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August 14, 2008 5:03 PM

Phil Gramm's Return Engagement, For Two Days Only

By
Ryan Corsaro
Topics
John McCain
(CBS)
From CBS News' Ryan Corsaro:

(ASPEN, COLO.) - Former McCain adviser Phil Gramm is in attendance at John McCain's event at the Aspen Institute this afternoon, which is about to get underway.

Gramm stepped down from the campaign last month after he was criticized for saying the U.S. economy is in a "mental recession" and that the U.S. is a "nation of whiners."

Gramm, who's seated in the front row for today's event, told CBS News that he's in Colorado to help McCain raise money and that he's there as a supporter, not as a campaign adviser.

"I am a supporter of John McCain," said Gramm. "I am helping him with fundraising. We have a fundraiser today and I will be with him today and tomorrow."

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by vincan-2009 August 17, 2008 12:34 AM EDT
Having Phil Gramm in the first place showed how totally harmful McCain is to America. McCain wants the same old republicans who screwed up the country in the past to get back in so they can give more power and money to corporations and lobbyists. Phil Gramm is not smart about economics. He did many things that were terrible for everyone but corporate interests.
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by zerato-2009 August 15, 2008 2:43 PM EDT
Sure mr gramm your not an adviser to john mccain, just because you keep showing up and keep talking to him about america, the country of whiners, does not mean your a adviser.

You are an economic guru for mccain that authored the enron loophole that lead to oil speculation and the deregulation of the mortgage industry that lead to the mortgage crisis
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by lostcause09 August 15, 2008 2:34 PM EDT
Former McCain adviser Phil Gramm was there on other business: - porn -
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by urnot August 15, 2008 2:09 PM EDT
Phil Gramm was back in the news this week. Aug 8, UBS pays a HUGE settlement in excess of 19 Billion $. "The bank hid as much as $17.9 billion for 19,000 Americans who didn''''t declare assets to the Internal Revenue Service, according to a Senate subcommittee report." Bloomberg news. Looks like McCain''''s friends don''''t like paying taxes either. Lucky they are rich enough to pay their way out of tax evasion. You and I''''d go to federal prison.

Posted by CurtisforOba at 10:16 PM : Aug 14, 2008
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And this guy is rewarded by the neo-republicans...
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by leftyintexas August 15, 2008 1:31 PM EDT
Phil ''Grim'' is a big part of what''s wrong with this country. He is nothing more than a greedy, money grubbing ''hay seed''.
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by mattcat25 August 15, 2008 1:01 PM EDT
%u201CI am a supporter of John McCain,%u201D said Gramm. %u201CI am helping him with fundraising. We have a fundraiser today and I will be with him today and tomorrow anything else like more economic advice to rob the American Middle Class is ALL IN YOUR MIND! And YOU ARE ALL A BUNCH OF WHINERS!!%u201D

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by curtisforoba August 15, 2008 1:16 AM EDT
Phil Gramm was back in the news this week. Aug 8, UBS pays a HUGE settlement in excess of 19 Billion $. "The bank hid as much as $17.9 billion for 19,000 Americans who didn''t declare assets to the Internal Revenue Service, according to a Senate subcommittee report." Bloomberg news. Looks like McCain''s friends don''t like paying taxes either. Lucky they are rich enough to pay their way out of tax evasion. You and I''d go to federal prison.
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by jmurrieta1 August 14, 2008 11:41 PM EDT
Probably all the billionaires who got big fraudulent tax savings through the UBS bank that Phil Gramm helps run put some pressure on the "maverick" to let their favorite shyster back into the fold.
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by starleo146 August 14, 2008 8:45 PM EDT
This guy gramm is utterly out of it, but senile Mc Bush likes him, even though he called us a bunch of whiners, and Mc Bush will do anything to receive a dollar won''t he.
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