I honestly believe that the bailout plan, as presently constituted, is not going to fly. People either see it as a total Bush sellout to Wall Street or a screamingly bad interference with the markets, or whatever, but practically nobody cares for it at all.

I don't blame the candidates for keeping some distance from the whole thing. Obama stated what he wanted to see out of the whole thing, in specific, but his attitude was to let the negotiators whack things out in general.

As for McCain - I don't know *what* he really wants. He's been all over the map - for and against and rules and no rules and so on, and I really don't know that he knows enough about the whole thing to be able to help much with the negotiations. He hadn't read the plan by Tuesday, so I dunno.