McCain Details How He’d Address Financial Crisis

Wher is Obama he was here earlier he voted present oh thats right he is meeting with his advisers to figure out what to do I mean say he would do!!!!!

McCain is stating the obvious nd acting as if this is something NEW…
McCain if you’ve forgotten you’re the cause of the problem. pro- Deregulation for 26 years and praising regulation for 2 weeks.
It doesn’t add up.

Wouldn’t creating this new MFI be adding to our already “massive” government? I thought McGoo wanted to downsize? McCain you need to fire all the lobbyists who work with you and then maybe you can start pointing fingers. Maybe you could take some blame yourself for your contributions to this mess. Seven houses? Is this not excess and greed? Oh I’ sure they were wise “investments”.

McCain is the only one who can get us out of this mess. Obama has absolutely NO IDEA what he is doing. This is why he needs hundreds of economic advisors. McCain will be tough and fair. Obama will put into place a the politically convenient solution.
He is not to be trusted at all.
In other news, Hillary Clinton made an amazing speech on the economy yesterday.
She would’ve gotten us out of this mess!! I can not believe we are stuck with Obama who knows nothing about the economy.

McCain should have experience on this as he was part of the Keating 5 scandal.
Repubs don’t want higher taxes on the those that “generate wealth” so the average tax payer gets to bailout their bad decisions and greed buts get nothing but losses.
This mess justifies at least progressive and estate taxes to help cover disasters like this.
Otherwise we are just meat for the upper 2% to feed off of.

McCain’s (and Phil Gramm’s) policies of deregulation over the past 25 years have had a direct effect on this economy. Now he wants more regulation. Next he’ll be selling us a bridge in Alaska. I know we’re smarter than this.
This guy has had a new comment every day this week which contradicts what he said yesterday. He has been emotional and undisciplined, not presidential.
I want more vision and discipline from my President.

McCain with out a doubt has my vote.
I just was researching both candidates and Obama appears to be the most corrupt politician of our time. How does someone who is so grossly under-qualified and has done nothing to make progress in his Senate district or the rest of the country get this far? CORRUPTION
Obama has ties to some of the worst criminals in the country. Obama is a frightening man. I’m so glad I did some research.
I ask my fellow democrats to research Obama and McCain’s history and then make your decision.
McCain and Palin have fought corruption and that is why I am voting Palin/McCain – A life long democrat

Cite:
Head of State
http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/09/cynicism-of-mccains-vp-choice.html
Monday, September 15, 2008
The Cynicism of John McCain
If you read Jeffrey Goldberg’s excellent piece on McCain in the new Atlantic, one fact stands out clearly. McCain’s stance on the war is inviolate–it involves what for him are principles of honor that stretch back immediately and directly to his own experiences in the Vietnam war, and to those of his father in World War II. Just one example of many in the first-rate article:

I told Swindle [a cellmate and friend of McCain's] that McCain had argued to me that he doesn’t think about Vietnam overly much when he thinks about the wars of today.
“Bullshit,” Swindle said. “He’ll say Vietnam didn’t affect him, that he doesn’t think about it, that he’s aloof from it. But I see it. It’s there.”

This is the issue on which McCain is inflexible, certain, fully invested, passionate.
It is equally clear that as a result, he views all other issues as malleable, political issues–stances that can be easily taken, and easily changed, tactically– in order to win a campaign and thus deal with the issue that, to him, matters.
This is utterly clear in his choice of Palin, where his Vietnam-and-since cynicism about political necessities is manifest–one of feeding the bread and circuses desire of the electorate, giving them, so easily fooled, as they were so easily fooled by the media in Vietnam, what they need, in order to be able to deal with the important issue.
The choice of a remarkably unqualified Vice Presidential choice is simply a political necessity. The attitude towards the public, and the media, in this choice, as in many of the public representations and statements of his campaign, is one of an extraordinary, jaded, cynicism: Feed the beast with whatever fantasies and half-truths it takes. The fundamentals of the economy are sound. We’ll take care of it later.
Goldberg:

In my conversations with McCain, however, he never appeared greatly troubled by his shifts and reversals. It’s not difficult to understand why: tax policy, or health care, or even off-shore oil drilling are for him all matters of mere politics, and politics calls for ideological plasticity. It is only in the realm of national defense, and of American honor—two notions that for McCain are thoroughly entwined—that he becomes truly unbending.

This is no doubt rooted in McCain’s eternal certainties, drummed in by three generations of such certainty. And there is no doubt strength and decency–as well as these “family values”–that drive this commitment to an ideological core.
The question is this: Do we need another president with such a core of ideological inflexibility, rigidity and unwillingness for self-reflection, linked to a long past conflict–and who is willing to resort to half-truths, deceptions, and distortions in its service?
Cite:
Head of State
http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/09/cynicism-of-mccains-vp-choice.html

Why didn’t McCain fire his top advisers?
They were lobbyists for the firms that failed.
When is McCain going to force Palin to answer questions from the Alaskan corrupt government regulator?

I don’t care how many houses CINDY owns. I re-read this article looking for McCains plan and found only blame and words. No real plan to help the people in trouble. Remember Obama has been a Senator for 2 years, McCain for 26. Who was there when the deregulation was voted in McCain. WHo has fought deregulation all theses years MCCain. Why is it Obama’s fault? He has only been around for two years and that is not long enough to cause this much mess.

McCain = KEATING 5 = criminal = deregulation = lobbyists = LIAR = source of problem = Palin = road to nowhere = Wasilla in debt

forget the economy… can u imagine how fast n korea would blow us off the map if mccain and his temper make it to the white house?? we’re all doomed…

Chuck – Maybe Obama wants to think before he speaks so he will make sense. Wea re so used to shoot from the hip cowboys that we do not know what to make of someone who is thoughtful and careful about making decisions.

“Maybe Obama wants to think before he speaks so he will make sense”
No. that won’t help. uh, uh ,uh you know, uh uh,uh

McCain’s accusation that Obama is profiting by “politicizing” this issue is absurd and hypocritical. When Russia invaded Georgia recently what did McCain do? POLITICIZED the issue – using it to take shots at Obama and pretend he was the world hero whose council and intervention was sorely needed. Now he has the gall to accuse Obama of only “lecturing”?! Guess what Senator McCain – you are the one who has been for deregulation, you are the one with more money from lobbyists and more prominent lobbyists in your campaign. You are also the one with 7 houses, while middle class families are losing their only house. You are the one who was – oh yeah – part of the KEATING 5 scandal!! You’re also the one who said earlier this week “the economy is fundamentally strong” and then LIED ABOUT IT saying you meant the American workers are strong. Do you think we’re stupid? That explanation wouldn’t fool a third grader. Let’s dispose of the hypocrisy, lies, and distortions – aren’t you the one who said you’d run an honorable campaign? WHERE’S THE HONOR, JOHN?

PALIN BACKED RON PAUL? http://www.veeppeek.com
YESTERDAY MORE CAME OUT ABOUT SARAH PALINS ALLEDGED AFFIAR. http://www.hotpres.com

Rose are you serious 5000 will not help you get health insurance coverage for a year? You must be one of the liberals that does not believe they should pay any deductiable or co-pays but wants the goverment to pay 100%! Get real lady, can you picture the millions of people coming together (purchasing power) to use the 5000 they would receive to help drive down the cost! Competition! Oh thats right I guess you dont believe in that since you want everything handed to you!

The Keating 5 does matter Jenny
The s and l crisis and IT’s subsequent trillion dollar bail out…
had to do with John mcCain’s cozy relationship with the deregulation lobby and people who hired that lobby.
Now we see that same lobby wrote his economic platform as they walk away again with a trillion dollars from us.
How many times does a politician need to be at the center of a trillion dollar buy out or supporting the people at the center of that buy out before we say
mmmthis guy probably should not be the guy in charge of our economic policies and future.
Mccain literally had put the guy that got paid to be at the center of the cause of this mess and financial loss/travesty to the nation…IN CHARGE OF PLANNING the regulation and econiomic policies to take us forward.
throw these bums out!

McCain and four other US senators (known to history as the Keating Five) met with Edwin Gray, then chairman of the FHLBB. McCain had been hesitant to attend but had reportedly been called a “wimp” behind his back by Keating. The message to the FHLBB and Gray from the Keating Five was to lay off Lincoln and cool the investigation. Gray and the FHLBB did not relent but Lincoln stayed in business until 1989 when it collapsed with the rest of the S&L industry. The life savings of more than 20,000 elderly investors disappeared with the failure of Lincoln. Keating went to prison for five years.
Charles Keating was John McCain’s pal. They met in 1981 and Keating dumped $112,000 in the McCain campaign bank accounts between ’82 and ’87. A year before McCain met with the FHLBB regulators, his wife Cindy and her father, according to newspaper reports at the time, invested about $360,000 in one of Keating’s shopping centers. The Arizona Republic reported McCain and his wife and their babysitter took nine trips on Keating’s private jet to the Bahamas to stay at the S&L liar’s decadent Cat Cay resort. The senator didn’t pay Keating back for the plane rides until years later when he was under investigation.

McCain: “But maybe just this once he could spare us the lectures, and admit to his own poor judgment in contributing to these problems.”
Right. Obama and the rest of those deregulators should be ashamed of themselves.
Oh wait. That’s McCain who called himself a deregulator… so how is Obama responsible for this?
Lol – McCain, proving again he’d rather lose his integrity than lose an election.

This is great. Now the Republican argument is the Democrats were at fault for deregulation.
Lol, if this was a political novel, it wouldn’t be believable.

McCain’s kneejerk, emotional and uninformed answer to how he’d fix this crisis…
He’d fire the independent watchdog commissioner.
Except he couldn’t.
And when he learned that, I’m sure he’d try to fire the judges who said he couldn’t.

Quick thinking by McCain.
That’s what we need in a President.
A decisive leader.
McCain came up with a solution quick!
While Obama still has no solution.
Now Obama is in full panic mode scrambling with his hundreds of advisors, “Tell me what to do next, guys.”
Obama is a speaker, not a thinker.

Mark: “McCain came up with a solution quick!”
Sure, he does that. Its often a solution that is more emotional than reasoned, and based on faulty assumptions like a president having the authority to fire independent watchdogs. But its quick, I’ll give you that.
I’d prefer a president with a more rational and measured temperment.

“McCain came up with a solution quick!”
A bad solution always comes quick. A good solution is thought out. Further, McCain’s quick solution was that “The economy is fundamentally sound.” remember?……..no thanks…

You can bet Condi is calling a few friends in Spain this morning, letting them know that McCain is just a bumbling fool.

McCain’s attempt to link this to Obama is silly. He’s been running a campaign that states Obama has done nothing in the Senate, but now Obama is to blame?
McCain’s campaign is undisciplined and changes course every day. Flip Flop.

I am not interested in the government paying for my health care. What I am interested in is the government making sure that insurance companies are being watched as closely as McCain wants Wall Street to be. I suggest you look at McCain’s health care plan and see if you can figure out if it makes sense – tax me for the amount of money my company will be paying for a health care plan and then give me $5000. So how is it that I am not going to have more taxes taken out of my pay. We need a plan for health care and that is not a plan.

Kim – both Obama and McCain are spending a lot of time talking about their opponent, so throwing that criticism out one way isn’t fair.
As for Obama’s plan, well, I don’t know what to say. Its been all over the news. So has McCain’s. Anyone who doesn’t know the proposals either has put out regarding this economic situation just isn’t paying attention.

And CNN last night ran a comparison of their proposals. McCain had four points. They discussed each. Obama had 13 points. They discussed most of them.
Bottom line in the CNN analysis was neither had any groundbreaking proposals. Both offered a similar proposal, in creating a pool of money that could be used in future like situations, and neither offered a pricetag on that.
One of McCain’s four concrete statements was firing a guy who a) is set to retire soon, and b) can’t be fired by the president anyway.

Roflmao
So, I’m sure the SEC will ban long positions during the next bubble, eh?
Hahaha!!!
Since us kooky Ron Paul supporters have already made a killing shorting financials and going long commodities over the past year… What’s next? Short the treasury and the usd. You heard it here.
Keep whining and complaining and ignoring the real problems while toeing your party establishment’s line.
Good luck.

I can’t help thinking of Carl Sagen when they talk about this bailout, Billions and Billions…
This country does not need a bush-3 term and that is exactly what mccain would bring. Obama/Biden 2008!!!

Paul- I have not heard Obama’s plan can you please enlighten me?

It seems like obama is taking a play from the prevent defense I am winning so Ill just play ball control run some time off the clock and when the dust settles I hope I am still ahead then I can go back to doing nothing

less government involvment

nation of whiners, mental recession

AIG should not be bailed out

Obamas plan smoke and mirriors

Kim – I could but I won’t. Just do a 45-second google search, and you’ll get all the information you want.
In fact, I’m guessing both McCain and Obama have proposals up on their websites now, and that’s probably the best place to look.
That way, you get the wording straight from the respective source rather than filtered through a journalist, or worse, some guy you don’t even know on an internet message board.

Its the reason Dodd said what he did this morning about how we potentially could be days away from a much broader financial collapse.
And its the reason I have yet to hear anyone from either party criticize Dodd’s statement, which may be the most alarmist thing I’ve ever heard anyone in power ever say about our economy.

Whaaaat.
But the economy is fundamentally sound.
We’re just having a mental recession. Just Psychological. right… right…
That’s all McCain. right….. tell me it isn’t so …..
AND I BELIEVED YOU.
You meant this is all real.

Want a sneak peek of how a McCain Economy will look
here you go.
It’s called the Bushonomics.

In all honesty, Omentum, I have no idea what McCain would do in office. Does he support Bush economic policies? I guess it depends on what time of which day you ask him.

Paul
you are soooo spot on.
that is one risk i will not take
OBAMA/BIDEN

nadradt
we would wish.

So tell me… it is ok for the middle class tax dollars to bail out big business but it is and outright SIN for big business to pay higher taxes …..
if the middle have no money … who will buy from businesses. …
why did stimilus checks go out ….. to stimulate the economy right.
so if this “stimulus was in the form of tax cuts for the middle class, wouldnt the economy begin to move agai?
just asking.

Hey Paul obama is saying these are the worst economic time in History They are not The guy is trying to scare people into Voting for him. How he would help the middle class I am sorry I am middle class and he would hurt me and my Business

reddog: “Hey Paul obama is saying these are the worst economic time in History.”
No he didn’t. He said it was the worst financial crisis in decades. But, hey, what’s accuracy to a McCain supporter?
There are a few voices in the wilderness, and their numbers seem to be trickling upward, who are saying this could develop into the worst economic crisis in our country’s history. But thus far, Obama hasn’t gone there.

Obamabot blogger -son of Democrat state Senator appears to be the Palin hacker!

you are such a GREAT source of fair and balanced information.

Thats right I guess I am an Idiot all the time because I see Obama for who he is Your wrong when you say i support McCain I choose McCain because of the other choice is busy talking on what he would do please tell me what has obama done in his career that has made any change other then vote 97% of the time with his democrats

Geevill is right on this one. Some kid of a Tennessee state senator, or something like that.
But the hack job doesn’t seem to be politically motivated as much as it was just a kid trying to prove he could hack into a celebrity’s e-mail.
They caught him after he reportedly told everyone on a hackers message board he did it.

http://www.scoopthis.org/tag/mike-kernell/
Cool, one of our guys is famous!!!!!

We have two choices McCain and obama so I choose McCain the lesser of two evils

And I’m sure the Republicans will show amazing indignation over Palin’s hacked yahoo account, in an attempt to change the subject from the real issues we’ve discussed all week.
Should the kid be punished? Sure. These teenagers with their internet pranks continue to see the internet as a private playground.
But given the events of this week, does the hacking deserve even the keystrokes I’ve just given it? Nope.

reddog – if McCain is as you say, “the lesser of evils,” isn’t he still evil, and therefore under the McCain doctrine shouldn’t he be destroyed?
By the way, that’s a very nuanced answer you gave. Lesser of evils… next thing you know you’ll be telling us everything isn’t black and white.
Careful, you’re in danger of losing your plastic McCain decoder ring over that one.

let me get this straight, they guy that has been there, in washington for 26 years is blaming the guy, who he is saying has not been in washington enough, as being at fault for the current crisis. of course providing no details as to how. who is on your economic team again McCain? How long have you even denied that a crisis even existed?! and now you want to start tossing blame. How much of your wife’s portfolio go hit in the last few days? Exactly what would the upside be to a banking collapse in the US?

William: “Lets not forget two years ago McCain brought up the Fannie Mae problems and introduced a bill to stop the problem.”
Sorry, but on occassion I happen to read the links the McCain supporters (um, I mean choosers) provide.
McCain co-sponsored a bill that would further expand government with an accounting oversight agency, aimed at preventing bogus executive payouts at Fannie.
In support of the bill, he did say that bad accounting procedures could harm the housing market.
But in no way, shape or form did he predict this current situation. Its simply not true – which is hard to imagine from the McCain campaign, lol.

Obama: “I have asked my economic team to refrain from presenting a more detailed blue-print of how an immediate plan might be structured until the Treasury and the Federal Reserve have had an opportunity to present their proposal. It is critical at this point that the markets and the public have confidence that their work will be unimpeded by partisan wrangling, and that leaders in both parties work in concert to solve the problem at hand.”
Sounds like Obama is actually putting country first, while McCain just talks about it.

Rose – McCain was thinking about how to fulfill him ambition of being president. And if anyone thinks that’s too harsh an assessment, well, its based on McCain’s own words:
“I didn’t decide to run for president to start a national crusade for the political reforms I believed in or to run a campaign as if it were some grand act of patriotism. In truth, I wanted to be president because it had become my ambition to be president…In truth, I’d had the ambition for a long time.”
Country first? Give me a break.

Omentum we as a nation need to agree that either extreme is no good and be more centered thats My point Dems are not right more often nor are republicans I have and will continue to vote for whom I deem a better choice not on party lines

his economic plan sounds a lot like the keating 5 scandal…
mccain has surrounded himself with the same people that were responsible then…
phil gramm and john mccain for more deregulation…
money first! americas people last

MCBUSH”S economic and health plan want to make the cost of health care your employer pays for taxable income how about that. Jenny when you grow up poor your an expert on living on little and I listened To Hillary for many years she is an amazing woman the got a royal screwing by the DNC..MCBUSH’s health insuirance is the same congressioinal health insurance and he gets military VA you see where he is coming from.

reddog: “Why is he not finding out what the best way by having his people come up with the ideas as oppsosed to waiting to see if the feds come up with something they may or may not work??”
Because, um, he’s not the president yet, and this crisis isn’t going to wait until January.

Okay I am applying for a job I go in I see there are some problems at the place would I not say to the employer I can fix these problems and this is how I would do it or do I wait till I have the job and say I knew the day I applied you way was not going to work?

He chooses to say nothing cause he does not know how or what to do same thing he has done for years point fingers this is wrong that is wrong oh how to fix it I dont fix I point says so on my job title

REDDOG worse times like your parents and mine lived through the crash of 29.MCBUSH claims that a yearly income of $5,000,000 is middle class so I guess thats your yearly income since you claim to be middle class with that kind of income I could take a little hurt and as for evil with MCBUsh just put a d in front of that word and you have MCBUSH

Obama is holding off, because he understands that the market is volatile and that even a single news story could turn it to chaos. It is a smart move. The confidence needs to be restored and the current fed is the one that needs to do it.

Thats not the context in which he said it rose The tax hikes Obama wants is alot more around 75,000 read and see I live in new york sorry but me and my wife make a decent living but you get tired of being taxed to death

Why not just have Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Kennedy, Biden, and the rest of the radical liberals explain how their versions of national socialism will cure all of this country’s economic woes…
We could all use a good laugh…

How true Jayhawk

On the 20 year old Keating affair, McCain was recommended to be dropped from the Ethics proceedings because he did nothing wrong. But the Democratic controlled Ethic panel wanted to keep him on the hook because it would look better to have a Republican accused of wrongdoing because the other accused were 4 DEMOCRATS..”In the case of Senator McCain, there is very substantial evidence that he thought he had an understanding with Senator DeConcini’s office that certain matters would not be gone into at the meeting with (bank board) Chairman (Ed) Gray,”"Moreover, there is substantial evidence that, as a result of Senator McCain’s refusal to do certain things, he had a fallout with Mr. Keating.”But the investigation found that he was the least culpable, along with Glenn. McCain attended the meetings but did nothing afterward to stop Lincoln’s death spiral.n the end, McCain received only a mild rebuke from the Ethics Committee for exercising “poor judgment” for intervening with the federal regulators on behalf of Keating. Still, he felt tarred by the affair.”The appearance of it was wrong,” McCain said. “It’s a wrong appearance when a group of senators appear in a meeting with a group of regulators because it conveys the impression of undue and improper influence. And it was the wrong thing to do.”McCain noted that Bennett, the independent counsel, recommended that McCain and Glenn be dropped from the investigation.

McCain Keating deregulation
a trillion dollars
Mccain Bush Iraq
a trillion dollars
Mccain Gramm deregulation (again)
a trillion dollars
how can anyone not say “wtf”
same team
same tactics
same results
throw these bums out.

Does anyone know why it took McCain this long to actually get a nomination for president His own party doest like the fact that he doesnt always agree with them and then you have obama the fastrack agree and we will get you nominated why do you think hillary was not nominated same thing agree or get screwed

A lesson on Keating 5 from Bill Press:
As the junior senator from Arizona, McCain had the closest ties to Keating. He received $112,000 in campaign contributions from Keating and associates. And McCain co-sponsored legislation relaxing regulations on savings and loans and allowing them to gamble investor funds on certain highly risky financial ventures. Sound familiar?
For his role in aiding Keating, McCain received only a reprimand for “poor judgment” from the Senate Ethics Committee. But, ever since, the “Keating Five” has been the symbol of how much influence money can buy in Washington. And McCain, having learned nothing from the experience, then turned around and repeated the same tricks on Wall Street.

FACT CHECK TIME:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/19/fact-check-did-obama-profit-from-fannie-and-freddie/
in other words, mccain’s lying again!

http://www.blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/09/19/obama-fights-fire-with-fire-predictably-enough-that-whole-postpartisan-thing-was-never-going-to-work-out-was-it.aspx
In response to a new McCain ad that tries to saddle Obama with disgraced former Fannie Mae chief Franklin Raines by claiming that Raines has given Obama “advice on mortgage and housing policy,” Obama spokesman Bill Burton unleashed a howitzer blast of outrage in Crystal City’s general direction. “This is another flat-out lie from a dishonorable campaign that is increasingly incapable of telling the truth,” he said. “Frank Raines has never advised Senator Obama about anything–ever.” That might be true. But the problem is that it contradicts a July Washington Post profile of Raines (cited by McCain in the ad), which reported that Raines has “taken calls from Barack Obama’s presidential campaign seeking his advice on mortgage and housing policy matters.” As the New Republic’s Jason Zengerle–another Obama supporter–concludes: “Seeing as how neither Raines nor the Obama campaign bothered to contradict that information when the article came out, and didn’t do so until only after the McCain ad aired, you can’t really blame the McCain campaign for trying to make hay of the situation. And you certainly can’t accuse it of dishonorably telling a lie.”

http://www.blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/09/19/obama-fights-fire-with-fire-predictably-enough-that-whole-postpartisan-thing-was-never-going-to-work-out-was-it.aspx
The most egregious example of Obama’s shifting strategy is a new Spanish-language ad called “Dos Caras.” Airing in the crucial Southwestern swing states of Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada, the spot attempts to equate McCain with Rush Limbaugh on immigration. As a picture of the conservative talk-radio host appears onscreen beneath a pair of bigoted-sounding quotes–”Mexicans are stupid and unqualified” and “Shut your mouth or get out”–the announcer says that “they want us to forget the insults we’ve put up with, the intolerance.” He continues: “They made us feel marginalized in a country we love so much. John McCain and his Republican friends have two faces. One that says lies just to get our vote and another, even worse, that continues the failed policies of George Bush.”
The main problem here is that tying McCain to Limbaugh–especially on immigration reform–is deeply unfair. It’s not just that McCain broke with his party and nearly torpedoed his presidential bid by co-sponsoring last year’s failed comprehensive reform bill at the same time Limbaugh was regularly lambasting immigration reform and expressing hostility toward illegal immigrants on the air. It’s that Limbaugh actually opposed McCain’s candidacy because of his stance on immigration.

Bush, over the course of his destructive Rgime, has eroded as many regulations as he possibly could. AS a result the housing mess, large bank failures, the dollar falling below the euro in value, the $10 trillion deficit, growing unemployment are the results. His erosion of regs has permitted his rich owners to snarf up trillions of $. Those are the toilets who’ve done such vast damage to America and then moved jobs overseas. We truly need another Stalin to show those rats the error of their ways — from the view from a scaffold for hanging!
Now we’re supposed to fall for McBush’s claim to restore regulations? Bullsh!t McCain’s doing that would amount to Hitler loving the Jewish race. The republican Party big-deals would have McCain done away with before they’d permit his restoring the regulations that bush worked so hard to eliminate.
Anyone falling for that load of bullsh!t should be banned from the voting booth at gunpoint if necessary!

…”and he (Obama) was right square in the middle of it”. Yo Johnny Mac, what were you doing then, Mr. 26 year veteran of Washington??? Yesterday it was having Cox fired. Today’s it’s just his resignation. Tomorrow, it’s give him a promotion, you think? Perhaps somebody finally told him the president can’t fire the SEC chief. And while we’re at it, it was McCain who fought for years to dismantle market regulation, even championed legislation on in 1995. Now it’s Mr. Magoo the government regulating reformer. What a joke.

This Republican will vote for Obama

To all you idiots out there that blame McCain because he had been in congress for years I have this question to ask you…….When was the last time we had a financial crisis like this and what happened in congress two years ago? Let’s see this is the worst crisis since the Great Depression and the Democrats took control of congress two years ago. I guess McCain and the Republicans have been doing something right! McCain cannot get legislation through congress when they do nothing. Pelosi , Reed, Boxer,and Frank block everything. They want the war, economy, and everything else to be a mess so they can get their saviour in office. Congress has the lowest rating of all time. What will happen when Obama gets in office!?! MORE TAXES and MORE SPENDING. The government put a band-aid on this crisis and it will implode further. When it does I don’t want a socialist in office taking my meager paycheck and passing it out. I don’t want businesses passing on their expenses to me. When Iran or Russia comes knocking I don’t want Obama taking them out for coffee. When was the last time the Democrats controlled all branches of government and it was a success? NEVER!

jschmidt – I’m with you! We need to talk tough and tell the truth!

The movie Blade has what I think the best summary of how government is using the middle class and lower income taxpayers to support the mistakes and income of the upper 2%:
“These people are our food, not our allies.”

McCain should take his own responsibility in the mess….His party was in charge when all the de-regulation laws were passed. So, he either conveniently looked the other way until the sh*t hit the fan or he was unable to provide leadership in his party to get them to change their ways. If he can’t even influence people is own party how would deal with a divided congress. McCain has always tried to portray himself as above the fray and a different kind of Republican. Now during the campaign he tries to portray as a Republican standard bearer and reformer. How about reforming the Republican party first? He cannot even do that…As president he would dealing from an extremely weak position and would accomplish nothing….but that suits many Republicans just fine…It is conservatives’ nature to resist change anyway…

Before anyone comments about Obama being an empty suit it might help if you really understood the man, his motivation and his detailed plans.
On the subject of energy alone .. if you really understood his plan .. if you really understood the positive impact it would have on every American, no rational person could in their right mind not support him.
Alternative energy is NOT a radical pie-in-the-sky endeavor. It is a real and tangible option that can be accomplished very quickly with the right focus and with the power of the Federal Government behind it.
I remember during the first Gulf War when we spent around 80 billion to protect our oil interests. I had a good friend working at SERI which is the Solar Energy Research Institute. They were working on a new solar cell technology that was hundreds of times more powerful than current solar cells and would be a fraction of the cost of current systems if we had factories to mass produce them. That year their total funding was 5 million. Not enough to even get it off the ground.
Just that one year alone, if we had spent 80 billion dollars completing the research and building a mass production facility every person today would have solar technology helping to power their homes. The return on investment over the last 15 years would have not only paid the 80 billion back but would have significantly reduced our reliance on fossil fuels. AND alternative energy just keeps paying you back every year.
If we were to follow Obamas plan, this country would become energy rich. We would employ hundreds of thousands of Americans with good paying clean jobs. Where does the money come from? It is money that no longer needs to be sent to the Middle East to fund potential terrorists. It is money that no longer needs to go to Exxon or Shell to give the elite 1% of this country world record profits.
Consider that America once led the world with manufacturing. Then we lead the world in the information age. What do we have now? Nothing. By investing our future in alternative energy we give America the chance to lead again in something that produces insane amounts of revenues. Technology that we can sell. Technology that we can deploy. Technology that let’s us lead the world again.
Don’t be mistaken. McCain is not just Mr. John McCain. McCain is the elite 1% who have been in control and wish to stay in control. We can’t let them continue to own our energy because in doing so they own us.
Realize that oil and nuclear reactors are energy that is tightly controlled by a few and not just anyone can build and deploy a new reactor. Alternative energy however can be produced and deployed by hundreds of small startups. Even the smallest out-of-my-garage company can build a form of alternative energy that contributes to the grid. What we are missing is the enabling factor of having our government behind us to focus, help fund research, and get the ball rolling.
Please vote for Obama. I realize you may be scared, but this really is not about “celebrity” or unfounded excitement. It’s about a real man, with a real plan. 50% of this country has opened their minds and feel excited about the possibilities .. but we need you too.

“The crisis on Wall Street started in the Washington culture of lobbying and influence peddling, and he was right square in the middle of it,”
McCain knows because that was where he got his campaign staff.
another John (McEnroe), said it right: “you cannot be serious!”

I would like to know what experience Obama has with the economy. He has never ran anything. He is clueless and all this rhetoric that the bad economy favors democrats is just that…rhetoric. People are starting to believe that democrats can fix the economy. Tell me what policies besides hand outs do they have that will help anyone.