Crushed by the Elephant

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

If McCain loses this election expect the GOP to paint him as soft and tack even farther to the right.
Republicans are losing because the hyper partisans on their right flank have stifled any serious discussion of issues, choosing instead to follow a rigid ideology no matter the underlying facts. I suspect that the folks screaming "terrorist" at McCain rallies are the same 22% who think George Bush is doing a great job. If the GOP does not enlarge its base it really will be a dead elephant. I dont see any sign of that happening this election cycle, in fact quite the opposite.

Picking Sarah Simple McPalin, was the most cynical single act I've seen McCain make. While I never agreed with his policies, I respected the 2000 McCain and could have lived with him as President. But choosing one of the "agents of intolerance", for votes, he proved he's just another politicain. Sad indeed

The observation of this article that McCain "succumbed to the choice of his advisers" is the core essence
to McCain's enigma as a hard core republican, and as a maverick politician with a thorny Arizona cactus mindset in between. Without his sidekick senator Lieberman to whisper in his ear when he flubbed his answers about Iraq; without his Washington staff to keep away an attractive female lobbyist he allegedly carried an illicit affair, and without his advisers to write him the script of his campaign speeches, he would have been sitting in a nursing home chair staring at the ceiling.

Then McCain tried to take credit for the "Surge of Troops" in Iraq as a successful operation, but that is republican fibbing. The reduction of violence in Iraq was not the "Surge", but the buss-loads of money to Sunni sheiks, and the 100.000 Sunni young people - the so called Sons of Iraq, and possible insurgents - putting on the U.S. payroll. It wasn't the surge of troops; it was the surge of hefty bribes that costs us $ 10 billion a month. And the Sunnis stack away that money and weapons issued by us to fight any pro-American government when the American leave Iraq.

Then came the idea of McCain's advisers to assign Sarah Palin to make a paleontological reference to
a 40-years old story of the Weather Underground, and hang Obama's association with one of its member, Dr. William Eyers, as a fossil of "terrorism" at Obama's neck. But most American were pre-occupied with
their losses at Wall Street, and they didn't show any interest to deal with phantoms of the past. Most American now are going through the Wall Street anxiety that has diluted their lifetime savings and retirement income, and they don;t care about archaeological excavations to pile dirt on a political opponent.

Is McCain crushed by the elephant? No. McCain is just disoriented due to his age and failing state of mind, and the republican party is just in disarray. And seeing what is happening on Wall Street under a republican administration, it is a good thing for the rest of us. Nikos Retsos, retired academic.

Sad but so true. The GOP is "dead" as we know it. The party itself has lost credibility in the eyes of the electorate at large because its leaders were steered by arrogance, greed and contempt for their adversaries. Our great country is "auto-correcting" itself. We are purging the toxins from within and come November 5th the landscape will look very different.

My thinking is that if you are a Christian as Ms Palin made me to believe, that you will be an agent of peace not violence and smear campaign. As a Christian and a republican, I am very ashamed about this violent tunes. I pray the Palin-McCain ticket shows maturity to do what is right.

A little too late for making up the blunders he already made!McCain is a hypocrite. He saw his hateful tactics are backfiring and now he sees the need to turn out the fire he started himself! Guess what, his true colors have been exposed! How does Obama get called anti-American by guilt of association yet Palin allows her Husband, who is a seperatist from Alaskan Independence Party to have access and conduct his personal agenda from a Governor's office?

said she was scared by Obama, because he was "Arab," that she was wrong and his opponent was actually a "decent family man." McCain's own crowd then booed him.

actually, the audience applauded after his correction at this rally. they booed him after the country boy with the hat made a statement to him about bringing his baby into the world and being scared if obama is elected. mc cain said he didn't have to be afraid, that obama was a good man. then they booed. right action, wrong event.

To a great extent one could replace the names with Obama and Biden and the ex-presidents to Democrats and it would read just as accurately, therefore is a waste of well everything related to it. Would please write about something pertinent?

Why would America REWARD complete Republican failure ?

We wont.

actually, the crowed him after some country boy in a hat asked him a question. after the blond lady told him she was scared and the obama was an arab, mc cain said he has disagreements with obamas vision, but that he is a decent man. the audience applauded at that point. btw, i'm still voting for obama.

Thank you, Mr. Alter, for articulating this sad truth so eloquently.

A very patriotic insightful piece. So true, had McCain stayed true to his core values as a moderate he would have walked away with the election. Palin is window dressing plain and simple. Picking up the HIlary vote? I think not. Lieberman, who of course was McCain's real choice, would have been seen by the GOP marketers as more old boy's club with a liberal stance. So the dusty old elephant made their uneducated choice based on appearances. I am/was an undecided voters. I don't want 4 more years of a BUSH/ROVE agenda, but have in the past voted conservative. The old John McCain was someone I could get behind, because he really did buck the system. This John McCain is an obvious puppet of the GOP. No thanks been there done that. Barack Obama will be getting my vote. John McCain and Sarah Palin made up mind for me.

McCain's pathetic surrender to the no-nothings of the right has produced the inevitable consequence: the loss of support and respect of the majority in his own party. Naturally, his friends and associates do what almost any compassionate person does when shown an ugly baby. They steel themselves, and gush about how beautiful it is. Unfortunately for the senator this baby has a cholic, and can be less than pleasant to listen to. Gratefully, in three weeks it'll be back in Alaska where we don't have to hear her strident wailings. And...none too soon !!