1980 campaign

I guess the folks at AIG, the insurance company that has gotten tens of billions of dollars from the government to keep it afloat, didn’t listen very closely the other day when President-elect Barack Obama mentioned in an interview that top business executives should forgo their bonuses in troubled times.
Via Naked Capitalism, the Financial Times [...]

In the final presidential debate in 1980, Ronald Reagan ensured his election by proving that he was a man the American people could feel safe with, a man whose actions wouldn’t send the world into a mass panic. Obama must do the same tonight against McCain if he wants to win the White House.