Obama Challenges McCain's New Definition of the 'Fundamentals' That Are Strong

People don't follow sound bites that the media provides, they are to get an audience. Check into the candidates their voting in the last few years, their policy for the future.

Obama's tax plan will hurt all people it is sold as more money for the lower and middle class when they too will be paying a much larger portion of their taxes.

Check into things, Obama has no concept of the economy or money - Tony Rezko owns his home. And most things he says he follows McCain.

Change and more of the same, yes that's what your offering Obama.

Please Americans look into these things with Snopes and your favorite news sources you will learn about the real candidates. Don't just follow a party, don't follow a sound bite.

Do what is best for you, your family, your job and your safety.

The economy for the last 4 years is more of a democrat issue than a republican one, since congress has been in democrat controll during that time. A president can only do so much with out level of checks and balances. Can't point any one person or party, have to make choices overall that help everyone.

"The state of the Dow today cannot be attributed to the economy as a whole, but instead to the failure of one of America's largest investment banks that got burned through its investment in subprime mortgage funds. "
Posted by: Stephen Gianelli | Sep 15, 2008 8:25:10 PM-------------------------------------------

You are as clueless as McCain. It wasn't a failure of ONE investment bank. One is going bankrupt, another was luckily purchased before it had to go bankrupt, and AIG is having to borrow just to stay afloat.

We are responsible, for whoever we choose as president. If we choose McCain, we should bear responsibility for that choice, if we choose Obama, we should bear responsibility for that choice. So for economy, America's stand in the world, we would bear responsibilty for whoever we pick as president. If the country gets worse, the economy crashes and we lose our stand in the world as number one because of who we pick as president, its not the president's fault but ours.

Not so "Sam". I live in Dallas county. At the 2006 mid-term election the voters threw out EVERY SINGLE REPUBLICAN who ran for office. EVERY ONE. From district attorney to dog catcher. McCain had not better take Texas for granted any more. Remember, Texas was Democratic LONG before it fell for the Repub nonsense. Take your tampon and smoke it you cretin.

I always wondered exactly what McCain meant by 'country first'. At first, I figured that it signalled a change in the standard Republican position of putting their party before their country, but now I'm not so sure. Does this mean that McCain doesn't agree with the premise 'one country under God?' Thats been in the pledge of alliegance for about fifty years now, does he want to go back to the original?

Debra - please accept my apology. You are obviously sincere in your beliefs. Sincerity is good for all of us.

Samantha and Debra - thanks I found it. Although I'm wondering why this only appears on the NY Post and FOX News.... Still, something to think about.

The king of voter fraud Obama and his asociation with ACORN....this election will be fixed and it's going to make the Bush/Gore debacle look like a teaparty.....it'll be a month before we know who won and Obama/Axlerod will be playing dirty Chicago politics again.

wade:...yes that does count

Palin said she would cooperate in troopergate and now refuses even after her husband has been subpoenaed.

If it were Barack & Michelle Obama in this mess what would the media and republicans be doing?

Flash Overdrive - well said. Not that I'm cynical or anything.....

Chris in Texas,....read the NY Post...google Obama to delay Iraq troop withdrawl.

How about McCain just keep challenging the fraud to town halls? The tone of this campaign wouldn't have to be this way IF OBAMA DIDN'T RUN SCARED. Hillary encountered this and when he wouldn't meet her for debates, they took a more negative tone because Obamai wouldn't MAN UP!
McCain needs to keep hammering this empty suit to MEET HIM FOR 10 TOWN HALLS! HE RUNS ON SCARED...BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA!
McCain you keep challenging him on that or the ads are just going to keep going more negative!

Samantha - the "washington post" is a big entity. Please provide the link to the article so we can all read it.

BarbaraD - I agree with you to a point. McCain now says that financial institutions need more regulation. He conveniently forgets that he and his party are responsible for the very deregulation that he now wants to reverse. Where was he during the S & L debacle? Answer - having dinner with John Keating. He can't have it both ways. He can't be the "maverick" outsider when he is the consummate insider.

The facade of government authority is too weak at present for the ruling class to allow McCain to win. This is evidenced by his fellow Republicans beginning to throw him under the bus. The ruling class, it appears, has decided that McCain doesn't have what it takes to keep the opposition loyal. I for one am glad that we are going to have a black president, and yet, in the end it hardly matters what race our overseer is - we're still on a plantation after all.

Actually it's called being responsible. While portraying the economy as a disaster may have short-term gain for Senator Obama, it will not help the situation as the market is largely driven be the confidence of investors at any given time. Mr. McCain has acknowledged that our financial institutions need to have more regulation and that he knows that it is a difficult time for Americans. Trashing the economy is putting politics before responsible governing. GW Bush did the same thing prior to being elected which no doubt helped worsen, in the short run, the decline in the stock market that came in the wake of the dot-com bust. Obama, as usual, puts himself first.

So "Samantha". You've posted the same "story" a number of times here without identifying the source. Can you provide a link to this article?

JOHN MCCAIN during the banking and housing crisis:
"The fundamentals of the economy are strong."

HERBERT HOOVER during the Great Depression:
"The economy is fundamentally sound."

McCain just doesn't get it. Vote Obama.

Samantha

The New York Post is owned by Rupert Murdoch, who happens to own Fox "News".

The story is a lie.

MidWestLady - the days where this country can produce leaders like Lincoln and FDR are long gone. The American dream has been inherited by "lesser men". Politicians of both major parties put party first, American people second. Their only purpose is to attain and maintain power for its own sake. Every election cycle they pander to us because they need our votes. Once elected they go do whatever they want without regard for our needs. Personally, I fell for Bush's "compassionate conservatism" line. Mea culpa. What separates the Bush administration from all administrations since Nixon is that Bush is completely honest about it. Anyone remember what Cheney said when told that the American people did not approve of the Iraq war? He looked right into the camera and said "so what".