Alan Greenspan Endorses John McCain

Reuters:

There is more than a 50 percent chance the United States could go into recession, former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan told El Pais newspaper in an interview published on Sunday.

Greenspan, the U.S. Fed chairman from 1987 to 2006, endorsed the Republican presidential candidate John McCain in the interview.

"I'm Republican and I support John McCain, who I know very well and who I respect a lot," he said.

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Comments

[lysistrata]

Two old inflexible old geezers, unable to learn anything new any more. Who in Christs name would vote for McCain?

[bailey2006]

Who would vote for McCain? A bunch of old geezers!!!

[SanityNowPlease]

From the man who presided over the building of the US Bubble, the architect of the current recession, is endorsing the man who will continue those broken economic policies. Well...goo­d for you guys. I am sure you'll be able to live with yourselves

[elpollo]

That's the U.S.S. Bubble which he commissioned on his watch.

[debwarot]

The person chiefly responsible for our current economic woes has just endorsed the candidate who admits to not knowing about the economy!! Wow - talk about a significant potential for disaster!

Can you say 'President Obama'?

[MadeinAmericaProud]

Yes we can but it will not happen. So get ready for another disappointment. the democratic party has been destroy with the state of Florida. Michigan not so much, But Florida is control by Cubans in that state,that why they keep the Republican party in office. Corruption is at its highest level. Thanks to the internet the world see our true colors.
I don't know how long we will have access to the internet, but it won't be long. The more they test just how dumb American have become in the world and we are not ashame, something is very wrong with this picture. The youtube group will need to flip more burgers in order to afford the text world and youtube pay as you go service soon to do business for profits.

[Moarku]

Makes perfect sense to me. McCain admit that he knows absolutely nothing about the economy, but that he'd read Greenspan's book to learn about it. So not only is McCain going to see things exactly like Greenspan himself (being his only source for economic theory), but as a bonus, he plugged Greenspan's book for him.

I'd endorse McCain myself if I heard he was going to base his policies entirely on comments I make in blogs like this. :)

[drkazmd65]

*snicker*

Good one Moarku

[WIpatriot]

The only thing McCain will pick up from Sir Alan's book is some catchy "fedspeak" phrases. He won't know what they mean, though, but they will sound erudite.

[elpollo]

yeah, the straight talk express reading fedspeak. Probably give him a stroke.

[TrevorAlan]

So can this be the official end of the myth of Greenspan as financial genius who saved the US economy? He did a passable job in that Fed Reserve post, but if he now endorses a candidate who promises to speed up the policies which have been pulling America down the drain its obvious we survive despite rather than because of any leadership on his part. If he really understood how bad our economy was under the policies McCain wants to continue he'd stay out of endorsing, if not speak up for Obama or Clinton.

[WIpatriot]

People who paid attention to Greenspan called shenanigans on him many times.

http://www.credoaction.com/comics/2007/09/booksigning_today_by_alan_gree.html

[MPCarr]

This is very good news for McCain regarding the economy.

[VOTER]

Sure is ..........­..........­..........­..........­.... LOL

You do know Greenspan helped kill our economy don't you?

He may have been a good "Keeper of the Money" before Bush came to the White House

but once Bush arrived Greenspan suddenly changed his mind. He originally had spoken

out against Bush's Economic Plan. Why did he change his mind? Many wonder.

Some even speculate that Bush blackmailed Greenspan.

Could be. All we know is that during the Bush Administration Greenspan followed Bush's

wishes and left us with a mess.

[VivaZapata]

the man who wrecked the economy is now supporting mccain. luckily for mccain he isn't working on the financial end of the campaign.

[KatieBeGood]

Wow, that's going to go a long way towards helping McCain. The man who is partly responsible for our current recession endorses the man who knows nothing about the economy.

[Yansher]

LOL, Good for you Mr. Greenspan

[Grannysue]

Well that cinches it, now we know where McBush's economic plan comes from, thanks there you old fart but you already had many years of taking our economy down, now please go away, oh and take Andrea with you, she's annoying.

[SubparDude]

:

Finally, some Good Old "Irrational Exuberance!"

Greenspan + Lieberman = Pandering to Youth Vote

. . . for Obama


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[MadeinAmericaProud]

Does this mean this is how you get out the vote to all American because we can not get any lower.

[nellie]

This man has been driving the U.S. economy into a ditch for over twenty years. It's no surprise he's endorsing McCain.

[andhakari]

The kiss of death...

[ohioangel]

Wow shocker.

sarcasm

Wonder who his wife, Andrea Mitchell, is supporting.

more sarcasm

[fortuna]

Yeah, I really can't see how she can be allowed to cover the presidential campaign. She really needs to stick to other news until after the General Election. SERIOUS conflict of interest.

[Maschine]

This guy is still breathing ??????

SO out of the three possibilities, he picks McInsane. Just goes to prove, no matter how many alphabets you have after your last name, you can still be clueless.

Greenspan, the greatest idiot alive.

[elderly]

There is only one man who qualifies as the greatest idiot alive and everyone (even his mother) knows who that is.

[MadeinAmericaProud]

The great Ann Richards said he couldn't help it he was born with a silver foot in his mouth.