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Mortgages On the Agenda

Alan Rosenblatt — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 20:41:34 -0400

I noticed that George Stephanopolis asked all the candidates to comment on the mortgage crisis this morning. And now Hillary Clinton is spotlighting it. All great. I am glad to learn more about their positions.

I still want an easy search function on these websites. I know they consciously choose not to have it. But, as a voter in the world's premier democracy, I feel I deserve it.

Alan Rosenblatt
AKA DrDigiPol (drdigipol.com)

An improvement, but not much

cfinnie — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:36:42 -0400

If anybody but Kucinich has in-depth issues information, that's an improvement. If any sites have a search function, that is too.

A couple of months ago, my DFA group identified 7 issues we were interested in. Each of us volunteered to check Democratic candidate sites for information on one issue. Mine was civil rights and the protection thereof. I do remember quite vividly how hard it was to find any substantive information on any of the candidate sites on that particular issue--with the single exception of Kucinich.

Clinton had no issues page at all until months later. Other campaigns had a single paragraph on a few issues. For a separate exercise, I checked a few leading Republican candidate sites as well. I can't say I was much more impressed with their issues sections.

I can't in good faith support Kucinich as a candidate. I saw him at the California convention and he's simply too weird. But I sure do wish other candidates would be as forthcoming on the issues. It was one of the first things that attracted me to Howard Dean too.

Hillary's Mortgage Plan

Jeff Commaroto — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:28:57 -0400

You didn't mention Clinton's page http://www.hillaryclinton.com/feature/mortgage/?sc=8
Though I 100% agree with you on the search Clinton's is actually right on the main page of her site right now under Spotlight so it should be pretty easy to find for that issue.

ElectionGeek
www.electiongeek.com

Ron Paul has LIBRARY of weekly essays and speeches on issues

Avery Knapp Jr — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:04:59 -0400

Its fascinating reading and eye-and-mind-opening stuff.

http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/

And its searchable! I realize it isn't part of the campaign directly, but the quality is excellent.

Avery J. Knapp Jr., M.D.

Search Me... or Mortgage Crisis, What Mortgage Crisis?

Alan Rosenblatt — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 22:03:43 -0400

I have been hearing a lot lately about we are facing a mortgage crisis of huge proportions. Lenders have overextended themselves with high risk, variable interest rate loans and now people are defaulting on loans in droves. There is a lot of talk about how the extent of this problem is so bad, markets could collapse. A crisis, n'est pas?

As a follower of the presidential campaigns, of course I wondered what the candidates were saying about this serious crisis facing America. So I went to all of their websites to search for what I needed to know. I found some information on Dennis Kucinich's, John Edwards', and a wee bit on Barack Obama's sites. But I found something I did not expect to find.

No search!