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Old 10-09-2008, 04:48 PM
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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

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7. How did I feel about Sen. McCain stating “You probably never heard of Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac before this.”
Well Senator, I actually did. I like to think of myself as a fairly intelligent person. I have a bachelor degree in Political Science from Tennessee State, so I try to keep myself up to date with current affairs. I have a Master degree in Legal Studies from Southern Illinois University, a few years in law school, and I am currently pursuing a Master in Public Administration from the University of Memphis. In defense of the Senator from Arizona I would say he is an older guy, and may have made an underestimation of my age. Honest mistake. However, it could be because I am a young African-American male. Whatever the case may be it was somewhat condescending regardless of my age to make an assumption regarding whether I was knowledgeable about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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4. Was I nervous?
No. I was cool as a polar bear’s toe nails. Yes, of course I was nervous, they said the show was going to be seen by tens of millions of people, but hey I am son of Blood and Thunder so I held it down! Shout out to the Ques Roo!
Am I reading the reference to 'Ques' correctly, or is this something else?
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Old 10-09-2008, 05:50 PM
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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



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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.
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