McCain's Power Outage

Know why McCain wants to distance himself from former Senator Phil Gramm? It's not because of Gramm's obnoxious remarks calling Americans "a nation of whiners" who are in "a mental recession." Those remarks were so ascerbic that they may've been made just to give McCain an excuse to distance himself from Gramm. This issue is a lot deeper than it looks on the surface.

When Gramm was a Senator he was Chairman of the Banking Committee. He pushed through the legislation known as the "Enron Loophole." This loophole allowed US investment banks to bypass Federal regulations governing futures trading, and is the reason why investment banks were able to falsely inflate the prices of oil, wheat, corn and other commodities through massive futures trading, causing your costs of gas, heating oil and food to go through the roof.

Gramm also created the Gramm-Leach-Biley Act, which got rid of the laws that seperate banking, insurance and brokerage activities in America. The Gramm Act was touted as a new way to protect consumer privacy, but the real meat on the Act's bones was banking deregulation. Essentially, this Act did away with laws written after the Great Depression to protect us from another Wall Street/Banking Industry collapse. That's right, Gramm stripped the system of it's safe guards nine years ago, and guess what? The value of the dollar has nose-dived, four major economic institutions have failed, Wall Street is unstable, and we are in a worsening recession.

Notably, the US investment banks that gained the most from the Enron Loophole and from the Gramm Act contributed more than a million dollars to Gramm's campaign.

Currently Gramm is Vice Chairman of UBS, the Swiss Bank that came up with the idea of "death bonds." Worse, though, UBS is involved in a scam where they sold auction rate securities to American customers. Auction rate securities are supposed to be as safe as cash, but the way UBS did it, the fees garnished by their in-house investment bankers were intentionally higher than the return on the securities, ripping off their American customers. The Massachusetts Attorney General has already filed charges against UBS, and private brokers world-wide have dropped UBS stock. UBS is forecasted to lose 82.91% of it's value in 2008. We are talking about the corporate bank where Gramm is Vice Chairman. Looking at his track record there and at the havoc he has wrought on the US economy through the Senate Banking Committee, it's clear that either Gramm is a criminal or grossly incompetent.

Now McCain wants nothing to do with Gramm, wants us to forget Gramm has been a key player on McCain's team. Gramm was McCain's campaign CO-CHAIR and LEADING ECONOMIC ADVISOR. Previously, McCain had said that he planned to appoint Gramm as SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY.

With Gramm as McCain's leading economic advisor, now you know why economists and analysts say that McCain's economic policy plans are untenable.

In my opinion, just because Bush McSame3 aka John McCain has windmills and solar panels in his commercials background, FACTCHECK.ORG has done a magnificient job of informing the public that those (windmills and solar panels are just hollywood props). McCain is more for the drilling offshore regardless of what it does to the environment, drilling in Anwar regardless of what it does to that refuge, just drilling for oil anywhere. Where is America's independence from oil if we're still drilling for oil?

I love it...McCain did a 'MAVERICK' commercial. Supposedly breaking away from his party. He is rather the chameleon. Problem is WE'RE NOT BUYING IT. Listen, if the Republican parties loyalist constituency, 'The Religious Right' can not support him because they know he isn't REAL why should we?

This total and just FAIRYTALE like policy he 's 'dreaming up' is just the tip of the 'MELTING ICEBERG', when it comes to his policy on Global Warming. McCain is not really concerned. Anything for political expediency. Yes, America still needs oil. How do we go about getting it? Seems to me this fake 'WHITE HAT', wearing 'TWO GUN' packing, 'COWBOY BOOT wearing, MYTHOLGICAL 'Maverick' John McCain' ideolog, is totally on-board with more of this 'ROGUE' administrations policies of Covert Operations in 'OIL RICH COUNTRIES' A sort of Occupy and Steal policy. He desires to OCCUPY oil Rich Nations and call it something like , "THE WAR ON TERROR" Been there done that, got a tee-shirt, it's a LIE.

Senator Bush McSame is for '...100+ years in Iraq, he's stated, 'It really isn't important when the troops come home....what's more important is the casualties'. I.E. enough American and coalition force trooops (over 8000 dead), haven't lost thier lives, nor (over 2 million innocent Iraqi Mothers, Fathers, brothers and sisters, and innocent babies have died) , that's still not enough. Remember he sang his 'PSTD DRUNKEN' version of, ' BombbombbomB, BombbomB, IRAN'. McSame is nothing more than a WARMONGERING 'ROGUE politician who's desire is WAR AND MORE WAR. A War on the Oil rich so we may replenish our National treasury. He doesn't have a REAL PLAN TO FIX ENRGY AT ALL. He's totally on board with a continued Bush MISUSE of our military mights, WAR effort.

Newsweek, where is the balanced reporting? This is such a one sided article, how can you consider this journalism? Does anyone know where Barack Hussain actually stands on any of these issues? The only times he has made a straight statement to date is after the courts have made a ruling, guns OK, gays ok.

Are we going to see who Hussain is before the election or will he keep hiding from us with his little trips here and there and never answering any questions with a straight answer - like "yes I was a muslim, but not anymore."

Posted By: schlang @ 06/27/2008 2:41:47 AM

"After 143 days of work experience, Obama believed he was ready to be Commander In Chief, Leader of the Free World, and fill the shoes of Abraham Lincoln, FDR, JFK and Ronald Reagan".
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And how many years of work experience does McCain have? 90...give or take?

Well then if he's so keen, and has so much experience, then why did he not show any leadership skills and become a frontrunner and lead on the subject of fuel? And for that matter; many other topics.

Lastly, you just read this story (hopefully) and so I ask...can you honestly say that you totally understand his views? I cannot....simply put: HE HAS SO MANY! And if you cannot see them, I'd have to place you in the category of Stevie Wonder or Helen Keller!

Face reality folks. We as world citizens are using fossil fuel about as fast as they find it and pump it. That doesn't mean to abandon the search but I think it does mean that we must bite the bullet. We either lower our driving or we start buying smaller more fuel efficient cars or we can continue to pay through the nose for fuel. Wind towers and ethanol will never become big time players. There is technology for converting coal into a liquid fuel. Why haven't we pursued that since we have huge coal reserves? The German's were liquifying coal to fuel their panzers during WW II.

If you can afford to fuel a Bugatti Veyron with it's 1250 hp, go break a leg. Me, I will choose a Honda next time around or a German turbo diesel and go for the mileage and lower my contribution of carbon.

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Does anyone actually believe that allowing oil companies to drill up and down our coastlines will result in less-expensive gasoline. Give me a break!

McCain is simply a flip-flopper and needs to be called accurately:

* McCain used to oppose Bush???s tax cuts for the very wealthy, but he supports it.

* In 2005 he said that he opposed the tax cuts because they were ???too tilted to the wealthy.??? By 2007, he denied ever having said this, and insisted he opposed the cuts because of increased government spending.

* McCain strongly opposes a windfall-tax on oil company profits. Three weeks earlier, he was perfectly comfortable with the idea.

* McCain supported the drilling moratorium; now he???s against it.

* McCain thought Bush???s warrantless-wiretap program circumvented the law; now he believes the opposite.

* McCain was against privatizing social security. Now he is for it.

* McCain wanted to change the Republican Party platform to protect abortion rights in cases of rape and incest. Now he doesn???t.

* McCain thought the estate tax was perfectly fair. Now he believes the opposite.

* He opposed indefinite detention of terrorist suspects. When the Supreme Court reached the same conclusion, he called it ???one of the worst decisions in the history of this country.???

* McCain believes the telecoms should be forced to explain their role in the administration???s warrantless surveillance program as a condition for retroactive immunity. He used to believe the opposite.

* McCain supported storing spent nuclear fuel at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. Now he believes the opposite.

* McCain believed the U.S. should engage in diplomacy with Hamas. Now he believes the opposite.

* He wanted political support from radical televangelists like John Hagee and Rod Parsley. Now he doesn???t.

* McCain said before the war in Iraq, ???We will win this conflict. We will win it easily.??? Four years later, McCain said he knew all along that the war in Iraq war was ???probably going to be long and hard and tough.???

* McCain said he was the ???greatest critic??? of Rumsfeld???s failed Iraq policy. In December 2003, McCain praised the same strategy as ???a mission accomplished.??? In March 2004, he said, ???I???m confident we???re on the right course.??? In December 2005, he said, ???Overall, I think a year from now, we will have made a fair amount of progress if we stay the course.???

* McCain went from saying he would not support repeal of Roe v. Wade to saying the exact opposite.

* McCain went from saying gay marriage should be allowed, to saying gay marriage shouldn???t be allowed.

McCain doesn't understand his own energy policy. Is it now politically incorrect to point out that he is confused because you're not supposed to say that about a, um, "chronologically challenged" person?

Here's a good one for all you Anti-Nuclear Obama supporters:

Q: Would you be in favor of developing more nuclear power to reduce oil dependency?

A: I don't think that we can take nuclear power off the table.
--2007 Democratic primary debate at Dartmouth College Sep 6, 2007

Q: What about nuclear power as an alternative energy source?

A: I actually think that we should explore nuclear power as part of the energy mix.
--Source: 2007 YouTube Democratic Primary debate, Charleston SC Jul 23, 2007

7/01/05: Obama voted for HR 2419, termed "The Nuclear Bill" by environmental and peace groups. It provided billions for nuclear weapons activities, including nuclear bunker buster bombs. It contains full funding for Yucca Mountain, a threat to food and water in California, Nevada, Arizona and states across America. Roll call 172

11/14/05: Obama voted again for "The Nuclear Bill" in Roll Call 321. This was the vote on the Conference Report on the Nuclear Bill (HR 2419). As the House had already approved the Conference Report, this was the last opportunity for anyone in Congress to say "no" to this disastrous bill which threatened California's water and food supply and provides billions of dollars for the kind of nuclear weapons activities violative of international law.

11/16/06: Obama voted for nuclear proliferation in voting to pass HR 5682, a bill to exempt the United States-India Nuclear Proliferation Act from requirements of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954. Roll Call 270

4/25/07: Obama voted for S 761 (inclusive of HR 2272), a bill that extensively funded nuclear programs that threaten all life on Earth. Roll Call 146

Obama contradicted himself, saying the Bush administration had done nothing serious about alternative fuels or raising fuel efficiency. Obama said, "We have not seen any serious effort on the part of this administration to spur on the use of alternative fuels, raise fuel efficiency standards on cars."

If the 2005 energy bill signed by President Bush was indeed the "single largest investment in clean energy" ever seen, as Obama says, then it's hard to see how his administration can be faulted for lack of "any serious effort" to promote alternative fuels. Furthermore, another bill Bush signed in December sets a national fuel economy standard of 35 mpg by 2020, the first major increase in vehicle fuel efficiency standards in more than three decades.

It is certainly true that more could be done, and Obama would be within his rights to say that Bush's efforts aren't serious enough to suit him. But claiming a lack of any serious effort at all is contradicted by the record and by Obama's own words.
from factcheck

"Intelliphobia" - The fear of learning FACTS about any political issue from any other source but FOX NOISE and the FOXpublicans. You can tell an "intelliphobe" by their behavior patterns: repeating lies over and over at a higher volume each time; they believe that action makes their lies true. (a technique perfected by Bush). Also refusing to use reason or logic to resond, or they will, when confronted directly, simply not respond at all.
The "intelliphobe" is a dying bread, first showing their faces in late 01 early 02, they were strong then, by the 04 election they had falen off to about 51% of the population, they were how ever able to secure the 04 election, that alone has cost the US over 3000 more children, DEAD in Iraq, because of FEAR of Intelligence. It 06 we saw the fisrt significant CHANGE when Democrats were given a SLIM majority in Congress. (note: this is not a veto proof mahority, and prior to 06 Bush ahd NEVER used his veto pen, since over 100 times). The 51% has now died of to about 15% of Americans who suffer with this illness, and it is expected that between November 08 and Jan 09 they will be almost entirely extinct, with the exceptionof the FOX NOISE GROUP where it is believed this disease started, theirs will be a long process of "healing".
So don't worry, use this information to help them, don't judge them, as they are a dying bread and it is their fear that makes them irrational, and say thind they know to NOT be true. Just try to help them and eventually TOGETHER we will have a great country again ;).