McCain: I'd Still Appoint Greenspan If He Were Dead

AP :

Republican John McCain said Thursday that as president he would appoint Alan Greenspan to lead a review of the nation's tax code -- even if the former Federal Reserve chairman was dead.

"If he's alive or dead it doesn't matter. If he's dead, just prop him up and put some dark glasses on him like, like 'Weekend at Bernie's,'" McCain joked. "Let's get the best minds in America together and fix this tax code."

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Comments

[gopnot]

01:24 PM on 10/05/2007

JOHN MCCAIN IS A WEATHER VANE,"JOHN MCCAIN IS A WEATHERVANE",GET THE MANTRA OUT,WHEREVER THE GOP SMOG WIND BLOWS HE FOLLOWS.i am from arizona,and we know him well,HE WAS AGAINST THE BUSH TAX CUTS,SAID IT "FAVORED THE WEALTHY,AND WOULD HURT THE ECONOMY",THEN HE SAID THEY WERE GREAT AFTER HE GOT "HIS MONEY",THEN HE SAID REPUBLICANS WERE ""BANKRUPTING AMERICA,THE LARGEST DEBT,DEFICIT,AND SPENDING IN OUR TWO HUNDRED PLUS YEARS",THEN HE SPENT RIGHT ALONG WITH THEM.DON'T LISTEN TO THIS WAR MONGERING "FLIP-FLOPPER",HEY,HE MAKES KERRY LOOK LIKE A STOIC ROCK,he is a two faced liar,and i DID AT ONE TIME RESPECT HIM,I EVEN AS A DEMOCRAT WOULD MAYBE HAVE VOTED FOR HIM,HAD HE DEFEATED BUSH BACK THEN IN THE FIRST BUSH PRIMARY.but no more,he is totally and absolutely wrong about iraq,HELL,THE BASTARD WENT THROUGH NAM,HE KNOWS WE CANNOT TAKE ON THE ENTIRE WORLD OF THE MUSLIM.we did not declare war on RED CHINA OR RUSSIA,yet they supplied all the arms to the vietcong,WE DIDN'T EVEN BOMB A SINGLE PART OF THEIR COUNTRIES,BUT THIS BASTARD WANTS US TO BOMB AND INVADE IRAN,friends,i have several iranian friends,if we do this,boy,god help us,it is indeed WORLD WAR THREE,they saudi,jordanian,syrian,all muslims will attack us,it will destroy us,AND WE CAN'T KILL EVERY SINGLE ONE CAN WE.

[BPCentrisAmerican]

01:20 PM on 10/05/2007

The Federal Reserve is fundamentally unconstitutional because it merges the private banking industry with a federal appointee that is only answerable to the banking industry and acts in the best interest of Wallstreet. Their is nothing Federal about the FED and it limits competition for bank lending rates as well as interest saving rates, which are always less. I have no solution, but I have little regard for the Fed as well as Greenspan who validated the Bush taxes cuts. In his book he credits Bill Clinton with as being the most fiscally responsible presidents in history as well as the 1st president to balance the budget since WW2. He goes on to say that Bill Clinton should have been a Republican because he accomplished what Republican presidents merely pay lip service to. He than repeats this statement on Meet the Press with the partisan comment that a Hillary Clinton presidency would be to Liberal.

That's interesting, in my life time I have never seen a Republican balance a budget even on the state level. Before little Bush, Reagan was the biggest spender I've ever seen in the Whitehouse. Many of the problems this nation faces today can be traced right back to Reagan, George Bush just picked up the ball and ran as hard as he could. With the most compliant Congress in history he squandered away the treasury, destroyed the military as well as the value of the dollar. Greenspan acted as Bush's enabler much like a cocaine dealer enables a addict to get another 5 year run. Their nothing conservative about these people, nothing.

[poopdeck]

01:12 PM on 10/05/2007

Of course McCain would do that because Greenspan's advocacy of the overthrow of Saddam Hussein is a clear-cut case of a war crime by the standards of the Nueremberg trials.

[meandmagoo]

01:12 PM on 10/05/2007

John McCain will end up back in Arizona yelling at the neighbor kids to get off his lawn,just like crazy old men everywhere.

[wars4profit]

01:10 PM on 10/05/2007

Given the role of the Federal Reserve, a dead chairman would be an improvement.

[MI6troll]

02:34 PM on 10/05/2007

Now we get to hear raisewoowoo's constipation theory rants about the Fed.

[situationcritical]

01:07 PM on 10/05/2007

You mean you'd still appoint Greenspan if he were dead like you?

That's the problem with the USA government today, overrun by the undead.

[NotaBeliever]

12:55 PM on 10/05/2007

I am thinking McCain would not be a good president. He appears to be making statements for the purpose of hearing himself speak, without regard for how insane those statements might be interpreted by a listener ... voter ... country ... congress. Could you imagine this looney in charge and congress as pliant to the will of the executive branch as it currently is? Mygodinheaven.

[ReasonIsMyReligion]

01:03 PM on 10/05/2007

It's called dementia.

McCain is turning into a self-parody.

No wonder Jon Stewart treats him gently. Chris Matthews, on the other hand...

[ReasonIsMyReligion]

12:48 PM on 10/05/2007

A spokesman for Alan Greenspan released the following statement,

"While Mr. Greenspan must respectfully decline such a nomination, he gladly accepts compliments for candidates, whether themselves alive or dead."

[Issak]

12:45 PM on 10/05/2007

I thought Alan Greenspan had been dead for at least 20 years, no?

[white mende man]

12:35 PM on 10/05/2007

Hey John McLame would you do Marilyn Monroe too? foolish dufus

[DMcD]

12:34 PM on 10/05/2007

This guy is a raving lunatic !!!

[lornejl]

12:33 PM on 10/05/2007

There must be some kind of amazing rush that candidates get running for Pres, even tho they have no chance in Hell of getting elected.

[lornejl]

12:39 PM on 10/05/2007

Hey everyone, I ran for President ! Yeah, well, you got your ass kicked, and looked like an idiot ! So ? I still ran for President, na ne nah ne nah nah !

[Wiredwilly]

12:18 PM on 10/05/2007

Here's a better idea : Ask why the Nation is being run like a no-limit credit with you paying the interest. Before the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 there was no Central Bank, an idea Thomas Jefferson totally opposed. The people weren't stupid enough to pay interest on their own money. A Banking Monopoly was what the American Revolution was about : Eliminate the Bank of England's total control. The Federal Reserve Act changed that. Americans should forget about reviewing the Tax Code
and review the Federal Reserve Act. Not one candidate, except perhaps Ron Paul,
has any sense of International Finance at all.
The last President with a clue was Franklin Roosevelt.

[TJTelecaster]

12:17 PM on 10/05/2007

John McCain could have been seen as a leader and blown the whole rest of the field away, but instead he's taking stupid pills and self destructing..!

What is making him do this self loathing guilt dementia..?

[peterg76]

12:17 PM on 10/05/2007

That just doesn't make any sense. If Greenspan were dead, how would he flip-flop when his mistakes catch up with him?