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McCain phone message about Ayers
| Sat, 10-18-2008 - 9:19am |
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Republicans launched an enormous wave of phone calls Thursday blasting Sen. Barack Obama for "having worked closely with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers," party sources said.
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You must be talking about another world melanie230.
Here is reality in this one. McCain was blindsided by the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression - just 3 weeks ago he told us the fundamentals of our economy our sound, which I believe you still somehow think is true. And initially when the financial crisis started he thought the solution was more deregulation, which would have been like throwing oil on a fire:
"Earlier this year, for example, when the economy began showing signs of trouble, McCain promised voters “specific proposals to address our economic challenges.” However, he also promised that “they will be based not on big-government intervention, and not on raising your taxes, not on increasing government regulation but unleashing the forces of the free market and capitalism.”
A decade ago McCain pushed unsuccessfully for a moratorium on all federal regulations. Asked about that by the Wall Street Journal this spring, McCain said, “I’m always for less regulation. But I am aware of the view that there is a need for government oversight.
“I am fundamentally a deregulator,” he told the Wall Street Journal. “I’d like to see a lot of the unnecessary government regulations eliminated, not just a moratorium.”
That approach borrows a lot from the philosophy of McCain’s close friend and economics advisor, former Treasury Secretary Phil Gramm. As a U.S. senator, Gramm was widely considered the architect of our largely deregulated financial system that helped create this mess."
http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/stories/2008/09/17/marketed_0917.html
And you keep blaming Fannie and Freddie for something that for the most part wasn't their fault. It was the private unregulated levered investment banks that issued the junk, as Sopal has explained repeatedly to you.
Not just a Republican, but presided over this mess as head of the SEC.
But why bother with the facts when we are trying to be so partisan that we get officials from our party mixed up with the other?
Did McCain say he voted with Bush 90% of the time or not? What could possibly follow that would change that pertinent fact? Perhaps these clips will help:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzX7vsdEybo&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OthxP4MVLHQ&NR=1
Again you are wrong.
Russia is next to Alaska = foreign relations experience, and then there is this:
"Governor SARAH PALIN (Republican, Vice Presidential Nominee): That's why I say I, like every American I'm speaking with, were ill about this position that we have been put in where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out. But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy, helping the--it's got to be all about job creation, too, shoring up our economy and putting it back on the right track. So health care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions and tax relief for Americans. And trade, we've got to see trade as opportunity not as a competitive, scary thing. But one in five jobs being created in the trade sector today, we've got to look at that as more opportunity. All those things under the umbrella of job creation. This bailout is a part of that."
Do you really want to go there?
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