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Jake,
Regarding AIG: The proposal that McCain was objecting to was VERY different than what came out in the end. You should study up on finance before commenting.
The Fed is taking a stake in AIG in order to wind it down over 2 years by providing a loan.
THIS IS NOT BAILING OUT AIG. THIS IS LETTING THEM FAIL IN A RESPONSIBLE WAY.

Be careful Jake, you will now be labelled as working for Obama to make McCain look bad. McCain supporters are not smart enough to realize that McCain needs no help there, he is a pro at that himself.

WHAT’S FAIR IS FAIR. It’s ok for McCain to nit pick but Obama can’t?
God help us all if we are stupid enough to vote republican again. What more do they have to do to us, put us into a depression? Oh yes we are on our way there.

that iraq story is completely false
and if it were true the mccain camp should be toting it as responsible right?
i mean they dont want our troops withdrawn right?
anyway completely false

Good gravy, where are the campaign proof readers on both sides?

Republican President Herbert Hoover on Oct. 25, 1929:
“The fundamental business of the country, that is the production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous basis.”
Republican candidate for president John McCain on Sept. 15, 2008:
“I think, still the fundamentals of our economy are strong.”

Amy – your attributing insight is from an “opinion” piece in a conservative paper written by this man: Amir Taheri is a notorious fraudster. He was once powerful under the Shah’s regime but now is an Iranian exile and neocon shill. Taheri has been exposed repeatedly for simply making things up to fit his political agenda. For example, in May 2006 he published a report in the National Post (Canada) falsely stating that a new Iranian law required Jews to wear special clothing and yellow patches to identify themselves in public. The paper had to retract the story, blaming Taheri, and apologize for it. Taheri’s reputation, already extremely low in 2006, has been in the dirt ever since. – unbossed

The second largest recipient of political contributions from lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac was Barack Obama—-the very firms that the government just had to bail out?!
So here we have Senator Obama taking all this money from Fannie and Freddie, and what did they get in return? Maybe a smile for the money and a snooze and or “40 winks” from Obama to continue their reckless lending policies—or Obama lacks judgment and never guessed that the lending practices were happening. Perhaps none of his advisors told him about this severe problem going on???????

The Wizard of Uh’s criticizes McCain for not being able to send emails–and he can’t stay on track without a teleprompter.
His handlers are so afraid he’ll say something stupid like “lipstick” that he has to stay scripted.
Yet BO says campaigning for 18 months is why he is qualified to be president.

McCain gives new meaning to the term “SPIN” in a political campaign.
He spins like a weathervane.

McCain’s definition of being bipartisan is taking at least both sides on every issue if not more.

Obama is like a college professor that rambles on and on and you sit there trying to figure out–which part of this lecture should I take notes on?
As the polls say–BO is all talk, and cannot connect to the average voter.

JA ,sorry but i dont buy that . this is corporate welfare ,plain and simple.
if other financial companies would have less than nothing to do with helping AIG out, why should the american government be responsible? didnt these executives make big profits? let them use those to invigorate THEIR company.
anything else is just a free ride.
and since when does any government insure an insurance companies’ insolvencies? show me another example of this happening somewhere/anywhere.
the truth is that the aig/bear stearns/m.lynch etc etc… executives have made and pocketed (into swiss banks and who knows where else) BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN PROFITS…
let them bail their own companies out or be put in jail on graft internal corruption and fraud charges ,isnt that what happens when any other business offers a service , charges someone for it but then does not provide the service?
THESE ARE COMPANIES THAT ARE TOO BIG FOR THEIR OWN GOOD ,FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD, AND THEY NEED TO BE TAKEN APART .
if what you said was true JA , that would be fine but AIG and its money grubbing executives will be right back in the money grubbing game as soon as they can lie/cheat/steal/loophole their way into a new company doing the same old same old to their shareholders…

I’m an Obama supporter, but will admit that, just like the AIG comment earlier today, this is a typo and is not important.
What’s more important is John McCain’s fundamental misunderstanding of the fundamentals of the US economy.

We might as well add another one to the list:
Sarah Palin finally answered a reporter’s question — on the AIG bailout.
She used the word “impactful.”
Palin said she is “disappointed that taxpayers are called upon to bailout another one.”
“Certainly AIG, though, with the construction bonds that they’re holding, and with the insurance that they are holding, very, very impactful to Americans,” she said. “So you know, the shot that has been called by the feds, its understandable but very, very disappointing that taxpayers are called upon for another one.”
IMPACTFUL IS NOT A WORD!!!!!!!!!!!!

YET ANOTHER example documenting the shameful flip flops of John “Spin” McCain.
Does John McCain still agree with… John McCain that the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy were A) UNCONSCIENCEABLE and B) UNBALANCED IN FAVOR OF THE WEALTHY?
PLEASE ask John McCain about why he said, with regard to Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act: women should get more “education and training, particularly since more and more women are heads of their households, as much or more than anybody else.”
From Gail Collins (NY Times):
“Lilly Ledbetter was a supervisor at a Goodyear Tire plant in Gadsden, Ala., for almost 20 years — the only woman who ever managed to stick it out in what was not exactly a female-friendly environment. When she was near retirement, she got an anonymous letter listing the salaries of the men who held the same job. While she was making $3,727 a month, the lowest paid man, with far less seniority, was getting $4,286.
“I was just emotionally let down when I saw the difference,” she said on Friday.
The company declined Ledbetter’s offer to settle for the difference between her earnings and that lowest-paid man’s — about $60,000. A jury awarded her $223,776 in back pay and more than $3 million in punitive damages.
Goodyear appealed, and the case arrived at the Supreme Court just as President Bush’s new appointees were settling in. The court ruled 5-to-4 against Ledbetter, saying that she should have filed her suit within 180 days of receiving her first paycheck in which Goodyear discriminated against her.
The fact that workers generally have no idea what other people are making when they start a job did not concern the court nearly as much as what Justice Samuel Alito, writing for the majority, called “the burden of defending claims arising from employment decisions that are long past.” In other words, pay discrimination is illegal unless it goes on for more than six months.
Ledbetter did not even get her back pay. And Goodyear billed her $3,165 for court-related costs.
The bill being voted on this week would have made it clear that every time a woman like Ledbetter got a check that was lower than those of the men doing the same job, it triggered a new 180-day deadline. That was the status quo before Alito and John Roberts arrived on the scene. But the sponsors needed 60 votes, and they only got 56. “I would never have believed this in the United States of America,” said Ledbetter, 70, who watched from the Senate gallery.”

Speaking to reporters in Amman, the Jordanian capital, McCain said he and two Senate colleagues traveling with him continue to be concerned about Iranian operatives “taking al-Qaeda into Iran, training them and sending them back.”
Pressed to elaborate, McCain said it was “common knowledge and has been reported in the media that al-Qaeda is going back into Iran and receiving training and are coming back into Iraq from Iran, that’s well known. And it’s unfortunate.” A few moments later, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, standing just behind McCain, stepped forward and whispered in the presidential candidate’s ear. McCain then said: “I’m sorry, the Iranians are training extremists, not al-Qaeda.”

Fed Up,
Just relax.
From dictionary.com
Webster’s New Millennium Dictionary of English cw 2007:
impactful adj. having a great impact or effect
Talk about minutia.

It’s not just the economy dragging McCain down.
People actually are getting turned off by the abundant and easily fact checked lies from his campaign.
Doesn’t matter that most of their ‘ads’ aren’t even on tv. He sent them out, approved them, and then the info is revealed to be false.
He has taken a very sad fall.
His numbers are falling as well.

- If you live in a small town
- If you believe in God and go to church on sundays
- if you have a gun at home
then you are a dangerous bitter extremist. Obama´s promised paradise is not meant for you
——————–
And if you are unqualified, have no knowledge of domestic or international affairs, can see another country from the state you line in, and think the planet was created just 10,000 years ago:
Call John McCain – you can be his VP candidate!

Obama used the troops for political gain.
He’s not fit to be Commander-In-Chief.
Time for the MSM to stop worrying about Palin’s tanning bed and report Obama’s act of treason.

McCains decision to put Palin as his running mate will bacfire on him. He does not know Palin well. For all we know she is a PSYCHO.

“report Obama’s act of treason.”
News organizations rightfully consider Amir Taheri to be a purveyor of falsehoods.
What the media doesn’t talk about enough is if John McCain gave Georgia assurances of US military support before it decided to attack separatists & Russian peacekeepers.
Considering McCain’s chief foreign policy adviser has received hundreds of thousands of dollars to lobby the US gov’t on behalf of the Georgia gov’t
Country First, my heinie.

So what if Obama slipped and said
They are attacking “my Muslim faith”
Hillary clearly stated Obama is not a Muslim, “as far as I know”.

I wonder If there are two McCains running for president. One opposes the other. Or one McCain but with split personality. HAHAHA..

“What they didn’t tell you that Monday, the day the market lost 500 points, John McCain held a $50K a plate dinner in Miami.
They also didn’t tell you about McCain’s hollywood fundraiser 2 weeks ago. Yes I know Stephen Baldwin is hardly a celebrity but some other stars were there.
Still feeling sanctimonious?”
Good to hear from you, Ryan. And thanks for making my point. Yes, McCain had a fund raiser Monday night which could have easily been exploited by Obama but he couldn’t because he himself had one queued up for the following night. A smarter man would have seen an opportunity and said, “Thanks, Babs but it would be highly inappropriate to do what that insider McCain did last night.” Instead he did what they all do, go to the fund raiser.
But not just any fundraiser. It was the Bon Jovi mansion fundraiser two weeks ago times ten. And to paraphrase John Edwards, there are two Hollywoods out there. The Hollywood glitterati crowd epitomizes the elite, out of touch liberalism that Obama champions. The fact that he tries to relate to common man is a joke. The Stephen Baldwins and Wilford Brimleys of the world are the leper colony of Hollywood. They’re the lunchpail crowd of the acting world and they support McCain. Ironic, huh? There is no comparison between the two crowds.
BTW I had to look up the word sanctimonious and I honestly don’t believe it’s appropriate. I’m simply pointing out Obama’s incredibly bad timing and inability to make political capital for fear of offending his celebrity backers. He’s just another slick politician doing what they all do.

Americans remain overwhelmingly negative about the current state of the economy and think it is only getting worse. And for many, that hits close to home: One in 3 say their family is worse off today that it was four years ago, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
Over all, nearly 8 in 10 rate the condition of the national economy negatively and 6 in 10 say it is getting worse. And the number who says their financial situation is worse off now than it was four years ago is higher than it was in polls leading up to the last presidential election in 2004. The poll was conducted Friday to Tuesday, during the financial upheaval that started to unfold over the weekend.
Still, the poll found that most voters express at least some confidence in the presidential candidates’ ability to handle the economy, though not many express a lot of confidence in either of them. Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee, currently has the edge on the issue: Six in 10 voters say they’re very or somewhat confident in the Illinois senator’s ability to make the right decisions about the economy, while about 4 in 10 are not. Voters are somewhat more divided in their confidence in Senator John McCain’s ability: 53 percent are confident, 46 percent are not.

I hope Bush has the US ATTORNEY GENERAL arrest and prosecute Obama for interfering with official business. He should be tried as a traitor to America. He is probably not a citizen anyway.

Great Obama quote today:
“The old boy network? In the McCain campaign, that’s called a staff meeting.”
And indeed, John McCain put seven of the most powerful Washington lobbyists in charge of his campaign.

“Taheri is a known liar who makes up sensationalist stories for gullible neocon audiences to email forward each other”
I rest my case.

Selective quoting by Concerned via his right wing sources
“But Obama’s national security spokeswoman Wendy Morigi said Taheri’s article bore “as much resemblance to the truth as a McCain campaign commercial.”
In fact, Obama had told the Iraqis that they should not rush through a “Strategic Framework Agreement” governing the future of US forces until after President George W. Bush leaves office, she said.
In the face of resistance from Bush, the Democrat has long said that any such agreement must be reviewed by the US Congress as it would tie a future administration’s hands on Iraq.
“Barack Obama has never urged a delay in negotiations, nor has he urged a delay in immediately beginning a responsible drawdown of our combat brigades,” Morigi said.”
Good to see you’ve recovered from your meltdown last night.

A top McCain official contacted by CNN said, on condition on anonymity, “No big deal, but not how you get on the surrogate all-star team. Very Biden-like.”
“This campaign source said Fiorina would be discouraged from additional media interviews.
Another top campaign adviser was far less diplomatic.
“Carly will now disappear,” this source said. “Senator McCain was furious.” Asked to define “disappear,” this source said, adding that she would be off TV for a while – but remain at the Republican National Committee and keep her role as head of the party’s joint fundraising committee with the McCain campaign.
Fiorina was booked for several TV interviews over the next few days, including one on CNN. Those interviews have been canceled.

“Latest buzz is that Obama could do jail time for interferring with the withdrawl of the toops in Iraq.”
LOL.
The McCain campaign is leery to even bring this up and the right wing froth-o-sphere has Obama going to jail.
All based on an article by someone who has lied repeatedly in his articles.

JOHN McCAIN on the banking and housing crisis
“We’re going to need a ’9/11 Commission’ to find out what happened and what needs to be fixed,”
The 9/11 Commission took two years to complete it’s report. Can America afford two years of inaction on the economy?
McCain just doesn’t get it. Vote Obama.