Not saying this is exactly what McCain believes, but I think this perspective can shed some more light on the issue:

http://www.albertmohler.com/blog_read.php?id=2550

Best,
Nathan

just call it “hypocrisy” and be done with it…

-bowerbird

SR: “Because most of us expect Wall Street bankers to be greedy. Comes with the territory. And when we put money in one of their investment accounts, we usually expect them to get us the best return, too.

The problem is, we expect that investment to take place in an environment where there’s a reasonable guarantee of good information and fair dealing….

One party has always stood for kicking away safeguards and regulations in the name of the free market driven by — what? — oh, right, greed.”

Greed is selfishness. But is “self-interest” necessarily selfishness, necessarily greed. Hardly. It is possible that McCain is being a hypocrite, but a person may agree with what he says about greed (“What’s evident in the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the other continuing shockwaves from the subprime mortgage mess is that, for a long time, the system suffered from a shortage of information and transparency and an excess of risky, blind betting” – oh, and greed), believe that being a Republican is important, and invest *responsibly* (which also *helps* those companies) – with an eye towards how companies treat their employees and the communities in which they are situated – in order to take care of their familiy (“self-interest” = trying to make enough to live frugally, not excessively, and to leave an inheritance for one’s children, as a resonsible parent should), whom they love, so that they in turn, can be of service to their neighbors, helping them to do likewise. Good, independent, strong families *who also care about their neighbors* are one of the essential ingredients – nay, the main ingredient – of what makes a democratic form of government even possible (expect to hear more of this kind of formulation – in parables and such, from Republican-populist guys like Mike Huckabee in the future).

If you don’t think an individual person can do all this, but must necessarily be greedy in a greedy system, I pity you. And you’re being hypocritical (which I say in a nice way, because I think hypocrite is just another word for human being).

The “system” is made up of individuals, and at this point, I think that it is at least possible for a person can be a non-greedy individual while using the system.

SR: “And when we put money in one of their investment accounts, we usually expect them to get us the best return, too.”

Well than don’t.