Scoop’s Views

CNN has a story that caught my eye. It says the president vowed during an unscheduled news conference over the weekend to give his full salary to public welfare, helping the underprivileged.

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McCain scored a point with me when he said that no emergency bailout should be made to the people who obtained these mortgages. His opponents, though, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, have made comments in the recent past that some kind of “help” ought be made available to the people with these mortgages. My question to Clinton and Obama would be: “Why? Are you looking at rewarding bad and irresponsible behavior?”

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