Letters to the Editor
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Cue corporatist panic attacks
"Our free market was never meant to be a free license to take whatever you can get, however you can get it," said Obama.
It's unfortunate -- though understandable, I suppose -- that Obama referred to "our free market". We don't have a free market and most people wouldn't want an actual, real-life free market ... and most of the people who are most fervent about the lip-service they pay to the term would probably starve if they had to live in one.
He's right, though, that there does need to be fundamental, long-term change. This shows a better understanding of the current situation than Hillary's band-aids and McCain's unwillingness to risk alienating the true base of the current Republican Party.
And if Obama did immediately head to meet with folks from Credit-Suisse, one has to decide whether he was being disingenuous in the speech -- or brave enough to say those things before going to talk to people who might not have liked hearing them. Now, it's fairly clear what Clinton supporters will decide about that. But it's worth noting that -- unlike Clinton or McCain -- Obama at least said the right things.
I figure someone who at least says the right thing is one step better than someone who doesn't even do that.