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Does this mean MCain will not appoint Gramm as ambassador to Czechoslovakia?

Gramm is gone. I guess McCain did not agree with him. I believe McCain will do more to help the middle class than Obama who's church he went to for 20 years had a policy against "middleclassness". It was one of their core beliefs.

Move over Phil, Bud Day is going to need a seat under the Straigh Talk Express Bus.

Jane,

Mr. Graham is well known for his conservative economics, but in the interest of accuracy, it's more complicated than you outlined. As a lifelong Democrat, my mantra was the same as yours. The Republicans will help the rich and the Dems will help the poor. It's just not that simple. Independent voters will most likely determine the outcome in November. Your loyalty is admirable, but the left wing sold us out again.

Allow me to clarify what Phil Gramm was clumsily trying to say. The Republicans love America, they just hate the American people.

Not a suprise that McCain picks someone who also does NOT understand economy.

mccain is not really serious about being president of the united states, he just wants to be president of war, the media got us into this iraq mess by listening to bush and not asking serious questions the media just goes after gotcha politics thats why we are in this mess in iraq because of not being smart enough to ask the president about the war in iraq, they are now doing it with mccain,

Repubs DO think Americans are "WHINERS".

So, why wouldn't McCain embrace Gramm, is more the question.

McCain = Bush

Just like Bush, McCain stays loyal to his long time friends no matter what they do.

Gramm is McCain's Karl Rove

In 2005, McCain told a Wall Street Journal columnist that Gramm was his economic guru.

Earlier a McCain supporter wrote:

"Gramm is a former senator with a big mouth who went on his own to speak to the washington times."

You're right. It was the next day, at the Wall Street Journal that Gramm was speaking for the McCain campaign while McCain was in Michingan telling the press "Phil Gramm doesn't speak for me."

Might as well have said "I did not have advice with that adviser,...Phil Gramm."

Why is McCain's economic plan so ugly?
Because it's author is Phil Gramm.

mary

what has mccain done?

he basically said he would fix the whole world before his first term is up

LOL

obama has never given a timetable like that because he knows all teh things that are broken cant just be undone so easily but he has vowed to get the country on the right path

so when you criticize obama try to make sure your guy mccain doesnt end up looking twice as bad for what you are criticizing obama for

because now it looks like you just dont pay attention what so ever....

lol

yea mccain... unicorns will be off the endangered list!!!!

Senator Obama has made humongous promises about fixing everything that is wrong; the war, the economy, the cost of energy, etc. The only problem, he will not follow through on any of his promises if his previous history is repeated. He is all talk and no accomplishments. He can't even hold a senate hearing and now the National guard is having to come in to police his former state senate district for heavy crimes. He is a dud. This man still has not been properly vetted.

I say, Phil Gramm for president! This IS a nation of whiners! What happened to "reach down and pull yourself up by your bootstraps"? Now it is reach up from the gutter and hope for a handout. If the attitude of today had existed in the great depression, this country would have ceased to exist. People used to deal with hardships, and prided themselves on their self-reliance. Not anymore! Everybody thinks the government should feed, clothe, house, educate, and protect them. The only good thing about this is that if we have another major depression, where the government cannot give out handouts, maybe the worthless whiners and leeches of our society will either learn to take care of themselves or will die out. Either way fixes the problem!

Carly S. Foster Wrote:

Who has a better vision and judgment?
1) On August 1, 2007 Senator Barack Obama stated that, “If he wins the election in November and an actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets in Pakistan become available and President Musharraf won't act, he will."

Senator Obama was of course immediately labeled as being politically "naive". However on January 29, 2008 our military implemented Barack Obama's "new" foreign policy. Using good intelligence and on-the-ground cooperation by local informants, we launched a drone into Pakistan and killed a highly-place al-Qaeda leader. President Bush did this without coordinating or in cooperation with Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf.

2) In October of 2007, Senator Barack Obama in reference to Iran stated "We've done incredible damage to our security and standing around the world for lack of diplomacy". Senator Barack Obama stated that as president, he would use direct diplomacy as part of working toward putting a stop to Iran enriching uranium.

As the first step in implementing Senator Obama's "new" foreign policy, the Bush administration plans to send an envoy to talks with Iran's chief nuclear negotiator in Geneva this weekend. William J. Burns, undersecretary of state for political affairs and the administration's point man on Iran, will accompany European Union foreign policy chief in persuading Tehran to stop enriching uranium. In addition, the government is considering opening an embassy that has been closed for over 20 years.

3) In November of 2006, Senator Barack Obama said the Iraq war has had "disastrous consequences" for the battle against the al Qaeda terrorist network and thus called for some of the troops now in Iraq to be sent to Afghanistan. In August of 2007, Senator Obama called for two additional brigades to be sent to Afghanistan. He has also consistently called for a phased withdrawal from Iraq.
Obama’s position on phased withdraw is shared by the U.S. recognized Iraqi government. In addition, top U.S. defense officials now say they hope to send more forces to Afghanistan sooner than planned to tackle rising violence there and have recommend a cut in troop levels in Iraq. And of course, for the very first time on Tuesday of this week Senator John McCain joined with Senator Barack Obama in his call for more troops in Afghanistan.

4) In an October 2002 speech, Senator Barack Obama also stated: Let's fight to wean ourselves off Middle East oil, through an energy policy that doesn't simply serve the interests of Exxon and Mobil."

It seems everyone in the United States is now embracing this "new" thinking in energy policy.

ABC News/Wash. Post withheld results of poll favorable to Obama

The media wants to keep this race close, thats why there are tons of stories of scrutiny over obama about every little boring thing, meanwhile mccain gets slammed only when he does or one of his surrogets does something so outlandish that not reporting it makes the news media look stupid... LOL anyway

this is the summary to the article

Summary: ABC News and The Washington Post issued staggered releases of the results of their latest poll, withholding from their first release results favorable to Sen. Barack Obama, including the finding that 50 percent of registered voters would vote for Obama for president versus 42 percent for Sen. John McCain. The next day, the Post ran an article headlined "Poll Finds Voters Split on Candidates' Iraq-Pullout Positions," which did not mention Obama's 8-point lead over McCain. Later that day, ABC News and the Post issued a second release with additional poll results that stated: "Obama continues to hold most of the advantages in the presidential race."

Indy,

The whining line is not what should concern you. it's the continuation of Gramm's "trickle down economics" that is the real problem. Giving the lion's share of our taxes to corporation and the wealthy, in the hopes that they will throw a bone to the "little people" is what has ruined this economy. Every time I hear the words "free market" I cringe. That is code for "lobbyists at work".

Phil Gramm...of USB which has recently advised certain of its staff not to enter the United States lest they be subject to arrest. Phil Gramm...deregulation maniac who helped give us the mortgage meltdown. Phil Gramm...who was McSame's candidate for President in 1996.

Phil Gramm...should give you a pretty good indication of where we're headed if McSame's elected. More of the same...the rich will keep getting richer and the poor will be blamed for their moral deficiencies.

It really does take a maverick like McCain, to base his campaign on continuing the economic policies that caused a recession.