Foreclosure Phil

"Years before Phil Gramm was a McCain campaign adviser and a lobbyist for a Swiss bank at the center of the housing credit crisis, he pulled a sly maneuver in the Senate that helped create today's subprime meltdown."

This is a really important story, because Gramm is one of McCain's closest advisors on the economy, and a likely pick for a major office in a McCain administration.

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McCain Should Know Better

One of Keith Olbermann's Special Commentaries, this one on McCain's comment that it is not too important when the troops come home from Iraq. He is careful to fully give the context... in ways I'm sure McCain won't appreciate, but shouldn't have cause to complain about. It is time that this war, begun with lies, continued with massive damage, should end, and McCain won't do that.

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