Thursday, November 12, 2009

Opinion

Seriously? John McCain on the Fundamentally Sound U.S. Economy

Posted September 15, 2008

"Our economy, I think still—the fundamentals of our economy are strong." —John McCain, speaking on the morning of September 15

Reader Comments

fundamentally sound

C'mon. He didn't say "fundamentally sound." He said "the fundamentals are strong." Additionally, that actual quote takes on a a completely different sound if you look at it in the contezxt of the rest of his statement. Before and after the quoted sentence he only talks of the weakness and problems in the financial sector.

Fundamentally Sound???

I think a lot of people are throwing this comment around hap-hazardly.

Barney Frank said Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were fundamentally sound just in July, and are not in fear of collapse.

Since he is more 'in touch' with those than McCain is with the overall ecomony, I would think those comments are so much more outrageous.

I think he needs to be investigated, and needs to be fired / cut loose, from his position.

Whoa!

Can it be that 42 percent of the American electorate really want to follow the most disastrous and crooked administration in history with more of the same?

The Republican Party has done its worst to bankrupt this country. They sought to give Wall Street control of our Social Security fund–failed–and still managed to pull off a nearly trillion dollar heist. Meanwhile, our foreign policy is a shambles and our school systems, a last bastion of local control, have been all but nationalized. Bolsheviks could not have done more harm.

I love this country and I'm worried. Palin ran on an "open government" plank and immediately began doing business on private cellphones "to avoid subpoenas"? This is how drug dealers operate.

Worse yet, we have a corrupt ministerial alliance openly campaigning for a candidate while accepting nonprofit status. Will we go to hell if we don't vote Republican? I thought it was the other way round!

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