Gramm: McCain Supporters Aren't The "Whiners"

Bloomberg:

Former Texas Senator Phil Gramm, who stepped aside as John McCain's campaign co-chairman in July after an uproar over comments that those worried about the U.S. economy are ``whiners,'' today revisited that sentiment.

``If you're sitting here today, you're not economically illiterate and you're not a whiner, so I'm not worried about who you're going to vote for,'' Gramm told supporters of McCain at a Financial Services Roundtable event in Minneapolis on the sidelines of the Republican National Convention.

Gramm, 66, stepped down as a senior adviser to McCain in July after telling the Washington Times that the U.S. is a ``nation of whiners'' facing a ``mental recession.''

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Comments

[gouge]

Phil Graham: when you think about who the people are who actually made this country great, from the leaders like Roosevelt, Lincoln, Spruance, Eisenhower -to its artistc innovators -Ellington, Monk -Miles Davis, de Kooning, Pollock,, Whitman, Melviile, Wallace Stevens to its everyday heroes - the men who fought and fell at Tarawa, Bougainville, and then you look at this pompous, hayseed of a human tortise, you have to ask yourself; self, how did these silly, bible thumping fools ever get the power they have recently had, over our great country -and how do we rid ourselves of them?

[MargaretO]

I don't know, but I want my country back from these whacko's.

[findingthetruth]

Shhhhh ---- PLEASE allow this man to speak.

[RatgurlSD]

So we can watch him swallow his knee.

[YouDisgustMe]

LMAO

[soithoni]

We've been silent way too long.

Enough.

Enough of this steaming horse manure, enough of McSlimey, enough of Governor
Anita Bryant.

We've had way too much nonsense in the last 8 years. Katrina, Iraq, banks, gas, bankruptcies, working 100 hours a week just to pay the bills...

We have had enough of these blowhards.

[layman]

Those who attended the Financial Services Roundtable event are the thugs and thieves who benefitted from the Bushco economic policies, among them the deregulation of the financial industry, that this pompous A$$ lobbied through congress, looting the rest of the country.

Wonder why they are not the whinners.

[SSF]

Hey Phil! We members of the "Whining Illiterati" are going to put Obama and Biden in the White House and vote your buddy McCain back into the Stone Age where he belongs and you're welcome to go with him!

[boogygran]

Fabulous

[MountainTime]

Stop calling us whiners thats sexist.

[JTyroler]

Jeez - I wish Phil Gramm would quit whining about people who don't support John McCain.

[beaupritchard]

Stupidity ... the gift that keeps on giving.

[KimbaInIndy]

Phil Graham is a whiner! What a loser, the repukians are finally dying off.

[GSMRaleigh]

Stupid is as stupid does.

[darthdarcy]

Gramm is one of America's biggest swindlers...and he has done equal harm to those who support McCain and also those against..!

The Enron loophole and gas prices, as well as the sub prime crisis and foreclosures as a lobbyist for UBS can be placed at this guys front door..!

[Coinyer101]

that's going to win them a lot of votes. lol!

[garimpeiro]

Just once I'd like someone to ask McCain, "Since the architect of your economic platform showed his contempt for the people whose lives would be affected by those policies, what concrete changes have you made?"

[Oldbuck]

Phil Gramm is the biggest crook in Texas as a former S&L Exec when we need to pull strings we hire Phil Gramm was a lobbyist when he was in congress he was the best money could buy he has never seen a dollar he didn't like.

[Pat15]

When will the citizens learn that GOP is for the top 2% and dont give a damn about the middle class...Just look at the past 71/2 years what pain they have brought to our nation ... sadly we keep electing them .Time after time GOP has shafted the majority of us but we never learn .. Guess 4 more years of Mac will put us over the edge and US will become a 3rd world nation ..where 95% dont have much & live paycheck to paycheck while the top 5% have the expensive yachts, million $ mansions, private jets ..etc & the trickle down economy will be in full swing ... Wake up America we are being robbed by these Repugs ...Amen

[RatgurlSD]

That will only happen IF we DON'T BARACK the VOTE!

[Rutabaga]

Ah yes, more sanctimonious speech-making from the party of George Bush who once uttered this witticism:

"This is an impressive crowd - the haves and the have-mores. Some people call you the elite. I call you my base."