Defensive McCain Campaign Emails Out Youtube Clip of McCain Bashing Own Economic Adviser

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