The Clinton Legacy - Subprime Slippage
This is quite interesting (emphasis added) . . .
“[Barack] Obama… blamed the shocking new round of subprime-related bankruptcies on the free-market system, and specifically the ‘trickle-down’ economics of the Bush administration, which he tried to gig opponent John McCain for wanting to extend. But it was the Clinton administration, obsessed with multiculturalism, that dictated where mortgage lenders could lend, and originally helped create the market for the high-risk subprime loans now infecting like a retrovirus the balance sheets of many of Wall Street’s most revered institutions. Tough new regulations forced lenders into high-risk areas where they had no choice but to lower lending standards to make the loans that sound business practices had previously guarded against making. It was either that or face stiff government penalties. The untold story in this whole national crisis is that President Clinton put on steroids the Community Redevelopment Act, a well-intended Carter-era law designed to encourage minority homeownership. And in so doing, he helped create the market for the risky subprime loans that he and Democrats now decry as not only greedy but ‘predatory.’ Yes, the market was fueled by greed and overleveraging in the secondary market for subprimes, vis-a-vis mortgaged-backed securities traded on Wall Street. But the seed was planted in the ‘90s by Clinton and his social engineers.” —Investor’s Business Daily
Democrats these days are behaving like little kids that broke something, who shift blame to a sibling or the dog.
Hat tip to The Patriot Post.
UPDATE: Related post at RWN: Financial Crisis - Dems Try to Rewrite History
4 Responses to “The Clinton Legacy - Subprime Slippage”

DirtCrashr on 18 Sep 2008 at 0833 #
Rewriting History is about all they are good-for, besides skimming the money for their own pork projects and social controls.
Minstrel on 18 Sep 2008 at 0843 #
That goes along with what Biden said yesterday - something about it’s patriotic for the rich to pay high taxes. Invoking class warfare by claiming the rich get away with paying less than their fare share is a truly obtuse point of view shared by most Democrat politicians.
DirtCrashr on 21 Sep 2008 at 1846 #
And claiming that Fannie Mae with it’s “unorthodox” bookkeeping and agenda driven lending was somehow “Free Market,” is another crazy mental stunt.
Minstrel on 22 Sep 2008 at 0657 #
In 2005, McCain warned:
At the same time as McCain’s warning, Chris Dodd (D) the ranking member of the Senate Banking Committee, was in the middle of receiving preferential loan treatment from Countrywide Mortgage.
Free market, my ass.