Senator DeMint has some excellent objections re how the as-is bailout would work, especially in that it will send the rest of us off the national debt cliff. His opinion can verbatim be currently heard at http://www.jimdemint.com/blog/2008/09/debating-the-bailout-on-the-today-show/ . 

It might be nice to explain why nobody in congress, not even McCain, Durbin, or Obama, has ever seen say $700 billion in piecemeal over the years for growing agricultural, alternative fuel, protective service, arts, and every other kind of jobs in the USA; but now that some company dropped off due to so many customers not having enough to pay, paying customers dropping off, or both, all at once there's a whole $700 billion chunk for the Big Boy...which seems to undercut potential for ANY change or other things promised by ANYBODY.

One hopes the only "CHANGE!!!!!" won't be from super-duper uber say-so powers over foreign terror suspects/agents to invidiously scowling at "anecdotal pockets of bitter multi-racial nobodies watered by the anti-Islam psychology of Western religions (except neo-evangelicals) which doesn't even respect Islam is a race, not religion for anybody".

Most campaign and PAC stuff I'm seeing keep telling me how race and gender are the primary focus of USA nationals, so all we need worry of is what people in the non-Western Hemisphere will think if a woman or a non-white doesn't obtain to White House entry; other than that, everything's fine, just fine...so let's go tell everybody not in our Hemisphere that they're going to have mucho money and trade upon Obama's election, except for a bunch of racists/self-haters/nationalist homophobes who'll need down-putting as other Hemisphere's populations next mass-immigrate to the USA...unless McCain,the guy who's gonna screw up all deals known to foreigners, at least, gets in and makes the world then "withhold cash and trade from us some more and invites their wrath for so doing". Eh, either way though, might as well ignore how education and stuff came to be so screwed up UNDER all people up for election or next election, and as always make closely-cropped, critic-crushed stagecrafts puffing up the rhetoric everybody wants to hear.
 
Maybe if all candidates had to go USA townhall ad-lib, unscreened (except for security) queries from USA nationals and world immigrants/tourists already here, more substance useful to all people could be heard, and at the same time together.
 
As it is, I find it hard to endorse ANY candidates for ANYTHING, not out of spite nor things of that nature, but because it seems every last candidate for any office relevant to me lets it ride that the "USA still 1960's industrial-military complex" myth is right, and also myth that the European Union Parliament is now an equal dynamo that will create jobs here if we let "some" of their "needfuls" in first; thus all I see is a choice...and a faux choice, at that...between the stagecraft of Obama as Savior with candy for all, and McCain who plays and IS played as if there WOULD be candy he could "crucify like a Pilate".
 
I look forward to any, if any, Fall debates for any specific, blunt namings of WHAT candidates things is wrong, and bluntly HOW they'll fix it (certainly, it seems nowadays we choose between campaigns needing no genesis of ideation from the vox populi anymore, just appearance of their vote thereon re what's chosen for them). In the meantime, if anybody thinks I've been askew with my impressions re the European Union Parliament, especially its Article 13 which sweeps members' nationals aside as politically expedient, and that my being "askew" extends to Bible teachings/texts in the EU, well...then let's hear my critics' recitals of what they believe relevant Article 13 text to be, and how THEY think EUP and member nations apply pressures under it; otherwise, I'll keep thinking all anybody in elected office or candidacy thereof is offering is a choice only between who WILL lead the USA into an exact legal clone of the European Union Parliament no matter what "convincers" it takes, while keying ANY questions or better USA Constitutional ideas thereon "terror-support sounding" or "slammable with made-up offenses later dismissed" or otherwise "convincing" everybody it's all very good for us.
 
Oh, and just by bringing in more boatloads of whoever en masse, without money supply increase or up-front foreign investment as usual, where will all the money be soon for all the feel-good things like medicine, jobs, healthcare, housing, education, et al, we're told are coming unless "mean Mr. McCain" interferes?
 

Whenever I hear someone say something like "Obama actually thinks a Muslim evening call to prayer is the best sound in the world", or "Bible under attack by Islam!", "China making different Bible texts, oppressing Christianity!" or the like, I ask God to forgive the writers, speakers, and any affronted observers of such comments...media and political intermeddlers DO thrive off controversies, and don't always let truth be a barrier to ANYTHING...while main political contests devolve to little more than two monkeys throwing you-know-what at each other and implying the most coated must lose. 
 
The fact is, all politicians know that Muslims are the Hispanics of Europe, and that while Islam is Abrahamic like Judaism and Christianity, not that much time is spent by Muslims studying the New Testament...which is not to imply Muslims on the main do so because they "hate" it or its followers. Obama is just more forward in playing to an impression of the Bible and its ways of interpretation as, say, the European Union Parliament and its member nation governments ALLOW it to be printed and disseminated.
 
That China merely prints the books and related texts, or has in the recent past, is of no moment, as it would seem ANYONE printing them would have to adhere to the European rigors.
 
Now, if Muslims abroad or anyone anywhere thusly arrive at this impression in nature of somehow Jesus Christ was this seer guy-dude who was Che Guevara, Karl Marx, Caesar Chavez, and Martin Luther King all rolled into one, leading organized labor and political committees on behalf of everyone and everyone was healed by His totalist Socialist/communist mere human efforts, while such a view or similar is certainly untraditional and otherwise unknown for 2,000 or so years, that is NOT the fault of China, and NOT the fault of any Muslims or anyone else reading such "REALLY New Testament".
 
One hopes more will come of public interest than the aforesaid monkey-vs-monkey scenario. An essential part of that would seem to be to acknowledge that what we have going in the USA hasn't worked for most nationals, nor most non-Muslim immigrants over the last even CLINTON years forward, nor will it work...unchanged...for Europe's Muslims or anyone else not of this Hemisphere and not yet experienced in current USA culture; one hopes more will come forth in the true spirit of peaceful Abrahamic and other faiths as would regard conscience and service to God and others, than just "figgerin'" Muslims from European Union backlogs will just be the "next" to flow through the same things so many of the rest of us have without much result except to lose more communication and civil liberty capabilities...no, most Muslims and most of earth's diverse peoples are NOT terrorists or killers, and "figgerin'" that you might not deliver what you otherwise imply, so you need iron hamfists to "make it look good for security without military and stuff, see?", is so cheesy words fail.
 
And it's ludicrous to imply USA nationals must "hate" or "fear" Muslims Europe might start sending us (what would Danny Thomas, famous Lebanese USA celebrity, e.g., say?), just so we "avoid suspicion of being Qaeda-cruited if'n those hotbloods don't like what they wind up with".
 
Let's not "defeat" bad foreign economic and civil rights leaders through playing along and shell-gaming; and I hope everyone on earth gets a chance to read Christian Scriptures as they were truly recorded in Christ's time, or in manifestly exactly those words in one's own language, so they can see Christ neither advocates terrorism, revolution, crime, or any particular relief from legal responsibility or preparation for any kingdom other than God's as one enters at physical death...entry keyed to by how one lived on earth, regardless of status or other demographics.
 
Sidebar re charity issues: I said last month the city of Waukegan, Illinois joined with many others this year to make even Church and Fire Dept. "Fill The Boot" campaigns for charity against the law as panhandling; it appears that Waukegan has issued a permit for its firemen to collect for the Jerry Lewis MDA effort THIS weekend. I saw them out and donated myself this morning. To those readers who pass by the intersection of Grand and Green Bay this weekend, please be as generous to those firefighters as is within your means...they embody the kind of government/private party efforts to help those truly in need, and may God watch over and protect those people as they work for social charity.
 

If it were "unto Original Sin" to doubt the nearness, existence, or interest of God, things like Psalms 22 and 88 could hardly be a part of the Christian faith deposit for thousands of years.
 
I recently in life actually questioned if God exists, or if Christ is His Son, and upon much prayerful contemplation of every religious writing in my Roman Catholic and other Christian's faith deposits...together with eyes on secular science, metaphysics, and the like...I was able to conclude for myself that: Big Bangs would all trace back to some ancient first of first planets, and matter cannot generate itself, so that first of first things must have been created, with this and all other Big Bang results being that first "world without end"; that considering the massive, inter-faith, and inter-demographic animosity toward Jesus in His earthly lifetime, culminating in mass glee over His sadistic and grizzly execution, you'd think at least ONE tome would exist de-bunking any of His miracles reported in the New Testament, but instead, it's all just acknowledgement it ALL (including Ascension) happened with all then just creeped out by it, as if being rid of Him would make His words go away; and that Jesus essentially wants all mankind, by whatever labels it lives, to go about their affairs as usual, mindful that only the rather simple Ten Commandments and whatever He taught need be in the HEARTS of people as they do everything...this means that's all ANYONE need do, and sins will be forgiven in Heaven if one converts back the heart, either has a remaining lifetime available to live by it or otherwise at least sincerely urge others not to repeat their mistakes, and realizes that whereas the soul can be forgiven there are still the secular systems of justice God intends have their effects in the human sphere.
 
Essentially, God and Jesus simply want all people to do the just and right things to the natural limits of their ability to do so, even if they are poor or rich, and without regard to social or ritual practices as long as they bend to Jesus ; even sickness and affliction seem to be no longer tests of faith, rather being signs to show how if the afflicted can hold to God's and Jesus' intents, what encouragement to hale and hearty people to not falter or bend no matter the weight. There appears no "infinite personal scorecard and jeweler's Lupe constant scrutiny" named by Jesus, just expression to do right things and within human law as such legal systems proceed, yet without intendment law and faith should be far apart...church and state, yes, but nothing re separating law and faith.
 
My own Roman Catholic faith, especially in the USA, certainly is adopting that motif; currently, they allow both the nature of "Vatican I and II" practices by laity, but teach and encourage embrace of gays, other cultures, anything going as long as it cleaves to Jesus, arm-in-arm prayer in Church formerly called "channelling", all the true universality of Christ...but like many of its "separated" Protestant brothers, it has a twist: also, we must accept that public officials in the USA are correct that Apostolic succession from St. Peter into Bishops and Ordinaries is false, ergo any lay congregation at all should vote for these positions; further, that they believe USA officials actually have more pull with God than anyone could, probably DO have an office-holding Apostolic succession of themselves they alone can best anoint, and all such officials are doing God's Will as Jesus would want through what we laity and "unconverted" or "unchurched" or "heretics" see as personal and political expediency via collectivizations to favor on any given day, and the like. Eventually, the "Vatican I and II's" will fade away, leaving only the New Catholicism...wherein some find "it's so hard to know if laity are worried about the Kingdom of God or just themselves, selfish notwithstanding representative form of government", faith leaders should not even tacitly opine re social issues or social justice even if peaceful and logical.  
 
This has led me to my own conversion to my Universal Life Church ministry. I wish to spread God's and Jesus' words of hope and salvation to as many people as possible, only without being a "Bible Thumper" or tacking on all that illustrious psychology and stagecraft that's on the ebb anyway...only minus the twist of New Christianity insofar as the stuff about public officials. I believe that the words of Jesus apply to ALL people regardless of anything else they go about doing their own ways, and that's what I will offer in my ministry: "Do only that which is right by God and duly settled law". To such end, I will preach only as one finds in the 1989 New American Bible as a prayerful person aware that the "Eucharist" is now taught as symbolic and that the Bible is not to be a fundamentalist "so there!" statutory listing except for the actual intentions of Jesus Christ.
 
Jesus said all who are baptized into Him share that burden, and I will do my best to preach as Christ intended, without rancor to other peaceful faiths be they New Age, New Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, atheist, or otherwise.