Where's the outcry against Gravel's stiffing of the credit card companies? [View All]

Why am I not hearing about this here? There should be some serious outrage, and it's dismaying that there isn't.

In case you didn't hear his response in the last "debate" when asked whether he was fiscally competent enough to be steward of the national purse after his bankruptcy, he said: "...hey, look who I stuck with that debt. I stuck the credit card companies with a $90,000 debt, and they deserved it!"

He's a scofflaw of epic proportions with a statement like this. This is disgusting. Are we to SERIOUSLY consider someone for president who doesn't feel beholden to his word, not to mention THE LAW? This is bullshit anarchic larceny of juvenile proportions: stick it to the man.

Not only does he have no remorse, he glories in it; somehow he feels entitled to this, he almost sounds like he should be rewarded for it as some kind of Jesse Hood, or whoever else pops up in his addled head.

I was waiting to hear if someone would bring this up, yet nary a word. Are we simply not paying attention? Do we collectively feel that this isn't worthy of MAJOR public repudiation? This is truly immoral. Fine, break the law as a private citizen as long as one is willing to pay the price, but this even leads one to believe that he'd run up the tab and skate deliberately, since the eeevil companies deserve to be fleeced anyway.

Okay, let's forget all the morality. Let's just talk about political SENSE. Can someone who says something as flagrantly reckless and selfish as this be elected to ANYTHING? Mercifully the reactionaries haven't seized on our lack of repudiation as "proof" of the fiscal dishonesty and slovenliness they like to tar us with, but I'm sure that'll come if it hasn't already.

Just for the sake of decency, he should be SERIOUSLY taken to task for this. Even if there's more to the story than I know (like some deliberate malfeasance by those credit card companies) to come out and flatly state that it's a VIRTUE to welch on financial obligations is the height of brazen idiocy.

Any takers here?