ABC Calls Out McCain On His Financial Flip Flops
By Nicole Belle Wednesday Sep 17, 2008 8:45am
Dude, you're losing ABC...that's like FOX-lite. That's not going to keep the base motivated.
When even McCain's Media points out that the Straight Talk Express has derailed, you know you have some problems.
Transcripts below the fold
CHARLIE GIBSON: And with apologies for our technical difficulties, we're going to turn back to the difficult economy, and the way the presidential candidates are dealing with it, particularly John McCain. Here's David Wright.
DAVID WRIGHT: John McCain was against the government bailout of AIG, before he was reluctantly for it. Here he was yesterday on "Today."
JOHN MCCAIN: We cannot bail AIG or anybody else. We have to work through it.
WRIGHT: Asked about the same topic today on "Good Morning America" -
MCCAIN: I don't think anybody I know wanted to do that. But there are literally millions of people whose retirement, whose investments, whose insurance were at risk here. And they were going to have their lives destroyed.
WRIGHT: Senator McCain appears to have changed his tune on regulation in a fundamental way. Today on the stump, he's a champion of reigning in Wall Street with tough regulations.
MCCAIN: We're going to put an end to the reckless conduct, corruption and greed that have caused a crisis on Wall Street.
WRIGHT: But for more than 25 years in the Senate, McCain has fashioned himself as a champion of smaller government, less regulation.
MCCAIN: I am less government, less regulation, lower taxes, et cetera.
WRIGHT: In the mid 1990s, he supported a measure to ban all new government regulations. McCain supported legislation a decade ago that broke down the firewalls between commercial and investment banks and insurance companies -- the very rules companies like AIG exploited to get in the current mess. And as recently as March of this year, after the collapse of Bear Stearns, McCain was all for deregulating Wall Street.
MCCAIN: Our financial market approach should include encouraging increased capital in financial institutions by removing regulatory, accounting and tax impediments to raising capital.
GEORGE WILL: When the deregulation was the wave through Washington, he surfed that wave. Now it's not, and the populist inside John McCain is out.
WRIGHT: Today, the Wall Street Journal accused McCain of selling out his free market ideals. Said today's top editorial -- "denouncing greed and Wall Street, isn't a growth agenda,"
WILL: It's a conversion of convenience, some will say.
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Convene a meeting with Brit Hume and Charlie Gibson. No smoking, though, as each are made of wood.
Dementia!
McCain is more of a threat to this country than Osama Bin Laden or Taliban!!!!
each IS made of wood...sorry, I Bushed
Man, if he can't get ABC and George Will to kiss his ring, who even slightly credible is left?
Oh my, what is happening to John's base, aka the media?
CNN, MSNBC and now ABC. I hear McCain singing, You don't bring me donuts anymore, to the tune of, You don't bring me flowers anymore.
His newly acquired campaign people cut him off from the press to try to keep down his gaffes, so as a result the press doesn't give him the special treatment he became accustomed to over the years.
This mouse has teeth?
'No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. '
Albert Einstein
'Elect us and we will fix all the problems we have caused'
The GOP
5 mr.ed Says: Man, if he can’t get ABC and George Will to kiss his ring, who even slightly credible is left?
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The Left?
this "against X before he was for X" really bugs me. i know it's fitting revenge but really when I discover facts that prove my position wrong i change my position. calling it waffling (Republican patent pending) is pretty annoying. i'm glad it's hitting them between the eyes but we have to be careful not to overuse it. Someday we might want our side to be free to change their minds too.
Uh-oh. Mutiny.
Republicans, save yourselves.
Bush is going to speak at 10:15 eastern time this morning about the fu*ked up state of the economy. I'm sure whatever he says will fix everything.
Might have been a better idea to do it during prime time at night so the lucky people who have jobs might hear it.
If he says that "the fundamentals are strong" take a drink of something.....not booze though, it's too early for that.
Gibson asked Obama and Hillary tabloid questions in the debates. Gibson is a shill and part of the problem. He and FOX Lite bear part of responsibility for the current conditions of the country.
ABC is telling McCain to shut up about the economy and get back to smoke and mirrors.
pissed off patricia @ 12:
Bush is going to speak on the economy? Brace yourself for another 500 point drop!
MSM actually doing it's job? What's going on? Do they have polling that suggests McSame is going to get crushed? In 2000 and 2004, no one ever questioned Geogie Boy. As a matter of fact, they did their damnest to play those Swiftboaters ads non stop. I sense a shift in the wind.
With these Government Bailouts (using taxpayers money) how much are the CEO'S (otherwise thought of as white collar greedy parasites) walking off with?
BREAKING NEWS Chimpy is postponing his vacation again to focus on the economy! 2 days after the fact he their again to do a fly over of the disaster, oh oh yeah yeah yeah I got to focus on this here economy he he he.
What a dolt
Ruthless People @ 15:
Yep!
Corporate media acting human. Brilliant.
VegasRage @ 18:
I really need to drink more coffee before I post, funny my bad posts still make more sense than Chimpy's speeches in front of millions
I guess when they get ready to flip flop at a McCain lobby team meeting they drag out the old "Stars N Bars" and say "Run it up the flag pole and see if anybody in the press corps notices."
"This is something we're going to have to work through."
How? "Through a conversion of convenience, some will say."
There. George Will just said it.
The thing that slays me, though, is the WSJ denouncing McCain for denouncing greed. 'Cause everyone on Wall Street knows that greed is good.
It's no substitute for a plan, though.
VegasRage @ 18:
It's not a vacation. He was supposed to be coming here to Fla today for a fundraiser for an ass hole who is running for office down here. But I guess some time last night bush was told our economy was sucking in the worst way so he bowed out of the fundraiser and sent cheney in his place.
"Yeah, it's an economy. Its got numbers in it."
-W-
Wow, Asia is tumbling. Now King George will make a speech before the masses. I don't know if should laugh or cry or drink drain-o. Any suggestions?
pissed off patricia @ 19:
Oh I can't wait for that speech. I'd fall out of my chair if had the nuts to say "I guess I shouldn't have pounded my fist on the podium for all that war money month after month for 8 years, heh heh heh"
VegasRage @ 18:
...but his head will still be in Crawford thinking about that bike ride.
PD @ 16 Lotsa people are losing money. The vultures are coming home to roost.
pissed off patricia @ 12:
"Faith in the 'Amurcan worker" : Take two drinks.
Of Tequila.
Or something stronger.
i forget which show - olberman, maddow, stewart, colbert - but one of them did a short piece on palin's wardrobe... i was only guessing that a stylist had gotten a hold of her (especially after seeing her in that chunky jacket at a church speech)... that was some quick and dramatic remake efforts on someone's part... that was a $2000 silk jacket she wore the night of her acceptance speech...
did she have to give it back? did they leave the tags on those things?
BTW people this is probably you last chance to buy gold and silver bullion before it shoots to new highs. Gold and silver eagles are a good way to go, it's US currency, cash transaction no paper trail, hold it. 90% silver best bang for the buck.
Nicole, I love the Fox Lite comment. Very funny.
I want to see if the Dow drops while Georgie Boy is talking. Remember Bernakes speech? The Dow dropped like a stone.
I am not a journalist or a commentator, but I do have enough on the ball that I know spin when I hear it and whomever wrote this article is all wet. I don't like McCain, but I don't like somebody putting words in someones mouth. McCain did not flip flop.
VegasRage @ 27:
Bush's oil buddies are getting rich off this war and Cheney's Halliburton stock has increased 8 million since they lied us into it, and they stick us with the bill for it. Bush (and Cheney) has no regrets about that move whatsoever. The Republican way is to enrich themselves and their cronies at the expense of the poor and middle class. And we're seeing it now with the economy as well.
Mission Accomplished.
behold the destruction that the stupidity of the average American hath brought!
The asshole running for office down here is a guy named Tom Rooney. He is running to replace Rep Tim Mahoney who replaced Mark Foley after he stepped down. Rooney is a conservative's conservative and damned proud of it.
OK, here's today's contest, Having flipped on deregulation, AIG, Confederate Flags,
Agents of Intolerance, MLK Holidays, Bush tax cuts, and whether Obama called Palin a pig, the next flip for McCain will be to say:
A. Obama did not accomplish having sex taught to children before reading.
B. Obama did not support teaching sex before reading
C. Teaching sex before reading is not good but thier well being depended on it.
The MSM has got to get McCain to stop saying the Obama tax plan will raise family's taxes! Yeah, right! What better way to SCARE, FRIGHTEN, INTIMIDATE the electorate than tell them, "My opponet will raise your taxes!" And McCain knows he's right because he's preaching to the wealthiest people in America not anybody else. Good on Biden this morning calling out the wealthiest Americans to be patriotic and realize that the era of Republican Tax Gifts must end.
What the F**K was that? 3 minutes of speech? I will drink the Drain-O.
OT; Gee, that was a scintillating comment on the markets by Bush just now. It lasted all of a minute or so, and no questions were taken. He said nothing and I'm wondering what, precisely, was the point?
GEORGE WILL: When the deregulation was the wave through Washington, he surfed that wave. Now it’s not, and the populist inside John McCain is out.
WRIGHT: Today, the Wall Street Journal accused McCain of selling out his free market ideals. Said today’s top editorial — “denouncing greed and Wall Street, isn’t a growth agenda,”
WILL: It’s a conversion of convenience, some will say.
Somebody please check to see if Hell has frozen over!
Morning Joe is still saying McSame was right: the fundamentals of the economy are strong!!! Bush took fewer questions than Sarah Palin.
That was it? Hell's breaking loose and that's all he had to say? Basically he said, I'm talking to people. WTF? Hell, he should have gone ahead and attended the fu*king fundraiser down here in FLa. today. We have long distance phone service down here. He could have "talked" to people from down here.
Are we better off now than we were at 10:15?
pissed@45, I really believe George has given up. All of his life, he has hidden from his failure or someone has bailed him out. Now George wants to move on to something else. God help us all.
Patrick @ 10:
I noticed the "Some will say" BS too. As if saying "some say" is a valid journalistic tool to spout an opinion.
I'm not surprised they got Bush out of prime time coverage. I am surprised they let him speak this morning. Seems a 3:00am Bush address sandwiched between a Thigh Master infomercial and off-the-air color bars would have been the best choice.
"Last night the world's central banks added enough liquidity to American finanical markets to keep my legacy flowing down my leg." G. Bush
WaPo: "McCain slights Spanish prime minister." Way to go, Mr. Foreign Relations. Way to help us out on the world stage, there.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/18/mccain_slights_spa...
The question is, did he know which country the reporter was talking about?
P.D. @ 41:
That was the "I am as clueless today as I was 8 years ago, heh heh heh" speech.
McCain is just like the invasive snakehead fish netted from the Tidal Basin on the Potomac, then left to squirm on the banks of common sense: flip flop, flip flop. ;)
The pendulum has swung. WPA, here I come!
Does he think having his stepford wife nod like a little dog in the back seat of a Chevy is going to make him sound more convincing?
I LOVE IRONY!!!!!!!!!
Here were the republicans trotting out Palin to try to make Obama lose some of his base. If it worked at all the results are immeasurably small.
On the flip-side, NOBODY tried to screw over McCain like that - he's doing it to himself. He's going to lose a lot of the real conservatives*. They may not vote for anyone in the next election but that means they won't be voting for McCain.
*Real conservatives would be financial/small government conservatives - not all the posers like Bush and the other neocons.
McCain is toast!
RobertD @ 51:
Who can blame him? .. "Spain"? Never heard of it.
P.D. @ 47:
I think bush knows even less about what is going on, on wall street, than most of us here do. That was absolutely nothing more than a token appearance. Had he been knowledgeable on the subject he would have taken questions and explained the course he thinks it would be wise to pursue. Hell, he should have just called up Obama and let him make the speech. He has a better grip on the subject and more interest in it too.
...and yet the MSM can't stop talking about McCain. Why don't they just shut up!?
displaced @ 59:
Umm... media is synonymous with "make noise." You're asking a person to breathe without intaking air.
displaced @ 59:
The Herd Media's just distracting everyone this is all a game.
The fundamentals of the GOP economy are strong and working according to plan. McCain still has his 8 houses.
The wheels just fell off the American wagon and McPain's pants are down around his ankles and his ugly bare ass is hanging out for all to see...
Ya can't run away from your 26 year history Mr. Keating Five! You've whore'd it up for Wallstreet for too many years to convince anyone that you're a "populist" and now even the WSJ is turning on you.
The U.S. is risking "incalculable" consequences with its raids into Pakistan, the only Muslim nation with an atomic arsenal. Pakistan is the least hospital place for American troops, a nation where "Osama bin Laden is infinitely more popular than George Bush."
Even Scarboro and Tweety said his speech was nothing. Instead of acting like a leader, he looked like he was giving a weather report. If McCain wins after this fiasco, were doomed.
So the twit with the bowtie calls McCains flip-flop a "conversion of convenience"? That's a very interesting turn of phrase and worthy of deconstruction. Conversion is a religious term, of course, and carries with it all the Judaeo-Xtian/Manichaean delusion about good/evil. dark/light and heresy/conversion. A fitting word from a Repug shill. Convenience is a secular word but also interesting as it speaks to a situational ethic, the quagmire of the relativist or opportunist. Basically, this tripe is used whenever somebody shifts into self-loathing mode and thinks that, like the Sophists of old, you can save your ass with the oft-used rhetorical tactic of "bullshit baffles brains". Must be comforting to a member of the failed elites.
We better up the terror level threat to orange and invade Iran to get people's minds off their stock portfolios.
What do you bet another Osama tape will surface any day now?
Last night on Larry King Ben Stein was on with Robert Reich. Ben was PISSED OFF. I think he lost a few bucks this week. He’s really angry at McDeregulation. He was railing against McShame. Reich came back and said he couldn’t believe Stein was agreeing with Reich. Reich said Stein should come over to our side because Stein was wanting everything that Obama was offering. Stein said he couldn’t because of abortion.
Neo-classical secular humanist @ 66:
Conversion is changing something into something else. It has its Christian meaning but I certainly would give Christianity the credit for its origin or fundamental meaning. They bastardized the term for a specific meaning to them.
L.A. Confidential @ 64:
That's alright though. . . . Duke McWain will ride his White Horse into with saber drawn while yelling. . . "China has this covered don't they?"
Palin will respond with. . ."You betcha hot buns commander. The loan came through The loan came through!"
@70: Should read "I certainly would NOT give Christianity the credit..."
Captain Bitter Huesein Kangaroo @ 69:
Conservatives don't give a shit if you loose your shirt. They only care when they loose theirs.
Ruthless People @ 68:
Bin Laden probably had to sell his tape recorder because he was deep into AIG.
Now would be an excellent time for chimpy to
REALLY choke on a pretzel.
That's a surprisingly honest piece of reporting from ABC, "The Path to 9/11 Network"(tm). We'll see whether it's the beginning of a trend, or just one producer who strayed off the Republican reservation at risk to his continued employment.
Jeez, the only thing that segment didnt have was Rush Limbaugh crapping on a photo of McCain.
Holy Crap ...
What a leader:
"Bush has not fielded questions about the economic upheaval this week and even canceled a statement Tuesday. Reporters have tried each day. When one tried to press Bush in the Oval Office on Wednesday, he said he could not hear the question, and then made light of the moment by saying, "I'm old.""
finally the media are doing their freakin job. I have been waiting for months for the MSM to finally do their job.
I happen to support socialist programs, so in the long run I think this will help that cause.
It gives those in congress the political will to actually bring about universal health care, because their constituents are going to be shouting "they got theirs...why can't we get ours?"
I can't see any way at all a Bin Laden tape could do anything but hurt the republicans.
First, Bush has had 7 years to get the guy and couldn't do it. Then he said he wasn't that interested in him anyway. Now the republican narrative is that Bin Laden isn't that big of a guy anyway (not a mastermind). Of course that last ploy is to convince Americans that not getting him isn't really a failure at all.
We may be stupid, but that's REALLY pushing it. I'm pretty sure that the GOP is of the mind that the less Bin Laden is brought up the better.
The cons just wish everyone would die so they can enjoy earth lounging on their 100 ft yachts, 15,000 sq ft villas, and playing golf all day.
I mean lets face the facts. They call it the burden of the masses.
Fil @ 79:
Haha
Little late
No worries folks.................Bush just said he and his team are on the case in regards to Wall Street.
I feel so much better now.
WTF!!!
L.A. Confidential @ 82:
If we all die, who builds the yachts?
Checkur6 @ 84:
I wonder how much money Jeb Bush ripped off since he joined Lehman Bros in Sept 07.
CafeenMan @ 85:
Oh they'll keep some people alive for breeding purposes no doubt about that.
Wall Street "got drunk", and enjoyed the high.
We useless eaters get the pain of the hangover.
L.A. Confidential @ 86:
Marvin, Jeb, Shrub, H.W. ....
Does every disaster in the US have to have a Bu$h smack dab in the middle?
earl @ 89:
These people (The Bushes) have absolutely NO SHAME.
They should be shot into space as far away from earth as is possible. The whole clan, Bush bloodline.
It's amazing how when the shit hits the fan, all of a sudden GOP values, like small government go right out the window.
C'mon GOP, you're the big balls, no bullshit, everyman for himself Party.
Tell the American public that this is allll they're fault because they did not invest wisely. That they were stupid for not doing they're homework before they bought into these supposedly solid firms....just like you did when you blamed them for the mortgage crisis.
And while you're at it...explain to the American public how you believe that Social Security should be privatized...how there should be no public healthcare...about how there should be no public schools...no public transportation...that the FREE MARKET must rule.
C'mon guys...you're letting your party down!!
What a feeble attempt, dubya. You're not even trying anymore. F*ck you and McCain.
L.A. Confidential @ 90:
Oh sure. Release them and unleash them on the entire universe. That will certainly improve things.
Earth is taking one for the team. We have to keep the Bush's here for the sake of everything else out there. Sucks to be us but that's how it is.
John McCain...against big government before he was for it....against increased GI benefits before he was for it...
JUST GO AWAY, GEORGE!!!
I know deep down I shouldn't be surprised - but I am - that the WSJ is denouncing those who now question deregulation.
The corruption and sense of reckless entitlement on unabashed display is deeply and hopelessly entrenched. This is why no repuke-lic can bring any kind of change to this country.
Zebras can't change their stripes.
*
gop with McLiar and Gramm leading:
deregulate, deregulate, deregulate.
McFlipflop:
regulate, regulate, regulate.
These same idiots wanted to privatize Social Security.
Even the corporate media can't spin this disaster.
The economy is worse than when a relative unknown, Bill Clinton, crushed daddy bush.
Lets hope Obama can run the country as well as President Clinton.
McPalin is toast.
Has anyone else noticed that mccain never has physical contact with cindy and she always walks behind him. Ever seen them hold hands?
Chimpy "shares concern"...ohhh...I feel so much better now...what a leader!!
Anonymous Hussein @ 42:
Tweety told him last night that he HAD to!
"It' s a conversion of convenience some will say."- George Will. Just out of curiosity, can anyone tell me who wouldn't say that. Besides John McCain I mean.
pissed off patricia @ 38:
My Rep, John Mica, FL 07, had a little run in with reporters in Mn., after a party featurning Tom Delay. Scroll down to big mica attack:
http://folioweekly.com/folioblog/
44 Nicky Says: Morning Joe is still saying McSame was right: the fundamentals of the economy are strong!!! Bush took fewer questions than Sarah Palin.
How would you know this? Who watches or listens to Schmo Jarbourogh any more?
P.D. @ 26:
Indeed, wow. Even George Will is contributing "nabob" soundbites. Did hell just freeze over or is Will ratting off the ship.
Do not use this thread to complain about McCain's failure to know who "Zapatero"
is. He was a POW wneh The Mothers of Invention were popular.
Anonymous Hussein @ 42:
OT; Gee, that was a scintillating comment on the markets by Bush just now. It lasted all of a minute or so, and no questions were taken. He said nothing and I’m wondering what, precisely, was the point?
That imbecile is still trying to figure out who Herbert Hoover is.
This is what happens when you embrace stupidity and ridicule education as elitist.
103 Surf Hussein or whatever. If you have read any of my previous posts you will know I am capable of hitting as many wrong keys on my TV remote as on this keyboard. I was confused. I was trying to tune in the woman on CNN looking for the "missing tot."
Herbert Hoover was a brilliant mining engineer who helped feed a hungry world after a devastating global conflict. George Bush is a clown who couldn't find any oil
and traded Sammy Sosa. George Bush is no Herbert Hoover.
You people are all blaming the wrong people for this fiscal disaster.
I have it from a reliable source that it is Barney Frank's fault.
Billo said so.
♠♠...Bangkok Bob...♠♠ @ 98:
She is his dominatrix. S&M relationships are usually not loving relationships. Just look at her
McSame reminds me of the Wizard of Oz, "Don't pay any attention to the man behind the curtain". He thinks we're just going to forget what he said yesterday.
Careful folks... do you remember when GW was caught time and again saying STUPID THINGS that were the tell tail of his substandard leadership skills? It was PANIFULLY OBVIOUS to us all? Remember? Then the right-wing of this nation BOUGHT INTO IT... TWICE!!! it isn't over... I am NOT holding my breath on this one...
GEORGE WILL: When the deregulation was the wave through Washington, he surfed that wave. Now it’s not, and the populist inside John McCain is out.
WILL: It’s a conversion of convenience, some will say.
Accoding to the Bush doctrine, Republican pundits must be patient with these McCain "adjustments."
Sidd @ 3:
Ya think?
I'm surprised the McCain campaign hasn't accused Obama of flip flopping on the issue yet.
Yeah, bush in on the job. He's learned from Katrina so he's moving FEMA trailers on to wall street as we speak.
McCain cannot hold hands with Cindy because he was a POW. Making references to the Wizard of Oz shows disdain for the dmage suffered by recent victims of tornadic activity. Invoking Barney Frank....now that's the ticket.
Something is very different ab out John McCain and it should concern everyone. How a man who was so independently based on a set of principles has either sold his soul or is so out of touch that he is being manipulated behind the scenes? i guess we will find out for sure during the debates. I have a feeling John McCain no longer has a full grasp of reality and all the preparation in the world won't save him during intense questioning.
The GOP are Satans Angels @ 113:
Good point, and I agree. This country doesn't penalize powerful men (or women) for being stupid or lying. When Obama and McCain are so close in the polls, that should say plenty about American's fondness for supreme idiocy. In a rational world, McGrampy wouldn't be able to run against a box of rocks and win, not after what his party has been up to for 8 years! But NOOOooooOOOO. We can point out his mistakes and lies until we are blue in the face, but half the country doesn't give a crap. It should be mandatory for people to pay at least a little bit of attention to politics, seriously.
He needs to be "called out." It's one thing to shade the truth, it's another to just lie and flipflop all over the place. He reminds me of my the first fish I got at a carnival. It jumped out of the bowl, and twisted and turn all over the place.
rcm, John McCain completely sold his soul. He sold it several years ago, when his ambition to be president finally overwhelmed him.
The man no longer has any conscience, he's lost his moral compass and is completely unrecognizable as a quasi-reasonable human being.
His flip flopping is merely the physical manifestation of his lack of "groundedness", quite simply he will say ANYTHING that he feels may help him in his mad drive to be President.
John McCain is the prenultimate empty suit.
And the fact that Lieberman does not have a high profile in this campaign is not an accident.
Lieberman only cares about Lieberman. He has no allegiance to any political party.
His political instincts are telling him that he was hooked to a runaway train...and he's jumping off before the wreck occurs.
Liberal AND Proud @ 122:
Mainlining the Kool-Aid.
fastfeat @ 124:
I'm afraid you don't even know what the flavor is.
Dave Says: fastfeat @ 124:
Mainlining the Kool-Aid.
I’m afraid you don’t even know what the flavor is.
Hmmm...Monday is Palin pee, Tuesday is Fiorina pee, Wednesday is Prince Rove pee day, Thursday is Cheney Pee, Thank God It's Friday is Bush pee for that end of week high alcohol content buzz, Saturday is Grover Norquist pee, and on the Sabbath they hold a service and convert wine to Saint Ronnie pee.
Liberal AND Proud @ 126:
Wow, that's a veritable golden shower of hits!
I thought Wednesday was Prince sPEEghetti day?
Mr Mcthoughtful just can't figure out
which side of any issue he is on???????
Sooo he takes both sides!!!!!!!!!
Whattta great president he'd make.
I think we ought to buy him a
years supply of "DEPENDS"
and send the ol' guy home to rest.
As for McPalin: I think we should send
her back to Alaska so she can stare
at Russia------
Whatta' think about Bushcos plan to put your
Social Security contributions in the stock market?
That's a heck of an idea Georgeee!
Wow, McBush is proving to the whole world he's a flip-flopper and habitual LIAR.
John McCain 3 Months Ago:
The fundamentals of the economy are strong...
John McCain 3 Weeks Ago:
The fundamentals of the economy are strong BUT, there are difficulties...
John McCain 3 Days Ago:
The fundamentals of the economy are strong BUT, we're in a tough time...
John McCain Tomorrow:
The fundamentals of the economy are strong, now put your head behind your BUTT and kiss your sweet ass goodbye!
The problem for McCain's handlers is that, if he doesn't talk to the press, they start asking questions. And if he does talk to the press, they ask questions he can't answer.
Keep pushing him and he'll crack like a Greenland glacier.
It's all about the McCain "Economy" now.
SIDE EFFECTS OF THE MCCAIN ECONOMY (THE "HEAD ON" AD)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBqs26mpg8o
Here's a good flip by McCain -
http://www.ktnv.com/global/story.asp?s=9030532
he's even flipping on the real little stuff. After previously calling UFC fighting "human dog fighting" he now calls it well regulated.
Hmmm..... Kerry was accused of flip-flopping so much I could feel the wind from it.
McCain IS flip-flopping almost before a 24 hour period expires. I'm surprised the roof is still on my house.
It's always good to see George Will get his two cents worth in at ABC. His pure love of all things conservative and his disdain for government is exactly what America needs right now. That, and a nuclear exchange with Russia where both countries launch their entire arsenal of nuclear weapons at each other - leaving the U.S. and Russia in radiation death zones and the entire earth in a deep freeze nuclear winter.
Conversion of convenience....
The very definition of FLIP-FLOPPING!!!
Speaking of Flip Flops, it is so typical of our politicians to be Flip Flopping it's a given. On another note I prefer the real flip flips the kind you sink your feet into. YOu can get great cozy flip flops at http://www.RazorReef.com I say kick on your flip flops have a great relaxing weekend and call it a day with these politicians.
Patrick at 10 says, "this "against X before he was for X" really bugs me. i know it's fitting revenge but really when I discover facts that prove my position wrong i change my position. calling it waffling (Republican patent pending) is pretty annoying. i'm glad it's hitting them between the eyes but we have to be careful not to overuse it. Someday we might want our side to be free to change their minds too."
What McCain is doing is not simply "changing his mind" based on new information he didn't have before. He's pandering to what he believes will attract voters, and is rejecting the very philosophy by which he has lived his decades of political life. He's found that the train he was on is going over a cliff, and naturally wants to pretend he wasn't up there with the engineer driving. It is a consistent pattern of the Republicans: slam ideas when the Democrats bring them out, but embrace the same things when your party is failing. Similarly, remember Dan Quayle and Murphy Brown: unmarried moms don't stand for "family values"; that concept (thank goodness) became inoperative when Palin was handed the VP nomination by the GOP.
Far from being cautious on this issue, Obama needs to pound away at McCain for being a leader in getting us into this deregulated fix, for the "no new taxes" mantra, and for the "strangle the government in the bathtub" cheer that have given us the useless Iraq war, the Katrina debacle, the food safety problems, the Justice Department meltdown, the unsupplied armed forces in the field, the broken air travel system, the absence of a progressive energy plan for global warming, the tremendous national debt and, of course, the present financial crisis. He and his ilk have bled the taxpayers dry and in return, we've gotten incompetence and lack of oversight--on purpose. Should we not give him credit for his life choices?
I am a Army Military/Veteran and fought for this country, and almost died. I can't believe ya'll claim to be Americans let alone love this country. Barack Hussein Obama calls us Ordinary people, not American people. I am a American Military/Veteran not an Ordinary person. Obama get off your high horse. Obama can't even do the job he was elected for by IL, oh ya Obama is PRESENT! We won't have to worry about the terrorist, Obama will give them an actual invite (let's talk) let me know how that goes. I know the American people are smarter than to listen to all the BS the media is putting out. Maybe the media needs a taste of reality over in Iraq and Afghan, not just taking pictures and playing, actually fighting for their rights they take for granted. I am now disabled and would still fight for this country without thinking twice. Must be nice to get paid big money and do absolutely nothing but run your mouth and makes asses of yourself. The media should be proud, I am one of the ones that am now disabled, so ya'll could sit on your ass and disrespect the Military/Veterans along with one of my comrades. I hope the media is proud. I am totally offended as a disabled veteran, on how the media has treated a comrad of Honor. It must be nice to live in a glass house. I was always taught and brought my son up to treat people the way I would want to be treated. I guess the media didn't get that message. If this is what they teach at Harvard thank GOD I am a American Soldier!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! God Bless My Comrads including Senator John McCain an American Hero. The media needs a history lesson along with some manners. If it wasn't for the American Military the media wouldn't have the freedom they have today. I was a democrat until this election. Maybe the media could learn something from our American Military, like how to be a human being. Good Luck!
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