remember Bill?

  And makes an obvious point which has surprise surprise, and mentioned in the mainstream media. The financial deregulation which Mr. Obama blames for the current financial crisis was a creation of the Clinton administration.  is not only illogical to blame a problem that is centered on only a part of the financial system -- the mortgage market -- on the entire financial system, it also implicates the Democrats. Is McCain guilty of causing the current problem because he supported President Clinton, a Democratic president?   if one accepts this argument, the Democrats are convicted by their own words. No wonder the press as "forgotten" to mention who deregulated the financial industry.

Of course McCain does not make this argument. He is at a disadvantage. He is an honest man. He voted for the financial deregulation because he thought it was a good idea. He would've voted for it if it been proposed by Republican or a Democrat. so, they're accused of having voted for the financial deregulation which caused the problem by a Democrat it doesn't occur to him to turn the question around him. He defends his decision. He defends his decision out because he believed it then. A more practiced liar, a politician more focused on expediency, would have no trouble skipping over a principled defense of his actions -- his actions not being based on principle.  he would move immediately to the challenge to logic  a man arguing that we need to put a Democrat in the White House  because of your support for the last Democrat who was in the White House.