Gaffe Alert!

I agree with Fineman. For McCain to win this year he needs to do just about everything right and let Obama self distruct with his dangerous economic and foreign policy proposals, absurd flip-flops, outright lies, and his associations with the most dangerous and hateful elements of our society. If McCain doesn't kick his campaign into high gear and get the idiots helping him from providing distractions we are going to have Obama as our next President and the whining will really get serious. Hillary 2012!

God forbid that anyone might point out that a lot of Americans are irresponsible in many ways! The price of gas is something we all can "whine" about but the mortgage crisis has a lot to do with stupid decisions made by people in trying to secure mortgages on the cheap! A lot of Americans today think they don't have to work hard and save in order to buy a house and that just shows how stupid they are!

Gramm has a point and Fineman has it coming out of his liberal Obama biased ears in this article.This article is nothing but a hatchet piece! To compare Gramm's statement to what Jackson had to say shows what a liberal hack Fineman really is. I wouldn't waste my time reading another of his biased articles!

People are whining because circumstances beyond their control are making it difficult to survive. House values are dropping even for those who work hard and didn't make bad decisions (foreclosures are depressing the entire housing market).

Don't dare get sick in this economy. Medical insurance doesn't cover medical costs -- have you read your policy lately (if you are lucky enough to have insurance)? Week after week, I see local bottle drives, cake sales and other attempts to raise money for seriously ill people who can't afford their co-payments on hugh medical bills, but those fundraisers don't raise enough to help much. These people have good reason to whine.

Senior citizens too frail to work and with pension plans that have gone bust have reason to whine. Too often they have to choose between buying food, medicine or heating oil.

Inflation rates are skyrocketing for fuel, food and medical care, while wages stay the same or drop. How can people go to college when they can't get student loans and costs go up faster than they can save for it? People can't refinance their adjustable-rate-mortgage home loans because banks won't let them now that housing prices are dropping.

Anyone who says that people in financial trouble should just work harder and shut-up is an elitist. (Don't blame a waitress for her low salary if you eat at her table.) I work in a business that did well for 13 years, but this year it is tanking. People don't have money, and they can't get credit anymore. Too many can't use their homes as collateral anymore unless something changes with the banking industry and regulation (and that's the last straw that's breaking this economy). If Gramm doesn't get this point, McCain is a fool for using him as an economic advisor.

Reagan had it right. And that should freak the R's out.

Are you better off today than you were 8 years ago? They need to stretch back to "blame Carter" because those Clinton democratic economic policies sure look good in retrospect. We have tried the Republican model. It has brought us massive deficits, serious trade imbalances and sinking dollar translating into $4. gas. It is time to try something else.

This "whining" report is a desperate attempt on the part of leftist media. How sad.

Posted By: ara9557 @ 07/11/2008 3:43:04 PM
Comment: Now, I wish the media would let Mr Gramm explain himself and why he made the statement. I personally, believe that we have become a country of whiners and tend to agree with Mr. Gramm. The worst thing that you can do in politics is to tell the truth. Will it hurt John McCain? It will be back page news when the election nears, but Mr. Gramm sorry to say will pay the price for his honesty. I am optimistic about America and the economic crisis will pass. The media is just playing the part of chicken little.... The Sky is falling!
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Ara9557, Phil Gramm said we were in "a mental recession and we have become a nation of whiners"! You say he is telling the truth. I interpret his word that the recession is a "FIGMENT OF OUR IMAGINATION", and that we should NOT whine. You stand by him, yet you say "the economic crisis will pass", therefore you do agree that "the economic crisis/recession is REAL and NOT a figment of our imagination. When it is difficult for the average American citizens to decide whether to food for the family or put gas in the car in order to drive to and from work, you darn right, people are going to complain about the high prices of gas and skyrocketing prices of food, medical care, and services! The current admnistration has failed the American people and our country; McCain helped get us to where we are at; he has been in the Senate for approximately 30 years. Just what did he do during that time to prevent the current state of our nation???? Furthermore, McCain cannot even go a full day without contradicting himself and flipflopping on the issues depending on on the environment he happens to be campaining. The majority of us are fed up with the Bush policies and lack of concern for America's citizens (Katrina??), lack of concern for our military personnel, in Iraq, Afghanistan, and here at home. Our injured are returning to delayed medical treatment due to red tape, shameful living quarters, and and total inattention by the Bush administratioln. McCain is a an old version of our current President, he is entrenched in the politics of Washington; he is NOT going to change anything, you can bet on it!! McCain KNOWS he will make no changes, he just thinks he deserves to be the President because of being shot and and a POW....he doesn't say it, but he believes this country OWES him!! Why else does he keep bringing them up?? McCain was never awarded "THE MEDAL OF HONOR" which is reserved for "TRUE HEROES"!! There is a HUGE difference between a Meritorious Service Medal and The Medal of Honor!! In the senate, McCain refused to vote for the Martin Luther King holiday; he has voted against bills, such as equal pay for women (this very recently), Perhaps he can explain to women in our United States why he thinks women doing the

Who had the majority of the Sen during Katrina? Dem or Rep
Who had a Dem gov and Dem Mayor during Katrina?
Bush can not be blamed for everything that happened in Katrina.
Who were the idiots who stayed? Didn't stock up on water? Really when are people going to take responsibilty for themselves in the US. People want us to bail them out of everything - bad morgage? No stupid - you knew u couldn't afford that house anyway - High Gas - should have thought about that before u got that pick up truck - affordable health care - I got it because I work and budget my money around my 150 deductable a month - Got knocked up? Why should I pay for your stupid mistake? - On and On and On. We are Americans - we're suppose to be working and working for our dreams - not waiting for the Gov to give us a million bucks.

I'ts funny that people who buy over priced stocks and take it in the shorts are viewed as "rich republicans" deserving the economic loss, but people who buy overpriced houses and take it in the shorts are called victims. I call them democrats since they want the government to bail them out pay for their risky investment. Market imbalance corrections are not recessions, but if you say it enough people will believe it.

To his credit, McCain rejected Gramm's comments. Besides Tom Delay, Gramm is one of the most destructive politicians we've had in Congress in modern times and I am glad to see that his true colors are being exposed in this way.. albeit a little too late to affect the damage he caused while in the Senate (See: Gramm - Rudman - Hollings Act).

Gaffe Alert

"My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it." Barack Obama

The author speaks of asinine comments. How about, "When McCain was in the Navy in Vietnam, he knew who the enemy was. These days he's got to watch the incoming from his friends."?

What that last dig really necessary?

The Vietnam War was difficult precisely because it was the first war in which we could NOT know who the enemy was.

In addition, McCain makes no military service claims which are not factual and documented, so the extreme left-wing attacks on his record merely demonstrate anti-American rhetoric.

I find such comments asinine and out-of-touch.