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reply posted on 24-9-2008 @ 02:42 PM by nyk537
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All that would confirm is that he cares more about winning President than he does the country. Something which I already believe.


reply posted on 24-9-2008 @ 02:43 PM by tyranny22
I should certainly hope so. He supported the Deregulation that has caused the American Economic Meltdown.

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If there has been one constant in Mr. McCain's legislative record through decades in the House and Senate, it has been his unequivocal support for deregulation. He championed it during his years as chairman of the Senate commerce committee. He campaigned actively and successfully for the very act that scrapped the regulations whose absence created this cascade of bank and insurance-company failures.


I bet he finds it a pain in the ass to have to stop what he's doing and help "fix" (read: convince the public the bailout is a good thing) this crisis.



reply posted on 24-9-2008 @ 02:43 PM by canuckeyes
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Does any one find it interesting that a series of events has started unraveling of late.
Financial meltdown- allows the big corps to by up the micro market, and also when the eye of the storm has cleared it almost seems automatic to start using a common currency to avoid this kind of meltdown again. ( here we come Amero)

Bipolar network coverage- I have never seen an election where each network is picking on both parties equally. It forces voters to think they are receiving bipartisan coverage (genius really) Yet look through their campaign members. The same ten guys always end up in the Whitehouse & this time these men are all over both parties.

Campaign Postponement- I have never given much thought to the theory of the current president using his patriot act to keep himself in power uncontested. Lone and behold,today we have talk of putting off the election until this "CRISIS" is dealt with. We have no gas in the South west. people are going to start rioting. Before you know it. You still have W Bush, and you're under marshal law.

If this is what is really happening, god help us all. i hope I am just paranoid.

However, we all agree something is very wrong here.
PS Did you know the Fed doesn't want Congress to be able to review the $700 Bil. fixer upper. They just want it approved, no questions asked.
My brother Amercians, your reality has changed forever.


reply posted on 24-9-2008 @ 02:43 PM by Keyhole
McCain suspending his campaign to focus on the economy?

What a joke!

He was one of the driving forces that deregulated mortgage companies and the energy futures in the stock market!

John McCain: The Fundamental Deregulator (VIDEO)

Over the last few days, John McCain has talked a decent game when it comes to enacting new regulations to protect American families from another financial crisis. But as this new video demonstrates, McCain's talk is just hot air -- he's got no record to back it up.

Last March, he famously said that he was "fundamentally a deregulator." In July, he said that his "fundamental difference" with Barack Obama was that Obama favored "more regulation" while he favored less. And earlier this month, McCain's strong support for deregulation was on display in speech after speech at the GOP convention.

Now, John McCain is scrambling to follow Barack Obama's lead as a reform-minded proponent of regulation. But that can't change the fact that when it comes to his record, all the way up until Thursday of last week, John McCain is "The Fundamental Deregulator"



It was DEREGULATING that got us into this mess to begin with!

John McCain: The Fundamental Deregulator


He's already shown he doesn't understand how the economy works and has stated he doesn't understand economics very well, it's not a "strong point" of his!

He's the last person we need to help us out of this!

[edit on 9/24/2008 by Keyhole]


reply posted on 24-9-2008 @ 02:55 PM by skyshow
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When you're a Republican running for office, it's playbook to do anything except talk about the issues. Haven't we seen this time ant time again?

This has Carl Rove written all over it!


reply posted on 24-9-2008 @ 02:57 PM by skeptic1
reply to post by Jadette



I doubt that it is serious enough to postpone the elections.

And, I agree that:

1. This is a political chess move
2. A chess move, that if not mirrored by Obama, makes McCain look really good (to a lot of people) and Obama...not so much (to a lot of people)
3. On some level, McCain actually does care (about what, not too sure about)

This is probably one of those political chess moves with a kernel of integrity buried somewhere deep inside the "truth" of it.

[edit on 9/24/2008 by skeptic1]


reply posted on 24-9-2008 @ 03:02 PM by Grafilthy
reply to post by WhatTheory




It's due entirely because of greedy lenders and buyers, period!

It's due entirely because of greedy lenders and buyers (being able to scam and rip-off whomever they choose because they have free reign over the market with the massive deregulation and minimal oversight that's taken place), period!

(Haven't seen you in a while.....how' it going?)



reply posted on 24-9-2008 @ 03:05 PM by FiatLux
reply to post by WhatTheory



Can you explain to me, what is fundamentally sound about the current banking system we have? This has everything to do with many of the economic problems we are facing today, and as we have in the past.


reply posted on 24-9-2008 @ 03:07 PM by skyshow
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We saw this same thing at the RNC convention. When the hurricane was headed for shore, Bush and Cheney decided not to go (you can imagine the sigh of relief among the Republicans up there). Their polls are so far in the ditch that nobody wants them around. So they used the convenient excuse to stay away and they weren't missed either.

Now we have another Republican with tanking numbers who is ducking from the camera. His running mate hasn't even held a press conference since her big speech that night, and took a week before she would even talk to the press.

Meanwhile the news stories are full of reports of them trying to shut out the reporters up in Alaska, and close the doors to the public.

Now why is this so?


reply posted on 24-9-2008 @ 03:08 PM by FlyersFan
Originally posted by nyk537
Obama says
the debate is on


He may be standing there alone.

Gloria Borger, from the McCain camp, confirms that Obama DID NOT OFFER TO SUSPEND when he contacted the McCain camp this morning. (TV news reporting). This was McCain's idea.
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