A Man With a Plan

IF Senator Webb wants to be President, he would take the VP offer IF Senator Obama had asked him to be his running mate. Being VP would definitely give him the experience needed to be Pres. However, as we all know, EXPERIENCE DOESN'T GUARANTEE A GOOD PRESIDENT AND ADMINISTRATION, AS PROVEN BY GWB'S SELECTION OF CHENEY AS VP AND RUMSFELDT AS I forget! Both Cheney and Rumsfeldt had years of EXPERIENCE...look where that led!! So, in my book, experience really does not mean much. What matters to me is good character, leadership abilities and skills, wisdom, vision, the ability to surround yourself with the best people for his administration, the ability to think clearly and able to make the right decisions, and yes, the great oratory skills. Senator Obama possessess all of these hands down. He will be a great President! Senator McCain just doesn't cut it, he is out of touch with American citizens; he wants to drill for oil to affect us "psychologically". In other words, McCain wants to trick us into "believing" he is helping us NOW, eventhough we would not get a drop of oil for at least seven (7) years!! As McCain would say< "my friends", he is trying to brainwash you!! He is giving you FALSE HOPE! In the meantime, nothing changes to make things better, under his Presidency, we, and our country, will sprial further downward. McCain must think we are a nation of stupidity and I find that very offensive.

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: donbl @ 07/11/2008 6:01:55 PM
Comment: The Scotch-Irish are "percentage wise" the largest contributors to the military and are very patriotic.

They, in general, are not Obama supporters.

Webb looked at himself as the token candidate wanted for his background and not his thoughts
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Donble, just HOW do you KNOW all of this? I believe you are "assuming" these things. Gee, and you can read Senator Webb's thoughts? That is absolutely amazing!! Since you can read minds, why don't YOU run for President; just think of what a great President you would make!! You'd be able to read the minds of ALL the world leaders, the members of Congress. Gee, you might even be able to transcent your thoughts to their minds and pretty soon all the world leaders and congress would be in full agreement with you and you would live happily ever after!!

Posted By: whiterock @ 07/11/2008 6:55:49 PM
Comment: This is very telling for a man of Webb's stature and experience to emphatically say, "no" to the VP position. Finally, a Dem wth a backbone that is not caving in to the Obamamania that has swept the country. The rest of the Dems don't seem to care that Obama has so few accomplishments and such a lack of experience. If they had gotten behind Gore with the same kind of energy that they have gotten behind Obama, Bush could never have gotten away with robbing Gore of the presidency. Gore had the intellect and the experience...he just wasn't a smooth talker like Barry. Obama was even recorded 6 mos. before he decided to campaign for president by the media when they asked him if he was running for president and he said that he didn't think he had enough experience and that he thought he needed more time in office, first. So, does that mean Obama's just going to be a puppet for the Dems just like Bush was for the Republicans? Are we just getting a man that looks and sounds good but has no substance?

Whiterock, Senator Obama's fellow senators posed the question of running for President! I would say they recognized his unique and outstanding leadership skills (best campaign and best fundraiser in U.S. history!!) and his ability to bring people together (he is solely responsible for the huge turnouts at the polls and caucuses). I would say they recognized he is a man of good character, high integrity, wisdom, great vision, and, yes, his magnificent oratory skills. Wihile you and your cohorts like to deny all of this, you are entitled to you opinion; however you do not have the right to slander Senator Obama or anyone else. Bigotry is ugly, your really should try to lift up yourself. from such ugliness.

This is very telling for a man of Webb's stature and experience to emphatically say, "no" to the VP position. Finally, a Dem wth a backbone that is not caving in to the Obamamania that has swept the country. The rest of the Dems don't seem to care that Obama has so few accomplishments and such a lack of experience. If they had gotten behind Gore with the same kind of energy that they have gotten behind Obama, Bush could never have gotten away with robbing Gore of the presidency. Gore had the intellect and the experience...he just wasn't a smooth talker like Barry. Obama was even recorded 6 mos. before he decided to campaign for president by the media when they asked him if he was running for president and he said that he didn't think he had enough experience and that he thought he needed more time in office, first. So, does that mean Obama's just going to be a puppet for the Dems just like Bush was for the Republicans? Are we just getting a man that looks and sounds good but has no substance?

The Scotch-Irish are "percentage wise" the largest contributors to the military and are very patriotic.

They, in general, are not Obama supporters.

Webb looked at himself as the token candidate wanted for his background and not his thoughts.

If this isn't politics as usual I don't know what is. The good-old-boys are still running the show.

Hey how about the unbiased coverage by newsweak. With Obama for president plastered all over the article lmao. Is this getting obvious to the Obama bots yet? Oh I did see 2 articles on McCain. However, one headline wrote Your choice, CHANGE, or the OLD GUY. No way thats biased.
Second one read. McCain doesn't need enemies, he has friends. Nah no biasedness there huh.
Didnt see anything like that with Obama and his band of theives though. Weird huh?