FACTCHECK.ORG

Distorting McCain's Remarks

An Obama ad uses dated and out of context quotes to portray McCain as clueless on the economy.

By D'Angelo Gore | factcheck.org
Aug 19, 2008 | Updated: 1:35  p.m. ET Aug 19, 2008

« Return to Article

Discuss

Member Comments

  • Posted By: Truthyness @ 09/09/2008 10:07:58 PM

    McCain and Palin have accused Obama of requesting nearly $1 billion in earmarks for his state. In reality, this year, Obama has requested $0.

    Obama hasn't asked for any earmarks this year. Last year, he asked for $311 million worth, about $25 for every Illinois resident. Alaska asked this year for earmarks totaling $198 million, about $295 for every Alaska citizen.

    How is that distorting McCain's Remarks? Sound more like McCain and Palin are just outright liars. How stupid does McCain and Palin think the American people are?

  • Posted By: wildlifeusa @ 09/07/2008 12:42:04 AM

    9/11, religion, central bank, income taxes and war.... What is the connection?
    http://propagandameatgrinder.magnify.net/video/Zeitgeist-s-hrvatskim-titlom/theater#theater_title

  • Posted By: wildlifeusa @ 09/06/2008 11:55:28 PM

    9/11 and religion... What is the connection?? There are the answers.... please pass this video on
    http://propagandameatgrinder.magnify.net/video/Zeitgeist-s-hrvatskim-titlom/theater#theater_title

  • Posted By: sharenews @ 09/06/2008 9:15:04 PM


    JOHN MCCAIN AND HIS EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE AS A COMMANDER IN CHIEF (LEADER).IN THE U.S. NAVY:

    In the Spring of 1975 John S. McCain was given an opportunity to redeem his Navy career. He was first named the 2nd in Command and then on to Commanding Officer (CO)of the Navys largest Air Squadron, a massive Unit at Cecil Field in Jacksonville FLA. At Cecil Field, they trained pilots and maintained attack jets called A7s. This was McCains first measured entry into leadership.

    http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1185143625/bctid1761979374

    McCain was revered by many on the base: Testimonials

    Carl M. Smith - fellow officer, Cecil Field:

    John was a commander who did not attempt to tell people how to do jobs (no micro-management) . . . instead he picked PEOPLE HE HAD CONFIDENCE IN and INSPIRED them to rise to the highest level of their own ability.

    Sharleen Hollenback, Navy enlistee under McCain:

    * He was a very ACCESSIBLE person
    * He was very KIND
    * He CARED ABOUT THE PEOPLE that worked in his Squadron
    * I very much ADMIRED him and felt like was part of something very important in that squadron.

    Carl M. Smith - fellow officer, Cecil Field:

    John would talk to the Sr. chief and KID him, given him a hard time, saying things like ???what about your behavior chief?, what about your drinking?, huh, huh, huh???? . . .which would rock them back on their heels while the rest of the crew and shop WATCHED IN FASCINATION at how McCain was interacting with their chief petty officer.

    That was part of his unorthodox HANDS-ON STYLE. John was not one to cloister himself away in his office on the 2nd floor of the Squadrons airplane hanger.

    Carl M. Smith - fellow officer, Cecil Field:

    Instead, on a DAILY basis he would WALK THROUGH the maintenance spaces, all the functional shops on THE BASE. He would go though the engine shop, the hydraulic shop, the fuel shop, the weapons shop - every one of them. He would GO IN AND TALK TO ALL the folks in the shops.

    Jim Lichtenwalter - fellow office, Cecil Field:

    I just think that he did a great job of making himself understand what other peoples jobs were and what their responsibilities were. . .

    In its heyday in the Vietnam era, Cecil Field was buzzing with THOUSANDS OF NAVY OFFICERS ENLISTEES, AND THEIR FAMILIES.

    J. B. Renninger, former Navy Pilot at Cecil Field:

    You would have anywhere from 10 - 12 aircrafts in a pattern at any one time, doing touch and go???s
    We would operate from 7am one morning thru 2am or 3 am into the NEXT morning. It was a very ACTIVE BASE then.

    Cecil Field was John McCains last posting with the Naval Squadron, but one that would CARRY RELEVANCE today as HE LOOKS TO LEAD OUR COUNTRY.





    http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1185143625/bctid1761979374

  • Posted By: mccainsupporter @ 08/26/2008 7:46:09 PM

    It was reported today that Obama stated that the United States has not also set the best example to Russia with regards to invading countries. The obvious reference is to Iraq and John McCain retorted that our invasion of Iraq was proper and justified and can not be compared to the invasion of Georgia by Russia.
    Here is a thought for the Democrat leadership on their position of no American support for Iraq.
    Obama discussed and downplayed his recent harrowing experience with their chartered campaign aircraft that had elevator problems due to an accidental inflation of a rear exit slide. The media reported it was a serious event. United States military pilots experience harrowing events every day. Thanks to the recommended McCain troop surge and George Bush original decision to overthrow Sadaam Hussein, US Airforce and Navy pilots no longer have to provide a continuous no fly zone over Iraq. They had provided this no fly zone to prevent Sadaam Hussein from using his airforce and helicopters to slaughter helpless Kurds in the North of Iraq. Before the United States invasion under George Bush, this nofly zone had to be carried out from carriers and bases in Kuwait which involved distances and hazards. The successful overthrow of Sadaam has saved countless American pilot lives and harrowing military aircraft safety incidents similar to what occurred on the Obama chartered campaign plane. Democrats under the leadership of Obama would have us performing a no fly zone mission over Iraq for the next fifty years instead of going in and taking out Sadaam as we did and saving countless US military pilots lives over the next fifty years. McCain support of the war in Iraq was the right thing to do and will have the long term effect of saving American lives.

  • Posted By: mccainsupporter @ 08/26/2008 7:45:49 PM

    As a former Navy Pilot John McCain knows the dangers of flying military missions over a hostile country. I am sure Barack Obama with his recent campaign airline charter scare have a better understanding of the dangers. Barack Obama should have a special appreciation of the dangers also in flying in even nonmilitary nonhostile situations. It is a fact that United States Airforce and Navy pilots lives will be saved by not having to continue a nofly zone over a hostile Iraq for the next fifty years thanks to the support of John McCain for the war. The surge policy was the right policy and will save American military pilot lives.

  • Posted By: trini @ 08/22/2008 10:54:28 AM

    We need someone who is going to wakeup every day and thinking about the the working class and that would be Obama

  • Posted By: Check facts @ 08/22/2008 8:04:47 AM

    The credit crisis is a year old now. McCain's statements regarding the "strong" economy were AFTER the combination of shocking failures on the part of the Republican administration created this mess, and AFTER it had become part of the public discussion. McCain was and remains, clueless.

    John McCain has never been the sharpest tool in the shed, having graduated 4th from the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy. What little he knows about economics came straight from his mentor, Phil "Americans are Whiners" Gramm.

  • Posted By: Check facts @ 08/22/2008 8:04:15 AM

    The credit crisis is a year old now. McCain's statements regarding the "strong" economy were AFTER the combination of shocking failures on the part of the Republican administration created this mess, and AFTER it had become part of the public discussion. McCain was and remains, clueless.

    John McCain has never been the sharpest tool in the shed, having graduated 4th from the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy. What little he knows about economics came straight from his mentor, Phil "Americans are Whiners" Gramm.

  • Posted By: BobbyNY @ 08/20/2008 10:45:47 AM

    Why is everyone so concerned about John McCain's status as a POW? Was he the only one that was shot down and tortured? Was he the only one that was offered a deal to leave and stayed? The answer to this question is NO. Hundreds of pilots were shot down and went through the same event he did. What he did was not unusual, we are all trained to react the same way. While we admire John McCain's service to his country, let's not forget the hundreds of pilots who were not shot down and did their jobs. Keep things in perspective, while he emerged from his encounter bruised, braver men did not make it out. I was there.

    • Posted By: SPORTLOCK09 @ 08/20/2008 1:30:09 PM

      Well I guess you could apply the same thought process to a soldier that was killed in combat huh? What make him so special. Hundreds of thousands have sacrificed their lives for this country in the past. Sounds pretty damn stupid doesn't it? Now read your own post and tell me how dumb you sound.

      And BTW, all the above, Barack wasn't and Barack didn't. Atleast McCain did, means nothing to you? Barack sat in the pews giving standing ovations to GOD DAMN AMERIKKKA!!!! Means nothing to you either, says a ton about you.

      • Posted By: ljw54321 @ 08/20/2008 3:06:03 PM

        And GW Bush was hiding behind his daddy's influence, while John Kerry was fighting in swift boats. If wartime service to country is important to you, did you vote for John Kerry or gutless Bush?

        • Posted By: bojack27 @ 08/21/2008 11:13:49 AM

          Bill Clinton was a draft dodger who claimed that he lost his draft card.....hmmm sounds like a young Bill Clinton who hadn't master the lie yet..... fast forward to ..... "I didn't have sexual relationships with that woman and now we know the rest o fthe story.... ... I'm pretty sure you voted for him two times......

          Speaking of turn-coat Kerry... selling out his former buddies and throwing away his medals..... the only fault witht he swiftboats is that htey didn't come in sooner to show that this guy hated the military like Clinton and would do anything to destroy that department.....

        • Posted By: SPORTLOCK09 @ 08/20/2008 5:53:41 PM

          Im sorry, did you just answer my questions? Or did you basically agree with me because I see no part of your post that denys or refutes any of my allegations.

  • Posted By: MamaCath @ 08/21/2008 3:10:17 AM

    First of all, let me congrate most of you on your hysteria, racism and gereral, all-around nastiness. You take the cake. It's quite clear that you have no intention of following the rules set down by our Founding Fathers on just who is elegible to become President. And, just in case you haven't read those rules, Muslims, Athesists, Hindus, Shintos or Whatevers are elegible. As for race? Well, they never said so all may apply; besides, we now happen to have laws regarding discrimination. Oh, and just to let you know, in the very early 1800s, we signed what is called the Treaty of Tripole with an Arab king in which it was stated specifically, that we, the United States of America, WAS NOT FOUNDED AS A CHRISTIAN NATION. This Treaty was ratified and signed into law by Congress and signed by the President. Therefor, it matters not one wit what the religion of our President is because George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and all the rest of the signers of the Declaration of Independance made laws saying it was ILLEGAL for us to consider religion when choosing a President or running the government. Read your Constitution; read your history. Our Founding Fathers were NOT men of God; most of them, but not all, believed in God. And most of them sinned greatly, too; as many were adulters.

    The other thing is; why all this crap about lies, exaggeration, flip-flops, etc. You must just enjoy working yourselves up into a frenzy of bad karma towards another person. There's no way for any non-brain damaged person to get through one election process and not realize that every politician running for office lies, exaggerates, changes his/her mind, etc.Get a life! If you want to get angry, go after child molesters, wife abusers - channel that energy into something effective! If you want to be patriotic, volunteer at your canidate's office or, even better, your local VA Hospital or Center.

    I come from a long military tradition and I, too, serve the military. My brother just got back from 15 months in Baghdad and my nephew has done 15 mos. in Baghdad and 15 mos in Afghanistan. At 62, I'm just too old for this crap anymore - it's tearing me apart. But, I go on because it's all I know; I've been "in" since the day I was born. This president has destroyed the military and betrayed the wounded. You need to see what I see. And that's all I'm going to say about that.

    Ah, rant away - if it gives you pleasure but remember it just adds to all the nastiness and unkindness there is in our country today. And that we don't need any more of - thanks to Rush Limbaugh, FOX News and others it's now perfectly acceptable to spew that crap all over the place. We've become a nation of bullies - and bullies always get taken to the mat. Think about that. History doesn't lie.

    • Posted By: bojack27 @ 08/21/2008 10:52:12 AM

      Also you are forgetting to look at the following areas..... THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT
      HOLY TRINITY CHURCH v. U.S.
      143 U.S. 457, 12 S.Ct. 511, 36 L.Ed. 226
      Feb. 29, 1892

      Ruled that this is a Christian Nation .... read for yourself by clicking on the link below

      http://members.aol.com/TestOath/HolyTrinityOp1-2.htm

      Now click on the link below and look at all the states Preambles of their constitution and you will see God invoked in every single one of them...

      http://forums.hannity.com/archive/index.php/t-238369.html

      As for the founding fathers not being Christians .... there is plenty of evidence that says they were and you no doubt are taking the position that many secularists take and say that they were Deist.... click ont he link below and read...

      http://www.creationists.org/churchandstate.html

      I served in the Army for 24 years myself.... my three brothers also served and one is still serving as we speak, my dad served for 21 years in the 82nd Airborne.... I don't see the president destroying the military ... I see the liberal media and those who patrionize terrorist destroying our military and country.... rather you want to believe it or not we are in a very hostile world.... it will not get any better by thinking of changing policies as some wish..... you and others don't know the agenda of the Islamic extermist.... just ask Israel how many peace treaties or agreements the extremist have abided by ....

    • Posted By: bojack27 @ 08/21/2008 10:36:28 AM

      You are misled on the Treaty and the founding Fathers....

      Translation controversy

      Miller's Investigation and NotesThe translation of the Treaty of Tripoli by Barlow has been found faulty, and there is doubt whether Article 11 corresponds to anything of the same purport in the Arabic version.[17]

      In 1931 Hunter Miller completed a commission by the United States government to analyze United States's treaties and to explain how they function and what they mean in terms of the United States's legal position in relationship with the rest of the world.[18] According to Hunter Miller's notes, "the Barlow translation is at best a poor attempt at a paraphrase or summary of the sense of the Arabic" and "Article 11... does not exist at all."[19]

      After comparing the United States's version by Barlow with the Arabic and even the Italian version, Miller continues by claiming that:

      The Arabic text which is between Articles 10 and 12 is in form a letter, crude and flamboyant and withal quite unimportant, from the Dey of Algiers to the Pasha of Tripoli. How that script came to be written and to be regarded, as in the Barlow translation, as Article 11 of the treaty as there written, is a mystery and seemingly must remain so. Nothing in the diplomatic correspondence of the time throws any light whatever on the point.[19]

      From this, Miller concludes: "A further and perhaps equal mystery is the fact that since 1797 the Barlow translation has been trustfully and universally accepted as the just equivalent of the Arabic... yet evidence of the erroneous character of the Barlow translation has been in the archives of the Department of State since perhaps 1800 or thereabouts..."[19]

  • Posted By: Karenn1 @ 08/21/2008 10:19:46 AM

    Forcaste next year worst then this year. If Obama win the rich will cash out of the market.If McCain win we will have A Deprression, cause you can't keep printing money . Tax cut is insane and I don't know anything about economy

  • Posted By: Zombiehero @ 08/20/2008 9:39:54 PM

    Obama distorting someone record? I thought he was "Above" that.

  • Posted By: SPORTLOCK09 @ 08/20/2008 5:56:38 PM

    Change????????????????????????????

    I guess that mean't whats left of your paycheck AFTER TAXES???????

  • Posted By: metzlerd @ 08/20/2008 6:37:12 AM

    Come on Newsweek. This is a pretty poor factcheck.
    A) The remarks were not out of context.
    B) McCain said them, not last year, but this year in this campaign.
    Is he to get excused because he was in the Republican primary? Does that not count?
    Are you saying that he's said other things more recently, so what he said before doesn't count?

    At the very least, call him out for flipping on the economy then.

    c) The reality is even if he has talked about things being tough, he was saying that the economy is fine. He did not understand the concept that high gas prices ripple throughout the economy.
    The economy was essentially bad in January like it is bad now. Most of us felt it then as we do now.
    (Unless we're insulated from it by over $100,000,000 as McCain is.)

    His economic advisor called us a nation full of whiners.

    You can't just pretend that McCain has always understood our economic situation. You can't just pretend he didn't say those things.

    • Posted By: SPORTLOCK09 @ 08/20/2008 1:34:20 PM

      Please TRY to hold your candidate to the same standards you expect of mine. As far a economy goes, ask an expert what we need to deem the economy in a recession. Do some reaserch instead of repeating what your told to think. I look forward to you responding to my question and then retracting your above statement about a recession. If you have the sac to admit your dead wrong.

      • Posted By: SPORTLOCK09 @ 08/20/2008 5:55:01 PM

        I guess you didn't

  • Posted By: tiredoflies @ 08/20/2008 10:24:40 AM

    WHERE ARE YOU CHECKING MCCAINS LIES AND DISTORTIONS. JUST BECAUSE YOU CHOOSE NOT TO BRING THEM UP DOES NOT MEAN THEY ARE NOT THERE.

    One big difference here on this fact check. OBAMA DID NOT LIE. The comments he used may be old BUT THEY ARE THE TRUTH.

    MOST OF MCCAINS ARE LIES. THAT IS A HUGE DIFFERENCE.

    SHOVE YOUR OPINION AND TELL US THE FACTS. START TALKING THUTH AND LIES AND SAVE YOUR OPINION. YOU ARE TRYING TO PUT YOUR OPINION OUT AS FACT. AND THAT IS JUST PLAIN BULL

    • Posted By: sharenews @ 08/20/2008 5:42:40 PM

      Sounds like Obama is not real change after all as I have been constantly hearing from Obamabots.

      Distortion:

      Falsified reproduction of a speakers original words in a manner in which it warps the true meaning of the said speaker???s message she or he communicated.

      Change - WE are THE ONES WE have been waiting for. . . .


    • Posted By: SPORTLOCK09 @ 08/20/2008 1:41:04 PM

      I guess your not tired of LIES at all huh? Just McCain lies? LMAO Okay, we understand that from every post you've ever made. Now we have that cleared up, DENOUCE OBAMA"S LIES ANYTIME!!!! LOL

  • Posted By: ljw54321 @ 08/20/2008 2:55:12 PM

    neocon...Clinton created 13 million jobs, GW Bush about 4.5 million. Clinton created a general feeling of well being among working Americans. There were higher taxes AND greater prosperity. Clinton's 100,000 cops on the street helped lower crime (remember how bad it was under GHW Bush). Cutbacks in police by GW Bush and the Republicans have caused crime to increase again. McCain's just another country club rich guy who's out of touch with 95% of the American people.

  • Posted By: ljw54321 @ 08/20/2008 2:45:20 PM

    thanks for debunking the ad. the question remains: what will McCain do to help the average American citizen? tax breaks for the rich. continuing war and international instability fomented by McCain's aggressive, belligerant foreign policy, continuing America's dependence on foreign oil, more lies and corruption. The relevant question is: "is our country better off after 8 years of Republican rule?". If you like war, financial meltdown, aloofness to issues affecting middle class Americans, etc. etc. vote Republican. Remember GW Bush was going to fix social security, restore respectability to the white house, stimulate the economy, etc. ect. He failed miserably. Now McCain wants a followup.

  • Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 08/19/2008 7:15:28 PM

    Dunno. The nonpartisan Brookings Institutes Tax Policy Center,Urban Institute and the Congressional Budget Office are all viewing Obama and McCains tax plans with suspicion,particularly,Obamas,as he has thus far been unable to explain how he can keep taxation for the ''250-plus''crowd from descending into a smaller wage tax bracket in order to finance his cherished healthcare reform.[and without oversight to boot. MEDICARE is leaking billions to fraud as it is]. ''Big Win,Small Change''says the Tax Policy Center. It regards Obamas ''peace dividend''as a result of an Iraq pullout as nonsense. Other military and foreign policy requirements [foreign aid],to offset American involvement in future wars and conflicts divorced from Afghanistan will consume this ''dividend''without addressing healthcare or Social Security. Worse for Obama,he is viewed as a protectionist after the NAFTA and CAFTA debacles[which will create more international trade tensions], and is thus viewed as hostile to free trade upon which much American business and employment relies. The last trip to a Democrat Congress dominated by socialist policies and a ''change''advocate,and in the middle of an energy crisis,brought us Carter,double-digit inflation,and high unemployment with degraded infrastructure and a vastly weakened military post Vietnam. Obama will have to chart a more careful course if he is not to repeat the failure that,only six years after the disgrace of the Republican Nixon presidency,brought forth the Reagan Revolution.

    • Posted By: metzlerd @ 08/20/2008 7:11:08 AM

      A) The 250K plus crowd is not going to try to cut their income to avoid paying taxes unless they're right on the edge. If you make $300K, You simply aren't going to give up $45,000, just to say you didn't have to pay $5,000 in taxes.
      B) Obama has never said there isn't going to be oversight.
      C) In order for there to not be a peace divident, we would have to find other countries to drop bombs on, send troops into, and fire ammunition at. During peace time we stock pile this things, and use a small amount on training.
      Replacing our leadership with somebody who only uses war in defense of our country will go a long way toward increasing the liklihood of peace.
      D) NAFTA which was negotiated by George H.W. Bush and implemented by Clinton, needs to be renegotiated. It has cost us jobs in many parts of our country. Globalization (free world market) is not a bad thing as long as the markets are fair. We can't make progress on environmental or energy issues without fair markets. Companies are taking advantage of this, and American workers are unable to compete because of it.
      This is not only an economic disaster, but its a security threat as we become more and more dependent on foreign products.
      E) The last trip to a Democrat (Clinton) got us a balanced budget where we actually were able to pay off some of our national debt. These are not socialist policies. They are American policies. We don't have to put people out of work to be American. Carter is not the one who brought on high gas prices and runaway inflation in the 70's. He's just the guy who got blamed for it.
      Furthermore Carter is the guy who had a handle on energy solutions. It is precisely because we went back to oil as our focus, that energy crisis was never solved. Had we continued on that path, we probably wouldn't be looking at $5/gallon gas today.

      • Posted By: neocon @ 08/20/2008 2:23:01 PM

        The sole Clinton administration action that contributed to the reduction of the deficit was raising $28 billion in new taxes and user fees in 1994--but spending on the Los Angeles earthquake and the Midwest floods ate up an unplanned $11 billion. That spending was added to the deficit under current budget rules, giving the administration a net of $17 billion in deficit reduction because of policy changes.

        In short, the drop in the deficit was largely because of the surging economic recovery, which saw two strong quarters of growth just before Bill Clinton took office, and from overestimates of the cost of cleaning up the S&L debacle.

        The Office of Management and Budget, headed by Alice Rivlin, saw the deficit bottoming out at $168 billion in 1995 and then rising to $184 billion in 1996 and $194 billion in 1997, according to the now-famous memo by Rivlin. By 2000, it would reach $235 billion. (The CBO estimate at this point is even higher--$257 billion.)

        From there, OMB estimates that the deficit would climb to $285 billion in the year 2004. (The CBO says $397 billion). OMB then projected a deficit of $456 billion in the year 2010, $1.5 trillion in 2020, and $4.1 trillion in 2030.

        So, in short the Clinton Deficit Reduction was all smoke and mirrors using the Gov't's own numbers.

      • Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 08/20/2008 11:58:43 AM

        You are missing the point. A:

        If heathcare reform cannot be financed on the backs of the 250-plus crowd,then it will be upon the backs of the 249-and-unders. This is a fact quickly grasped by non-partisan economics watchers of both campaigns.[including all of the above].

        B. He never said that there would be either,thus maintaining the status quo. Do you wish to provide the Congressional Budget Offices figures on MEDICARE fraud in just the past two fiscal years[Democrat control of Congress],or should I?
        www.cbo.gov

        C. If this were so,we would have had more arms at the end of the Cold War,not fewer. You forget that the cost of STAYING out of war is as much as entering into one to begin with. Diplomacy,trade treaties,arms deals,food and other commodities,peacekeeping missions,police and other non-military anti-terrorism devices,spying,[including satellites], all cost money and lots of it. hundreds of billions will be spent in order to keep the US out of another war. Even minus Iraq,there will be no ''dividend''.

        D. False. NAFTA has provided a net-gain of jobs in America when taken in whole.[US Dept.of Labor statistics,1999-2006],Companies that would bear undue taxation under an Obama policy would,precisely like the top-bottom Democrat-run California[barring only its chief executive who no longer has veto power],see companies flee and set up shop overseas or in other states. You cannot have it both ways,demanding that American companies remain in America,and then punishing these with onerous taxation as Obama proposes,separating companies,as we saw earlier,into ''good''and ''bad''ones. Markets do not move on such social philosophies. The idea that this is a ''security threat''is ridiculous. As the economic giant Thomas Friedman accurately observed in ''The World Is Flat'', globalization,in its capacity to lift all boats,shrinks poverty which is a very basis for the creation of conflict and terrorism.

        E. Yet Clinton worked alongside of a Congress dominated by the GOP. Your blueprint is thus in error. Only Carter gave us the last full presidency with a Democrat-dominated government which wrecked the economy so badly,that Democrats worked alongside of Reagan to bring America the 1986 tax reform act after dozens of American companies jumped ship and headed for Japan and Brazil[of went under after a century or more of existance], due to the socialist tax policies of the Carter presidency.[thus blame can be laid for much of the economic upheaval of this period on this presidency]. Obviously,Carters only ''handle''on the energy crisis was to show up wearing a sweater,and give America ''Malaise''speeches.[while OPEC tightened its grip,and Detroit kept rolling out big-block V-8s].

        www.labor.gov

        • Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 08/20/2008 12:07:04 PM

          Errata: Insert ''Milton''Friedman [globalization advocate],for ''Thomas''[who was the author of ''The World Is Flat''a study of globalization].

  • Posted By: repub4obama @ 08/20/2008 12:18:56 PM

    Yeah McBush is clueless on alot more than the economy. He's pretty much a senile old fool who has sold out all his integrity and beliefs and went to the dark side, the right wing conservative whack jobs.

    • Posted By: SPORTLOCK09 @ 08/20/2008 1:39:16 PM

      And your so clueless your oblivious to the fact you have no idea whats going on. LOL At first I thought you were a tool. I apologize, your are a fool. How dumb can one be to think they have insider info of the workings of congress and war because of a Newsweek add. LMAO You do understand the press only knows what our government wants them to know, right? LOL

Reply

Report Abuse

Enter comments if any for reporting abuse