Card is a Democrat? He must be one of those gay-hating, anti-choice, war-loving mormon democrats I keep hearing about.

The enemy's gate is down!

A little off topic: What's he been storing in that neck pouch of his?

I haven't read anything by Card since his 2003 opinion column saying (paraphrasing here): “I am a Democrat so it saddens me that the Democratic party is run by insane, destructive extremists who want us to lose the war on terror.” Along the same lines, I am a Republican so it saddens me that the GOP is run by heroin-addicted satanic child molesters. Hey! I'm criticizing out of love, here.

Orson may be homophobic, a Bush sycophant and many other things, but the fact is quite a few Democratic politicians were asleep at the wheel during the build up to this financial mess we're in.  What he misses in his column is that many journalists were on this story, and for some reason it never got any traction.
I think we just were enjoying the housing boom and imagining a great retirement and didn't pay attention.
We're paying attention now. He likes to point the finger at liberal journalists, but where was FOX News on this?  There is no mainstream media to blame anymore and we instead point fingers at each other and try and yell at higher and higher volumes. What this country really needs is the emergence of a strong third party. Anyone want to start that for me?

This is that same guy who argued for the invasion of Iraq comparing Saddam to Hitler and stating that the Europeans who opposed going to war were making the mistake appeasing the new Hitler.  A few years later he wrote a piece of why we should stay in Iraq and another homosexuality was destroying America.

Homosexuality ….Not our profligacy, or militarism, or addiction for to debt but Homosexuality. I guess when you write fiction for so long, its hard to come back to reality.

He should stick to science fiction. It's been established that while Freddie/Fannie contributed to this mess and perhaps accelerated it, but the main issue lies with the creation of the unregulated CDOs and credit default swaps. This was done after Bush was elected and Clinton was still in office when Phil Gramm slipped a 262-page amendment into an omnibus appropriations bill called the Commodity Futures Modernization Act (the Enron Loophole act).  Republicans are not solely to blame, but neither are Democrats (nor Wall Street for that matter). NPR has a great Podcast called Planet Money that had an interview recently that debunked this whole blame-game, and it included facts from people who know much more about than Card.

It should probably be noted that Orson Scott Card is mostly known for writing science fiction.

I love some of Card's writing, but calling himself a Democrat obscures a lot of his far-right, almost extremist, views. He is homophobic, doesn't believe that global warming is man-made, and has been ardent Bush supporter, especially of the Iraq war, from the get-go. Look at his Wikipedia page. Nothing to see here, move along.

He's cherry picking his data. He blames congress and Freddie/Fannie Mac but what about Wall street? They're the ones that grouped the risky loans with the good loans. They're the ones that got greedy. It's easy to blame poor people but that's not the whole story.