He needs to run with the economic woes. No more weak attacks on Palin and talk about "dishonest campaign." Obama must turn the race into a referendum on McCain and the last eight year.

John McCain, who would not sell his soul to win his party's nomination, is ready to sell every piece of his soul to win the presidency.

Bull. I was at the rally in Jax and I knew the minute John McCain said it that it would be taken out of context and distorted by Obama for maximum gain. Talk about sleazy! Obama and his campaign take the cake.

Economic woes are a result of Republicans policies for the last 8 years. And McCain doesn't offer any difference between his policies from President Bush.

I don't want four more years of the same. Obama needs to hit with the American people with this message over and over again until Election Day and he will win.

But Obama also need to start coming up with some solutions to fix these economic mess that President Bush created. Congress is to be blamed as well.

OBAMA/BIDEN '08

As a middle class republican I will not support McCain Palin. FOLKS WE ARE IS A HUGE CRISIS. The McCain folks just dont get it. Plain is becoming a joke as days go by you hear more lies, lies and more lies. How can we Americans but our trust in this women. I am glad that God is sending us a strong signal Its time for change. I really belive that is not McCain time. I with all due respect will support the best choice in November and its not McCain. I really belive that that Mitt would have been a better choice due to the economic issues. Palin just dont have a clue. I also fell more comfortable with Biden asa vp than Palin. Her skills a very limited.

WOW!!!! -500

WAKE UP AMERICA...THE REPUBLINCANS MUST GO.........I AM A REPUBLICAN AND ILL BE DAMM IF I SUPPORT MCCAIN/PALIN TICKET......THE HAVE BECOME THE LAUGH DUR TO THE DIS HONESTY OF MRS...PALIN

This is a big mess the republicans have made ,you all happy???? Can we do with more of this crap???? Time for REAL change my gosh people what more has to happen to this country before you understand that McCain has been there for 26 years and part of this is his fault>>>>> WAKE UP Think before you vote plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....

Last 2 years the DNC (do nothing congress) has been in charge.

And the economy can be that bad for Obama's "friends".

They are willing to pay $28,500 a plate for a fund raising dinner hosted by "Babs".

How about using some of that money to help the Hurricain victims?

And how about Obama's running mate -- generous Joe. He donated less that .1% of his salary to charity.

Please think before you vote...we are in a huge crisis. Who is in charge? Bush and his cronies...And the congress in always deadlocked because of the republicans...
We will be in a Depression if you vote for Dumb (McSame) and Dumber (lipstick queen).
I heard people say, she's hot! or she gave (read) a good speach.
Have we all lost our minds? I know I haven't...OBAMA/BIDEN 2008

same team
same tactics
same outcome

throw the bums out

how'd the last 8 work for ya?

ask McCain who Phil Gramm really is...about what he wrote when writing McCain's economic platform

and how that differs from all the years he has spent taking money as the Number one lobbyist for deregulatio in the banking and mortgage industries...

Mccain is "changing" our regulation by hiring the guy who pushed for the deregulation in the first place...
(Gramm received 750k just last year alone in lobbyist money to do so)

same team
same tactics
same outcome
9th year

throw the bums out.

susie,

As an American citizen, how much did you give to charity?

susie

there is one big blame for this mess

deregulation

the overwhelming captain of deregulation?

the guy who wrote Mccain's economic platform.

the same guy who received 750k last year alone to fight for deregulation in the banking sector.

Phil Gramm

Same team

same tactics

same outcome

9th year/

throw these bums out.

McCain says he knows how to fix it...but we need a "9/11 Commission" to figure out what to fix??? Because he has no clue!! Hasn't he been part of the "old boy network" in Washington for the past 26 years? No more Bush/McCain. It's time for Change.

OBAMA/BIDEN '08

Reminder to Obama: Bush wanted to tighten oversight with a new regulatory board for Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and other government recipients for the express purpose of addressing bad loan practices — and Democrats blocked it.
The New York Times reported on this 5 years ago:

“The Bush administration today recommended the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis a decade ago.
Under the plan, disclosed at a Congressional hearing today, a new agency would be created within the Treasury Department to assume supervision of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored companies that are the two largest players in the mortgage lending industry.
The new agency would have the authority, which now rests with Congress, to set one of the two capital-reserve requirements for the companies. It would exercise authority over any new lines of business. And it would determine whether the two are adequately managing the risks of their ballooning portfolios.
The plan is an acknowledgment by the administration that oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — which together have issued more than $1.5 trillion in outstanding debt — is broken. A report by outside investigators in July concluded that Freddie Mac manipulated its accounting to mislead investors, and critics have said Fannie Mae does not adequately hedge against rising interest rates.”

This should have been a no-brainer, right? With hindsight, we can see that the Bush administration had accurately diagnosed the problem in the lending market and had a plan to address it. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac reluctantly supported the plan. However, Democrats objected:
Among the groups denouncing the proposal today were the National Association of Home Builders and Congressional Democrats who fear that tighter regulation of the companies could sharply reduce their commitment to financing low-income and affordable housing.
”These two entities — Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — are NOT FACING any kind of financial crisis,” said Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the Financial Services Committee. ”The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.”
Representative Melvin L. Watt, Democrat of North Carolina, agreed.
”I don’t see much other than a shell game going on here, moving something from one agency to another and in the process weakening the bargaining power of poorer families and their ability to get affordable housing,” Mr. Watt said.

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VOTE REPUBLICAN!!!

It would be amazing if Obama had anything intelligent to say about the economy. All he does is wave his arms and engage in personal attacks. Today, he came out with a commercial that attacks a single sentence of a McCain speech and never once mentioned a single syllable about what he'd do with the economy. Not a single syllable!

Obama: Negative and shallow!

How about using some of that money to help the Hurricain victims?

And how about Obama's running mate -- generous Joe. He donated less that .1% of his salary to charity.

Posted by: susie | Sep 16, 2008 9:22:41 AM

How do you know they haven't. And it's no one's business how much someone donates to charity.

erin

We do know that millions of Obama's donations went to an expensive European trip, multiple rock bands, a football stadium, president seal and other wasteful purposes. When one donates to Obama, expect squander!

Instead of a commission, maybe McCain could ask his buddy Phil Gramm to explain what a credit default swap is, and why they are allowed to be used as insurance w/o the normal regulation of a typical insurance policy, and what they have to do with the current meltdown. If Gramm isn't available, maybe McCain can just "do a Google."

This just further illustrates how far out of touch McCain truly is. Republican Herbert Hoover said the economy was fundamentally strong just before the market crash of 1929, followed by the Great Depression. McCain just doesn't get it.