Independents and Undecided - Lack of Administration Transparency

• John McCain’s campaign chairman Rick Davis has been a lobbyist for Freddie Mac, which collapsed early in 2008. Freddie was bailed out and Rick Davis’ company (Davis and Manafort) was receiving money ($15,000 monthly) up until August 2008 for lobbying access to John McCain.
• Report have come forth that show that the Bush Administration has had a version of an Economic Bailout/Rescue Plan for months, because the Administration knew that an economic crisis was on the horizon, however Bush did not come forth with such a plan until the markets suffered even more damage. (Opinion: Likely in order to NOT damage the John McCain Presidential Candidacy.)
• President Maliki of Iraq said that the Bush Administration encouraged him to propose a longer US occupation of Iraq for political benefits in the US. Presumably, George Bush and the Bush Administration would leave our American troops in harms-way, in order to tip the scales of the Presidential election to the Republican Party and John McCain. (Opinion: That seems to me, an incredible abuse of Executive power. I am in no way accusing John McCain of any wrongdoing, but is it so inconceivable to believe that such a plan could have been coordinated between the Bush Administration and the McCain Campaign? Remember, Bush and McCain both said that a “Withdrawal Time-Line” As Obama proposed was naïve, until Maliki asked for the same. Then finally the Bush Administration defined a “Withdrawal Time-Horizon”. Time-Line, Time-Horizon….eerily similar….)
• Bush Administration has disregarded the checks and balances that exist between Executive, Judicial and Legislative branches of the Government; by refusing all testimony of staffers called by Congress as Executive privilege, even when privilege was tangential, if not completely non-existent. (Opinion: In many ways, the Bush Administration has desecrated the US Constitution.)
• Palin and her staffers in the Alaska Governor’s office used personal email accounts often to discuss government business. Why, you ask....? Often personal emails cannot be subpoena as evidence in matters dealing with a political office one holds. This is right out the Karl Rove playbook.
• Palin hired high school friends for high ranking positions in her Administration, often even those who were wholly unqualified, in order to insulate herself with cronies.
• Palin instructed her Administration as a mayor and as a governor, to not talk to the press.
• After Palin’s nomination to Rep. Vice President, she and all her staffers refused to cooperate with the so called “Troopergate” investigation, and even refused to honor to subpoenas. This is the same investigation that she had previously stated, that she would happily and participate in.
• Little known fact that the Obama Campaign and the media DO NOT talk about, because they do not want to politicize the Iraq War, is that Military and Service men and women in active duty overseas have made campaign contributions to the Obama Campaign at a 6-to-1 margin, over the McCain Campaign.
• The McCain Campaign took lawyer Edward O’Callaghan from his duty as co-chief of the terrorism and national security unit of the U.S. attorney's office in New York, to fly to Alaska and stonewall the “Troopergate” investigation. (Opinion/Question: Is this really a good use of our tax dollars, to stonewall a independent State investigation?)
• John McCain has in the past, bragged that he voted with President Bush 90% of the time on legislation, often in opposition to his own Senate colleagues.
  
  
  
  (Opinion: Why reward John McCain with a 3rd Bush Presidential term?)
• Karl Rove, in an opinion piece, told Obama that he should back-off of trying to link McCain to Bush. (Opinion: The McCain = Bush ads must have been effective.)
• In “Troopergate”, the McCain Campaign has been trying to sell the idea that Democrats have hijacked the process and it has become partisan. The fact is that the investigation was initiated by the unanimously vote of 10 Republicans and 4 Democrats.