This was a very big week for John McCain. WHY? Because it was this week that something clicked. On Monday in Florida, at a rally in Jacksonville the GOP presidential candidate was adamant. "THE FUNDAMENTALS OF OUR ECONOMY ARE STRONG." By the next day, after a 500 point tumble on the market, McCain announced that "WE ARE IN TOTAL CRISIS." How about that for a switch.

Maybe it's because for the McCains, the problems not personal.

Cindy McCain's $100 million beer bonanza isn't in trouble; the staff at their mansions aren't being laid off just yet. Nor is McCain's government-funded health plan or pension in jeopardy. But YOU may be. And all because the U.S. government allowed speculators to run wild for years, resulting in trillions of dollars in losses to individuals, company and union pension funds.

Last I checked Barack Obama, Joseph Biden and John McCain all have had day jobs at the United States Senate. It would be helpful to know what they've been up to the last few years as the biggest profit making era in US history.. Unlike McCain, the Democratic candidates to highest office woke up to crisis awhile back.

So that's your choice -- the quick study or the not so quick.

Remember: if John McCain loses he still has the beer money to fall back on. And in a crisis, beer is big.