While the Dow Plunges, McCain Accuses Obama of Distracting Voters »
Posted By capj71 1 month, 2 weeks ago in NewsAs the Dow dropped another 369 points today, the reaction of John McCain was to continue to attack Obama’s character. It is laughable that McCain accused Obama of not talking about his record, and trying to distract the voters, when the McCain strategy is to ignore the economic crisis, and his own record.
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UnusualSuspect1 month, 1 week ago
What else can they do?
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They're behind in the polls, they can't talk about the economy, Ms Palin is not considered as strong as she was a month ago, they're pulling up stakes in states where they once were slightly ahead or tied (and are now behind)...
All they can do now is skirt the issues and attack negatively...sad...
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Charlson1 month, 2 weeks ago
Negative character attacks is all McBush has. His economic positions were part of the reasons for our financial meltdown and he wants to stay off that issue. America is tired of hearing about his POW experience which is not a qualification to being president. His position on the Iraq War is untenable. America does not want or need another republican administration. Isn't our country in enough of a mess? Do we really want to sink our nation further into the quagmire we're in now?
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RNactivist1 month, 2 weeks ago
McSAme has nothing to offer the American people...only the same failed Bush policies....Mr. Deregulator, free marketeer. Mccain is the guy who helped set the house on fire and now wants to be the hero and put the fire out!! He's a liar and so is palin and his erratic accusation and behavior speaks volumes. Thanks but no thanks John and Sara we do not need 2 more unqualified liars in the white house, we have had 8 years of that already and we need a change....
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truthlover1 month, 1 week ago
I'll give up everything for Obama and Biden if you can prove to me and the American people that they are not liars. If they win the election, how sure are you we are not changing for the worse? Let's think very seriously about this particular election for this is like a bridge of no return.
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4thchance1 month, 1 week ago
It's very clear to me.
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Obama hangs out with and does business with terrorists, America haters, thugs and thieves. What else do we need to know about that creep. How do we know FOR SURE that Obama isn't some kind of radical terrorists himself. WE DON'T KNOW DO WE? As the ole saying goes..."you are who you hang out with." Well look at who Obama hangs out with.
Obama's claims that he had no idea about these creeps, that's PURE BS! How could he not know. When ever anyone brings up the name William Ayres, the very first thing that comes to anyone's mind is....Domestic TERRORIST. Ayres is Infamous for his bombings and radical hate America agenda, but yet, Messiah Obama claims he had no idea. Hey Obama, F-U, we are not that stupid.
Are you people really dumb enough, not to see that Obama may be the absolutely worst choice we could ever make for president? We don't know what he's REALLY all about, do we.-
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Progressive1 month, 1 week ago
"Are you people really dumb enough, not to see that Obama may be the absolutely worst choice we could ever make for president?"
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The worst choice the American people ever made for president was Bush. That's why we don't want four more years of the last eight years.
."you are who you hang out with."
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webb671 month, 1 week ago
I think you are absolutely right. It simply amazes me at how many people that will go ahead and vote for this man.....It is terrifying that this man will be the President of this country. Nobody knows anything about him and will not believe what they do know as fact. I feel we will never know America as we have known in the past, I just hope we remain a free country but I even have my doubts about that.
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Natureboy1 month, 1 week ago
"Obama hangs out with and does business with terrorists, America haters, thugs and thieves."
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They both do, boyo. They both just got done cheerleading the financial a$$rape of the American people via "bailout." And then they lauded their "bipartisanship," which in truth had more in common with sloppy seconds than anything else. Do you want to tell me either of them is anything more than a ho for Wall Street and the power elite? I wouldn't p!ss on either of them if they caught fire.
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saneman1 month, 1 week ago
Changing for the worse? ROFLAMO!!! The U.S. has hit rock bottom. 1. The economy is in shambles. 2. The Dollar tanked to record lows. 3. The National Debt is at a point of no return. 4. The Iraq debacle is a Black Hole. 5. Gas prices through the roof. 6. Credit crisis and record foreclosures.
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markmawn21 month, 1 week ago
Hey, but we can still sit at home on our fatasses and watch Fox and NASCAR.
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dissent1 month, 1 week ago
it's bad saneman but it is now actually a possibility that it can get worse, a whole lot worse, it's that bad. we're now at the point of no return. we're teetering on the edge. with obama there is hope that we may carefully thoughtfully move back to saner higher ground. mccain on the other hand is just the man to push it full speed ahead..... into the abyss :|
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dissent1 month, 1 week ago
"how sure are you we are not changing for the worse?"
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oh it will change for the worse. but not because of them. the question is do you want a soft landing or a suicide drop?
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4thchance1 month, 1 week ago
We want Obama to step up to the plate and make it clear to us, on exactly what his involvements were with these terrorists and creeps he hangs out with. Obama's simply solution is to deny he knew they are bad people. That's about the biggest F*cking lie we have ever heard. He knew who he was hanging with, he knew what kind of people they are. SO WHY does he make up such stupid lies that only morons will beleive? We want some honesty from that creepy liar. Problem is, I doubt we will ever get any honesty out of Osama Obama. NONE!
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Beau78901 month, 1 week ago
We want McCain to step up to the plate and tell us exactly how his plans will help the economy, our foreign policy and the uninsured.
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I doubt we will ever get honest answers to those questions, since McCain's campaign manager said the election would not be about issues, but personalities.
Unfortunately for you, Republicans' character assassination will not work this time. If you think Obama's a terrorist, then you'd better make plans to leave the country before he gets you.-
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4thchance1 month, 1 week ago
McCain will do that tonight.
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Leave my country when it may need me more then ever, are you NUTS!? Only you DemoRats say you will leave the USA if you don't get your way with the elections. Remember all the threats all you Dems were making, "moving to Canada if Bush is re-elected" Well how come you're still here?...Oh that's right, Canada told you demrods to stay the F out of their country...Ahahahahha!
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quackpot1 month, 1 week ago
With the mess that we are currently in, for McCain to focus on these inane attacks shows how pathetic his offerings are.
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It seems as if McCain, looking at the situation that the past seven-plus years of Republican control has delivered, just does not want the job. -
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Republicrat18441 month, 1 week ago
Im so sorry MR McCain but you see it is all about the Economy Mr Obama is not distraction anyone he is only pointing out the part you and your Party cant seem to Grasp....! (DU!!)
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hinsoncm1 month, 1 week ago
The big problem McCain and the Republican Party have is the "Trickle Down" economic theory, while the Democratic Party, belive that "Bottom Up" offers a stronger economy. Currently, Bush's Trickle Down policy isn't working, and this is evident by the fact that to much wealth is being accumulated by to few people, while the middle class wages, buying power, is declining even though productivity is up. This, to me, is the basic issue regarding economic policies, and the role of the next president to explain to the citizens. Can McCain explain the current problem, why Tickle Down is stalled and what if anything he can do about it, and can Obama explain the problem as unsolvable, and introduce in an understadable way, introducing and implementing a whole new policy will improve our economy. And what would it take make a complete change in direction.
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beavith11 month, 1 week ago
its not theory. its plain old macroeconomics.
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i'm not sure what kind of eonomics the democrats believe in, because economics aren't a religion. you can believe what you want, but human nature is such that macroeconomics is a tried and true system to understand how we spend our money.
bottom up is nonsense. there is no such thing.
example. a poor person starts a business. bully for her! where does she get her money from? a bank. where does the bank get its money from? a wealthier person that deposits their cash in a bank account.. the bank lends it to the poor person to get started.
fast forward. that once poor person is now a success. her business has made her wealthy. what does she do with her profits? goes out and buys stuff and/or peuts cash in the bank for the bank to laon out to someone else to buy a house, start a business, send a kid to college.
the democrat plan would take money from that loop and penalize wealth and/or success. that makes it harder to start a business, get a home loan or send a kid to college.
the dem plan is absolutely DISeconomic.
'trickle down' isn't stalled. bank to bank loans have screeched to ahalt because a bunch of Wall Street traders gamed the loan system to cause a bubble in credit. the bubble burst and here we are. if no one (banks) loans to each the system becomes unstable.
you talk about a change in direction? Os plan will grind the economy to a differnt halt than what we are facing today. actually, its not very different than what FDR during the depression. when capital formation needed a boost, he tore its heart out.
if O had one idea that promoted capital formation, i'd feel a whole lot better about him. every one, EVERY SINGLE ONE of his tax and fiscal policies requires him to take money from the rich (like Robin Hood) to give to the poor.
i always thought america was predicated on success, not on predatory fiscal and tax policy. call me a nut.
its not like McC has a whole pile of capital foramation ideas himself, but its nowhere the confiscatory plan that defines Obama.
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HateKoolAid1 month, 1 week ago
Thanks for the simple to follow republican primer on how our economy works. However you left out the part where smoke and mirrors come in. Where does the part where CEO's get fat bonuses for running a company into the ground while the worker bees get pink slips?? Where do the predatory lenders fit into the scheme?? You say FDR ripped the economy apart and here all this time I thought he did a good job keeping this country together during the war.
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sinophil491 month, 1 week ago
Trickle down economics has been given more than a fair chance under Reagan, Bush I and Bush II. It has failed miserably. Tax cuts to the rich and the corporations have merely enriched them at the expense of the poor. Unemployment has shot up to about 7%.
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The trickle up plan has already been proven to work. Clinton's Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 was a resounding success. He raised taxes on the top 1.2% of income earners and cut income and FICA taxes on the middle class and the poor. He cut taxes on up to 90% of small businesses. He increased the earned income tax credit for the poor. It imposed spending restraints on government agencies.
This remarkable bill passed through congress without a SINGLE Republican vote. In fact, Al Gore had to put in his vote in the Senate for it to pass.
What the OBRA did was to immediately decrease the budget deficit, so that the nation finally achieved a budget surplus in 1998-2001. It inaugurated 10 continuous years of economic growth. Bush enjoyed the last 2 years of growth before his own policies resumed ever increasing budget deficits.
Clinton also negotiated NAFTA and numerous bilateral trade bills (most notably w/ China). What these did was to significantly decrease import taxes here and for our goods exported abroad. These helped our trade and resulted in keeping consumer prices low for our consumers. What Clinton did has been called by economists the largest hidden tax cut in the history of the world.
Why did his economic and tax policies work so well? It put more money in the hands of the middle class and the poor. These are the consumers, the purchasers of goods.
This is what drove the Clinton economic engine.
When purchases and consumption goes up, then factory orders go up. When factories have more orders, they hire more people.
Under the Trickle down theory, if you give money to the rich and the factory, that increases jobs. IT DOES NOT.
All it does is enrich the rich and increase the profit margins of the factories. If there are no orders coming in to the factories, why would they hire more people? All that would do is increase their sales inventory in their warehouses and that decreases profits.
Trickle down or supply side economics belongs in the dustbin of history.
You claim that only Obama's plan is "confiscatory." In a sense Obama's plan is just that; BUT SO IS McCAIN'S. The only difference is that Obama's makes sense and puts more discretionary income in the hands of those who need it more and who will stimulate the economy more. McCain's plan would merely fatten the fatcats and make the economy even more stagnant than it already is. Moreover, huge numbers of people would be hurt even more than is happening now.
FOR EVERYONE'S BENEFIT, VOTE FOR OBAMA.
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