Crushed by the Elephant

Gover really can't smile because MCain could have picked Gov Tim Pawlenty who really played hockey, instead of someone who sat is the stands and watched. Palenty was the living laboratory of 'no new taxes" having romised and did mostly just that in face of a $5 billion deficit after his election in Minnesota. This would have sent new different message across America. So he did not really have a sense of vision,Alter talks about. And McCain could have had both "woman" and "experience" in picking Sen Liddy Dole of North Carolina who had been both a cabinet officer and head of the American Red Cross. He blew that too.

Actually,Grover and company are not happy. Gov Tim Pawlenty actually plaayed hockey,while Palin only sat on the sidelines and watched.. Moreover,Pawlenty was the living theory of "no new taxes" having refused to raise taxes in a severe $5 billion deficit in Minnesota. If McCain had really wanted to stress a maverick way of thinking, giving Pawlenty the nod would have been one way to signal a new era. Yet,he did not. He could have chosen Sen liddy Dole who had experience as a cabinet officer,Senato and head of the American Red Cross and no one would argue about "inexperience" and still have a woman leader. He did not. So Johnny boy, where are you now?

In a few weeks we will make a choice that will decide our future.
I follow an economist named Bob Proctor. He has called the top and bottom of every market crash since the 70s correctly.
Also, he perfectly predicted the current real estate market meltdown and the picture he paints about what will happen in the next couple years
is terrifying.He thinks it will be worse then the great depression.
The banks in the U.S. are going under one after the other. Countrywide ,Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch , Fanny and Freddy Mae ,AIG
The government took them over because they are essentially bankrupt. Even with the goverment nationalizing hundreds of billions of dollars in debt the stock market is crashing
the credit markets are frozen and all of us may suffer beyond anything in the last 80 years.
McCain just like Bush " doesn't understand the economy".
That not just my opinion its his own words. Not only does he not understand how to fix it but he does not understand exactly what is broken.
It is no surprise that he doesn't. The people that make up these securities use complex mathematical models very few people understand.
Bush and McCain both can take the credit for this mess since they helped deregulate the laws that were protecting us.
Bush's economic advisor Phil Graham wrote the deregulation bill that allowed banks to take huge risks with all of our future.
Now, Phil Graham is the head of McCain's economic policy.He is also McCain's choice for the next secretary of the treasury.
No one in this country can afford for that to happen. The last time Bush met with his economic advisors was in March. He didnt realize that anything was wrong. Phil Graham had the guts to say that we are in a mental recession after he helped create the worst economy meltdown in our lifetime. Check out this link to the truth http://my.barackobama.com/keatingvideo
It will take the best and brightest minds in the world to get us out of this nightmare. As bad as Bush has done, McCain would be
even more destructive because things are in much worse shape. The next president will not inherit a surplus like Bush did but a crashing economy and a 11,600,000,000,000 (trillion) dollars deficit. Most of it Bush created and it will take decades to pay it back.
If you do what you have always done then you will get what you have always got.
When it comes to policy Bush and McCain are the same 90 percent of the time.
So why are the polls even close then ?
Mccains team just said they no longer want to talk about the economy.Instead they would like to spend time talking about obama
which means running the biggest smear campaign in history.
They think they can just tell you lies and you wont be smart enough to see through it
Let's teach him we are smarter than that .
Elect Obama Biden 2008


Check out this video of sarah palins interview and ask your self if she understands what she is talking about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r36Xc0GG4iQ

In a few weeks we will make a choice that will decide our future.
I follow an economist named Bob Proctor. He has called the top and bottom of every market crash since the 70s correctly.
Also, he perfectly predicted the current real estate market meltdown and the picture he paints about what will happen in the next couple years
is terrifying.He thinks it will be worse then the great depression.
The banks in the U.S. are going under one after the other. Countrywide ,Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch , Fanny and Freddy Mae ,AIG
The government took them over because they are essentially bankrupt. Even with the goverment nationalizing hundreds of billions of dollars in debt the stock market is crashing
the credit markets are frozen and all of us may suffer beyond anything in the last 80 years.
McCain just like Bush " doesn't understand the economy".
That not just my opinion its his own words. Not only does he not understand how to fix it but he does not understand exactly what is broken.
It is no surprise that he doesn't. The people that make up these securities use complex mathematical models very few people understand.
Bush and McCain both can take the credit for this mess since they helped deregulate the laws that were protecting us.
Bush's economic advisor Phil Graham wrote the deregulation bill that allowed banks to take huge risks with all of our future.
Now, Phil Graham is the head of McCain's economic policy.He is also McCain's choice for the next secretary of the treasury.
No one in this country can afford for that to happen. The last time Bush met with his economic advisors was in March. He didnt realize that anything was wrong. Phil Graham had the guts to say that we are in a mental recession after he helped create the worst economy meltdown in our lifetime. Check out this link to the truth http://my.barackobama.com/keatingvideo
It will take the best and brightest minds in the world to get us out of this nightmare. As bad as Bush has done, McCain would be
even more destructive because things are in much worse shape. The next president will not inherit a surplus like Bush did but a crashing economy and a 11,600,000,000,000 (trillion) dollars deficit. Most of it Bush created and it will take decades to pay it back.
If you do what you have always done then you will get what you have always got.
When it comes to policy Bush and McCain are the same 90 percent of the time.
So why are the polls even close then ?
Mccains team just said they no longer want to talk about the economy.Instead they would like to spend time talking about obama
which means running the biggest smear campaign in history.
They think they can just tell you lies and you wont be smart enough to see through it
Let's teach him we are smarter than that .
Elect Obama Biden 2008


Check out this video of sarah palins interview and ask your self if she understands what she is talking about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r36Xc0GG4iQ

In a few weeks we will make a choice that will decide our future.
I follow an economist named Bob Proctor. He has called the top and bottom of every market crash since the 70s correctly.
Also, he perfectly predicted the current real estate market meltdown and the picture he paints about what will happen in the next couple years
is terrifying.He thinks it will be worse then the great depression.
The banks in the U.S. are going under one after the other. Countrywide ,Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch , Fanny and Freddy Mae ,AIG
The government took them over because they are essentially bankrupt. Even with the goverment nationalizing hundreds of billions of dollars in debt the stock market is crashing
the credit markets are frozen and all of us may suffer beyond anything in the last 80 years.
McCain just like Bush " doesn't understand the economy".
That not just my opinion its his own words. Not only does he not understand how to fix it but he does not understand exactly what is broken.
It is no surprise that he doesn't. The people that make up these securities use complex mathematical models very few people understand.
Bush and McCain both can take the credit for this mess since they helped deregulate the laws that were protecting us.
Bush's economic advisor Phil Graham wrote the deregulation bill that allowed banks to take huge risks with all of our future.
Now, Phil Graham is the head of McCain's economic policy.He is also McCain's choice for the next secretary of the treasury.
No one in this country can afford for that to happen. The last time Bush met with his economic advisors was in March. He didnt realize that anything was wrong. Phil Graham had the guts to say that we are in a mental recession after he helped create the worst economy meltdown in our lifetime. Check out this link to the truth http://my.barackobama.com/keatingvideo
It will take the best and brightest minds in the world to get us out of this nightmare. As bad as Bush has done, McCain would be
even more destructive because things are in much worse shape. The next president will not inherit a surplus like Bush did but a crashing economy and a 11,600,000,000,000 (trillion) dollars deficit. Most of it Bush created and it will take decades to pay it back.
If you do what you have always done then you will get what you have always got.
When it comes to policy Bush and McCain are the same 90 percent of the time.
So why are the polls even close then ?
Mccains team just said they no longer want to talk about the economy.Instead they would like to spend time talking about obama
which means running the biggest smear campaign in history.
They think they can just tell you lies and you wont be smart enough to see through it
Let's teach him we are smarter than that .
Elect Obama Biden 2008


Check out this video of sarah palins interview and ask your self if she understands what she is talking about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r36Xc0GG4iQ

Good point about the definition of ???maverick??? because this may help explain the erratic behavior we???ve seen, though I think it???s more about gimmicks out of desperation then his true position on issues.

Personally, I???m more afraid of what his true positions are. Conservatives like to use fear of Obama the unknown, but I am more afraid of McCain the devil you think you know. At this point, does anyone know what he would really do once in the White House? If his recent proposal to buy more bad mortgages at a loss is an example, thanks, but no thanks.

As for foreign policy, I no longer believe this to be McCain???s strength. His position in regard to Russia and the conflict with Georgia is a good example of being wrong about the facts and how he reacted. The problem is, most Americans don???t have enough understanding about these issues to recognize this.

Palin will cost McCain the election, mark my words. This choice was the first sign that the John McCain we all knew and loved had lost his spine. The JM I voted for in two primaries would neve have caved in to the hard right to placate the bible thumpers. JM was always admired for being above partisan poitics and being his own man.
I live on Long Island, NY. The island is maybe 80% middle and upper middle income, 10% low income and 10% wealthy. This was a solid repulican area until about 5-6 years ago. It has since been shifting blue. McCain was always very popular here. There are a lot of Catholics, mostly of Irish, Italian, Polish and German descent. McCain should carry the island handily, but he is not. He is trailing Obama by about 15-20 points here. It's true, people are sick of the iraq war and the Wall St. debacle had hurt McCain worse than Obama. Stll, the idea that someone with socialist leanings and a long history of questionable assocations is leading a moderate republican is shocking. I was at dinner last night at a friends house. This friends parents were there also, as was my mother in law. No one, that is two men around 50 years old, one man over 80, one woman of 50, one woman of about 40-45, and two woman over 70, had a good impression of Palin. Everyone felt OK with McCain. Even if they didn't love him they respected him and could possibly vote for him, but no one wants Palin a heartbeat away from the presidency.
Yes, we all know Obama might have socialist leanings, he might have very limited experience, he might have a radical viewpoint on born alive abortions, but we still all seem to prefer that over someone who's life is infused with a religion that basically says 'Our way or the highway", someone who even looked into the idea of banning books, someone who has an extreme right wing view on abortion., and someone who seems just plain mean. The hockey mom, pitbull act has gotten old and not to many people in the middle are comfortable with Palin.
Think of it this way, if registered republicans are 32% of the population, and a quarter of those registered repubicans are really swing votes who vote for the person, not the party, that's the 8% of the vote that McCain will lose by since he picked Palin.
We moderate republians are conservative only on fiscal matters and matters of personal responsibility. We don't want the government coming between a pregnant girl or woman and her doctor, we don't want the government in peoples bedrooms, we don't want the government egulating what we can take out of the library, and we sure don't want the government coing between a science/biology teacher's curriculum with a bibical fantasy about creationism.

Great article.
With the pick of Palin, McCain has sentenced his prospects to the death squad. She is a fine example of poor decision making at it's finest. Hopefully the pole numbers are correct and the voting machines in this years election are reliable, or one can only imagine how worse the world's problems will get.
It is obvious that the Bush neo - cons have infiltrated McCain's closest circle and are now able to cloud what judgement he may have had.
I honestly think the old man is tired, and has lost control of campaign strategy in the process.
The poor sod.

McCain is not following the rules too closely, he is using Nixon like smear tactics to scare the american people to vote for his cause. Sound familiar? Where did this tactic leave our country last time someone did that? Oh don't forget we are voting for a President, a political leader, not a religious leader. Unless you want to be like our foes. Seperation of church and state! The framers of our constitution! Anything ring a bell from 11th grade American Government ? I really don't think Obama is a secret muslim who has lived in this country for majority of his life, graduated from Harvard Law, married another Harvard Law graduate, bought a home, raising two children here, performed countless community service work for Chicago, all to deceive the American people for his secret Muslim "terrorist" plan as Palin put it. Who is the ridiculous one? You might want to look at the educational background of each ticket and if you have spent any time in the military you should know that military academies are a joke, a bias teaching of the american political system.

I have said often and to anyone who wants to listen that the John McCain who deserved the Presidency in 2000, the John McCain I as a Democrat admired, died somewhere between then and now. What we have is a zombie, an undead creatue that is neither real nor capable of doing anything of his own volition. The John McCain of 2000 would have said he wanted Lieberman and he was going to get Lieberrman. He would not have sucked up to Hagee or others in the religious right. It' s sad, really.

This is FDR vs. Hoover 2008.

Simple as that.

This is about how our Government can best serve the American People in times such as these.

You know who FDR is this year and you ain't seen nothing yet.

We truly do have nothing to fear but fear itself.

Perception is reality and perception can be changed from negative to positive simply with Great Leadership. Positive demeanor. Swift action.

Look at a quarterback late in the 4th quarter and his team is down by 6 points and he has 2 minutes to drive 80 yards down the field for a touchdown.

His team is tired.
His team is demoralized.
His team has lost confidence in themselves.

The quarterback marches onto the field upright and confident. Simply his demeanor inspires his team. You can literally see and feel it happening from the TV screen.

He takes command.

He then methodically drives his team down the field and scores a touchdown to achieve victory.

One man with confidence and courage can change the world.

Imagine if FDR had television =)

I think the story about McCain in Rolling Stone Magazine shows that he is unfit to be a Senator or President. His choice of Palin is just plain scary. He is running a campaign that reflects his true nature. He is a mean and nasty spoiled bully. Frankly, I perceive him as unstable. The sooner we are free of him the better. A true American fraud, strangely perfect for our time.

The fact that Republicans have run campaigns based mostly on hate and fear for so long and that McCain is now choosing a different path is refreshing. He is attempting to remake the party and has. He has consistantly consulted with Democrats and honestly tried to put the country first before the GOP. This cannot be said of any Republican president aside from Bush 1 and he angered the republican base also. The fact that Rush doesn't like either one of them goes a long way toward proving the trueness of their character. It is very telling that the party that claims God's vision and values becomes upset when their candidate says enough to the politics of hate and half truths, and gets villified for it. McCain would have been a much better choice than W but hate and lies ruled that day and the GOP loved W for it apparently they want more of the same.

John McCain has demonstrated that he is unfit to lead anything. He has insulted the greatest country in the world with his hate and fear mongering. McCain/Palin make Bush/Rove/Cheney look like Sunshine and Lollipops.