Gaffe Alert!

The glaring facts supporting Gramm's statements are that unemployment over the past 15 years is and has been much lower than it was in the 70's or 80's - that is why this is a "mental" recession, media hype. Americans want low prices from foreign products with high salary jobs that do not involve too much work. (I had a job interviewee tell me this week that October is hunting season and he cannot work then).

The pain felt by Americans is the exercise of global competition. The noise you hear comes from those falling behind, the winners are not whiners.

Finally, Fineman makes the absurd statement that Jackson's crude, vicious, hateful, anti-Christian statement is Plato compared to Gramm??? The conservative view is that free enterprise makes the economic pie bigger while Jackson wants to muscle into a great big slice - for thousands of years that method is an ego trip for the leader. Obama is correct that those who want to obtain greater economic benefits have to make better personal choices-that is how he advanced to Harvard law. The individual benefits come from the contribution to the economic pie, but it is easier to ignore your own failings and whine.

yeah Obama the muslim. So many tears.

Time mag. and Howard Fineman reads like The NY Times far left OP- ED section .
Why doesn't Fineman just say " I love Oboma " and be done with it !
His Line .... Jackson helped Oboma but Graham hurt Mc Cain are both Stupid bias statements and
lacks any common sense . .
Jackson "Thinks " Oboma talks and acts like a out of touch Elite with the BLack communityas do most Whites ..
That is bad .
Graham saying many are CRY BABIES IS HONEST, FAIR AND RIGHT .ALL WE HEAR FROM THE LEFT AND
IN THE MEDIA IS CRYING BABIES
AND HOW BAD THINGS ARE YET WE STILL ARE THE NUMBER ONE ECONOMY IN THE WORLD .
WE EXPORT 28 % ALL WORLD PRODUCTS AND 67 % OF ALL MED.S IN THE WORLD .
SECOND LARGEST EXPORTER IN THE WORLD IS CHINA AT 14 % .
WE DON'T KNOW SADNESS AND HUNGER IN THIS COUNTRY COMPARED TO 4.6 BILLION
HUMAN BEINGS ON EARTH OR WAR ON OUR SOIL IN 200 YEARS(EXCEPT FOR 9/11 ) .
THE REST OF THE ENTIRE WORLD DOES ..... PUT ON SOME BRASS BALLS !
THAT IS WHAT AMERICA IS ABOUT NOT BOOO HOOO !

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.

Posted By: greengal-08 @ 07/11/2008 18:39:30
Comment: Be carefull, 'Pollyanna' when you have your head stuck in the sand you never know what will bite you on the ass!
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A Pollyana? Why, because I express how many of us feel about the Republican Party, its leaders and John McCain, because we take the time to observe him in action? Because our injured servicemen and women are treated like crapola when they return from Aghanisan and Iraq?? Does that make me a know-nothing?? Your comment about the sand was really crude and uncalled for! This says more about YOU and the kind of person YOU are.....UGLY, inside and out! Go sit on the beach and meet a hungry giant crab. :)

the republicans have been steadily dismantling every safeguard against another great depression ever since ronald " the great prevericator" reagan, the most evil, lying, retarded, disaster in the history of this country. yet people still speak affectionately about the idiot. every nasty, divisive, distorted, deceiving,distracting, destructive, dishonest, brainwashing tactic you are complaining about now was started by this pathetic excuse for a leader. the jingoistic foreign policy, bankrupting the country to pay for an unnecessary arms race with a russia that was already in decline- then using this to say we cant afford health care or social security. i honestly believe god gave that clown alzheimers as a punishment, and i like to imagine him lying there, drooling on himself while he watched nancy doing the ranch hands . why do these jerks constantly try to reduce this country to a banana republic- only greed and a lust for power. but the saddest part is- life in a banana republic sucks. what made america great was spreading the wealth around. everybody could have a house and a car and an education. the cities were clean and nobody stole the toilet paper out of the gas station bathroom. go to manila, or tijuana, or haiti- theres phil grahams vision of our future. a dozen millionaires barricaded from the surrounding slums. true misery for rich and poor. if you gave these jerks a hypothetical choice between theyre getting a million a year and their workers getting 50 thousand, and getting half a million and 10 thousand, respectively, theyd go for the half. they can only enjoy their wealth if someone else is suffering. clinton saved us once, and his reward was a constant, unforgiveable, personal attack on himself, his family, and his friends- jailtime for anyone who didnt plea bargain a bogus federal indictment made out of republican witch hunt toilet paper. i think we may be too far gone this time. well if it gets bad enough, and this may give bush, rove, and their crew pause ( i think it already has which, as our forefathers warned us, is the real reason for the patriot act) theres always the french revolution, the russian revolution-- you get the idea- you may yet see some priviledged heads rolling down the street along rush and phils!!!

The only real gaffe is Americans being duped by this phoney , wannabe Christian dummy called Barack Hussein Obama...get the Ku'ran ready for the inaugural you suckers...a Muslim in the White House...looks like Jihad is working !!

This was no GAFFE, this was simple truth about how McCain and the Republicans feel about the economy. Its not the rich people that are hurting. When you make 250K You're doing really well. Five dollar gas? Who cares...bring on $10. The answer for the Republicans...oh lets destroy the planet while we go about solving our energy crisis. Anything but solutions that will actually work? Why? Because the Republicans are Big Oil. They are Bushites and CheneyITES. Both oil men. They are the tax breaks for the oil company while the little guy just eats dirt! Republicans are about giving rich more and the poor nothing. Small Government? Hell the only thing Republicans want to safegaurd is their fat pockets and their million dollar companies. Oh and then they want to take away your right to choose. And they want to destroy that pesky thing like the Constitution of the United States, because the rule of law disturbs them. They want to push their version of morality down the little guys throat. Only the poor are the ones that suffer and then they live in their fine houses and they spend 750K on their credit card and then want ME TO BELIEVE THEY UNDERSTAND? Not only don't they understand the suffering my family feels, Republicans have the gall to tell me I'm WHINING???? I cant go to the doctor to find out if that lump in my breast is cancer because it would mean my kids don't eat. And I am voting for the Democrats this year! Because at least they get it! To hell with McCain and his obsession with winning an unwinnable war. I'm not whining, I'm working hard and I'm barely able to feed my kids. So don't go telling me that I'm whining! I'm living in a three generation home, five adults, two kids and we are pulling our resources and still not making it. Every time we take a step forward we get hit with record high gas prices and a president that can do absolutely nothing constructive but blame congress for not passing offshore drilling?? Its been proven that it won't get us cheaper gas, it won't have any return for at least ten years? *Who comes up with this number?* and in fact, it will all just go overseas. So this is McCain and Bush's grand idea? Oh and of course their is Nuclear. Never mind if Nuclear destroys our planet cause we don't know how to dispose of the waste safely. If I had a car that ran on electricity for the first forty miles, I'd hardly ever have to put gas in my car. Why not give every poor person one of those?

Those who couldn't pay the mortgages that were misrepresented to them by Gramm's fat cats are in the front yard with all of their furniture as Gramm drives by and tells them to quit whining as a hailstorm approaches. It's Uncle Tom's Cabin revisited.