Miscellaneous

Hi. I'm a PC. And I'm Freddie Mac

Remember Oliver Clark? No? He was the nice, young African-American man (or, as Joe Biden would say, "clean") who was the second questioner at the most recent presidential debate. He asked about the bail-out, and John McCain prefaced his answer with, "You probably never heard of Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac before this." Remember that? Remember how you cringed a little because McCain seemed to be patronizing the kid? And how you felt like you wanted to say something like, "Listen here you old bitch. I read the fucking papers, dude. Anyone who has picked up a paper or turned on the Internet the last month has heard of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. What do you take me for, asshole?"

Well, yeah. So, Oliver Clark said something like that, only nicer, on his Facebook page, when asked how he felt about McCain stated, "You've probably never heard of Freddie Mac or Fannie Mae":

Well Senator, I actually did. I like to think of myself as a fairly intelligent person. I have a bachelor degree in Political Science from Tennessee State, so I try to keep myself up to date with current affairs. I have a Master degree in Legal Studies from Southern Illinois University, a few years in law school, and I am currently pursuing a Master in Public Administration from the University of Memphis. In defense of the Senator from Arizona I would say he is an older guy, and may have made an underestimation of my age. Honest mistake. However, it could be because I am a young African-American male. Whatever the case may be it was somewhat condescending regardless of my age to make an assumption regarding whether I was knowledgeable about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

To be fair to Senator McCain, however, I think most folks assumed Freddie Mac was the character Justin Long plays in all those Mac commercials.

Full post as published by Quiz Law on October 10, 2008 (boomark / email).