Should prez candidates unveil Treasury Secretary faves?

The Plain Dealer editorializes that because the Secretary of the Treasury has become so much more powerful (I referred to the prospect as making Hank Paulson head of the Communist Party) as a result of the passage of the bailout bill, that Barack Obama and John McCain should name their choices for Secretary of the Treasury in advance of the November election.

I should point out to the Plain Dealer that, by the time the bailout bill was passed, large-scale early voting in Ohio had already begun.  Whoops!  Those early votes are already locked in, no matter who is named. Read the rest of this entry »