New York Times:
Speaking in Albuquerque on Monday, Senator John McCain attacked Senator Barack Obama on several fronts that by now have become familiar. But many of his charges relating to the economic meltdown, taxation and health care contained inaccuracies or exaggerations of his own position or Mr. Obama's.
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Good grief! Where did McSame get that infomercial crowd? Hilarious.
He seemed to be enjoying himself. Good for him. He's found a new vocation. He can sell Ab Rockets after the election and he can take those simpletons with him.
McCain is spewing forth garbage ... any thing to get Americans to pay attention. He's like a drunken sailor casting curses and spilling swag as he saunters down a dark and dingy alley. Do we really need a President like this ... I don't think so!
Loser McBush feels the need to lie and distort to make himself more windswept and interesting!
They can't discuss the issues in depth because he and his puppet are empty heads!
Well stated and TRUE ! mcbush and Palin are airheads
Then that must make Obama and Biden d**kheads!
You have to wonder, when McSame was a pow, did he turn on his fellow prisoners and go negative when it suited him so he could get better treatment? I wouldn't put it past him.
In a word, YES. Read the article in Rolling Stone's Oct. 16 issue. It is on the web and very enlightening re McCain's self-annointed hero status. Seems to me that "hero" (like "genius" or "beautiful" ) is a word that ought to be used descriptively by OTHERS, not by oneself or by a military bigshot father that kept one from being thrown out of both the service adademy and the military itself for incompetence and bad behavior.
McCain wasted taxpayers' money by goofing around the Naval Academy on the taxpayer's dollar, and graduated in the bottom one percent of his class. He would not have been admitted to the academy on his own credentials, so he used his legacy status due to his father and grandfather, the admirals. HE also crashed and destroyed at least 3 tax-payer owned planes because he couldn't be bothered to read the manuals. (And his trolls have the gall to ask where Obama got the money for his education and a house in Chicago).
McCain's assertion that he heroically opted to stay with his men (rather than return to participate in the raising of the family that he dumped almost as soon as he got home) is another pile o' bullcrap. If he had taken advantage of his captors' offer for repatriation, he would have faced a court martiial.
Republicans who love their country and are concerned about its future must express their outrage. It is sunacceptable for jMcCain and surrogates to attack the patriotism of the other party's nominee and call him a liar and a terrorist.
Barak Obama is a good man, with a loving family, a responsible citizen, a long time community servant, and a sitting Senator of the United States. He won primaries and caucuses across the US, in compeittion with a large field well best qualified candidates and has become the Democratic nominee,. He is cosidered by most of the nation and the world not only to be qualified to be president, but the preferred candidate.
John McCain, like Hillary before him, is losing a run for president, an office to which he feels entitled. Obama's only offense is wining. As with the Clintons, McCain has become mean anddesperate, revealing his lack of character and professional dishonesty.
Republicansshould let it be known that McCains style of politics is REPULSIVE AND WILL NOT BE TOLERATED. I am confident they will do this in the ballot box, but they also need to do it at the top of their lungs. Our nation is challenged in ways most of us have never seen. We have an incompetent president and a compliant Congress. The presidential election is our only hope for real leadership and change. We need to be publicly outraged at McCain and we need to elect Obama.
So many mistakes in your statement.
I believe he is a good family man, but as a community servant, he promoted radicalism, not the kind of change that everyone believes blindly. He did win his previous elections bids, but not on merit. On the contrary, he won because he eliminated his opponents through questionable means even before the election occured. So literally he ran against noone in those races. Most do not consider him qualified.
ENOUGH said!
So it appears McCain can't speak five sentences without lying in three of them.
including all "the" or "and" in his sentences are lies
Why is it that the NYT spends so much time going through McCain speeches with a fine toothed comb when they spend no time whatsoever playing this sort of game with Obama?
Obama's speeches are replete with mammoth distortions and outright deceptions, both regarding his own record, and of McCain's.
How many times has Obama said that McCain represents 4 more years of Bush? How many times has he said that McCain is running for a 3rd term of the Bush administration?
That's a ridiculous unsubstantiated attack, without one shred of supporting evidence.
Obama has solemnly pledged that he won't raise one single tax on anyone making less than $250,000, when he himself admits that he will raise taxes on electricity.
He says McCain thinks anyone earning less than $5 million is middle class. Again, ridiculous and demonstrably wrong, but repeated daily on the campaign trail unquestioned by the NYT.
And on and on and on.
Perhaps you should read the column. It explains much of what you are complaining about. McCain would be a third Bush term. In fact, with 90% of the same votes, with Bush campaign staff running McCain's campaign and with Bush policies now McCain policies and with Bush's far right agenda now McCain's far right agenda, it's hard to see how you could possibly defend McCain. Then you add HEALTHCARE. McCain has the worst Healthcare plan ever. Add to that McCain's angry man personality with his erratic behavior and you've basically got the worst candidate for president that I can remember.
That's my point. Obama can say "Hey, 90% accuracy is good enough to justify these attacks" and the MSM gulps it down approvingly.
But McCain statements that are 99% accurate at savagely attacked as L I E S.
They don't even attempt to feign being evenhanded in their criticism.
DUH....nat
I SAW McC say, when asked what he considered the upper level of the middle class, "Oh about five million" with a dismissive wave of his hand.
I don't know any teachers, nurses, firemen, police, small business owners etc etc who make that kind of money.
Guess that shows me where I, a teacher, sit on his economic scale.... darn. And all this time I thought I was middle class.
In a nutshell? Obama speaks the truth.
In a nutshell? Exactly where we find John McCain; cracked beyond repair.
McCain's ties to Cha.labi:
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There's more truth to McCain's statement that Obama said Subprime mortgages are good than the spin mentioned by the NYT.
He did say they were good. He said they were abused somehow, but fundamentally good.
The truth is that they are NOT good. They are a phony loan, which no bank that actually had to administer would ever agree to, unless forced by the government.
The fact that the NYT is trying to call McCain out for making a truthful and accurate and honest statement about Obama's beliefs on the matter shows just how far they will compromise their own so-called integrity to keep the true Obama hidden from the voters.
Please explain how all subprime loans are "phony loans".
Obama claimed that lenders realized they could make lots of money on subprime loans by "lowering their standards".
The only situation where this makes sense is one where the lender doesn't have to service the loan, and instead hands it off to someone else to deal with the risk of foreclosure. They take their cut on loan origination fees, and then sell the loan to Fannie and Freddie to socialize the risk.
Before Fannie and Freddie were authorized to purchase Alt-A and Subprime loans, the CRA loans were given grudgingly, because they simply didn't make any economic sense. Afterward, it grew like wildfire, because the risk was no longer a barrier, since the taxpayers were bearing that burden.
actually, it the diving up and direcviatives based on them without regulation that is the problem. Only 5% of morgagates are late. The loans have very little to do with the problems. i
This crash was caused by the unregulated leveraged speculative trading in derivatives.
The crash was caused by the GOP principles of deregulation.
Everything that "Wall Street" was doing was also happening at Fannie and Freddie.
They lost tens of billions of dollars on derivatives that crashed and became worthless. They were guaranteeing the solvency of every Alt-A and subprime loan they had bundled based on holding back a 2-3% commission. They were operating at 65 to 1 leverage, which is far, far more than any bank could ever get away with.
So the next time Obama bashes "lenders" or "Wall Street", remember that the biggest of all, Fannie and Freddie, were engaging in the same behavior as all the rest, and it was all done with the blessing of Democrats in Congress, who ran interference for them and opposed reform.
McCain co-sponsored a bill to increase the regulation
I realy don't think you have done any research on this matter. The LACK of regulation is the problem.
From a comment posted on Huffpo last week (Sorry, dont have link)
"University of Michigan Law Professor Michael Barr, a specialist in banking and finance law, flatly rejected claims that the CRA was "a significant factor in the current crisis. CRA was enacted more than 30 years ago. It would be quite odd if this 30-year old law suddenly caused an explosion in bad subprime loans from 2002-2007.
Nothing easier than to find an academic who is only too eager to shill for the big boys.
The king of this class of toadies is a rocky fellow named Henry Kissinger.
What would happen if a bank bundled bad loans, and nobody bought them? The bank would be stuck with it.
Fannie and Freddie were bundling loans, and they were purchasing bundled loans from other investment banks doing the same. So they were both an originator and a purchaser of these CDOs. In fact, they play such a key role in the CDO market that when economists try to calculate policy effects, they assume that Fannie and Freddie originated 30% of the CDOs in the market. And we already know that they hold more than 50% of all the mortgage debt nationwide. So they're the 800 pound gorilla in the room on CDOs and this whole subprime crisis.
You can't ignore their role, despite all the attempts by Dems to distract from their cash cows.
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He is under pressure from Congress to GO AFTER THE BASE WITH THE HATE MESSAGE!
They are all that will LISTEN to this message! Undecided and Democrats just ignore it!
The MAP IS HARDENING, SOLIDIFYING, GELLING, FIRMING UP, and CEMENTING!
He has MATHEMATICALLY LOST THE ELECTION SINCE OBAMA HAS 340 Electoral VOTES!
He is AFRAID of Losing the Heartland and this is his MESSAGE to them not to the REST OF US!
Congress simply wants Palin and McC to FIGHT for THEIR SEATS IN CONGRESS!
In effect "McCain is ATTACKING McCain" not Obama as this message can not SELL to the COUNTRY!
I am waiting for McCain to be nailed on his financial and personal connection with a known Iranian government operative ... Chalabi
McCain is owned by this guy Chalabi who was a key staffer and financial supporter of his campaign. Chalabi was found out to be an inside mole for Iran who had held a key position in the American installed Iraqi government.
Look at that photo. He's lost his soul.
He had one?
McCain is an exaggeration of a human being, he is far from decent and clearly has anger issues which cause him to lie and show his willingness to steal and cheat regardless of the cost or consequences.
it looks like Obama is going to be it, not because he's the messiah - he isn't....r
Here is my town hall question submission?
Sen McCain,
How wold you govern when 40,50, 60,+million
American's won't do what your government wants, and don't acknowledge your presidency?
Do you imprison, or kill them?
Or would you step aside for the betterment of the Country?
Do you step aside?
Of course he wouldn't..
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First Posted: 10- 6-08 08:32 PM | Updated: 11- 6-08 05:12 AM