Thanks, Sarah

For showing the world, particularly the hateful women on the left and the right, who denigrated everything about you, from your accent to your education to your baby son, that women can hold their own. If I could change one thing in the debate, it'd be that Johnnie-one-note "corruption and greed on Wall Street," as if that wasn't the stockholders on Main Street in the pensions, IRAs, 401-Ks, 403-Bs and private investments and annuities who were depending on their elected officials--the other 3 guys you're running with and against--for some oversight of the laws and regulations they themselves have put in place. We need an investigation of the Barney Franks of Congress--like yesterday!

However, many people sold homes during the housing bubble and were thrilled that they were able to choose from bids offering thousands more than the asking price. Their "good fortune" was being fed by deregulation in the 90s, by CRA engineering the poor into bad home deals, by Congress taking money from Fannie and Fred in bipartisanship, by the push by banks to move low to moderate income people into homes they couldn't afford to meet their quotas. You can call it corruption and greed if you want, but some were just ordinary school teachers or business people from Dayton or Columbus, Ohio, taking advantage of a good return on their hard earned money as home prices doubled in a very short time. After the recovery from 9-11 with the Bush tax cuts, our investments soared, and we were enjoying the experience of having an imaginary "third person" in our home who just turned over his paycheck each month with no questions asked. We live on our pensions--hardly the rich fat cats that both the Obama-Biden and the McCain-Palin teams try to portray. When the bubble bursts, and they all do, greed has a different face, and it's never the one we see in the mirror. That imaginary tenant has packed his bags, hired a U-haul and left town.

Well, Sarah, you're a winner in my book. I heard someone say that if you watched on TV you saw one debate, if you only listened, you heard something different, and if you read the debate, you'll get yet a third message. Well, there will be a fourth message, as the media snip and cut away at you. They are very hostile toward you. They are subjecting you to the Justice Thomas take down routine, but you seem to be putting on the full armor. We'll know the truth, regardless of how the MSM spins it, and it didn't come out of Joe Biden's mouth.