Leslie Small's weak attempt at sarcasm in her column, "McCain's move shows his true colors" (Sept. 30) has me wondering just how biased her journalism is.

She tries to mock McCain for taking a strong stance on the proposed bailout, as if he has never done something "mavericky" like this before.

Ms. Small's criticism of McCain falls flat because she conveniently forgets that the root causes of the current economic problems are the mind-boggling lending practices of the past 10 years that come from the heavily Democrat-backed quasi-government institutions that are Freddie Mae and Fannie Mac. McCain had the foresight back in 2005 to call for reform these institutions, which had become a nefarious liberal tool to achieve their naive goal of "affordable housing."

She then takes a shot at Reaganomics, as if the sub-prime mortgage meltdown of Fannie and Freddie was the sole result of the free market and had nothing to do with the government trying to decide who should be able to purchase a home.

We need the government to stop trying to pick winners and losers. We need low taxes to keep capital, investments, and jobs here in America. We need John McCain. God help us if Barack Obama, is allowed to introduce his "plan for change" on the economy.

Chris McMonagle

College Republicans

senior-political science

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The arguments made in Leslie Smalls' "McCain's move shows his true colors" (Sept. 30) are so skewed it is honestly unbelievable. Her blip about "less than my seven houses" is ridiculous considering, I'm assuming, she was a Kerry supporter in 2004.

John Kerry, the richest congressman in the country. John Kerry, who has $250 million dollars. But I am sure how much money that he had was not an issue in 2004 when I assume she voted for him.

How about "the bothersome facts such as my aide's link to Fannie Mac?" Obama received the second largest donation of money from Fannie Mae of all congressmen. Did she forget that? How about how in 2005 John McCain stood on the floor of the Senate and pressed for regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? I guess she didn't find that one out either. Don't even get me started on James Johnson and his connections to Obama, but we will never hear about these from Small, will we?

If she is going to put little snide remarks in her column, at least try to make them somewhat reasonable.

Zack Kita

senior-geobiology