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Obama, the different politician, attacks his opponent for having 7 houses worth $13 Million. If it was the reverse, we would hear the man child say "How divisive!"
Did McCain have help from Rezko's shady friends buying any of the properties?

"This is Exhibit A about a presidential candidate not in touch with the American people," McCaskill said. "Exhibit A!"

Exhibit B is IndyMac! McCain is not even in touch with corporate America.

Obama 08!

Obama promised a filibuster to prevent FISA.

No filibuster and
Obama votes YES........

A man of his word. What a liar Obama is as he dances to the far right and now even supports Bush on his faith based initiatives.

Posted by: Obama the Weathervane | Jul 11, 2008 6:27:35 PM

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Perhaps Bush secretly record unflattering conversations on members of congress in order to blackmail them to vote yes on fisa.

Obama promised a filibuster to prevent FISA.

No filibuster and
Obama votes YES........

A man of his word. What a liar Obama is as he dances to the far right and now even supports Bush on his faith based initiatives.

The comment posted by PITY yesterday

NEITHER of these candidates have any intention of improving our country. It will be more war, more taxes on the middle class to GIVE to CORPORATIONS, and more encroachment on your civil liberties and privacy rights. It's time to stop pointing fingers at the other party and TAKE ACTION! VOTE OUT EVERY "INCUMBENT" (regardless of party) in November if you "REALLY" want things to change!

Pity's comments:
"McCain AND Obama are incompetent, how else do you think they were selected to be the "leaders" of the country. If you have any brains you are removed from consideration for public office at the highest level. That goes without saying. You think the people who fund these billion dollar campaigns want somebody who's gonna tell THEM where to shove it.... I think NOT! The mere fact that these two have gotten this far is a testament to just how willing they were to sellout their country. I mean that's just a fact JACK! Don't kid yourself thinking either one of these bozos represent you for even one minute. You think that $50 or $100 contribution compares with the hundreds of billions they got from multinational corporate interests? Think again folks. These fools are bought and paid for, and they sure as hell don't work for you. WAKE UP. Denial can be deadly..."

McCain doesn't have a clue about how to deal with the economy. His advice to the average American is: eat cake!! His wife is worth over 100 million. His kids sleep at night. His grandchildren sleep at night. He has never run a business or had to compete with slave labor imports. What a disgrace!!!

Obama is a disgrace.
He is the one that should be embarrassed.
His pastor, his not seating Florida and Michigan, his putting his kids on TV.
He knows nothing about anyghing.
McCain is a patriot.
Obama is an empty suit.

GRAMM wouldn't know about Americans' economic problems. He got rich off senatorial favors. Both he and McCain have been in the Senate for 40 years and neither has done ONE thing to resolve the 1972 oil crisis. Now, 36 years later, every house should have solar energy, cities should have wind turbine, solar, or hydrogen fuel for electricity, and all cars should be powered by cheap hydrogen cells. INSTEAD, Gramm and McCain took money from big oil lobbyists and took trips on their jets.
I'm conservative but there's NO WAY I'd vote for a man (1) pandering to illegals that cost TAXPAYERS $383.3 BILLION per yr subsidizing "cheap corporate labor" while failing to provide military education benefits for military men, and (2) eagerly exporting jobs overseas while Americans lose their jobs, health insurance and homes to foreclosure. MCCAIN AND GRAMM ARE JERKS!

as MCcain said,
"I speak for MCcAIN!".

Don't need a feather duster to cut to the grift!

I LIKEa plain speaking President who's comfortable in his name and heritage, equipped with a largesse of experience, a lifetime of service to our country, and a wife who has been and continues to be generous with her time and money to children of all nations.

I LIKE the family they've raised together, and I like many of his solutions.

I LIKE someone who will work well with both houses of Congress to augment some of their goals and blend other so that the economic turbulence of this company can be tamed and re-energized in a positive way without cutting off our noses by out-taxing the people who can provide jobs and increase productity ... for this will only tax thei intent to take any more chances on capitalism.

I LIKE John McCain......
a quiet man who I can trust!

Haha.. So good.

So McCain doesn't agree with his national campaign co-chair and chief economic adviser's opinion on the economy?

Can we all be honest now and admit that the Republican Party has collapsed into a tribal pack of mendacious clowns?

You've heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession,"

Right! It's all just a "mental recession." Forget that fuel prices are spiraling out of control, food prices are at an all time high, unemployment is at an all time high, people are losing their homes at a record pace and we are spending over three billion a week on a war that should never have happened. And here we have McCain's economic "guru" telling us "it's all mental."

I really think both McCain and Gramm need a psychiatrist for their own mental problems.

"When I said we've become a nation of whiners, I'm talking about our leaders. I'm not talking about our people,"

Then why didn't Gramm just say that instead! Duh!

"I think that Senator Gramm would be in serious consideration for Ambassador to Belarus," McCain joked, "although I'm not sure the citizens of Minsk would welcome that."

Talk about throwing someone under the bus! So, why is Gramm still working for McCain?

You McCain supporters know that Gramm SCREWED UP royally right? This is what you call a beautiful gift. Just shows how out of touch Repubs/Conservs are with regular folks. As I have always said, Repubs are nothing but rich folks that care about themselves and people that have as much money as they do. Gramm can put as much spin on this as he wants to, but his true feelings came out. It was a one on one interview! How stupid can you be? This is McCain’s economic tutor? LOL!!!!!!!!!!!! White working class folks that don’t want to vote for Obama this is your choice for President huh? People who are losing their homes and jobs are going to vote for this guy over Obama? I guess you are a glutton for punishment.

Obama 08!!!!!!!

Olbermann picked a bad week to go on vacation.

It's good that the McCain team is coordinating their talking points, as John McCain's been talking about how the problems with the economy, gas prices, energy, et al, and his proposals to solve them, are 'mostly psychological', for months now.

Alternative energy? McCain will harness the power of the subconscious, store it in a science-contest-prize battery, and use it to power your new 'horseless carriage'.

Go McCain!

since most big business is mexico --china etc.
than big business loby should be baned as they are not a part of our country--and in no way represent us---and the last 8 years is proof positive.how much worse does it have to get before we see what has to be done.

Keep in mind the byline of the 2004 Republican National Convention Blog:

The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times.

Is the McCain communications apparatus a victim of its own hubris? Obama is simply smarter and better at the game than they are. He's probably a lot more honest, too.

Someone should really start focusing on the "We don't torture" claim." What Bush administration official dreamed that one up? I bet McClellan knows.

jimmy
social security is a total wreck--ever since it was ROBBED-FOR EVERYTHING BUT.
wife spent 25 years in garment industry gets 400.00 per month------this is an outrage and a disgrace-----and the 250,000 people are worried about paying a little more---i guess we are all a bunch of halfwits and idiots.

Welcome to Today's Barnum and Bailey Political Circus......

Our main event today is John McCain't and the McCain Clowns. Look at the dump water on each other and set each other on fire.

Entertaining, isn't it!

OBAMA 08

So according to McCain and his top economic advisor, Social Security is a "disgrace" and America is a "nation of whiners" in a "mental recession". LOL, is this reminding anyone else of Bush Sr. being shocked at the electronic scanner at the supermarket? McCain and his rich trophy wife aren't having any problems, the rest of us just need to eat cake and be happy!

Some of you republican commenters are sounding a little defensive and out of sorts. I guess you can't defend Gramm or McCain, huh?

mccain in columbia another nafta type agreement-----costing the big business loby to much money in shipping cost from china----anyone have any doubts --AS TO what the game is---dont see jobs coming back to usa.and he claims to represent us.

Has anybody else on here had enough of this so called "compassionate conservatism" yet!?!

remember mccasin in canada telling us we are living in an era of prosperity due to nafta-------need i say more

There goes Gramm ... wait for it ... UNDER THE BUS!!!

LOL!!!

This thread's about the idiotic comments from Phil Gramm, one of McCain's main economic advisors. What does Obama's race have to do with it?

Mccain was traipsing all over this country during the primaries touting Dr. Phil's excellent opinions. Just today Gramm was at the Wall Street Journal speaking on behalf of McCain. Now Gramm doesn't speak for him?

Some of McCain's "base" would rather I accept whatever he says and ignore the truth.

Or sweep it all under the rug, because an Obama story will sell better.

Or better yet, maybe I should just chuckle at Mccain's ill conceived "wit" and forget he wants to continue Bush's destructive policies.

However, I did not find it amusing when McCain dodged Karen Tumulty's critical question about Gramm by suggesting he'd send him to Belarus.

I guess he doesn't have a prominent role in his economic agenda either? And how would we ever believe Gramm wouldn't be a prominent member of a potential McCain administration? How dishonest is this all going to get?

I admit some is faux outrage, but more of it is accumulated frustration with journalists who won't hold this McCain campaign accountable.

I mean, contrast the coverage of the Jesse Jackson nonsense to this! It's remarkable.

Has this thread been hijacked by Republicans? Phil Gramm's statement was this ""You've heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession," he said, noting that growth has held up at about 1 percent despite all the publicity over losing jobs to India, China, illegal immigration, housing and credit problems and record oil prices. "We may have a recession; we haven't had one yet."
"We have sort of become a nation of whiners," he said. "You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline" despite a major export boom that is the primary reason that growth continues in the economy, he said."

I do not see any distinction between those in the government and those that make up the American populace in his statement. Look gas prices are high, food prices are high because of gas prices. Product prices are high because many are made from by-products of oil and the trasnport costs of getting these items to the market. There is nothing mental about just the cold ahrd reality which meets every American consumer every day. Over the last three decades the economic equality gap has widdened. That means that if the wage of workers has not kept up with the rising price of goods then that means their buying power suffers. How can anyone of us defend these insensative comments coming from McCain's top economic advisor? Obama's economic advisor got hammered by the press for two weeks about the NAFTA situation with Canada. I would bet my meager dollar that many in America do not look kindly on the offshoring of blue collar manufactiring jobs in middle America! So if this is the case what hope do we have if McCain, who is quoted as saying "he doesn't know much about the economy" and hires this guy to be his top advisor whose advice to the American people is put on a smiling face while prices keep getting higher, while th ecost to get to anyplace including where we work has gotten higher! Or in other "shut up and take it like a man! I understand that to get out of this rutt we have to all work together and that Washington is not the only answer to these problems but Washington has not been listening, nothing has changed and half of the healdines this year in regards to Congress keep pushing the story that this is a "do nothing congress". Well the Republicans have just ste the 2-year filibuster record in Congress, so could we perhaps see an article which states that the Republicans are pushing to get it their way or no way at all. One of the chief problems we face in the future is the ability of the minority portion of congress holding up bills for partisan or ideological purposes. They do not even need half the votes the only need 41 in the Senate to keep the stalling going on. Look maybe you guys disagree, but I believe that America is on the wrong track. You have democrats who believe the government should work for the people and you have many Republicans who distrust the government and blame it for many fo the problems we face. How can one party not believe in the Government or its ability to help the people it governs. I understand that many Republicans believe that the government is too big and would like less power in their hands but this simply has not happened underneath their watch, neither when they had a cngressional majority nor when they were lected to become President. Therefor Americans really have to accept the fact that if progress is going to be made it is going to take all of our efforts to tell each and every member of congress and their staff how we can move the ball forward so that we may meet many of our demands.

Obama 08'

Gramm's comment was idiotic, but McCain is even more of an idiot for having this guy on his campaign in the first place -- he's directly responsible not only for the deregulation that led to Enron, but also lobbies for the deregulation that cause the mortgage crisis. Just another example of McCain doing Obama a huge favor.

Isn't this McSame's economic advisor? Shouldn't 'reject' and 'denounce' his comments?

Can it get any better for the clowns in the McCan't campaign???

Incompetence = BLOWOUT.

OBAMA 08

McCain AND Obama are incompetent, how else do you think they were selected to be the "leaders" of the country. If you have any brains you are removed from consideration for public office at the highest level. That goes without saying. You think the people who fund these billion dollar campaigns want somebody who's gonna tell THEM where to shove it.... I think NOT! The mere fact that these two have gotten this far is a testament to just how willing they were to sellout their country. I mean that's just a fact JACK! Don't kid yourself thinking either one of these bozos represent you for even one minute. You think that $50 or $100 contribution compares with the hundreds of billions they got from multinational corporate interests? Think again folks. These fools are bought and paid for, and they sure as hell don't work for you. WAKE UP. Denial can be deadly...

Don't you just love the false indignation of the Democrats who don't have a clue in the world how to solve this mess other than spending money they don't have on massive government handouts? Who says you can't buy votes!

Keep on talking Mr. Gramm. God bless you for "helping" the McSame campaign!!

mcCain could give a speech like Obama and pull out the RACE CARD.

McCain should give a speech like Obama about how he is misunderstood because he is being picked on because he is black.

Oh he can't play the race card like Obama/

The only whiners are the media and Democrats. They are a disgrace to this free country.

What are Democrats whining about today should be the story