McCain tries to spin "fundamentals are sound" comment

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Onceler

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After the Obama campaign immediately pounced on it, McCain tried to "clarify":

"My opponents may disagree, but those fundamentals of America are strong," McCain said at a campaign event in Orlando. "No one can match an American worker. Our workers sell more goods to more markets than any other on earth. Our workers have always been the strength of our economy, and they remain the strength of our economy today."

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/


Next thing you know, McCain will have an ad out saying that Obama is anti-worker because he doesn't agree that the "fundamentals are sound."

WEAK.
 
Onceler said:
After the Obama campaign immediately pounced on it, McCain tried to "clarify":

"My opponents may disagree, but those fundamentals of America are strong," McCain said at a campaign event in Orlando. "No one can match an American worker. Our workers sell more goods to more markets than any other on earth. Our workers have always been the strength of our economy, and they remain the strength of our economy today."

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/


Next thing you know, McCain will have an ad out saying that Obama is anti-worker because he doesn't agree that the "fundamentals are sound."

WEAK.
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Ohhh, so now if you disagree that the economy is good, you are insulting American workers. Much like, make that, exactly like, if you disagree that the Iraq war was or is, right in any way, you are insulting our troops.

F'ing hacks.
 
McCain is so pro worker, except when he's trying to drive wages straight to the bottom with his Amnesty program. What a scrotum.
 
Wait a minute, are these the same workers, my friends, that John McCain, a former prisoner of war, thinks are too soft to work for a season picking lettuce for $50 an hour?
 
uscitizen said:
umm I think maybe Palin will take a backseat now to the economy issue.
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She's pushing the economy issue, she spoke today in Golden, CO about just that. You keep hoping she'll take a back seat, but I think it is because you are looking at her back seat. Old coot...

;)
 
Damocles said:
She's pushing the economy issue, she spoke today in Golden, CO about just that. You keep hoping she'll take a back seat, but I think it is because you are looking at her back seat. Old coot...

;)
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Hey don't transfer your lecherous thoughts over to me.

but she is a lot like bush in that most of her business ventures have failed.
another great economics expert.
 
uscitizen said:
Hey don't transfer your lecherous thoughts over to me.

but she is a lot like bush in that most of her business ventures have failed.
another great economics expert.
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I'll admit to those faults. I don't like her politics and I don't think she should be in Washington at all.

But I'd vote for her in the backseat. Make it a religious thing, you know "laying on of hands.

Maybe "speaking in tongues"
 
Yeah her pipeline had gods backing just as she says the Iraq war does.

btw I am all for the nat gas pipeline, that is an overdue move.
 
Interesting topic, but 12 meaningless posts.....

So exactly what comprises the fundamental health of US economy....???
The strength of the dollar relative to other countrys?
The size of US deficit?
Trade balance?


Is it very much different now than at other times in US history.....???
Have we been in relatively the same circumstances before?
Stock market drop after 9/11?

Is the US in danger of economic collapse..???
Is unemployment, interest rates, inflation, etc. about to rival the Carter days?

Is our economy generally sound despite specific problems...??
 
The foundation of the Senator’s position is either so nuanced as to be unperceivable to those not versed in the arcana of economic theory or so spun as to make questioning it's original intent "unAmerican" as Epicurous astutely noted.

Furthermore, with such high profile economic sages as Greenspan stating the current crisis “still has a way to go” with the American economy having a “less than 50 percent” chance of avoiding a recession, such statements stand to be quickly overwhelmed, reinforcing Obama's insistence that McCain "just doesn't get it" as the electorate is battered by the latest dire economic headline.

If the Senator insists on continuing to channel the ghost of Herbert Hoover, he should be prepared for Senator Obama to pummel him with ads highlighting his repeated use of the "fundamentally sound" remark interspersed with woeful headlines and pictures and comments of Middle Class families battered by the flagging economic conditions.
 
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bravo said:
Interesting topic, but 12 meaningless posts.....

So exactly what comprises the fundamental health of US economy....???
The strength of the dollar relative to other countrys?
The size of US deficit?
Trade balance?


Is it very much different now than at other times in US history.....???
Have we been in relatively the same circumstances before?
Stock market drop after 9/11?

Is the US in danger of economic collapse..???
Is unemployment, interest rates, inflation, etc. about to rival the Carter days?

Is our economy generally sound despite specific problems...??
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well we are doing better than Cuba so we must be ok.
 
bravo said:
Interesting topic, but 12 meaningless posts.....

So exactly what comprises the fundamental health of US economy....???
The strength of the dollar relative to other countrys?
The size of US deficit?
Trade balance?


Is it very much different now than at other times in US history.....???
Have we been in relatively the same circumstances before?
Stock market drop after 9/11?

Is the US in danger of economic collapse..???
Is unemployment, interest rates, inflation, etc. about to rival the Carter days?

Is our economy generally sound despite specific problems...??
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Jeez - even McCain realized how stupid he sounded, which is why he came out with his defense of the "American worker."

The fundamentals of the economy suck, and have for years. The economy has basically been propped up by overinflated home values & excessive borrowing. Since Bush took office, are unemployment rate has jumped from 4.2% to 6.1%, and we've turned a fairly large surplus into a fairly large deficit.

The fundamentals are not "sound."
 
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