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October 14, 2008 9:37 AM
Our Good Morning America look at the new economic proposals from Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Barack Obama, D-Ill., can be watched here.
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October 14, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (118)
Unpolitically correct - Why don't you just keep the same moniker? It's so much easier. I'm not sure where you're from and I'm sure it's a nice place, but we don't keep our birth certificates in vaults here. We don't have reliqueries like they do in the Vatican vaults (although Gd knows what the with hunter Palins have) and generally vaults are where we put the ashes of our deceased. We usually keep our birth certificates in our desks, or sometimes at the bank.
This also has absolutely nothing to do with John McCain's 30th economic plan in 30 days. Who is coming up with these? Meghan?
Posted by: mara | Oct 14, 2008 11:34:05 PM
Not John McCain. Who in the heck has capital gains? Is he kidding? In NORMAL times, more than 75% of this applies only to millionaires. What happened to Main Street McPalin? Also, I just don't see how encouranging more withdrawl from the market is going to get us out of this mess. It's going to do the opposite. McCain's plan is for the rich. And it's not even good for the rich - if they happen to need any help involving medical research - McCain is calling for an overall freeze. That means breast cancer research, prostate cancer research, MS research, Alzheimer's research ... and aren't we already behind the Chinese, the Japanese, the Taiwanese India and SINGAPORE on research? Anybody happen to look at his list of economists? Phil Gramm and his wife don't inspire confidence. Neither does somebody from a Junior College in Orange County. I started to match names against donations to McCain - there were an awful lot of correlations. Sorry, but I'm sticking to Paul Volcker and Warren Buffett.
Posted by: mara | Oct 14, 2008 11:29:14 PM
It's sooooo sad to see so many blue collar workers supporting Mcain. I say IF McCain wins, it will be interesting to see these same workers scrambling for jobs like roaches once the lights are turned on.
Posted by: Jake | Oct 14, 2008 9:20:12 PM
Mc-Noooooooooooooooo!
McNot-A-Good-Idea!
McNot-Again...
Posted by: Save us from Republicans! | Oct 14, 2008 6:57:13 PM
ZERO foreign policy experience + Trip to Kenya to help campaign so that his murderous cousin get elected to a govermental position + Voted against the surge + voted agaisnt funding of our troops + No idea that Russia has VETO power + Voted 94% with Democrats + Vote to increase taxes on those making $42,000 + voted 94 times to either increase taxes or not cut taxes + voted against the born-alive-act + Member of the New Socials Group + Allocating $50 millions to radicalize education with Ayers + Joe Biden and his plaerism while in office and law school (we will say this includs Biden's IGNORANCE all together)Ayers + Rev. Wright + (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) + ACORN + Giving $800,000 to ACORN for what appears to be committing fraud/forgery + Farrakhan + Rezko + Raines + Khali Al-Mansour + Communist Frank Marshall Davis + Rashi Khalidi + Refusal to show full length vault copy of Birth Certificate + Refusal to prove he is no longer an Indonesian Citizen + Refusal to show college transcripts to prove he actually graduate from college denoting his grades + Refusal to show thesis (which is something America will not appreciate from what I hear) + Michele Obama and her racists comments + Michelle Obama "for the first time "being proud" of America in her adult life"=
Shady Character/Liar/Deceitful/Untrsutwrothy/
Dangerous/Criminal Like Behavior....etc...etc..
LOL.......Yes....shall we keep going with Obama's record, or lack off.....I need to take a friggin break from listing ALL the reasons Obama is dangerous for this country....I eagerly await your reply, of course!
Posted by: UnPoliticallyCorrect2008 | Oct 14, 2008 5:35:42 PM
William...if we are going to break it down that way......
ZERO foreign policy experience + Trip to Kenya to help campaign so that his murderous cousin get elected to a govermental position + Voted against the surge + voted agaisnt funding of our troops + No idea that Russia has VETO power + Voted 94% with Democrats + Vote to increase taxes on those making $42,000 + voted 94 times to either increase taxes or not cut taxes + voted against the born-alive-act + Member of the New Socials Group + Allocating $50 millions to radicalize education with Ayers + Joe Biden and his plaerism while in office and law school (we will say this includs Biden's IGNORANCE all together)Ayers + Rev. Wright + (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) + ACORN + Giving $800,000 to ACORN for what appears to be committing fraud/forgery + Farrakhan + Rezko + Raines + Khali Al-Mansour + Communist Frank Marshall Davis + Rashi Khalidi + Refusal to show full length vault copy of Birth Certificate + Refusal to prove he is no longer an Indonesian Citizen + Refusal to show college transcripts to prove he actually graduate from college denoting his grades + Refusal to show thesis (which is something America will not appreciate from what I hear) + Michele Obama and her racists comments + Michelle Obama "for the first time "being proud" of America in her adult life"=
Shady Character/Liar/Deceitful/Untrsutwrothy/
Dangerous/Criminal Like Behavior....etc...etc..
LOL.......Yes....shall we keep going with Obama's record, or lack off.....I need to take a friggin break from listing ALL the reasons Obama is dangerous for this country....I eagerly await your reply, of course!
Posted by: UnPoliticallyCorrect2008 | Oct 14, 2008 5:30:52 PM
In 2006, McCain was the keynote speaker at an ACORN convention in FL
Posted by: William J. LePetomaine | Oct 14, 2008 2:58:05 PM
McCain + spiritual advisor Rev. Parsley + Rev. Hagee = EXTREMISM!
Posted by: William J. LePetomaine | Oct 14, 2008 2:56:15 PM
McCain + Keating + Fannie/Freddie lobbyists + Convicted felon G. Gordon Liddy + US Council on World Freedom and Iran/Contra + $214,000 contribution from Keating + wife's money in AZ tied to mob + junkets to Bahama's estate of Keating + against GI Bill + 17 votes in 5 years for deregulation + 90% voting record with Bush + Palin's abuse of power = CORRUPTION
Posted by: William J. LePetomaine | Oct 14, 2008 2:54:50 PM
I give you Obamabots the benefit of the doubt if your precious Messiah just "happened" to cross paths with Ayers or just "happened to have made a mistake by making deals with Rezko", but COME ONE.......look at all of his shady and DANGEROUS dealings, some to which the tax payers have had to pay for........
Ayers + Rev. Wright + (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) + ACORN + Giving $800,000 to ACORN for what appears to be committing fraud/forgery + Farrakhan + Rezko + Raines + Khali Al-Mansour + Communist Frank Marshall Davis + Rashi Khalidi + Refusal to show full length vault copy of Birth Certificate + Refusal to prove he is no longer an Indonesian Citizen + Refusal to show college transcripts to prove he actually graduate from college denoting his grades + Refusal to show thesis (which is something America will not appreciate from what I hear) =
Shady Character/Liar/Deceitful/Untrsutwrothy/
Dangerous/Criminal Like Behavior....etc...etc..
If McCain hung around a domestic terrorist whom blew up buildings and said he didn't do enough or if he attened a KKK church for over 20 years.....their would be RIOTS in the streets......
Political Correctness is the DOWNFALL of this society!!!
Posted by: UnPoliticallyCorrect2008 | Oct 14, 2008 2:27:34 PM
"this is the first time in my adult life I have "happy" with America"....
WOW...I cannot wait until she goes around spewing her hatred to American School Children across the nation and bullies her way around the nation as she did around the law firm she worked at. or rather pretended to work at.....
"Vote for the American Hero..not the anti-American Zero"
Posted by: UnPoliticallyCorrect2008 | Oct 14, 2008 2:00:26 PM
Again....Obama could not make a low income housing project work in Chicago---How on earth is Obama going to fix the entire US Economy?
answer: He is not, especially when he is proposing to tax 63% of small businesses, the very businesses that make up 75% of the US economy.
End Result: High prices for product, this increases the taxes we pay on those products and less jobs--Yes, that us real smart!
For those Hispanic voters--Listen to the Democratic Congressman from Puerto Rico.......Obama is threatening your businesses as well, which is why he changed his vote from Obama to McCain.
Posted by: UnPoliticallyCorrect2008 | Oct 14, 2008 1:54:43 PM
What type of campaign says "since the economy is bad and we really don't have an answer, we are going to attack Obama's character because that will show we love America and all it stands for."
Way to be country first... or not!
We want to hear about the issues and the middle class from Johnny McShame not his POW stories!
Posted by: VA's not voing McCain | Oct 14, 2008 1:30:00 PM
Let’s see what would happen if McCain sat in a white supremacist, anti-American church for 20 yrs? If he associated with unrepentant terrorists and started his presidential campaign in a terrorist’s living room? If he would not give Americans the details of his college life, transcripts, health records, and birth certificate? If his wife spouted off how she was just now proud of her country? If he gave $800k or more to ACORN to get out the voter fraud for the repubs? If he flipped on every issue since the primary? If he planned to raise taxes and begin socialism and disguised it as “fairness for the middle class?” If he had truth squads arresting people against him and had his supporters spewing sexist slurs every day? You get my point. I bring this up to the bots and ask them what if McCain had done all this? They have nothing to say except “McCain is more of the same” and the line of this election…”you’re a racist.” The bots are useless morons who would follow any cult that gave them free reign with the media and local authorities to run around in mayhem terrorizing people, trashing cars, and getting in people’s faces.
If McCain had done 1 single thing on this list, his career would have been over. Bozo just says I didn’t do it or I didn’t know or you’re racist. This is the most disgusting, piece of CRAP election in history.
Posted by: HP Boston | Oct 14, 2008 11:59:10 AM
** I don't remember Obama calling McLame a racist-- McLame has been the only one hurling insults. Him and Batwoman. But it's not sticking and thats what hurts
*The people of America know the truth shall set you free... something the republican ticket refuses to tell
Posted by: VA's not voing McCain | Oct 14, 2008 1:26:33 PM
What kind of street slang is that? "hating on my viepoints"
Go back to school and learn how to speak.
and to all those hating on my viewpoints... this is the reason why the republican ticket will not win! too busy trying to blame everyone else instead of looking in the mirror!
Posted by: VA's not voing McCain | Oct 14, 2008 11:59:15 AM
Posted by: darryl from indy | Oct 14, 2008 12:07:55 PM
**at least I can spell it! you can't talk about the issues because you don't know them. Or how to spell either. It's sad... how old are you exactly?
Posted by: VA's not voing McCain | Oct 14, 2008 1:23:53 PM
This year is not the first time ACORN has been caught red-handed with fraud
and voter registering. The Democrats knew this yet support this type of action and group. Each known duplicate should be considered a crime. Heads should roll. It discourages honest people from voting knowing the system is corrupt. Thousands of forms and not enough time or personnel to determine the legal voters.
Posted by: Mary | Oct 14, 2008 1:22:01 PM
Suckers
You can judge the magnitude of the smashing defeat Republicans believe they are approaching by the scale of lying and bogus charges of vote fraud. But organized lying from partisans should not surprise us. What does deserve censure is how readily mainstream media organizations, including CNN, are picking up these bogus stories and running with them. We'd like to start calling them out. So please send us examples when you see them.
send examples to TPM
Posted by: Bhrandon | Oct 14, 2008 1:15:58 PM
A review of Obama’s voting record in Illinois and in the U.S. Senate – where he is identified as the most liberal Senator - is evidence of his continuing support of the socialist goals he trained his ACORN followers to pursue.
The “change” he so desperately seeks is to change America from a nation that thrives on capitalism, free-markets, private property, and individual freedom, to a socialist nation in which government sets wages, provides housing, manages markets, and dictates to every individual what may, and may not, be done.
Vote for the American Hero..not the anti-American Zero
Posted by: CrystalD | Oct 14, 2008 1:10:32 PM
NY Post is a rag. No one should believe anything in it.
Posted by: zz | Oct 14, 2008 12:51:39 PM
To Mike NC,
You may want to pick a different battle than defending ACORN. Try a diversionary tactic onto the economy, Palin, anything. ACORN is one story that Obama wants to go away.
Posted by: Woody | Oct 14, 2008 12:43:18 PM
also as anyone who has noticed lately people dont have to listen to subpoenas
todd palin didnt listen to his
karl rove ignored his
sarah palin ignored hers
i mean subpoena basically means nothing anymore
Posted by: Bhrandon | Oct 14, 2008 12:42:44 PM
sandy b
by your own account.... he was caught and the vote rejected
Posted by: Bhrandon | Oct 14, 2008 12:41:29 PM
"So again show me this story or forever be known as a lair!"
It's on today's nypost site under their News tab.
Posted by: Woody | Oct 14, 2008 12:41:24 PM
darryl from indy
No one doubts that fake names havent been registered!
Its illegal for acorn to destroy registration forms even if they think or know they are fake Acorn puts them in a stack flag as suspect!
Its not voter fraud its registation fraud... Given that ACORN flags them as suspect the fake ones should be denied by officals!
The ACORN scare is as the BBC says!
More political stunts!
Posted by: Mike NC | Oct 14, 2008 12:40:45 PM
SandyB
Can you tell me where I can find this story you speak of ??
"whose registration turned out to be fraudulent, showed up for early voting, and proceeded to cast his ballot, which was later cancelled."
How can his registration be fraudulent ?
If he registered and its in his name how can it be fraudulent ?
"He was also subpoenaed to testify at the hearings in Ohio yesterday and never appeared."
Why would he be subpoenaed to testify ?
If your "story" was true he wouldnt testify because he would be facing charges for comiting voter fraud!
So again show me this story or forever be known as a lair!
Posted by: Mike NC | Oct 14, 2008 12:33:48 PM
Fact:
Cartoon character's application, which included stamped ACORN logo, rejected by Florida officials over the summer
Posted by: darryl from indy | Oct 14, 2008 12:30:02 PM
Obama/Biden is what will be good for us and our children.
Posted by: becky | Oct 14, 2008 12:29:04 PM
"Yesterday, Obama unveils his economic plan to help the middle class, the market skyrockets."
Hmm - too bad he didn't speak earlier, then the US Treasury/Fed and European countries wouldn't have had to nationalize banks to ease interbank lending, using billions in taxpayer funds as the leverage. (Oh wait - was that change in banking structure the reason the market skyrocketed? ... Obama must have been behind that as well)
Posted by: Bnk | Oct 14, 2008 12:20:34 PM
There is now evidence of VOTER FRAUD in the ACORN case.
New article out today says that one of the people registered by ACORN in Ohio, whose registration turned out to be fraudulent, showed up for early voting, and proceeded to cast his ballot, which was later cancelled.
He was also subpoenaed to testify at the hearings in Ohio yesterday and never appeared.
This guy was caught, but you can only wonder how many won't be.
Posted by: SandyB | Oct 14, 2008 12:17:18 PM
All THESE PEOPE TALKING ABOUT ACORN NEED TO READ THIS POSTED BY KELLIE OVER THE LAST FEW DAYS AND THEN WATCH THE STORY ON THE BBC SITE:
The BBC did a really good piece on the truth about ACORN saying that:
ACORN IS THE SMOKE SCREEN FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY... KNOWING THAT THEY ARE GOING TO LOSE RATHER THAN ADMIT THAT THEY HAVE BAD POLICIES AND IDEAS THEY INTEND TO BLAME IT ON ACORN...
SHOULD THE ELECTION BE CLOSE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WILL TRY TO USE THE COURTS TO ELECT THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES INTO OFFICE...
THIS IS THE GAME PLAN FOX IS SETTING THE GROUND WORK
ACORN IS A SMOKE SCREEN!
Posted by: Mike NC | Oct 14, 2008 12:15:54 PM
We cant believe anything McCain says - he changes every other day - McCain has become irrelevant. .............
Posted by: Ohg Rea Tone | Oct 14, 2008 12:15:47 PM
R's have gone organic on me, man.
ACORNs for breakfast, ACORNs for lunch, ACORNs for Supper, ACORNs
for dessert. Haven't you guy's figured out the mysterious invivible hand of the market you so worhip. Nobody is buying ACORN. Nobody is eating ACORN.
Try something else.
Posted by: ricky | Oct 14, 2008 12:13:12 PM
What kind of street slang is that? "hating on my viepoints"
Go back to school and learn how to speak.
and to all those hating on my viewpoints... this is the reason why the republican ticket will not win! too busy trying to blame everyone else instead of looking in the mirror!
Posted by: VA's not voing McCain | Oct 14, 2008 11:59:15 AM
Posted by: darryl from indy | Oct 14, 2008 12:07:55 PM
hp boston
mccain was involved iwth keating his career isnt over
mccain was involved with people involved in the iran contra scandal
his career isnt over
palin abuses her power for personal use her career isnt over
palin has a witch hunter pray for her
her career isnt over
if obama had those ties do you think his career would be over?
Posted by: Bhrandon | Oct 14, 2008 12:07:39 PM
hp boston how is the election being stolen by acorn?
i have some pictures of john mccain hanging with acorn people... are they stealing the election for him too?
just because someone is registered they still have to confirm their address and place of residence or their names are taken out of the roles
sooo while payed people are inflating their registration numbers to get payed more, those registrees arent actually voting
unlike the republicans tried and true method of dead voters turning up to vote for their candidates
Posted by: Bhrandon | Oct 14, 2008 12:06:02 PM
geevill
Obama Foreclosure Freeze is deiffernt thn Hiillary's plan which mcCain has adopted McCains (Hillarys old) plan cost $350 billion and McCain plan is even worse as it pays face value its really more of a bank life line not a people saving measure like Hillary's was..
Barack makes banks that take American tax payers money from the $750 Billion bailout have to freaze those home Foreclosures for 90 days it costs the tax payers nothing! If the banks want our money then they should look out for us!
Posted by: Mike NC | Oct 14, 2008 12:02:11 PM
and to all those hating on my viewpoints... this is the reason why the republican ticket will not win! too busy trying to blame everyone else instead of looking in the mirror!
Posted by: VA's not voing McCain | Oct 14, 2008 11:59:15 AM
Let’s see what would happen if McCain sat in a white supremacist, anti-American church for 20 yrs? If he associated with unrepentant terrorists and started his presidential campaign in a terrorist’s living room? If he would not give Americans the details of his college life, transcripts, health records, and birth certificate? If his wife spouted off how she was just now proud of her country? If he gave $800k or more to ACORN to get out the voter fraud for the repubs? If he flipped on every issue since the primary? If he planned to raise taxes and begin socialism and disguised it as “fairness for the middle class?” If he had truth squads arresting people against him and had his supporters spewing sexist slurs every day? You get my point. I bring this up to the bots and ask them what if McCain had done all this? They have nothing to say except “McCain is more of the same” and the line of this election…”you’re a racist.” The bots are useless morons who would follow any cult that gave them free reign with the media and local authorities to run around in mayhem terrorizing people, trashing cars, and getting in people’s faces.
If McCain had done 1 single thing on this list, his career would have been over. Bozo just says I didn’t do it or I didn’t know or you’re racist. This is the most disgusting, piece of CRAP election in history.
Posted by: HP Boston | Oct 14, 2008 11:59:10 AM
Why does the maverick have to always wait until after Obama makes a decision before he and the Rove team come up with their version of what do.They waited until Obama chose Biden then they chose Palin,now he comes up with his economic plan after Obama's can they not think of anything to do without having to wait and see what the other team is doing this shows very poor leadership on their part.The maverick should be the one the one doing things first.The only thing they can do mavericky is try and smear someone image.
Posted by: damehen | Oct 14, 2008 11:57:03 AM
To VA Not Voting For McCain:
GOOD FOR YOU!
There's a reason McCain is pulling the uneducated vote in VA while the educated are pulling the lever for Obama!
Posted by: Grissom | Oct 14, 2008 11:53:32 AM
**VA's voted for Republicans for 40 years... its crazy we're even fathoming voting for a democrat and I know it drives you crazy... it's not going to change the fact though republicans don't like McLame nor Failin...Plus the demographics of VA has changed... and so have the people. VA is for lovers and blue!
Posted by: VA's not voing McCain | Oct 14, 2008 11:56:30 AM
Shame on you Jake. I am waiting for the follow-up on the Oregon yard sign bombings and the Joe Louis rematch video.
Posted by: ricky | Oct 14, 2008 11:55:21 AM
To VA Not Voting For McCain:
GOOD FOR YOU!
There's a reason McCain is pulling the uneducated vote in VA while the educated are pulling the lever for Obama!
Posted by: Grissom | Oct 14, 2008 11:53:32 AM
Sorry but your love for Bill Clinton does not mean that everything he did was Golden LOL Far from it though he did enact some great economic plans.
Obama will far exceed Clinton in the long run even if it is just by not putting the United States in a position to be red faced. In other words? Obama will be faithful to his wife.
Posted by: Grissom | Oct 14, 2008 11:52:04 AM
jwh539 says:
"...ignoring important qualifiers like "working families."
OK, define "working families" for me, as if it matters.
"Also, in a quite blatant attempt to mislead (there is no way the WSJ is ignorant of this), his plan includes PAYROLL TAXES too. Every single working family wage earner pays payroll tax."
So what? Everyone pays payroll taxes and never sees them again. We file our INCOME TAXES every year, not PAYROLL TAXES! The IRS is concerned about INCOME TAXES!!! You're reinforcing the point the article makes! Obama claims "tax breaks" for 95% of Americans when it's not true at all! It's called a redistribution of wealth. Obama is deciding who should hand over their hard-earned income to whom. BTW, this is the Tax Foundation's analysis, not some right wing think tank.
Posted by: Woody | Oct 14, 2008 11:50:55 AM
OBAMA FEB 22, 2008
"In San Antonio on Tuesday, Obama said that Clinton’s foreclosure freeze was potentially “disastrous,” rewarding “people who made this problem worse” by benefiting banks that profit from high mortgage rates.
OBAMA OCT 14, 2008
"Obama Advocates Foreclosure Freeze"
What a jerk.
Posted by: geevill | Oct 14, 2008 11:47:51 AM
can anyone tell me why :
Warner Brothers Decides McCain Prison Interview Won't Be Shown Until After Election ????????????????????????
Posted by: Mike NC | Oct 14, 2008 11:40:40 AM
When you have some real dirt on McCain and Palin. Please let me know.
Troopergate is a joke. But a reach for Democrats. Now, lets see if we can find anything on her family. Another reach.
There will be no dirt on them. The idiots who shout out crap about Cindy McCain stealing drugs...shouldn't even have a right to vote.
Maybe you should have to take a test before you vote...that might rule out most of the uneducated Democrats rejoicing for change. They would vote for Scooby Doo...its a change.
Posted by: darryl from indy | Oct 14, 2008 11:39:58 AM
How can a campaign admittedly say they aren't going to talk about the economy because McLame won't win if we talk about something thats affecting us? Does the McLame campaign even think before speaking? That was the most craziest thing I've heard.
"We're going to divert from the issue that matters to Americans the most because we don't have an answer."
Didn't we go through the same thing for the past 8 years?
Posted by: VA's not voing McCain | Oct 14, 2008 11:37:42 AM
"Now that the economy is stable again, I have a plan to stablize it."
A little late there "maverick"
Posted by: In the words of a "Maverick" | Oct 14, 2008 11:33:53 AM
OH THE IRONY
Dont forget First dudes involement with the Alaskin Independent party! you Know those Alaskins who hate America and wont be buried under Americas damn flag, and the Gov did a fundraiser for them and told them to keep up the good work
Posted by: angie | Oct 14, 2008 11:30:45 AM
Mccain has turned SOCIALIST!!
Posted by: angie | Oct 14, 2008 11:27:59 AM
The REPUBLICAN “REFORMERS”
John McCain – guilty of Violation of Ethics
Sarah Palin – guilty of Violation of Ethics
Todd Plain – UNELECTED individual uses power from the Governor’s office to settle personal vendetta
Cindy McCain – guilty of Stealing Drugs from a charity for her own use
Seems what really needs reforming is the Republican leadership!
Posted by: Oh the Irony | Oct 14, 2008 11:27:42 AM
ACORN?? LOL...I guess the folks trying to tout ACORN as some kind of "bad thing" against Obama haven't seen the video of McCain praising ACORN yet....LOL..yep, McCain said that ACORN was "what makes America special".
Posted by: Lynne | Oct 14, 2008 11:25:22 AM
OBAMA and ACORN....Two nuts....in a nutshell. The Polls mean absolutely nothing and history shows that. How many of you here have been polled?
Probably no one.
Posted by: darryl from indy | Oct 14, 2008 11:20:04 AM
** You forgot Troopergate!
Posted by: VA's not voing McCain | Oct 14, 2008 11:23:12 AM
Bush speaks almost every day about the economy for 3 weeks, the result is the market goes down.
Yesterday, Obama unveils his economic plan to help the middle class, the market skyrockets.
Today, McCain unveils his economic plan for Wall Street, the result ????
After watching McCain stumble through most of his prepared speeches, I'm guessing the market will drop today.
Posted by: Dan | Oct 14, 2008 11:23:02 AM
**see thats the issues with conservatives. Always trying a tactic instead of talking about the issues. Trying to devert talking about the economy because as he said McLame knows very little about the economy. Sarah Palin abusing power. Conservatives are the biggest screw ups and the biggest hypocrites! lol must be good to vote for those types of people. Corrupt idiots! whoo! Country First (unless it doesn't mess with the wealthy people)!!
Posted by: VA's not voing McCain | Oct 14, 2008 11:22:16 AM
Scotty, I've landed at the Republican Convention.
You can beam me up, there's no intellegent life here.
Posted by: Kirk knows | Oct 14, 2008 11:21:47 AM
Oh, the Irony
I was just thinking the same thing!
Posted by: Mike NC | Oct 14, 2008 11:20:47 AM
OBAMA and ACORN....Two nuts....in a nutshell. The Polls mean absolutely nothing and history shows that. How many of you here have been polled?
Probably no one.
Posted by: darryl from indy | Oct 14, 2008 11:20:04 AM
Odd that McCain/Parrot are touting Ronald Reagan as the quintessential Republican
Reagan RAISED corporate taxes while in office, he did not lower them.
That's EXACTLY what Obama has been saying!
And McCain's $300 Billion ADDITIONAL tax dollars to buy out banks with bad mortgage debt is 100% SOCIALIST policy.
Too Ironic!
Too ironic
Posted by: Oh, the Irony | Oct 14, 2008 11:17:10 AM
Virginians don't like John McCain at this point believe me! he hasn't even came to sw VA where most of his votes would come from yet Obama's been all over the state. he won't win VA because VA is for lovers and not idiots!
Posted by: VA's not voing McCain | Oct 14, 2008 11:15:56 AM
ACORN also along with Obama blocked showing ID's using racism as their defense at the voting booth so all these fraudulent voters that Obama has can vote
---------------
REALLY. WHERE?
Name a single state this has occured.
Yah, didn't think so.
Posted by: Just make it up as you go right? | Oct 14, 2008 11:13:27 AM
I know how to win the election for Obama. Any time someone tells the truth about Obama lets play the race card.
Posted by: In the Words of a "Maverick" | Oct 14, 2008 11:12:22 AM
ACORN also along with Obama blocked showing ID's using racism as their defense at the voting booth so all these fraudulent voters that Obama has can vote
ACORN-GATE
Posted by: jhw539 | Oct 14, 2008 11:08:26 AM
*they still have to be checked out though! duh!! there are a republican and democrat who work the offices... not just one party. read about it first then comment!
Posted by: Liberal In VA | Oct 14, 2008 11:11:21 AM
Carrie – I’m from Missouri, too, (St. Louis), and I don’t believe you’re right about Obama winning. I just don’t believe the polls. At any rate, you are right on about Steve Stengel and other Dems. We got his flyer at our house, and the first thing we noticed was the words “Conservative Democrat.” And I do remember Jay Nixon using that old McCain is Bush III nonsense, and then he suddenly dropped that line. At least I haven’t heard him use it in any of his ads or his speeches. Nixon knows how basically conservative Missourians are. Democrats in red states will never support the socialist agenda of Pelosi and Reid. Especially the House members because they are re-elected every couple of years. They’ll vote AGAINST their own party because they want to get re-elected in their conservative districts, like Mehlville, where Steve Stengel is running.
Posted by: Laura Berryman | Oct 14, 2008 11:11:18 AM
ACORN also along with Obama blocked showing ID's using racism as their defense at the voting booth so all these fraudulent voters that Obama has can vote
ACORN-GATE
Posted by: jhw539 | Oct 14, 2008 11:08:26 AM
Those whining about ACORN should explain how exactly “voter fraud" is going to happen.
No, not REGISTRATIONS, but VOTES?
So far there's only been accusations. That's it. But, assuming some hourly workers somewhere made mistakes or made a joke out of registrations, HOW will VOTER fraud occur????????
Look at reality instead of meaningless innuendo intentionally put out there to justify VOTER SUPPRESSION:
1) Newly registered voters MUST show an ID to vote. No ID, no vote.
2) ALL registrations are submitted to the states respective voting boards, BEFORE they are certified.
3) ACORN is REQUIRED to submit ALL registrations even if they know they are incorrect or fraudulent.
4) Of the people ACORN registered, 40% were REPUBLICAN.
5) John McCain previously supported ACORN and worked with them.
There are checks in place to prevent voter fraud. Anyone with ant snese knows this.
Voter suppression is MUCH more likely and has been used in the two previous elections. So quit playing with your nuts, and come back to reality.
Posted by: Fact Check | Oct 14, 2008 11:05:31 AM
*I concur!
Posted by: Liberal In VA | Oct 14, 2008 11:07:57 AM
TIM RUSSERT: The fact is you are different than George Bush.
SEN. McCAIN: No. No. The fact is that I have agreed with President Bush far more than I have disagreed. And on the transcendent issues, the most important issues of our day, I’ve been totally in agreement and support of President Bush.
NOW THAT'S MAVERICKY!
Posted by: In the Words of a "Maverick" | Oct 14, 2008 11:07:17 AM
"Obama: “It’s not that I want to punish your success, I just want to make sure that everybody that is behind you, that they have a chance for success too. I think that when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”
That's 0bama's plan in a nutshell. Forcibly take from one group of people to give to another out of some absurd socialist notion of "economic justice".
Posted by: Concerned in OH | Oct 14, 2008 11:03:45 AM
** Better yet lets do nothing to fix it. That will work when you have nothing! No job no retirement no social security... thats stupid!
Posted by: Liberal In VA | Oct 14, 2008 11:07:03 AM
McCain's Prospects Depend on the MEDIA Telling Truth About Obama.
But has that ever happened. Clintons prospects also depended on the media telling the truth about Obama but that never happened.
Now we have ACORN-GATE = OBAMA VOTER FRAUD.
Posted by: jhw539 | Oct 14, 2008 11:06:59 AM
Those whining about ACORN should explain how exactly “voter fraud" is going to happen.
No, not REGISTRATIONS, but VOTES?
So far there's only been accusations. That's it. But, assuming some hourly workers somewhere made mistakes or made a joke out of registrations, HOW will VOTER fraud occur????????
Look at reality instead of meaningless innuendo intentionally put out there to justify VOTER SUPPRESSION:
1) Newly registered voters MUST show an ID to vote. No ID, no vote.
2) ALL registrations are submitted to the states respective voting boards, BEFORE they are certified.
3) ACORN is REQUIRED to submit ALL registrations even if they know they are incorrect or fraudulent.
4) Of the people ACORN registered, 40% were REPUBLICAN.
5) John McCain previously supported ACORN and worked with them.
There are checks in place to prevent voter fraud. Anyone with ant snese knows this.
Voter suppression is MUCH more likely and has been used in the two previous elections. So quit playing with your nuts, and come back to reality.
Posted by: Fact Check | Oct 14, 2008 11:05:31 AM
The Obama campaign hasn't worked with ACORN since primaries... the new ones that were found were for the general elections... not the primaries... get the fact straight!
Posted by: Liberal In VA | Oct 14, 2008 11:05:22 AM
"Obama: “It’s not that I want to punish your success, I just want to make sure that everybody that is behind you, that they have a chance for success too. I think that when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”
That's 0bama's plan in a nutshell. Forcibly take from one group of people to give to another out of some absurd socialist notion of "economic justice".
Posted by: Concerned in OH | Oct 14, 2008 11:03:45 AM
It was Obama and groups like ACORN who actually created the market mess?
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Believe it not, this is what folks on FOX "NEWS" were trying to imply yesterday.
That the economic crisis was caused by ACORN.
They must assume that Pubs are all gullible lemmings. The FOX website is partial, but the TV news is sorediculously scewed to the point of being insulting.
Posted by: Another Dem in Charlottesville, VA | Oct 14, 2008 11:03:00 AM
But the ACORNS organization's real genius is getting American taxpayers to foot the bill in fraudulent voter registrations all with no other than OBAMA's help.
OBAMA OBAMA OBAMA OBAMA OBAMA
Posted by: jhw539 | Oct 14, 2008 11:01:52 AM
Concerned in Ohio: "I don't care what you partisan 0bama disciples say, his proposals are good."
If you mean McCain's proposals are good, you will need to be more specific. While Obama has had a consistent proposal (and detailed white papers on his website) for most of the race, McCain has thrown out many, often conflicting, soundbites. I haven't see a detailed and consistent economic proposal from McCain yet (other than hiding his main economic adviser Mr. "whiners...mental recession" Gramm).
Posted by: jhw539 | Oct 14, 2008
10:56:55 AM
**Thank you jhw. People act like they can't research the issues. Obama layed out a plan months ago thats why he's winning the polls. People who are smart enough to know TV won't give you all the information know where Obama stands with policies which he spends the majority of his time talking about instead of McCain who would rather attack characters (something he lacks). He should stop listening to the Bush campaign leaders and talk to us in very specific sentences what he plans to do in office. Not generalizations, PLANS! Actual plans that people can understand what in the world he's talking about. Unfortunately, I'm not sure even McCain knows or he has a bad case of amnesia!
Sometimes you feel like a nut sometimes you feel like and ACORN.
Obama is was a communtity activist. TO bad people like Obama ruined the name of Community activist with groups like ACORN. Fueling massive illegal voter registration. Also strong arming banks with race card tactics into giving home loans with my money deposted in banks to mostly blacks who in a thousand years could never pay them back and are now defaulting on them in record numbers creating the financial crisis we are in now
SO It was Obama and groups like ACORN who actually created the market mess
Posted by: Liberal In VA | Oct 14, 2008 11:01:25 AM
"TO bad people like Obama ruined the name of Community activist with groups like ACORN."
Before he was making up controversies in a desperate attempt to smear his way into the Whitehouse, McCain was attending and supporting ACORN events (as the recently released pictures from 2006 prove). As I have mentioned before, Republicans have been proven liars so many times and so irrefutably in this election that no one is really willing to believe your rantings anymore, particularly when there are recent pictures of McCain sitting contentedly at an ACORN event...
Posted by: jhw539 | Oct 14, 2008 11:00:36 AM
ACORN-GATE = OBAMA and third world country voter fraud.
Posted by: jhw539 | Oct 14, 2008 10:58:26 AM
Concerned in Ohio: "I don't care what you partisan 0bama disciples say, his proposals are good."
If you mean McCain's proposals are good, you will need to be more specific. While Obama has had a consistent proposal (and detailed white papers on his website) for most of the race, McCain has thrown out many, often conflicting, soundbites. I haven't see a detailed and consistent economic proposal from McCain yet (other than hiding his main economic adviser Mr. "whiners...mental recession" Gramm).
Posted by: jhw539 | Oct 14, 2008 10:56:55 AM
Sometimes you feel like a nut sometimes you feel like and ACORN.
Obama is was a communtity activist. TO bad people like Obama ruined the name of Community activist with groups like ACORN. Fueling massiv