I'll Do It Too

Ed Rollins has got an excellent piece observing that neither McCain nor Obama seized last week's bailout crisis and provided the leadership that will guide the United States out of economic Armageddon. Of the man we elect to be president, Rollins writes, "Whatever else the campaigns want to talk about, nothing will matter more than the perception of 'who gets it.' The winner should be the man who appears to understand these financial problems and can convince the country that he can be the "lifeguard" who can rescue ordinary Americans from drowning in this sea of economic uncertainty."

I said the same thing the other day, though not as well. Forget Iraq. Forget education. Even forget environmental issues. None of those matter if the U.S. economy tanks. So McCain and Obama better start talking details. Because if neither one starts providing a cogent proposal to pull us out of this financial disaster, I'm voting for Ralph Nader.

Seriously.