe a third. I think a higher percentage of voters had probably heard of them, but I doubt they knew what they did nearly as well as they do now.
While it was probably a condescending thing to say to any individual, I don't think McCain's comment was that far off the mark generally.
Most voters lived in happy ignorance of most of the institutions and practices that are failed/ are now failing.