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McCain releases another economic ad

Posted: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 4:03 PM by Mark Murray
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From NBC's Mark Murray
For the second time in the last two days, the McCain camp has released a TV ad on Wall Street's current troubles. In the ad, which the campaign says will run nationally, McCain serves as the narrator.

Note: Critics might seize on the kicker in the ad: "Experience and leadership in a time of crisis." While the word "crisis" was the title of yesterday's TV ad, it doesn't necessarily square with McCain's "the fundamentals of our economy are strong" line.

Script:
MCCAIN: The economy is in crisis. Enough is enough. I'll meet this financial crisis head on.
Reform Wall Street. New rules for fairness and honesty. I won't tolerate a system that puts you and your family at risk.
Your savings, your jobs ... I'll keep them safe.
ANNCR: Experience and leadership in a time of crisis.
MCCAIN: I'm John McCain and I approved this message.

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st john stealing another of barack obama's campaign tags, is see.  

enough IS enough.  vote obama/biden.
Are they running out of slogans at team McCain?  "Change", "Change We Need", and now "Enough is Enough" all picked up from team Obama.  Do they think we'll get confused about who's saying what?
Hey McFossil:  You have already met the financial crisis head on. It knocked you right smack between you eyeballs because you didn't see it coming. You are such a loser.
Weak at best.

Enough is enough, get over yourself John.
What has he done in the last 26 years to prevent this crisis....  He has had his time and has not done a thing to stop this.... Enough of you McCain Enough....
McLiar is at it again. Not impressed.

Lies and more lies.
McCain can miss me with all his mess.  He and the GOP are insulting.  
Can the Republican campaign not be a little creative here?  Aren't these the Obama campaigns lines they are "borrowing"?
My gawd, the man has practically stolen every word from Sen. Obama's speeches ....

"enough is enough"... "a system that puts you,your family, savings, and jobs at risk".


Does the McCain campaign imagine the public really won't notice this, and haven't been noticing it.


Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ...
Do yourself a favor - - - watch both of the videos. (on MSNBC) One speech/plan from Senator McCain.  One speech/plan from Senator Obama.  

One is ranking/raving. One is planned, thorough, intelligent, and speaks to the crowd as if they were intelligent enough to understand.

Which is which, you ask?  Well, which candidate graduated at the bottom of his class - - which at the top?  Which candidate was directly involved in the construction of this financial mess and which presented plausible solutions?  

In all cases - the positive (better)candidate is Senator Obama!  

To Senator Obama: solutions are there and you have them! “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."
--John Quincy Adams


To Senator McCain.  You've had over two decades to "work" on this problem and it was not fixed.  In fact, it just got WORSE.  Enough is enough!  (and I have had enough!)

By an old rural white woman who is "supposed" to be a Republican - - - according to McCain and the "polls".
(Guess they messed up on that one!)
that says nothing
John McCain's economic adviser and friend Phil Gramm was the architect behind the deregulation of the mortgage industry, a major culprit in the recent Wall Street meltdown. Deregulation also caused the S&L crisis of the 90's, which McCain's friend Charles Keating went to jail over.

McCain has zero credibility on economics. I would equate it to a contractor that burns down a house so that he can get the contract to build a new one. Come to think of it, that describes the Iraq War policy, too.

Anyone who is in danger of losing their home of suffering because of the current economic crisis has John McCain and his like-minded friends to thank for it.
I love how John McCain is using the same phrase as Obama...."enough is enough".  

He cannot even come up with his own lines.... he steals from Obama over and over -- "change we need," "enough is enough."  

Where is his so-called honor? We all knew he wasn't that smart but also a loser?
McCain and his campaign doesn't have an original thought between them....they are not only liars, but theives too.  Enough is enough McCain!
Notice the phrase "Enough is enough" ? Where have we heard that before......
My god, this man is truely an idiot!
I would hope that the public isnt stupid enough to follow the piper......but I doubt it.
You all elected Bush a second time.
Cute!  He is using Barack's "Enough" in there.  I guess he does not remember the context.  Eight is Enough!  The Republicans need to own their failure.  Americans need to come together and move forward in a new direction.  Obama/Biden 08
Um. Can't they come up with just one tag line of their own. They've stolen the red, white and blue symbol, the change mantra, and now 'enough is enough'.  How sad...so sad

Obama/Biden 08
I see McCain has stolen the Obama line "Enough is enough". McCain - Change We Can Steal.
He's got to be kidding... Didn't he say time and time again that the fundamentals of our economy are strong--- Now he expects us to believe that he's the one interested in our future and our families future--- what a piece of crock--- He's insulting our intellegence!!

Then he picks Palin the NON-TRANSPARENT VP candidate!

What more proof do we need from this guy that he's just another Bush term!!!!!!!!!!!

*Yawns* Sorry McCain, I'm not impressed...
Are you kidding me?
Crisis? What crisis...will this flip flopper stop it...first he said the economy was strong and now it is in crisis? Wow, what one day will do to ones perspective.
How will you keep my savings, and job safe Mr. McCain??? You want proposal is a study. Not good enough. You can't fix what you don't know!

Now he's even stealing ENOUGH!!  

McCain/Gramm/Palin/Bush/Cheney - ENOUGH!!

Obama/Biden '08
Here's the thing about experience. Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld had it when they were elected. John McCain has it and is aligned with Bush. And what do we have to show for this experience: sky high gas prices, inflationary food bills, trillion dollar Iraq War debt much of it to foreign governments, a devastating mortgage crisis followed by the Wall Street meltdown, ahealth care system nearly broken especially if you're one of the $6 million who have lost your job, a veterans' care system unable to handle returning troops, a military fraying at the edges from overuse and infrastructure delayed so long there will be more Katrina's and bridge collapses. All that in only 8 years with the most experienced group ever.

Of course if you take that experience and align with the oil companies you're doing really really well.
Oha, so you want to have new rules of fairness, well john that would mean rolling tax rates back to the clinton levels, that if your really talking straight about fairness!!!
this ad says nothen about WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO. it only says you will face it head on.
once again all talk not solutions!!!
and NOW you want to put familys first, but you want to give tax breaks to the rich home it will trickle down!!! you go john, clinton call this VOODOO ECNOMICS!!!
This coming from the man that said our economy is still strong!?....WTF?......This ad is full of Crap..

GO GET THEM OBAMA/BIDEN!...SAVE THE COUNTRY FROM THEIR LIES!
Sen. Obama's speech:

Over the last few days, we have seen clearly what’s at stake in this election. The news from Wall Street has shaken the American people’s faith in our economy. The situation with Lehman Brothers and other financial institutions is the latest in a wave of crises that have generated tremendous uncertainty about the future of our financial markets. This is a major threat to our economy and its ability to create good-paying jobs and help working Americans pay their bills, save for their future, and make their mortgage payments.

Since this turmoil began over a year ago, the housing market has collapsed. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had to be effectively taken over by the government. Three of America’s five largest investment banks failed or have been sold off in distress. Yesterday, Wall Street suffered its worst losses since just after 9/11. We are in the most serious financial crisis in generations. Yet Senator McCain stood up yesterday and said that the fundamentals of the economy are strong.

...So let’s be clear: what we’ve seen the last few days is nothing less than the final verdict on an economic philosophy that has completely failed. And I am running for President of the United States because the dreams of the American people must not be endangered any more. It’s time to put an end to a broken system in Washington that is breaking the American economy. It’s time for change that makes a real difference in your lives.

...Make no mistake: my opponent is running for four more years of policies that will throw the economy further out of balance. His outrage at Wall Street would be more convincing if he wasn’t offering them more tax cuts. His call for fiscal responsibility would be believable if he wasn’t for more tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, and more of a trillion dollar war in Iraq paid for with deficit spending and borrowing from foreign creditors like China. His newfound support for regulation bears no resemblance to his scornful attitude towards oversight and enforcement. John McCain cannot be trusted to reestablish proper oversight of our financial markets for one simple reason: he has shown time and again that he does not believe in it.  

What has happened these last eight years is not some historical anomaly, so we know what to expect if we try these policies for another four. When lobbyists run your campaign, the special interests end up gaming the system. When the White House is hostile to any kind of oversight, corporations cut corners and consumers pay the price. When regulators are chosen for their disdain for regulation and we gut their ability to enforce the law, then the interests of the American people are not protected. It’s an ideology that intentionally breeds incompetence in Washington and irresponsibility on Wall Street, and it’s time to turn the page.

Just today, Senator McCain offered up the oldest Washington stunt in the book – you pass the buck to a commission to study the problem. But here’s the thing ... we know how we got into this mess. What we need now is leadership that gets us out. I’ll provide it, John McCain won’t, and that’s the choice for the American people in this election.  
Ok. Anyone supporting the Republican Agenda now after all this mess should be investigated to see if they are undercover terrorists or Communists.

This is a crisis that is potentially larger than the Great Depression and some people still want to talk about McCain will keep our country safe. Well if we are all broke, homeless, and jobless there will be no country to keep safe!!!
Is he kidding? "fairness and honesty"?? After the last two weeks of lies and distortion? Who are the idiots that still believe this "maverick"? Even my parents, tried and true conservative Republicans have jumped ship and are voting for Obama. This is a farce and every citizen needs to respond to it.
Enough is enough!  Any one else see a parallel here?  What is going on?  Why is this guy ahead?  

You know what I think?  I think the polls/media is in the tank for McCain and to make it look like McCain is winning would then prove if announced that he has won the election, no one would contest it because then they can say, he'd been winning in the polls since...etc. etc.  But of course everyone knows that McCain is not that popular and the numbers don't fit what we're hearing and seeing.

Amazing.  Rethugs are going to steal this election again this year.. and the public is going to let them get a way with it!
I'm John McCain and I invented the BlackBerry. Any questions?

McCain is a lying thief...did you notice he has stolen Obama's campaign slogan and now his "enough is enough" proclaimation. BTW, did you also notice I didn't attack his service to country.
LIE'S, LIE'S, LIE'S AND MORE LIE'S-BUSH TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH, ENDED UP AS LOST JOBS, LOST WAGES, LOST HOMES AND GREED AND OUT OF CONTROL PAY FOR CEO'S AND PROFITS FOR CORPORATIONS THAT SEND JOBS OVER SEA'S-THIS GUY IS MORE OF THE SAME AND A DAM IDIOT-HIS TIMES RUNNING OUT AND HE'LL SAY ANYTHING TO BECOME PRESIDENT...
Stealing the "change" mantle from Obama and now he's trying to capitalize on the "enough" statement that Obama used.  McCain is no maverich, he's a copycat.  I don't need a copy of a president, I need the real deal!

McCain,
Stop stealing ideas; stop hiding behind Palin; stop hiding Palin from the media;

Start using your own original ideas; start acting like the presidential nominee; start allowing Palin to answer her critics directly so that we could judge for ourselves whether this person merits a spot on your ticket.

Clown!
John McCain's strategy...

wait for Obama to make headway with ideas and campaign strategy, and then copy
Tell Carly Fiorina to give back the miliions she got when FIRED from being CEO of HP.  That's a start.
When will John McCain get hit with plagiarism  ?  He's already stolen the 'change' mantra, now he is trying to claim 'enough is enough.'  Doesn't he have his own thinking, words, writers ?  Does he have to wait for Obama to talk so that he knows what to say next ???  Weird.
dp
THIS MAN IS SICK,SICK,SICK!!! BUT I GUESS IF YOU LIE ENOUGH SOME PEOPLE WILL WANT TO BELIEVE HIM, OR DON'T TAKE THE TIME TO FIND OUT WHAT EACH ONE STANDS FOR! THAT IS HOW BUSH GOT ELECTED. LOOK WHERE WE ARE NOW!
WOW!!! two ads in two days from McCain without mentioning Obama...

For a guy running against Obama, he certainly seems to attach himself to Obama's ideas. First he jumps on the idea of change (about 18 months after Obama), now he has adopted Obama's indignant "Enough!" Does it occur to McCain, that that was actually directed towards him and his Bush mentality. I just don't know what he is talking about any more.
It's his experience and leadership in the philosophy of keeping a hands off approach to the free market that got us into this garbage.  Thanks but no thanks McCain/Palin, I'll be voting Obama/Biden on Nov 4 2008  
Who are ya today Johnny?

Lie
    Steal
           Lie to Defend the Lie & Grin
                                         Steal
                                               Hide

What to Expect if America's Conscience Sits this One Out in November:

From Johnny:


Lie
    Steal
           Lie to Defend the Lie & Grin
                                         Steal
                                               Hide

Blame
    Lie
        Lie some more
                  Start another war
                                 Reward some friends

Wake up American voters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

or else:  B.O.H.I.C.A.
If the situation weren't so sad, I'd be laughing out loud at this clown.  Bush, Gramm and McCain are the very reason we are in crisis.  Deregulating, vetoes, no votes...Does this old man own a mirror?
So McSame is trying to steal yet another line from Obama?  
Seriously Enough is Enough and McSame needs to come up with SOMETHING original already!

Obama/Biden '08
Nothing, still nothing.  No plan, no direction. Just more of the same.  He uses Barack's words and his ideas promoting them as his own.  They forward pieces of the democratic platform as their own, knowing they have no intentions of following through.
They don't even follow through on the things they tell their base.  For example, Republicans say they are against abortion and Roe v Wade every election cycle.  They have had a majority in congress for 10 of the last 12 years and the presidency for the 20 of the last 28 and what have they done.  NOTHING! but make sure the rich and corporations get richer so that, according to them, it will trickle down to us.  I'm still waiting!

No Way, No How, No McCain
So McSame is trying to steal yet another line from Obama?  
Seriously Enough is Enough and McSame needs to come up with SOMETHING original already!

Obama/Biden '08
I'm getting sick of the experience bit.  Experience will get you nowhere without good judgement and intelligence.  

Any who would vote for this ignorant man is stupid themselves.


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