Diana West is one of the few with the guts to say it:

This race-based social engineering--right out of the Marxism that treats human beings as plastic game counters that can be forcibly distributed  according to a totalitarian playbook--was foisted onto banks in the interest of "affirmative action lending" in order to boost home ownership for minorities.

To implement this policy, banks had to overlook traditional markers of good and bad risk--credit histories, employment, down payments, etc.--thus opening up the housing market to loan customers (of all races) who were not economically qualified, from naive novices in over their heads to deadbeats to speculators to illegal immigrants.

Government-sponsored Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac-- which Dick Morris has called a retirement community for old Democrats, and which, of course, made Obama their Number 2 beneficiary of campaign contributions in the Senate--institutionalized these practices by buying up the resulting risky loans and selling them on the world market.

What is chilling is Barack Obama's personal connection to the efforts to force banking to conform to the social engineers' vision of what "should" be. What is mystifying is John McCain's failure to discuss this connection * --particularly given his own Senate efforts to rein in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 2005. As a supporter of the kind of Marxist social engineering policies that have led us to this financialcrisis, Obama should be languishing in the polls at this time; but not, of course, if McCain fails to charge him with it.

Of course, I've been saying it too, but her audience is bigger than mine.

* And actually, it isn't really mystifying because McCain doesn't want to bring up Jeremiah Wright.

Why?

Because a man who learned to fly a fighter jet, ran into a fire to save a man's life, then spent four and a half years being tortured and brutalized to the point where he is permanently disabled IS AFRAID OF BEING CALLED A RACIST.

That's how the Left Elite has successfully weakened and emasculated our society, to better ensure their takeover and retain their power.

The Left didn't take over through the power of their ideas; their ideas don't hold up to scrutinty or debate.

And it sure ain't personal charisma: behold their pale, spindly, rickety, nearsighted little men pushing baby carriages, and their hairy, loud, pushy, badly dressed women.

The Weathermen and their sympathizers were wrong, and the smart amongst them figured that out -- which is why Ayers and Dorhn and Angela Davis and that Kwanzaa scumbag and other Black Panther types traded in TNT for tenure.

Their weapons are words now, and they are more obviously more effective and efficient threats than any guns or explosives.

(Of course, the same irrational fear of imaginary, exaggerated "racism" is destroying Canada, too -- as you know if you've been reading this blog or my book.)

Anyway, if you read nothing else this morning, read West's post & column.