Joe Biden stepped up and took an aggressive position against McCain on the newest market meltdown. In McCain's world, everything is fundamentally fine.
"John McCain has confessed, and I quote - I want to make sure I get it right - he said, it's easy for me to be in Washington and frankly be somewhat divorced from the day-to-day challenges people have. Well, he's right. He's right. If all you do is walk the halls of power, all you'll hear is the wants of the powerful. Ladies and gentleman, I believe that's why John McCain could say with a straight face as recently as this morning, and this is a quote, the fundamentals of the economy are strong. That's what John said. He says that we've made great progress economically, in the Bush years. Ladies and gentlemen, I could walk from here to Lansing, and I wouldn't run into a single person who thought our economy was doing well, unless I ran into John McCain."
All hail Conservatism and their destructive policies. Wall Street bears witness to them as Lehman and Merrill rock The Street.
The venerable Lehman Brothers investment bank said early Monday that it will file for bankruptcy, while Bank of America unveiled plans to buy Merrill Lynch -- two pieces of news that profoundly alter the American financial landscape...
And how could I forget the mess that is AIG...
I think now is a great time to bring out Bill Clinton in an ad talking about and comparing the economies of the nineties vs. the past 8 years.
Bring out the Social Security privatization plan of McCain - would YOU want your retirement tied up in the current market????
The 2 largest corporate bankruptcies EVER during the last 8 years.
How many more if we have another 4 years of the same failed policies????
Some of the largest tax-payer funded corporate bail-outs.
Profits are for the wealthy - working people pick up the losses, according to the past 8 years.
Tax cuts are for the wealthy - working people pay more for everything else.
Healthcare affordable for the wealthy - working people and Vets can do with inadequate or without health insurance altogether.
Retirement is for the wealthy - working people can just keep on working.
IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID!
The Lehman/Merrill Lynch/AIG thing is what's really insane - it's easy to be out of touch with the regular guy who's hurting, but to be a supposed power broker and be oblivious to the collapse of Wall Street is nuts.
Frist, BTW.
Was that Fox News showing the tanking market numbers while Biden ragged on McCain about the economy?
Is this opposite day??
Jobless in California @ 1:
Amen to that! They should do it.
how could anyone (and that includes you testosterone types) find sarah palin more compelling than this man?
"innocent bystander Says: how could anyone (and that includes you testosterone types) find sarah palin more compelling than this man?"
I loooooove her...she's FOLKSY!!!
GOP Plan for the economy:
1. Privatize Profit.
2. Socialize Losses.
"Dball213 Says: Was that Fox News showing the tanking market numbers while Biden ragged on McCain about the economy?
Is this opposite day??"
Has Sean called in sick yet?
Is today the day that Limbaugh's head explodes?
"Damn...I almost made it outta Dodge." - GWB
Somebody is going to have to insult the Pig fast, the Repubs are going to need a distraction to cover the economy.
Hmmm, what's Rev. Wright up to lately?
Where are all the news reports from FOX talking about how Bush is "engaged" during this financial crisis?!?!
I mean...he was engaged during Ike. Or does he only care about Texas.
Why oh WHY does GW Bush hate Wall Street?!?!
It is the Economy, Stupid. But raising taxes and creating more social programs is the LAST thing we need. We need to STOP GOVERNMENT SPENDING!!!
Stopping all the wars and bringing all the troops home would save OVER 1 TRILLION a year, and that is a good place to start. Stopping foreign aid would save Billions. When Obama or Biden start talking about that then maybe I will believe them.
The great Republican swindle continues.
...or Sean Hannity!
I was a bit disturbed about the Bear Sterns bailout with tax dollars, but I am not surprised that Lehman Brothers who contributed to Obama 3 to 1 over McCain gets thrown under the bus.
Joe Biden slams McCain: I wouldn’t run into a single person who thought our economy was doing well, unless I ran into John McCain.”
Biden threw mcgramps under the bus
Whilst on a macadam road with speed bumps?
Biden is finding his voice....the media considering this disastrous economic situation need to put this issue at the forefront instead of talking about pigs, lipstick, and other misinterpreted nonsense....
My father and grandfather have seen this time coming since I was a kid. They both recognized the paradigm of the ever expanding economy developed after WW II for the fantasy that it is. It's been amazing how long the rich and powerful have been able to hold it together with behind the scenes manipulation while publicly extolling the invincibility of "free market capitalism." Apparently they've run out of bubble gum and baling wire and the bloated, paper based monstrosity is coming apart at the seams. My hope is it has to die in order for something sustainable and just to take its place.
Hey, a guy can dream so don't harsh my buzz too totally.
And if you ran into Grandpa, he'd lie and swear he didn't say that.
Is today the day that Limbaugh’s head explodes?
Implodes is more like it, since it's nothing but a big vacuum in there.
Right on! I love it when Biden does this sort of thing.
Musn't forget UBS
UBS in revamp as losses rack up
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7555485.stm
UBS has said it will reorganise itself into three units, after announcing another set of sub-prime losses.
12 freeman
Any first semester macroeconomics student will tell you that stopping government spending is the LAST thing you do. The GDP depends on consumer/business/government spending. When the first two slow down or stop, if the latter one does too, the entire stack of cards will collapse.
Merrill Lynch - 65,000 employees
Lehman Bros - 25,000 employees
Tell them the the economy is sound.
freeman @ 12:
Two words: New Deal.
Hey Innocent Bystander! Don't mess with my Tina Fey! Oh wait...
Oh come on, you guys know by now that this is, in the words of george bush, just a "rough patch". Yep, a rough patch. Nothing to worry about.
Seems to me the rough patches are today outweighing the smooth patches.
In McCain's world it's smooth sailing because in his world the money is endless. That's like me, who has never been a mother, telling a young mother how to feel if her baby is endlessly crying. I wouldn't know what the fu*k I was talking about and neither does McCain
Bad economic news will be bad for the Reps. But they'll spin it somehow to say "this is why we need someone like Sarah Palin" blah-blah-blah. Or else they'll gin up another false controversy about some innocent remark.
Amen, Cminca! Amen!
Shortly after George W. Bush was elected president, Congress and President Clinton were trying to pass a $384 billion omnibus spending bill, and while the debates swirled around the passage of this bill, Senator Phil Gramm clandestinely slipped a 262-page amendment into the omnibus appropriations bill titled: Commodity Futures Modernization Act. It is likely that few senators read this bill, if any. The essence of the act was the deregulation of derivatives trading (financial instruments whose value changes in response to the changes in underlying variables; the main use of derivatives is to reduce risk for one party). The legislation contained a provision -- lobbied for by Enron, a major campaign contributor to Gramm -- that exempted energy trading from regulatory oversight. Basically, it gave way to the Enron debacle and ushered in the new era of unregulated securities. Interestingly enough, Gramm's wife, Wendy, had been part of the Enron board, and her salary and stock income brought in between $900,000 and $1.8 million to the Gramm household, prior to the passage of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act.
"Borrowed" this from mydd.com
@6 Liberal AND Proud Says: “innocent bystander Says: how could anyone (and that includes you testosterone types) find sarah palin more compelling than this man?”
I loooooove her…she’s FOLKSY!!!
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She's the kind of person you could sit and have a cup of coffee with and she's a Christian.
Our pitbull, Biden, is ready to take on the whole GOP! And he doesn't need any lipstick to hide behind.
It's about time Team Obama got on offense. Time's a-tickin' and the polls, they are a-turnin'
GO JOE!
PEACE
Kudos to Biden! He hits exactly the right notes. I think he will make mincemeat of Palin in the debates, although he has to be a little careful not to misspeak or to attack her directly. Attacking the platform or what she has said or done as a public official should be more than enough. Thank you, Senator!
Jamie @ 15:
That's interesting...do you have a link?...
Okay, does anybody have a run down on the political affiliations of all these "bailouts"?
How about the ones that are potentially at risk now?
Could we possibly look into our crystal ball and see who will get helped as opposed to who will not because of political contributions if their financial situation gets precarious?...
As Duncan Black just pointed out and as I heard refrenced just now in an AP radio news update, the "fundamentals of the economy are strong" is now framed by McCain as strong workers and small businesses. The reference is the evil NY money men are causing the "difficulty" for the strong folks. So now the Rovians will switch the debate when Obiden complaign about the economy, they are actully disparaging the fundamentally strong workers and small businesses of this great country. Watch it happen.
ysbaddaden, c'mon dude...this is simple troll nonsense.
You're asking this poor person to understand economics, and how things actually work.
That's a tall order. Now...teh gay...that's something they can wrap their heads around.
@8 Liberal AND Proud Says: “Dball213 Says: Was that Fox News showing the tanking market numbers while Biden ragged on McCain about the economy?
Is this opposite day??”
Has Sean called in sick yet?
Is today the day that Limbaugh’s head explodes?
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Nah! They're both trying to find some way to blame this on Bill Clinton.
Is the Coast Clear?--- @ 34:
scuse me----added "more" to last line---thanks-----
Biden wants to run over John McCain! A POW, who was tortured, physically, emotionally, and mentally, for nearly 6 years in Vitenam! Ergo, Joe Biden hates America and hates Teh Troops!
good line, but not exactly true
heard some idiot wingnut economist on praeger just say that this is a simple correction
these people really do think that the american people are stupid
Is it time for the GOP to replay their 9-11 video yet?
Liberal AND Proud @ 6:
the real problem is that hee haw went off the air, isn't it? folks ain't gettin' their yokel fix
It's the economy AGAIN..... stupid!
Liberal AND Proud @ 41:
Probably...
The lipstick thing was getting pretty old anyway...
Uncle Joe...who was it...Milton Friedman?
CMINCA @ 31 says Palin is folksy, someone you could have a cup of coffee with, and she's Christian. Well, so is GWBush, and look where he sent our country: into the toilet. Having coffee with a Christian is no critierion on which to base a valuable vote. Do you want four more years of a tanking economy, endless war deaths, inadequate federal responses to natural disasters, illegal imprisonment at Guantanamo and wiretapping US citizens? Is the thought of coffee with Palin worth all that?
I didn't think so. Hope that post was satire.
FOX NEWS ROCKS !!
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. did I say that???
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GIVE 'EM HELL, Joe!!!
CMINCA @ 31:
i would love to have a cup o' joe with joe, even though he's a christian
Socialism FAILED. Stealing money from one man to give to another does NOT work, especially when you have ignorant, corrupt people in the middle taking or squandering most of it.
The Republicans are total fascist, and the Democrats are total Socialists. The main thing you both have in common is that the State can make better use of my money than I can, which is complete BS.
Be sure to rate this vid 5 stars on YouTube. I can't believe it only had 2!
This is a good time to produce Osama.
LOL...FOX News is throwing McCain under the bus, because it plays with their viewership...who were always leery of him anyway.
Anything is possible with the wingnut fringe of the GOP...I fully expect FOX to spend at least one news cycle talking about "flipping" the GOP ticket.
ANYTHING to divert attention from the economy and failed policies.
New York Governor Says AIG Can Access $20 Billion (Update1)
Bloomberg - 1 hour ago
By Hugh Son and Andrew Frye Sept. 15 (Bloomberg) -- American International Group Inc., the largest US insurer by assets, has been given special permission to access $20 billion of capital in its subsidiaries to free up liquidity, New York Governor ...
Insurer gets access to $20 billion in assets from subsidiaries MarketWatch
AIG gets New York's help in accessing $20 billion Reuters
46@ Anais Says: CMINCA @ 31 says Palin is folksy, someone you could have a cup of coffee with, and she’s Christian. Well, so is GWBush, and look where he sent our country: into the toilet. Having coffee with a Christian is no critierion on which to base a valuable vote. Do you want four more years of a tanking economy, endless war deaths, inadequate federal responses to natural disasters, illegal imprisonment at Guantanamo and wiretapping US citizens? Is the thought of coffee with Palin worth all that?
I didn’t think so. Hope that post was satire.
Of course it was satirical. Otherwise, it would just be crazy talk. On the other hand, I was actually quoting someone in Pennsylvania at a McCain/Palin event. Scary stuff.
Tell them the the economy is sound.
Well, it's making a sound: I believe it's the sound of a pig squealing as the truck drives it off to the butcher.
I just switched on my teevee. This latest market meltdown is all over the evening news here in Britian. Pretty big, huh?
I've learnt my lesson not to second guess the American electorate, but could this be a game-changer? Will the corporatists, as well as the working class, actually vote for the best man for the job... or will they dig an even deeper hole with McCain/Palin?
It's not only the economy it's also the crooks who have brought us to this point. It's the economy and the highway robbery.
Left&Left @ 52:
oh criky, it's time for a terror alert!
oh....and can someone ask mccain
if we have basically lost our entire manufacturing base....on what basis do you judge the fundamentals of the economy to be strong?
can you please give an example from history of any society that has prospered with a service based economy?
freeman...you should be cheering the demise of Lehman Brothers. It's death strikes to the very heart of the libertarian view.
StirFry @ 4:
Hells yeah!!!!
freeman @ 50:
Socialism is alive and well outside of the US....
You see things in black and white....
Were you a Republican at one time?...
Bush says that Paulson and the bankers have done great job. He's very proud of them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1LTtQvWrq4
innocent bystander @ 59:
That dawg don't hunt no more.
The NeoCons' "economic theories" are a PONZI SCHEME.
Also known as a "house of cards" ..
They pump up a financial bubble, get all the suckers to put their hard earned cash in, then THEY pull all THEIR cash out, crashing the bubble, stealing everyone else's cash, and then BUY up everything at fire sale prices.
They did it with the Savings and Loan scandal. They did it to American family farms during the Reagan years.
And now they're doing it with the global financial markets.
They are THIEVES.
49@ innocent bystander Says: CMINCA @ 31:
@6 Liberal AND Proud Says: “innocent bystander Says: how could anyone (and that includes you testosterone types) find sarah palin more compelling than this man?”
I loooooove her…she’s FOLKSY!!!
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She’s the kind of person you could sit and have a cup of coffee with and she’s a Christian.
i would love to have a cup o’ joe with joe, even though he’s a christian
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These crazy evangelicals wouldn't consider Joe a Christian, because he is Catholic. I know, I know, but it's still true.
Joe Biden, the pitbull without the lipstick. You go Joe. Drill baby drill!
freeman @ 12:
You have several things right and several things wrong.
Right, it is the economy.
Wrong, we do need more social programs. Universal Health Care so we can compete with the rest of the industrialized world. Better education so we can compete with China and India who graduate more engineers than we do. Those are social programs that we can't do without. They will not cost more than what we have now. The Fat Cats that will not be making the killing that they do now want you to believe otherwise.
Right and Wrong, we need to stop the Military Industrial Complex swindle which has brought us to borrow and spend. We need to stop spending beyond our means.
Right, stop the 'wars'. War is a racket, THAT is the SWINDLE. It is not quite a TRILLION but it is close.
Wrong, stopping foreign aid. Foreign aid IS only a few Billion, which is real money but we are way way down on the list as far as foreign aid goes. It is like the reference to 'earmarks', a drop in the bucket. It is money well spent when tied to something positive. The Japanese who tend to be much more about these things than we are way up on the list of foreign aid contributors. They will donate to a needing country and then proceed to sell them something useful, like a phone system. Unfortunately we don't make anymore much except military hardware.
31 CMINCA-- Palin's the kind of woman you could go up in a Cessna with and blast harmless wolves in cold blood.
Thanks but no thanks.
She has more confidence than competence. There's a lot of it going around....
MK Ultra @ 7:
BINGO! That is exactly it!
B-F-T. Now just don't let up or blink.
The dems are finding a powerful new voice in their redoubled efforts to link Bush and McCain (helped enormously by McCain's latest comment yet again that our economic fundamentals are strong) plus their direct, truthful assertion that the McCain camp is LYING in their ads.
This is teh right track. DON'T GIVE UP; DON'T BLINK-POUND THIS NEW STRATEGY. You're dropping in the polls now. You've got nothing to lose.
The Japanese who tend to be much more clever about these things than we…
"Weaseldog Says: Bush says that Paulson and the bankers have done great job. He’s very proud of them."
Heck of a job, Paulie!
50 freeman Says: Socialism FAILED. Stealing money from one man to give to another does NOT work, especially when you have ignorant, corrupt people in the middle taking or squandering most of it.
The Republicans are total fascist, and the Democrats are total Socialists. The main thing you both have in common is that the State can make better use of my money than I can, which is complete BS.
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"The State" owns all the money to begin with. Get over it.
PorridgeGun @ 57:
well, it's going to be hard for people to buy the ol' "trickle down" line, when there's nothing left to trickle down
and, maybe, some of the folks who took a bath on the market today now find themselves needing obama's middle class tax cut
PorridgeGun @ 57:
Game-change?...
All I can say is please pray to whatever idol of your choice for the Obama/Biden ticket because we need all the help we can get....
If voodoo dolls are your specialty please by all means proceed----
A New Sheriff on The Street?
ABC News: Gov. Palin on Wall Street .....Reform...Regulation....Oversight
Maybe conservatism is waning. If you listened to her speech today in Golden, Colorado and you had no idea who she was and aside from her attractiveness, you'd swear she was a moderate Democrat.
If she doesn't mean business, she's doing an awfully good acting job.
Liberal AND Proud @ 73:
Yeah, that was the first thing that I thought of too. :)
Uncle Joe Mccarthy @ 40:
Chimpy McFlightsuit was doing his usual scripted "press conference" with his typical mangling of the English language and said that these financial implosions were "adjustments". It sounded like he was talking about a chiropractic visit.
Obama on McCain's lobbyists:
"if you think those lobbyists are working day and night for John McCain just to put themselves out of business, well then I've got a bridge to sell you up in Alaska."
Bush's speech on the 'financial adjustments', paraphrased in song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nDClh9NpZw
liberalNmoderation @ 65:
Worse, he only pees on the furniture or someones leg when he ain't humpin it.
John McCain...An American Hero, or a Weak Traitor?
John McCain tells us about his capture in his acceptance speech.
His interviews while a POW tell us a completely different story. We
know from his campaign speeches and advertisements that he's an
unrepentant liar. Now we find out that he's lied so he can be cast as
a war hero.
John McCain suffered greatly during his five years of captivity in the
"Hanoi Hilton." But his horrific experiences do not entitle him to stretch
the truth about his captivity at the hands of North Vietnamese Communists,
nor to lie and deceive Americans about his bravery and heroism.
From John McCain's 2008 Acceptance Speech:
"Then I found myself falling toward the middle of a small lake in the
city of Hanoi, with two broken arms, a broken leg, and an angry crowd
waiting to greet me."
"I was dumped in a dark cell and left to die. I didn't feel so tough
anymore. When they discovered my father was an admiral, they took
me to a hospital. They couldn't set my bones properly, so they just slapped
a cast on me. "
Interview by French Reporter Francois Chalais, January 1968
pdf file at
"Unconscious, I fell in a lake, some Vietnamese jumped into the water and
pulled me out...They immediately took me to the hospital, in a condition
two inches away from death. A doctor operated on my thigh. Others at the
same time dealt with my arms.
Broadcast to South Vietnam, 2 June 1969
pdf file at
"After I was captured I was taken from a hospital in (?Da Nang) where I
received very good medical treatment. I was given an operation on my leg,
which allowed me to walk again, and a cast for my right arm which was badly
broken in three places. The doctors were very good and they knew a great
deal about the practice of medicine. "
Interview with Dr. Fernando Barral for Cuban media, January 24, 1970
pdf file at
"..I landed in one of the lakes in the center of Hanoi, in the middle of the
water. On landing I tried to get free of my parachute, but could not move,
and did not realize why I could not move my arms or legs, but it was
because of the injuries.”
“From there, they took me to a military hospital in Hanoi, a large hospital
where they operated on me and attended to the multiple fractures.….”
Read the transcripts of propaganda John McCain made for the Communists while
he was a Prisoner of War. Not only is John McCain lying about his capture,
and definitely not a war hero, he is a weakling and a traitor. The first
interviews were done on November 9th, 1967. John McCain was shot down just
14 days earlier on October 26th.
Today, McCain admits that three to four days after he was captured, he
promised the Vietnamese, “I’ll give you military information if you will
take me to the hospital.”
CODE OF CONDUCT: If I am captured I will continue to resist by all means
available.
32 propaganda recordings were made my McCain in exchange for favorable
treatment while in Vietnam. A June 5th 1969 news article on McCain, “Reds
Say PW Songbird Is Pilot Son of Admiral” exposed John McCain for what he
was...a traitor.
PARIS - Stock markets tumbled in Europe and Asia on Monday after the double-fisted blow from Wall Street news that Lehman Brothers had filed for bankruptcy and Merrill Lynch would be sold to a large U.S. bank.
London’s FTSE-100 share index was down 3.37 percent, the Paris CAC-40 index lost 4.47 percent and Germany’s DAX 30 index of blue chips sagged 3.18 percent.
Asia’s biggest stock exchanges in Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea were closed for holidays, but India’s Sensex index tumbled 3.4 percent, Taiwan’s benchmark indicator plummeted 4.1 percent and Singapore dropped 3.2 percent.
57 @ PorridgeGun Says: I just switched on my teevee. This latest market meltdown is all over the evening news here in Britian. Pretty big, huh?
I’ve learnt my lesson not to second guess the American electorate, but could this be a game-changer? Will the corporatists, as well as the working class, actually vote for the best man for the job… or will they dig an even deeper hole with McCain/Palin?
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I stopped trying to predict. If the wealthy face of the Republican Party bails on McCain, this could be his Waterloo. However, there are still the evangelicals and they will stick with Sister Sarah until the end.
freeman @ 50:
Your absolutely right. We should just quit paying taxes and give up on this whole civilization thing. We can all run around the woods naked and spear mammoths for food.
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" - Ronald Reagan
"Mr. Paulson, tear down this Wall Street!" - George Bush
Link for Lehman's expenditures ro candidates McCain vs Obama:
http://harpers.org/archive/2008/09/hbc-90003555
Palin the barracuda meeting Joey the Shark.
He's got chum like you in his shit.
PorridgeGun @ 57:
man, I hope they vote for the smarter of the two camps. but who the hell knows...
Very good, upchuck. Very good.
69 @ JudyLou Says: 31 CMINCA– Palin’s the kind of woman you could go up in a Cessna with and blast harmless wolves in cold blood.
Thanks but no thanks.
She has more confidence than competence. There’s a lot of it going around….
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What is the American obsession with the tough guy/tough chick persona. I guess it is a liability to have a brain.
I don't know why the links didn't show up. Try again:
Interview by French Reporter Francois Chalais, January 1968
pdf file at http://tinyurl.com/6hs6rt
Broadcast to South Vietnam, 2 June 1969
pdf file at http://tinyurl.com/yrwjyv
Interview with Dr. Fernando Barral for Cuban media, January 24, 1970
pdf file at http://tinyurl.com/5nfjlu
Read the transcripts of propaganda http://ktracy.com/?p=1785
upchuck @ 86:
I sounds like you've found a use for McCain's knowledge and experience, after all.
dennis@77
A very empty speech.....I'm surprised you were so easily taken by it Dennis.
You see??? It's ALL the Democrats fault........
Sarah Palin speaks with forked tongues!
The central bankers don't care about any country. They just care about power and control. They have created a left/right paradigm where they get everyone fighting each other while they always benefit.
Who do you think will benefit from universal health care scheme? The people or the same multinational corporations who benefit from wars. Wake up!
83 Ed in Socal --
Notice also at precisely what moment John McCain said (in his RNC acceptance speech) that he started to "love his country."
It was AFTER he was interrogated and broke.
AFTER he gave in to his interrogators.
McCain is neither a "hero" nor a "patriot" .. he's an opportunistic coward.
upchuck @ 86:
Mmmmmm, mammoth! What's for dinner tonight, tomorrow, the day after, the day after, the week after and the month after that.
CMINCA @ 92:
One never knows...
I would personally not feel comfortably having to put my life in the hands of a nitwit that almost flunked out of a degree in communications. But then again I have concept of self worth and I love my life.
Well said, Mr Biden! Go get 'em, Joe! You da man!!!
Right now, Rupert Murdoch is thrashing some minion.
Have they taken Palin into hiding again...so they can give her another crash course in economic policy?
Dick Cheney's undisclosed location must be getting pretty crowded.
upchuck @ 86:
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Mammottttttttttttthhhhhhhhh
upchuck @ 86:
Palin will be our hunter queen who brings moose to the fire pit.
remember this gem? where mccain says he knows little about economics before he said he was well versed
in economics. 40second video...russert exposes
mccain...i've heard mccain has the all answers. he's
going to balance the budget in one term...how?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OunCv-7qvA
watch brad garrett destroy fox and friends
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuTZfZ2nfzo&e
this is brilliant
starts off slow...gets really good a little past the 4 minute mark
These people should be stripped of their wealt and put in prison for the rest of their miserable lives!
Starting with "Americans are whiners" Phil Graham. The guy that is responsible for most of the legislation that deregulated the banking industry.
This is what happens when Korporation's get to make the rules!
Where is congress on this? Why do they not hold an emergency session and undo the de-regulation and reverse the legislation that has brought this on?
Surely this is a Bi-partisan issue that affects all middle class Americans!
After that we need to go after every one involved in perpetrating this gigantic fraud on the American public.
NO MORE KORPORATE WELFARE / BAILOUTS!! .............ENOUGH!!
upchuck @ 86:
HAHAHA!
Liberal AND Proud @ 103:
Maybe we should engage Steve Irwin's kids to try and hunt this gal down...
Could be an interesting show....maybe they'll catch her chewing on a Moose leg or something....
Dow Jones down 350.
liberalNmoderation @ 65:
then, we're in deep shit . . . when the awe wears off, them new world bastards will make something happen . . . i think i'll start duct taping my windows now
I guess McCain would think the economy is doing well. He just found out he owns 9 homes instead of 7.
Is the Coast Clear?--- @ 110:
The pit bull might be chewing on Cheney's leg until he shoots her in the face.
Ron @ 100:
I hear mammoth tastes like moose.
Liberal AND Proud @ 103:
no...she is still out there talking about the need for regulation
this coming from a woman who got the city atty fired when he tried a block a home owner from breaking building code violations
this coming from a woman who was so interested in regulation that she quit her position on the state reg agency overseeing the oil companies (she says cuz the rest of the board was unethical...but usually you blow the whistle and stay and fight, not run like a little bitch)
putting mccain/palin in charge of reregulating the banking industry is like letting the fox guard the hen house
ya...i just called mccain a chicken
Left&Left @ 95:
I'm not surprised in the least. Yes, it was very empty. Strong on the 'tough approach' but severely lacking in substance and plan. It was obvious this woman doesn't have a clue but has been coached pretty well. Unfortunately many will hear all of the proper republican buzz words and start waving their flags with glee. This is the stuff they live to hear; they have yet to realize it's all just words.
Funny how the McCain campaign likes to use that very line against Obama, isn't it?
Yes!! Finally! That is the straight-talking Joe we were missing since the convention. Was about time!!
92 CMINCA
One theory I've heard it's the influence of television and sports. Kicking butt is like a game to some, and it's win at any cost.
I live in Oklahoma, and my guess is that the vast majority of rabid OU fans have never set foot inside a university. It's part of the dumbing down of America.
StirFry @ 115:
i hear mcpalin tastes like weasel
Just breaking... Petraeus is stepping down as of tomorrow.
uncle joe mccarthy @ 116:
There was 5 and a half years when John McCain couldn't be a chicken. He was stuck in a hole, you see. POW
Biden has to be careful not to come across as smug when he debates Palin.
Gore snickered at Bush in 2000, and it backfired.
Kerry did the same thing to Bush in 2004.
Biden is far better informed than Palin about every issue across the board, but he could blow it too if he doesn't treat her with respect while cutting the legs out from under her on the issues in the debate.
dennis @ 77:
The sheep says....BAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Wow dennis...I seem to remember you trolls trying to condemn Obama for his oratory skills...flip flop much?
A moderate Democrat?!?! WTF?!?!?! Are you on meth?!
She's out neo-cons Cheney for chrissakes! Moderate Democrat my ass.
I gotta admit...your becoming funnier as you become more and more desperate.
Ah I LOVE THIS!
web_geek @ 109:
Hey! Don't laugh!
Mammoths are delicious! Tastes like spotted owl!
maybe it's my obvious bias getting in the way. when
i listen to governor palin speak about the economy
and/or the foreign policies i get this feeling it's the first
time she's ever literally spoke these words.
Gretchen the aspiring elitist Says: Just breaking… Petraeus is stepping down as of tomorrow.
He's gettin' promoted.
Canuknotusa @ 123:
Excellent point!
We can't get too cocky...or we could lose this thing. GAH!
constituent @ 126:
Its not just you. If you can get past the voice, watch the body language. She's way outside of her comfort zone.
Left&Left @ 95:
Left², I don't have the heart to tell you this, but no one is showing up to hear Biden speak. If you thought there was substance in that clip then I've got a jet airplane to sell you that I couldn't on Ebay. Biden only did some of the old sniping that's been around for a couple weeks, pausing and emphasizing the 'divorced' word, deviously clipping a quote McCain made today about the economy, and then calling him out of touch. He knows that gets on the tube tonight, because as cheap as those soundbites were, it's the only way he gets TV exposure.
Let's see tonight which speech gets the most airtime; which one is talked about for substance and which one is noted for the usual sniping. Even this golden opportunity of a major investment bank failure, for which Democrats can't contain their glee over, is likely to be yet another hand overplayed by Team Obama.
Gretchen the aspiring elitist @ 121:
Do you have a link?
I dislike wooley mammoth for the same reason I dislike Alaskan women...the hair keeps getting caught in my teeth.
Ohh..sorrrry sorry...I just had this impulse!!!
CMINCA @ 92:
Like I have always said the worse kind of boss is one that is stupid and stubborn....
Stupid is easy to work around...
Simply work around them in a way they do not perceive your objectives ....
Stubborn is okay for the most part too because if the person is smart they usually will know the limits of their abilities...
Stupid and stubborn is like somebody behind the wheel of a car unable to correctly steer the damn thing and unwilling to take directions.....
We're screwed if they win....
innocent bystander @ 112:
I recommend using 200 mph duct tape...you know...like in nascar
Weaseldog @ 131:
I'm looking for one now - I caught it on CNN. They spent all of 15 seconds before they cut away to the usual crap.
casper46 @ 122:
wow . . . my eyes have been opened . . . mccain has totally earned the right to nuke iran, line the pockets of the rich (well, today, not-as-rich) at the expense of the fast majority of american, and destroy what's left of our civil liberties
what do the wounded vets lying in moldy v.a. facilities get?
dennis @ 130:
dennis dennis dennis....her "speech" may get more airtime at first...but once people start going point by point and removing the bullshit. There will be nothing left.
Hey, cut McCain a break.
His money comes from beer sales in Arizona. That's just about as recession-proof as you can get. As far as he and Cindy are concerned, the economy really IS sound.
126 constituent Says:
"maybe it’s my obvious bias getting in the way. when
i listen to governor palin speak about the economy
and/or the foreign policies i get this feeling it’s the first
time she’s ever literally spoke these words."
Your right. She has no real effective ideas on issues that matter to the country because she has never had to consider them before. She is simply an ideologue and nothing more.
Liberal AND Proud @ 6:
She's the kind of girl you could sit down and have a beer with ... then hit on.
oops! "vast majority"
has anyone seen a comparison of palin and biden on which one of them is best prepared to step in as commander in chief?
No.... not a comparison of obama and palin, but rather
biden and palin....the vice president nominee(s).
While McPain is out on the stump still claiming that the "fundamentals of our economy are strong" top economists are painting an entirely different picture...
I don't care if the old bastard can't type an e-mail, I just want someone at the helm who understands the economy!
Not to mention that "Foreclosure" Phil Gramm is the architect of McPain's economic plan and is largely responsible for the subprime mess and the bank meltdowns that are going on today!
http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/56994/Top-Economist-Americans-Should-Worry-About-Bank-Deposits-if-Congress-Doesn%27t-Act?tickers=LEH,MER,BAC,AIG,WM,^DJI,^GSPC
dennis @ 130:
So many words with nothing to say.
MK Ultra @ 7:
Bing-O!
Rage @ 102:
Media companies shares down at noon
NEW YORK (AP) --
Shares of some top media companies are down at noon:
Disney fell $.29 or .9 percent, to $32.97.
NY Times fell $1.09 or 7.1 percent, to $14.16.
News Corp fell $.45 or 3.1 percent, to $13.95.
Time Warner fell $.32 or 2.2 percent, to $14.25.
Viacom fell $.53 or 2.0 percent, to $26.63.
Above all, the MSM are corporations and they will react to the decline in their stocks today.
dennis @ 130:
Overplayed?....
This is a critical issue...if you speak about just general airtime in the recent past what exactly has been played to death....pigs...lipstick...whose fault is that? Biden?
The economy is going down the crapper and the Dems have been pointing that out for awhile...so what....at least they have a plan that Greenspan has not criticized...
liberalNmoderation @ 124:
libNmod-
1) I detest people who love economic turmoil. You don't even attempt to hide it, nor do you have any care over who suffers from this because you think whoever it is is not someone you care about anyway. Sorry, but that's wrong and it's ignorant.
2) I never condemned Obama's oratory skills. His oratory skills are unbelievable.
3) You must not have listened to her speech, or if you had, you have no comprehension of what she said, because she sure didn't sound like any Republicans I've listened to lately
4) You never seem to make any case or provide specifics for why you disagree with something.
dennis@130
So now this election is about "ratings" and "audience" Dennis? Just like Grandpa, you keep changing the rules until one suits you. One thing you and your Jim Crow Party refuses to do is apply the same cirteria on Grandpa and his VP (whose entire family should be on Jerry Springer) that you have relentlessly held Obama up to.
Face it Dennis.....you are simply a hypocrite.
dennis @ 130:
No one is showing up to hear Biden? Ah Dennis, you obviously are nowhere near Michigan. I have a friend who was lucky enough to be there and she said only about 25% of those who showed up could get tickets. Many more here were watching locally today. Much more than listened to Palin yesterday that's for sure.
Biden sniping? I suppose this would be called by another name if Palin or McCain said the same.
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