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

[PublicEnemy]

Question:
Senator McCain, I am concerned about the drying up of the credit markets and the rise in unemployment. What specific remidies do you have to help America get its financial house in order?

McCain: Thank you my friend for such a great question. I propose that we look into the people Barack Obama assciated with in Chicago. William Ayers, a domestic terroist, who set off bombs around Chicago and the rest of the country. We need to know why my opponent would call these types of people his friend.

Please John, Ignore what the American people are really concerned about and continue on your "Angry Neighbor" rant against Barack. The country is starting to wake up to the fact that you have become, just like "Shrub", an empty suit.

[jsparrow]

These guys are trying to ruin America. Down with the neocons!

[Sparty1]

Dumb and Dumber starring Sarah Palin as Dumb and John McCain as Dumber!

[Openeyes]

Bogus & Bodice '08!

[oxford]

The fact that Kristol is given any attention on the MSM and cable news at all is disgusting, given his founding of the PNAC (that neocon, world domination group with a manifest anyone can find on Google).

[dbeden]

Oh please please please McCain campaign, please take Kristol's advice. He's NEVER been wrong, ever. About anything. Ever. And it worked SO well for Clinton, too!

[newbridge]

You are so right. He got it right on Iraq, Iran, PNAC Letter, neo con philosophy (his Daddy, Irving Kristol, was a founder of the neo con movement). McCain needs to follow all of his advice.

[LWkcma]

i can't figure out why anybody listens to his crap, unless it's just to do or think the opposite

[PioneerKing]

Bill Kristol is a sniveling cipher who is incapable of an original thought and, is less appealing than toliet bowl scumb.

[Whatashame]

That gus is not smart. He never gives good advice. I do not know why he's even on TV.

[ClevelandTom]

I don't understand why some people think that tonight's debate format favors McCain or anyone. The reality is that this not really a townhall format. The only difference between this and other debates is the source of the questions. But with about 2 million submitted, Brokaw is going to be able to find the questions he would have asked anyhow.

[lincheryl]

McCain will have some (hopefully!) people in the audience that are not avid supporters. I am wondering how he will handle that since he doesn't like to be challenged on his comments and views. Anger may erupt. I am worried about Brokaw's ability or desire to be neutral.

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[Nyla785]

Both Palin AND McCain have enough dirt in their past to make this smear of Obama a wash.
But lets face facts--neither McCain NOR Palin can speak coherently about the economy without talking in ideological talking points. They'd sound ridiculous. Watch how they divert the issue with something else.

[jorge4u]

You know you got a problem when even FOX polls show Obama leading in some of the key states.

[ljc]

Kristol is usually wrong about everything. This is a different format for this debate. McCain could get booed if he tries the smear crap. He is just a mean nasty sad person. When he looses, he will have to go back to the Senate with his head hung in shame. I hope Arizonia votes him out the next time.

[f4skyhawk]

these are the people shaping public opinion - God Help us all the more reason to sideline them after the election

[Marcee]

Bill Kristol, if you want another election stolen by a substandard candidate and his gun totting side kick who both have no vision for the future, your advice makes sense. If, however, you want the forces of democracy to work fairly in this election with candidates talking issues and policy, then your comments are absurd and badly out of touch. You neocons, social conservatives, the self righteous evangelical right and ditto heads are what made a 63 year old, former Republican leave her party, change her registration to Democrat and work like heck for Obama-Biden. You, my friend, Bill Kristol, are responsible for the slow and painful death of the Republican party. Go Obama-Biden.