Gaffe Alert!

What was so stupid about the whiner remark?? Americans are whiners. The average American has no idea of the freedoms they enjoy, nor who paid the price to give it to them...I agree with Phil Graham. I have been in foreign countries and we are so far ahead in personal freedoms. A few years ago I vacationed in Bali. The corruption level is so high. A policeman earned at that time 200 Rupia. The Rupia was and still is around 10,000 to one American dollar. The policeman received 200 Rupia and a sack of Rice...the streets, majority, were dirt...the paved roads were in poor repair...the houses, mostly are rural communities...not the most sanitary of conditions...I've been in Denmark, France, Germany, Austria, where to pass a border requires papers, and you must have papers on you at all times...Hong Kong and Brisbane Australia...though all "civilized" nations, none compare with the United States...still we whine and complain. People have been paying alot more for oil than we have for a long, long time...yet Americans still drive their big cars, SUV gas guzzlers...and make no attempt to reduce their use, or improve their public transportation...I drive a car that gets 40mpg...and drive at 60mph on the average when I travel...I turn off my lights and air when I leave the house in the morning...I try to conserve what I can...still don't recycle as I should, but hey, we all have our faults...but what I don't do is whine about how bad we have it, because I know we have it better than any other country in the world....I have always had a job, sometimes two or three...to support my family...while the other guy is complaining about not having a job, I'm working...I went from 125,000 a year, to nothing almost overnight...I found a $7.00 an hour job, got a part time job, and kept going until I found better...I haven't reached the 125,000 a year again, yet...but the great thing about this country is you just have to work for it...

aeroplane: What are you, a rich guy's kid? Or just one lucky SOB? Average Americans' fortunes in this nation have for far too long now been too much determined by dumb luck, or the manipulations and caprices of those at the top of the system. An example? Airline pilots; thirty years ago all the smartest and best-qualified aviators went to Pan Am, TWA, United or Delta. All of them boasted solid econimics, good pay, and a great retirement plan. Southwest was last choice.
How those situations reversed! No one could have predicted the complete demise of some or the reductions in pay and retirement at the others. The employees of the failures made the very best decisions they could at the time. Now, at retirement age, they're scrambling - not becaue of "bad decisions," but just bad luck! Just because you've been lucky with your "decisions," you pass this judgment on others! It's such a common Republican refrain.

This article hits the nail on the head. McCain's own campaign is killing him. His staffers, his advisors, so many of them are so NOT like McCain. McCain is so much better than Obama, but can he beat both his own staff and the Democratic candidate?

pqowie12345---

i'm surprised you can even figure out how to turn your computer on. You ignorant piece of the past. The only reason people like you refer to Obama as "elite", is because you can't read. It's not his fault you didn't pay attention in school. Bigots like you will be wiped out soon, so keep running your mouth off, it makes it easier to identify you.

If one of Obama's surrogates had made this statement you'd be hearing about this not just on the news networks but locally and on the front page of every paper in the country. It doesn't get any worse (or elite) than this. The fact that anyone is giving Gramm's explanation any credence is ridiculous. The fact that nobody acknowledges that this guy is McCain's #1 guy on the economy is insane! This should be killing McCain! I don't get why this isn't.

Ohh cry me a river. Everytime someone other then Obama makes a statement (truthful I might add) all of you bleeding heart liberals cry like little bytches. Why are you the joke of America? Because if it were Obama who said this you would all be making excuses for him as we speak. Correction. Newsweak would be making excuses for him, then after being told what to think, then all of you bleeding heart hypocrites would be making excuses for him. Cry me a river lil babies, cry me a river.

The whine that Gramm heard was that high pitched sound of his party crashing to the earth. Folks finally caught on. At least Mc Cain had an ejection seat when his plane was crashing in Viet Nam, so that he could get out of the plane and parachute safely to earth. But it looks like he will have to go down to earth with his party this November.
Jesse Jackson used to be called The Reverend Jesse Jackson. I think that after the surgery that he has recommended on candidate Obama we should call him Doctor Jesse Jackson, DVM, as in veterinarian. Not cool, Jesse, not cool. Obama intends to represent everybody in the nation equally, not just your favorites.

I can't believe a poster asked "what does this goit [sic] to do with McCain?" Not only are they very long time political allies, and Gramm has been mentioned as a possible (formerly probable?) Treasury secretary under McCain, but it highlights the fact a McCain administration would draw on the same old tired failed Republicans, a la Bush-Cheney. Four more years! Four more years! That's what it has to do with McCain.

Obama's promise to apply the same exact failed policies of Jimmy Carter GUARANTEES the economy will fail. I tend to agree with the "Gaffe", had you paid any attention or been around during the Carter administration, you would see that by comparison, todays economy is a walk in the park. If Obama is elected and allowed to re-apply the same ridiculous failed policies, we all indeed, will have MUCH MUCH more to complain about. Liberally biased hacks and propagandists such as exists in most of our "mainstream" media does all they can to hide these facts and prop up Obama, but thinking people do know better.