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- mccain top economic adviser Phil Gramm has some stories to tell us, well it turns out he was an investor in the soft core porn movie.
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- Contrary to Obama%u2019s portrayal of himself as a unifier, on every bipartisan effort in the Senate to forge compromises on tough issues, Obama has been missing in action.
In sum, it would be difficult to imagine a more mediocre record. Most candidates for dog catcher have contributed more to society. Yet with the help of adoring reporters, Obama has managed to parlay extraordinary speaking and political skills into a presidential campaign built on sand.
The idea that America might entrust its security and future to someone who has never demonstrated an ability to get anything of significance done is scary.
Look for John McCain to begin exploiting this vulnerability after Labor Day.
Contrary to Obama%u2019s portrayal of himself as a unifier, on every bipartisan effort in the Senate to forge compromises on tough issues, Obama has been missing in action.
In sum, it would be difficult to imagine a more mediocre record. Most candidates for dog catcher have contributed more to society. Yet with the help of adoring reporters, Obama has managed to parlay extraordinary speaking and political skills into a presidential campaign built on sand.
The idea that America might entrust its security and future to someone who has never demonstrated an ability to get anything of significance done is scary.
Look for John McCain to begin exploiting this vulnerability after Labor Day. - Reply to this comment
- PUMA''s are 6,000,000 strong and growing every day!
Just say NO to Obama the Scamma! - Reply to this comment
- All this rhetoric doesn''t even matter...Obama couldn''t get the majority vote in the democratic primaries...and the republicans haven''t even had him as a choice yet!
It is hilarious that Obama is having to look under rocks for a vote! - Reply to this comment
- Democrats = 9% congressional approval rating. The lowest in American history (at least since they''''ve been keeping records.)
Posted by LibH8er at 12:31 PM : Jul 16, 2008
How much meaning to attach to ratings of Congress? Representatives are elected by state. I''m sure state ratings of congressmen/women from their home states aren''t that low. But national ratings of presidents are more meaningful because presidents are elected nationwide. - Reply to this comment
- I managed to dig up this gem from his 1986 race for US Senate, as quoted in the Tucson Citizen:
"Did you hear the one about the woman who is attacked on the street by a gorilla, beaten senseless, raped repeatedly and left to die? When she finally regains consciousness and tries to speak, her doctor leans over to hear her sigh contently and to feebly ask, Where is that marvelous ape?"
I find rape jokes are always a sign of class, don%u2019t you?
Do you think John McCain has a little problem with women? - Reply to this comment
- Obama=antisemitic
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johnmcsame = KKK - Reply to this comment
- McCain is, in fact, an A--hole. An A--hole who wants to be the President of the United States. As an A--hole senator, he the sort of guy who says things like:
Only an A--hole would put a budget together like this!
to New Mexico Republican Pete Dominici
I''m calling you a F--ing jerk!
to Iowa Republican Senator Chuck Grassley
F--k you. I know more about this than anybody in the room.
to Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn
This is why Senator Dominici said in 2000 that I decided I didn''t want this guy anywhere near a trigger. It is presumed by this he meant the nuclear trigger. - Reply to this comment
- John McCain made this odious joke about Chelsea Clinton back in %u201898.
"Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno."
Sen. John McCain, speaking to a Republican dinner, June 1998. - Reply to this comment
- LOL!!! Just as your gang has been blaming G.W. Bush for 9/11, I suppose you can justify peak interest rates, unemployment rates, and inflation rates that occurred in ''''81 just prior to Ronald Reagan''''s tax cuts kicking in on him.
Posted by JonGood65 at 12:46 PM : Jul 16, 2008
Since you bring it up, George Bush is the person most to blame for 9/11. He had at this fingertips more complete information than any presidents before him and the 9 months preceding the strikes had to have been critical to their planning and execution more than any other prior 9-month period. - Reply to this comment
- riddle: what''''s the difference between the candidate''''s statements that ''''we must win'''' a war in the middle east?
answer: mccain said it about iraq, obama said it about afghanistan.
oh, now that''''s change i can believe in... not!
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Posted by ccfsdca at 12:41 PM : Jul 16, 2008
This is the prize-winning Stupid Post of the day.
Fact check: al Queda is in Afganistan. Iraq has oil. Al Queda attacked us--they are the ones we should be fighting. - Reply to this comment
- Obama=antisemitic
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- Will the Real Tax-and-Spender Please %u2019Fess Up?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/13/us/politics/13check.html
%u201CMcCain is picking the areas where rates go up and ignoring the areas where Obama is trying to rebalance the tax code so that taxpayers would save,%u201D said John Irons, research and policy director at the Economic Policy Institute, which is generally viewed as sympathetic to working families. Mr. Irons said that %u201Cthe important thing is to look at overall impact on people%u201D and that on this score,
"the vast majority of the population, almost the entirety of the middle class, would see more from Obama than McCain."
Economists have also criticized the methodology behind Mr. McCain%u2019s assertion that Americans from all kinds of backgrounds could end up paying thousands of dollars more in taxes if Mr. Obama got his way. Several criticized him as apparently basing his claim on an average figure in which, as Mr. Irons said, %u201CBill Gates is mixed with you and me, and everything gets skewed.%u201D
Republicans are bottom dwellers on intelligence...so I guess I''m voting for the "other guys". - Reply to this comment
- LOL!!! Just as your gang has been blaming G.W. Bush for 9/11, I suppose you can justify peak interest rates, unemployment rates, and inflation rates that occurred in ''''81 just prior to Ronald Reagan''''s tax cuts kicking in on him.
Posted by JonGood65 at 12:46 PM : Jul 16, 2008
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Not sure what you''r trying to say, but if you were a middle class tax payer, Regan raised your taxes. - Reply to this comment
- John McCain quotes pre-Iraq War and during Iraq War:
"Because I know that as successful as I believe we will be, and I believe that the success will be fairly easy, we will still lose some American young men or women." [CNN, 9/24/02]
"We%u2019re not going to get into house-to-house fighting in Baghdad. We may have to take out buildings, but we%u2019re not going to have a bloodletting of trading American bodies for Iraqi bodies." [CNN, 9/29/02]
"But the point is that, one, we will win this conflict. We will win it easily." [MSNBC, 1/22/03]
"But I believe, Katie, that the Iraqi people will greet us as liberators." [NBC, 3/20/03]
"It%u2019s clear that the end is very much in sight." [ABC, 4/9/03]
"There%u2019s not a history of clashes that are violent between Sunnis and Shiahs. So I think they can probably get along." [MSNBC, 4/23/03]
"This is a mission accomplished. They know how much influence Saddam Hussein had on the Iraqi people, how much more difficult it made to get their cooperation." [This Week, ABC, 12/14/03]
"I%u2019m confident we%u2019re on the right course." [ABC News, 3/7/04]
"I do think that progress is being made in a lot of Iraq. Overall, I think a year from now, we will have made a fair amount of progress if we stay the course. If I thought we weren%u2019t making progress, I%u2019d be despondent." [The Hill, 12/8/05]
He sure can call them, can%u2019t he? Yeah, we''ll win by 2013 McBush - Reply to this comment
- JonGoode,
You have Jimmy Carter confused with Reagan. We never had unemployment above 6% during Carter''''s Presidency; we had 9% unemployment under Reagan.
Posted by realpatriot1 at 12:36 PM : Jul 16, 2008
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LOL!!! Just as your gang has been blaming G.W. Bush for 9/11, I suppose you can justify peak interest rates, unemployment rates, and inflation rates that occurred in ''81 just prior to Ronald Reagan''s tax cuts kicking in on him.
But, sonny I was busy raising a family long about then, trying hard to keep a job and a roof over their heads. I need no text books to reveal which man was responsible for the "misery index." - Reply to this comment
- McCain lobby running our economic policy?
He-ll NO to McCain.
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2008/07/foreclosure-phil.html?ref=patrick.net
Sen. Phil Gramm. Eight years ago, as part of a decades-long anti-regulatory crusade, Gramm pulled a sly legislative maneuver that greased the way to the multibillion-dollar subprime meltdown. Yet has Gramm been banished from the corridors of power? Reviled as the villain who bankrupted Middle America?
Hardly. Now a well-paid executive at a Swiss bank, GRAMM COCHAIRS SEN.JOHN MCCAIN''S PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN AND ADVISES THE REPUBLCIAN CANDIDATE ON ECONOMIC MATTERS. He''s been mentioned as a possible TREASURY SECRETARY should McCain win.
That''s right: A guy who helped screw up the global financial system could end up in charge of US economic policy. - Reply to this comment
- JonGoode65,
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It''s a sunset provision. The original rationale for giving a tax cut to the wealthy but not to the middle class was that it would spur economic growth. It''s quite obvious that it did not serve that purpose so there''s no legitimate argument for its renewal.
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Posted by realpatriot1 at 12:29 PM : Jul 16, 2008
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LOL!! And, I bet you think the dollar for dollar payroll tax matching funds your employer is forced to send in based on your wages is just your rich boss having to pay up??
ROTFLMGTBO!!!
Like I''ve offered for your drizzle above, more times than I can count:
In a pinkos eye - Reply to this comment
- This war in Iraq is EXACTLY what the experts (the CIA, Pentagon) said it was going to be.
Fools rush in and that is what we did going into Iraq, so calling the people wanting this war stupid or arrogant fits the bill just fine.
The military commanders do not want unnecessary deaths, but right now, they are on the ground in Iraq, by order of President Bush. People are dying all around our troops and they cannot do much about it.
If the experts said it would be this way, why did we not take the time to create a better plan? I think I know part of the reasons: "politics".
The people wanting this war needed it to BEGIN quickly or it might never come to pass.
How unfortunate for our brothers and sisters in the military that they can be wasted along side of Iraqi people without a known, true and just cause.
If you don''t think the public should be up in arms about the US involvement in Iraq then you%u2019re not listening and all the while you will resort to name calling and bashing the dissent to protect your honor for supporting incompetent leaders who push cursory policies.
If you think this war in Iraq is a "war by all those who love freedom" you are sadly mistaken.
Iraq is a fool%u2019s war. Getting out of the fools war will require the fools to be ousted, being replaced by folks who can actually reason.
We might not own Iraq but we certainly are paying for it. - Reply to this comment
- Has Obama produced his birth certificate yet?? Or is he still keeping it under wraps???
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