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John McCain — It’s the Economy, Stupid

Started by baratunde aka jack turner · 1 year ago

So welcome onto the not-so-straight express where John McCain straight up lies about the fact that he’s said repeatedly that he don’t know jack about economics. NOW, of course that the Republicans are partly responsible for flushing our economy down a toilet swirl with poor policy and way out of control deficit spending — now [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ ... Continue reading »

13 comments

  • msmartin

    1 year ago

    Happy to see the McCain coverage. We need to fight him harder, much harder, than we did Hillary.
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  • CraigHickman

    1 year ago

    Say it again.
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  • GreenLadyHere

    1 year ago

    Co-signing BIG TIME!!!!!
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  • msmartin

    1 year ago

    Don't forget the Republicans and some Democrats even, have sold out the American poor and middle-class to big business and other countries. It is time that we make a change for the survival of the American people.
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  • Karmi

    1 year ago

    This article/post makes it looks like the left is worried, and there is still four months left. Resorting to slogan quotes from the pre-Clinton years is a sign of desperation, IMHO.
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  • TRW

    1 year ago

    Hi Karmi,

    I was just wondering how this article makes the left look like it is worried? Personally, I think that the press seems to have an ongoing love affair with both Obama and McCain, but the fact remains McCain has not been called out on a lot of his double talk, and this is one issue where he was talking out the side of his neck and then changed his mind. Barack has done the same thing, but it seems his mistakes/gaffes get replayed for a week straight whereas McCain's might get a passing mention. Why can't the press just hold both candidates feet to the fire in the interest of giving the voters the best information possible?
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  • Karmi

    1 year ago

    TRW,

    Mainly Jill's title, and sub-title caught my eye. I didn't even watch the video.

    Obama has never been vetted...sure, there has been mentionings of the likes of Wright, Ayers, Rezko, etc., but no real digging by the press beyond that. It's like Obama waves-a-hand, and the press swoons.

    Apparently we see what is going on differently.

    Thanks for the reply!
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  • TRW

    1 year ago

    Karmi,

    Thanks for the reply. You think that Obama hasn't been vetted? I think the opposite. I think he has been and will continue to be "vetted," but it seems so far that the press can't find anything of substance to stick.

    Ayers: I think the guy was an idiot for setting bombs to send a political message, but what does what he did 40 years ago have to do with Obama sitting on a board of an organization with him that is geared toward helping children?

    Wright: I have mixed feelings about Wright. He has said things that agree/disagree with. But as Wright has already acknowledged. Obama is his own man, and has formed his own opinions, so I find it pretty laughable that people were trying to paint Wright as this guy that was influencing his policy decisions.

    Rezko: Obama's dealings with him illustrated poor judgment, as he readily admitted, but the prosecution of Rezko didn't reveal any wrongdoing from Obama. Rezko even revealed that the prosecutors were pushing for information on Obama but he refused to implicate him where there was no there there. And I find it amusing that people always yell Rezko to illustrate that Obama was involved in shady dealings but glance over McCain's history with the Keating 5 scandal, Abramoff, etc.

    It seems that people view Obama as this unknown entity, whereas I feel that I don't know much about McCain yet either. Just this narrative about him being a POW, which is fine, but he has a long political record that hasn't fully come to light.
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  • Karmi

    1 year ago

    Referring to John, as "Old Man McCain" is Ageism.

    Just my 2-cents...
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  • Karmi

    1 year ago

    The ‘Afrosphere’ is quick to point out what they consider to be racism and/or bigotry and/or oppression, but they seem to have no problem about bashing and ridiculing a person about her/his age. Shameful…
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  • TRW

    1 year ago

    The Afrosphere? I don't know about that, but I agree that the age jokes are shallow and petty. There are legitimate things to criticize McCain about. You don't need to diminish yourself by talking about his age.
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  • D.

    1 year ago

    McCain's a national security/foreign policy guy....everyone knows that. He'll bring someone along (Romney?) who's smarter than him in economics, and everything will be fine.

    Having said that, I do hope the new campaign staff gets him back on message.
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  • CraigHickman

    1 year ago

    I sincerely hope McCain is stupid enough to put Romney on the ticket.
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