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Fri, 09-19-2008 - 11:22pm

Crazy:


 


http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/mccain-on-banking-and-health/


 


September 19, 2008,  7:24 pm
McCain on banking and health


OK, a correspondent directs me to John McCain’s article, Better Health Care at Lower Cost for Every American, in the Sept./Oct. issue of Contingencies, the magazine of the American Academy of Actuaries. You might want to be seated before reading this.


Here’s what McCain has to say about the wonders of market-based health reform:



Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst excesses of state-based regulation.


So McCain, who now poses as the scourge of Wall Street, was praising financial deregulation like 10 seconds ago — and promising that if we marketize health care, it will perform as well as the financial industry!>>>

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In reply to: sopall1953
Fri, 09-19-2008 - 11:27pm
Do you think McCain's faithful followers understand his continuing contradictions?
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Registered: 08-20-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Fri, 09-19-2008 - 11:36pm

Even Karl Rove has publicly said McCain is lying too much. I think he said it not to hurt McCain, but to help him.

Rove is a McCain supporter after all and would provide continuity so that McCain is similar to Bush, who knew how to lie much better.

What Rove is saying is that McCain is trying to outdo Bush. McCain has swung from being the honest guy in 2000 to trying to be the opportunist in 2008. Problem for him is, McCain isn't very good at it and he has swung too far. Let's be thankful that McCain's lies are so transparent that even Rove is trying to pull him back a bit.

Short answer: I believe that anyone with a half brain in their head can see right through McCain's charade.

PS Palin is an even worse liar than McCain. Unlike McCain, Palin's heart does seem to be in it. She just keeps repeating she killed the bridge to nowhere even though we all know it's an obvious lie. She said it again on Hannity last night. It's red meat for the die hard supporters who love saying things that drive liberals crazy. Problem again for her is, it makes her look nutty.

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Registered: 03-25-2007
In reply to: sopall1953
Fri, 09-19-2008 - 11:44pm
I think this is beyond lying.

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Registered: 08-20-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Fri, 09-19-2008 - 11:46pm
There is certainly a strong element of cluelessness. How else could he get the Securities Exchange Commission mixed up with the Federal Election Commission? But it's more than that. He's in a mode where he will say anything he thinks will help him win. He's the guy he was running against in 2000. He's the incompetent, selfish guy. He's Bush.
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Registered: 09-16-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Fri, 09-19-2008 - 11:50pm
Yes but you have to admit that if he did finally decide that regulation as the way to go he is at least actually creating a 'change' at least in his position! LOL
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Registered: 03-25-2007
In reply to: sopall1953
Fri, 09-19-2008 - 11:50pm

< He's Bush. >


Even Bush admitted things were tanking in the economy before McCain.

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Registered: 08-20-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Fri, 09-19-2008 - 11:54pm

"Even Bush admitted things were tanking in the economy before McCain."

Okay, you got me. He's worse than Bush. But remember, Bush has had some record-breaking hard years of getting deservedly criticized for being in la la land. McCain is a relative newcomer. Plus McCain is in campaign mode, and that is a special time when Bush also breaks out really good stories that the right love.

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Registered: 07-03-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 12:07am
I'm wondering if people realize this. If McCain/Palin win the election, and McCain dies in office, Nancy Pelosi will become vice President. hmmmm.
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Registered: 09-19-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 12:38am

Actually McCain pressed for regulation on lending 3 years ago...and Bush did the same 2 years before that...with the Dems blocking them on both occasions to protect their cash cow.

Obama's record on lending? He was happy to take the second highest amount of money from Fannie and Freddie.

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Registered: 09-19-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 12:42am

*** It is total cluelessness.

As compared to Obama who's solution, even a week after the crisis began, is to do nothing...and wait to see what other people do. Maybe, like the Georgia crisis, he's waiting to see what McCain does so he can run to catch up. President's can't vote present.

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