Bill Kristol: To Help Economy, McCain Should Talk About Ayers

The economy is in tatters and shambles, and it's tattering and shambling its way along no matter what bailouts and rescues and Jim Cramer rant choruses are thrown at it. Now's the time for our presidential candidates to show leadership and vision, right? Not according to Bill Kristol, who thinks America needs to find out if our market woes weren't actually caused by a secret plan, hatched during a meeting of the Annenberg Challenge, in which Barack Obama and William Ayers agreed to use Weather Underground mind control techniques to convince Henry Paulson to stand back and do nothing while Ayers terror-bombed Lehman Brothers with his radical liberal derivatives. That's the basic gist of what Kristol was spitting at Fox News Channel this afternoon, as he stoically made the case for McCain going negative, forever. Why can't America understand that everyone got deep into bad mortgages and crazy credit default swaps because Barack Obama attended a Chicago Machine Church?

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KRISTOL: The economy will be center stage but I disagree with some of the advice that McCain is giving. Saying you have to talk endlessly about the economy. These attacks on Obama on Bill Ayers and Reverend Wright don't matter. I don't agree. It is a severe economic crisis and McCain and Obama don't know what they would do. They both supported the bailout. It's not clear except on taxes that there are huge divisions about what to do with the credit markets. McCain has to show is he concerned about it and willing to be a strong leader and say look, when you're in a crisis you have to judge the character, the judgment, the background of the person you are putting in charge, that's more important than trying to evaluate the details of Obama's plans on credit swaps. I don't think we will be able to judge what the best way to handle bad debt. So McCain has to tie the economic crisis to Obama's character and judgment and say who you want in charge in difficult years, who is up to the job, liberal democrats who has hung out with characters, do you want him to run the country. That's got to be the core of McCain's message.

Comments

[Aaron4unitruth]

To have a better understanding of what caused the financial crisis and how we can remedy it please read a post titled "Why is the United States undergoing a political and Financial Crisis?" and watch the third video down labeled "The Money Masters" at:

http://www.theartdeptchronicles.blogspot.com

[bhshore]

HEY BILL ....EVER HEARD OF BEING HONEST.....?

BUSH AND THE CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS LOOTED AMERICA WITH A TRILLION DOLLAR WAR, DRUNKIN SPENDING - ..AND BORROWING....BY A ADMIN TO INCOMPETENT THAT IF I AND 20 PEOPLE FROM MY NEIGHBORHOOD COULD HAVE DONE BETTER.

Your Neoconn world view of American domination is null and void.........and you're one of the chief architects.......SHAME ON YOU.....

...and I hope you're happy for what you left your kids....grand kids....etc......

[grf67]

Nice shot, Bill. Have you ever been correct about anything?

[DChance]

I think McCain should take Mr. Crystal's advice; after all he's been right some many times before.

Need I remind anyone of Crystal's Project for the New American Century? If one were only to listen to his voice maybe they'd fall for his bankrupt ideas. How about his great perspective and predictions for Iraq?

McCain needs to listen to Crystal and all the Bushies writing speeches and advising so he can completely flameout the McCain Campaign plane.

[BetterAmerica]

It's too bad for McC that nobody wants to hear about this anymore.

We are almost in a depression and we're losing $$$ every day in the stock market. He should be talking about issues like the economy.

[realpolitic]

Kristol says: "So McCain has to tie the economic crisis to Obama's character and judgment." The economic crisis has to do with years of conservative policies of deregulation, which McCain has supported from day one. The economic crisis belongs right at the footsteps of the Republican party. McCain owns it. To attempt to link the economic crisis to Obama is like anattempt to link the Iraq war to Obama, in other words, meaningless.

[izAriver]

Hey, mr. kristol, here's something from a real news source:

"Hallett calls this attack on Obama's association with Ayers and the Annenberg Challenge by further association, "a smear campaign. It's a political diatribe that has no basis in fact. The Chicago Annenberg Challenge was an extremely positive initiative. It was well-vetted, thorough, and the fact that it is now is being used for political purposes is, in my opinion, outrageous."

Your time is over.

[wanj]

Pastor Muthee should perform his witchcraft on Kristol... he's too scummy for words

[Whiteneck]

Sarah Palin-Iran tie.
The founder of Alaska Independence Party Joe Vogler, the raging anti-American and Todd-Sarah's political godfather, said, "My government is my worst enemy. I'm going to fight them with any means at hand."

"Vogler's greatest moment of glory was to be his 1993 appearance before the United Nations to denounce United States "tyranny" before the entire world and to demand Alaska's freedom. The Alaska secessionist had persuaded the government of Iran to sponsor his anti-American harangue.

That's right ... Iran. The Islamic dictatorship. The taker of American hostages. The rogue nation that McCain and Palin have excoriated Obama for suggesting we diplomatically engage. That Iran."
Palin's friend and AIP chairwoman Lynette Clark : "[Sarah] is Alaskan to the bone ... she sounds just like Joe Vogler."

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/10/07/palins_unamerican/

[TheQuestion]

"who you want in charge in difficult years, who is up to the job"

Let me think about that bill ......

Yup we need someone with good character - Obamba.

[alvdh1]

There goes your tax break Bill. Of course, you couldn't stand Prosperity when the good Bill was in power.

[PitbullCatcher]

THEY ARE HIDING THIS FROM YOU...Bill

http://mudflats.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/palin-2006-vetting.pdf

[Openeyes]

Keep drinking the kool-aid, Bill.

If you think McCain can change the news cycle and wipe the economy off the radar as the number one concern of the public by smearing Obama, you're in fantasyland. But go ahead, we'll just keep racking up gains with independents in the swing states.

Bush has been virtually absent from the onset of the financial crisis, making a 3 minute address and not much more. At least Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Where is Bush, in a fetal position or rereading "My Pet Goat"?

McCain similarly thinks he can just "turn the page" on the economy and everyone will just follow along with what he wants to talk about?

So you go right ahead Bill, you tell McCain to turn up that volume so everyone can clearly hear him screaming "you kids get off my lawn!" That approach has worked really well in the last couple weeks. . . for Obama.

[Paul]

No matter what McCain may say, Obama must simply state the obvious: Republicans don't care about you, just their rich friends.

McCain's got nuthin...

[oxford]

You will notice that any mention of MSM and the PNAC neocons gets dumped.

[SCG]

If Bill Kristol is despicable.