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  • Posted By: robmac7 @ 07/11/2008 1:38:48 PM

    I guess I don't see the connection here; What has this goit to do with McCain?

  • Posted By: speckelbelly @ 07/11/2008 1:37:49 PM

    IM NO WHINNER!
    IM STICKING TO MY GUNS AND MY RELIGEON!
    PANNING FOR GOLD!!
    DOING WHAT I CAN!
    GAS SUCKS!
    NEUCLEAR ENERGY IS DUMB IDEA!
    SOLAR IS BETTER!!!
    DRILLING FOR OIL OFF OUR COASTS SUCKS!
    DRILLING ON OUR LAND IS OK,EXCEPT ALASKA NO GO!
    TAX CODE REVISION IN GREAT NEED!!!
    OBAMA/BIDEN 08!!!

  • Posted By: macasheville @ 07/11/2008 1:33:03 PM

    Phil and Wendy Gramm have a long history of crooked politics. Google their names and Enron. Considering that McCain is trying to cast himself as a maverick and a moderate, he sure chooses some strange bedfellows, including Karl Rove and many other Bush operatives. Birds of a feather .....

  • Posted By: kennedydemocrat @ 07/11/2008 1:25:39 PM

    I cannot believe that we would even THINK of electing McCain president and continuing the failed Bush policies. McCain (yes, he was a war hero) has become a typical Republican political hack. In 2000 he decried all that Bush stood for. Now he says that he will, in essence, continue the failed policies he found so offensive. Which is it Mr. McCain? Who are you really?

    I firmly believe that if we elect McCain we risk outright class warfare in this country within 25 years! We cannot afford four more years of the same Republican tripe.

  • Posted By: no ordinary bunny @ 07/11/2008 1:24:59 PM

    What an insightful observation from a guy who represents the megabanks and sits on the board of UBS, the Swiss ban currently under federal investigation for illegally aiding uberwealthy Americans in evading income tax.

  • Posted By: mikemaj @ 07/11/2008 1:23:39 PM

    How ignorant these people are. They have no idea what an average family goes thru in a day to day survival. These people are millionairs. They don't buy their own gas, buy their own groceries, don't have to worry about how they will pay their bills. I remember when Bush was elected in 2004, a London News Paper had on their front page " How 57 Million people can be so Stupid". Do you want to see these Headlines in November? Get rid of these people from Washington.

  • Posted By: Billary @ 07/11/2008 1:20:12 PM

    I live in a large city in The San Joauquin Valley of California where the economy is always in tough shape. People try not to "whine" and work hard to simply exist. The city I speak of is Stockton, California. Our fine city boasts the highest average national gas prices and the highest rate of foreclosures in the nation. It seems to me that Phil Gramm has been talking with George Bush too much and is also living in a "state of denial". Do we want four more years of this kind of "leadership?. OOOPS!!! Their I go whining.

  • Posted By: Billary @ 07/11/2008 1:19:06 PM

    I live in a large city in The San Joauquin Valley of California where the economy is always in tough shape. People try not to "whine" and work hard to simply exist. The city I speak of is Stockton, California. Our fine city boasts the highest average national gas prices and the highest rate of foreclosures in the nation. It seems to me that Phil Gramm has been talking with George Bush too much and is also living in a "state of denial". Do we want four more years of this kind of "leadership?. OOOPS!!! Their I go whining.

  • Posted By: Bernice22 @ 07/11/2008 12:49:58 PM

    Gramm is not any old surrogate that McCain can distance himself from. IGramm's comments cannot be dismissed as a bonehead remark. Gramm is responsible for much of McCain's economic plans. This is the kind of thinking that is behind McCain's policies.

  • Posted By: MaddiesFace @ 07/11/2008 12:49:20 PM

    We as citizen need to first ask ourselves when is it okay to whine. If my child mopes in the house and whines for no reason, I tell him to pick himself up and not to let everyone else wear him like a coat. When he is honestly hurt or sad, I comfort him and make it go away. With that analogy, we as a country are a bunch of whiners, but there is a reason for doing so. Mr. Gramm was wrong for assuming we just walked into the house and moped, then started crying and whining for no reason. McCain was right for dismissing him.

  • Posted By: ozarkajuice @ 07/11/2008 12:48:40 PM

    I guess i should call my client and let him know he is a whiner. Because he was laid off from his job, because his company he worked for decided to ship his job overseas.

  • Posted By: vakosh @ 07/11/2008 12:46:30 PM

    Democrats for Jesse Jackson!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Posted By: Roameo @ 07/11/2008 12:45:52 PM

    Wrong, Mr. Fineman, McCain did not "immediately" distance himself from Gramm. First the McCain camp defended Gramm and his remarks. It was only after they felt the quake 8 tremors coming that McCain decided to distance himself and do it sharply. You also underplayed the important role Gramm plays in the McCain's campaign and you fail to mention the implications of McCain himself talking about the psychological impact of his proposed economic policies. Therefore, I believe you underestimate how greatly Gramm's remarks will damage McCain's chances in the fall.

  • Posted By: good conscience @ 07/11/2008 12:30:48 PM

    I had the great misfortune of living in Texas when Gramm was in the Senate. He is treacherous, calculating and simply an all-around miserable human being. Not a surprise that he's big buddies with McSame. That feigned down-home good-old-boys slapping my homies on the butt in the locker room game gets so boring so fast. Can't Gramm/McShame find something a little more original to play while they idle away their time between now and when they lose the election in November? Sheesh, what a bunch of nincompoops!

  • Posted By: uuforyou @ 07/11/2008 8:59:37 AM

    McRove and Gramm just insulted Americans.

    He just called us stupid.

    Heros' and Partriots don't insult and belittle their own people.

    BIG loss for McRove's campaign.

    • Posted By: j.n @ 07/11/2008 12:25:05 PM

      It will have no effect on McCain's supporters,they do not realize that they have been called stupid.

  • Posted By: olderwiser @ 07/11/2008 10:54:30 AM

    Now, billinvirginia, I have to agree with you about the greed and sloth, but as to our ignorance, it cannot be willful by definition. If we are ignorant, then we don't know about it, and therefore it can't be willful. But, we can at least give our sloth some credit for this, along with other mysterious forces in our slothful beings. We are ignorant, nevertheless. As to the children leading a worse life, maybe if we would raise them to disdain sloth and greed, they might be happy after all. Wealth and happiness do not necessarily go together. I would much rather be free of greed and sloth than be wealthy if I had to choose between the two. Oh, well, I didn't mean anything disrespectful of your good post, but just thought I'd mention these for a little possibility of optimism for our children's children's children. Getting old.

    • Posted By: sjpersonal @ 07/11/2008 12:24:47 PM

      Hi olderwiser,

      Your tag name suits you, I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoy reading your posts, they are like a breath of fresh air among all of the anger and stupidity that tends to run rampant on these sites at times.

      Again, thanks for the common sense and civility. Keep it up

    • Posted By: billinvirginia @ 07/11/2008 11:04:16 AM

      You're right. I got carried away.

  • Posted By: Cannoneer2 @ 07/11/2008 12:23:15 PM

    The man spoke the truth and shouldn't back away from it one inch. We ARE a nation of whiners and are focused on anything but becoming more learned. Also, by including comparison with Jesse Jackson's supposedly off-mike remark, Fineman shows himself to be a shill for Obama's campaign.

  • Posted By: wilsan @ 07/11/2008 12:22:57 PM

    Gramm's problem is that he went against the Politically Correct orthodoxy of the MSM and their surrogate Democrats.

    The Democrat's PC mantra is, "we are all victims and must have government help". Gramm simply said, "get to work".

    But that is enough to set off the MSM and the Liberal Democrats.

  • Posted By: Nins @ 07/11/2008 11:11:38 AM

    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, three major economic institutions have failed, Wall Street is highly unstable, and we are in the midst of a worsening 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. Previously, McCain had said that he planned to appoint Gramm as SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY. It looks like McCain is scratching that idea, now that the public is finding out about Gramm. Didn't McCain's team bother to find out about Gramm before publicly considering him as Secretary of the Treasury?

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

    • Posted By: SPORTLOCK09 @ 07/11/2008 12:21:10 PM

      Deja vu Copy / Paste / Copy / Paste

  • Posted By: mrunpc @ 07/11/2008 9:33:31 AM

    "Hit's McCain hard"? Only in the minds of the liberal/socialist/communist propaganda ministry, and only because he's a Republican. Did you even REPORT the Jesse Jackson "GAFFE(S)? And if any American out there with a half a brain thinks that we're NOT a society of whiners, you're in serious denial, because we most defintely ARE. We're not even IN a recession which requires TWO successive quarters of negative GDP growth...hasn't happened. EMployment is at NINETY FIVE PERCENT!!! During the Great Depression, it was TWENTY FIVE PERCENT! Know anyone who's losing their jobs? I don't.

    It's an election year and the Commie Propaganda Ministry (aka: Democrat Media) will do ANYTHING to get their American hating pols elected, including the Marxist Mesiah, B. Hussein Osamabama.

    • Posted By: j.n @ 07/11/2008 12:20:51 PM

      It is obvious that you do not read the news if you do not know anyone that have lost his or her job,check with American airlines they are getting ready to cut 7000 employes,Bank Of America $10,000,Bear stearns,on and on,read the papers.

    • Posted By: summer4077 @ 07/11/2008 11:00:35 AM

      I don't understand you. You pretty much posted the same thing I did, then lambasted me for being a hippie? Odd. Btw, I'm a democrat...and we agree on something...hurry, go wash your eyes with bleach, it might be contagious!!!

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