Republican, of course, but he had to be balanced. So he invites McCain and Obama into the Roosevelt room and for this economic summit or whatever it was. Well, Obama didn't actually know any more than McCain, but Obama was smart enough to keep his mouth shut and just look very cool. McCain looked scary. Obama looked cool. If you look, that's when the polls reversed. McCain was leading the polls up until Lehman weekend. It flipped. Go to a real clear politics poll of polls for that data is available for September 1998. And you'll see, sorry, September 2008, you'll see that the polls reversed that weekend. So it pretty much cost McCain the presidency that he was not prepared. McCain campaign has always contended that indeed. Yeah. It wasn't Sarah Pell. Sarah Pell was a sideshow. It was the crisis that took him out, but he was warned. And so then, of course, we go through the 2000. And I want one more footnote on 2008 to meet you because I know you want to talk about the next crisis and (41/98)
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