A Gift from Jesse

Eternity I hope for the sake of this great nation that the mistake of carter will not be repeated.

let's see Idealist who promotes "change" in Washington Dialogue with rogue states, unilateral disarmament.

could be a tag line for any of these three unqualified individuals.

The youth vote is the most worrisome as they have jumped unto the idealist bandwagon. They have not yet learned that just because someone promises something ; they may not always live up to it. Just saying it does not make it so.

like they say: when you are young you're a liberal , conservatism comes with age and experience.

Know why McCain wants to distance himself from former Senator Phil Gramm? It is not just because of Gramm's recent obnoxious remarks calling Americans "a nation of whiners" and that unemployed Americans are in "a mental recession." In fact, those remarks were so obnoxious that I wonder if they were engineered just to provide McCain an excuse for publicly distancing himself from Gramm. This issue is a lot deeper than it looks on the surface.

When Gramm was a Senator he was chair of the Committee on Banking, and in that capacity he was able to push through the legislation now known as the "Enron Loophole." This loophole allowed US investment banks to bypass the Federal regulations governing futures trading, and is the reason why the 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 was a member of McCain's campaign team, but now Gramms' name is turning to mud. In addition to the Enron loophole, Gramm pushed through the Gramm-Leach-Biley Act in 1999, which got rid of the laws that seperate banking, insurance and brokerage activities in America. Essentially, this Act did away with all of the good 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, Wall Street is highly unstable, and we are in the midst of a recession.

Now you could say that this is not Gramm's fault, that he didn't know what the outcome of his actions would be. However, it turns out that the same investment banks that benefited from the Enron loophole and from the Gramm Act gave more than a million dollars to Gramm's campaign. Uh oh. A Congressional hearing is going to be convened to investigate this. And McCain wants to have noting to do with Gramm, wants us to forget that Gramm has been a key player on McCain's campaign team. Gramm was McCain's campaign CO-CHAIR and LEADING ECONOMIC ADVISER.

With Gramm in the driver's seat as his leading economic adviser, now you know why economists and analysts are saying that McCain's economic policy plans are untenable.

Some folks are so desperate they are focusing on Senator Obama's decision not to let his children be interviewed again.....
Perhaps, your desperation is really caused by the last 7+ years of incompetent and often corrupt governance -- the kind provided by our current President and the kind highly likely to continue under Senator John Sidney McCain III. May I suggest you check out some real solutions to our growing problems (which are most definitely NOT psychosomatic!) http://www.barackobama.com/issues/

I grew up without a father too. I must say How much of a fool is Jackson. That one is on you Jackson and thats the best laugh EVER. Why don't you and the Rev .Sharpton hold hands and simply disappear .America loves Obamma !

What a nation of whiners! WE need the patriotism that we had in the war of 1812. We need to be grateful of what we have now compared to what we want (not need in the future) I think the election is slim pickens anyway. No one has all the answers these days! Anyone of you try to go run for president! I bet you don't last two months in the campaign.

The Jesse comment was staged without a doubt. He knew the cameras and mic were on.

Obama is desparate to move to the middle and appeal to white voters. And it shows.

Why does everyone think the media is on Obama's side? What about the whole Reverend Wright fiasco that drove the news cycle for weeks? What about all the criticism he got over refusing to wear an American flag lapel? What about the msm's responsibility for starting the rumors that he's a Muslim? If anything the media's been tougher on Obama than Hillary or McCain.

Howard, you are a filthy cheerleader and you have been from day one. You are also sexist but we just can't use the S word in the media, can we? West Virginia, my ass. You are increidbly stupis if you think more than half of Clinton voters will vote for Obama. The best he can hope for is they don't vote for either.

Newsweek is more biased than Fox news and I never thought I would say that. But you overly paid people don't care about issues, only style. Issues don't involve you. Lofty vague rhetoric will not improve the economy or education, lower the price of gas and offer a substantive policy on the Middle East.

I'm a responsible parent of two children. One of which attends the top school in the state of Pa. I'm offended by any comments Obama may have made regarding adult African-American men and "boys." Caucasian men are, well men, and men at times don't do well by their offspring. This is not a race issue, it's a sex issue. Women tend to care for their offspring more than men for whatever reasons. I'm not defending irresponsible African-American or Caucasian men -- just feel offended that the 1st African-American man to legitimately run for the highest office in the land feels the need to repeat the Caucasian mantra....

So....The Rev Jackson says he wants to cut Obama's nuts off and that's a GOOD thing. Only Newsweek could take a comment like that and spin it around. Amazing....