Obama talks economy in N.C.
The Charlotte Observer | September 22, 2008
By Jim Morrill
About 20,000 people turned out Sunday to hear Barack Obama link John McCain and his party to an "era of greed and irresponsibility on Wall Street and in Washington." "They said they wanted to let the market run free, but instead they let it run wild," Obama said. "And now we are facing a financial crisis as profound as any we have faced since the Great Depression."…In the heart of the country's second-biggest banking center, Obama called the government's proposed $700 billion Wall Street bailout "sobering." He blamed the deregulation generally favored by Republicans. "And yet Sen. McCain, who candidly admitted not long ago that he doesn't know as much about economics as he should, wants to keep going down the same disastrous path.
