well, Bobert, I trust you played well.
OK..You have more than two questions and some appear to be rhetorical.
find which ones and post 'em. I'll do my best to answer.
Keep in mind, I'm not coming from a 'right' or 'left' point of view, though my answers may incorporate elements of both...and the reason I said 'Keep in mind', is because I'm neither on the 'right' or 'left'.. and usually, I'm ambidextrous.

If I was a Republican, I would have voted for McCain, I suppose, BUT, when the first elections were going on, I posted the exact reason I wasn't going to vote for him...and if you recall, it had to do with the Lincoln Savings and Loan issue, his involvement, and his pardon!
We have that same shit today..and...his was just the tip of the iceberg, back then..but it was brushed off in the media, with rather vague 'details'..but he did get pardoned.........and, of course, there was the housing finance scandal, you remember..the ones with the sub prime interest rates..and now Obama is pushing a similar program...like we don't remember the last one....but let's not drift here, too far...Shoot me those questions, OK?

GfS