B.O. sure lost the debate!

iVillage Member
Registered: 07-25-2008
B.O. sure lost the debate!
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Fri, 09-26-2008 - 10:37pm

:)


mccain was on his mark. 

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iVillage Member
Registered: 08-29-2008
Sun, 09-28-2008 - 2:55pm
Money spent on the war is not pork. McCain wants to cut WASTEFUL SPENDING and there is PLENTY OF THAT.
iVillage Member
Registered: 08-29-2008
Sun, 09-28-2008 - 2:56pm
...or his sock puppet!
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-25-2008
Sun, 09-28-2008 - 2:59pm

It's not officially pork in the same way that the funds are appropriated, but it is nevertheless wasteful spending which has weakened our country, wasted money and lives, made us less safe, and earned us literally zero tangible benefits. I call that more wasteful by far than most of the pork projects which McCain likes to pretend are such a huge deal.

That war did not have to be done, DOES not have to be continued, and will almost certainly last much longer if McCain is elected than if Obama is - making the less-than-two-months it would take to waste another $18 billion almost a sure thing - meaning that McCain will likely waste more in approximately fifty days than an entire YEAR'S WORTH of pork projects which he objects to so much, and says is "ruining" our fiscal health. Baloney.


iVillage Member
Registered: 09-25-2008
Sun, 09-28-2008 - 3:00pm
You mean Palin? Hey....isn't that sexist of you?

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Registered: 08-29-2008
Sun, 09-28-2008 - 3:12pm
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iVillage Member
Registered: 08-20-2008
Sun, 09-28-2008 - 4:01pm

""What we were learning — through The New York Times, Newsweek and Roll Call — was ugly. Davis Manafort, the lobbying firm owned by McCain’s campaign manager, Rick Davis, had received $15,000 a month from Freddie Mac from late 2005 until last month. This was in addition to the $30,000 a month that Davis was paid from 2000 to 2005 by the so-called Homeownership Alliance, an advocacy organization that he headed and that was financed by Freddie and Fannie to fight regulation.

The McCain campaign tried to pre-emptively deflect such revelations by reviving the old Rove trick of accusing your opponent of your own biggest failings. It ran attack ads about Obama’s own links to the mortgage giants. But neither of the former Freddie-Fannie executives vilified in those ads, Franklin Raines and James Johnson, had worked at those companies lately or are currently associated with the Obama campaign. (Raines never worked for the campaign at all.) By contrast, Davis is the tip of the Freddie-Fannie-McCain iceberg. McCain’s senior adviser, his campaign’s vice chairman, his Congressional liaison and the reported head of his White House transition team all either made fortunes from recent Freddie-Fannie lobbying or were players in firms that did."

As Captain Marvel would say, holy moly. Now we know why McCain dropped his Fannie/Freddie reform initiatives like a hot rock. It's worse than anyone could have thought. Maybe McCain did see the crisis coming, as so many Republican bloggers on this board have argued, and he dropped his reform efforts because his lobbyist buds got to him.

Wouldn't be the first time McCain got himself embroiled in a major banking disaster with seedy lobbyist type connections. Remember the Keating 5 when Keating was giving him something like 1/3 of his campaign funds plus nearly a dozen fat cat trips to island resorts and the like?

Frank Rich nailed it. I guess you'd have to be a former theatre critic to be able to capture McCain's theatrics. These fops (Fox-Republican officials and politicians) really need to go - and that includes not just the politicians but all their apologist pundit friends at Fox.

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-20-2008
Sun, 09-28-2008 - 4:02pm
Did you read Frank Rich's column? I think he explained what went on these past two weeks quite well. I am not at all surprised, by the way, that you are somehow trying to blame McCain's antics on someone else rather than actually holding a fop accountable.
iVillage Member
Registered: 08-20-2008
Sun, 09-28-2008 - 4:04pm

"McCain did NOT stop ads in Ohio."

Not only that, but he now plans to dump $5 million more into Indiana as a result of his fallout with native son Letterman. People are just plain disgusted with McCain, the Republicans and the fops. Not only are they failures, they are the worst kind of failures who won't take accountability for their errors and therefore have no chance of changing.

iVillage Member
Registered: 01-06-2001
Sun, 09-28-2008 - 4:16pm

Have you ever sat and watched the circus that is on CSpan?

 

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Registered: 03-25-2007
Sun, 09-28-2008 - 5:45pm

Sopal

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