McCain: Gramm fallout

Paul H. David, Boston MA — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:38:52 GMT

Gramm has a phd in economics, has run many successful businesses, and was a great representitive and Senator. He started out as a Democrat, but switched parties with the Democrats constant trend to be socialists. Gramm has forgotten more about economics than Obama will ever know.

McCain: Gramm fallout

MI, NY — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:44:09 GMT

Gramm "does not speak for me. I speak for me.
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National Campaign General Co-Chairs
Former U.S. Senator Phil Gramm, Texas
Former U.S. Representative Thomas G. Loeffler, Texas
Source: johnmccain.com
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ARLINGTON, VA -- U.S. Senator John McCain's presidential campaign today released a statement signed by over 300 professional economists in support of John McCain's Jobs for America economic plan. The list includes Nobel Prize winners, business economists with experience in the private sector, policy economists with experience in government and academic economists from major universities and state and community colleges.
Economists Who Have Signed The Statement: Phil Gramm, Former U.S. Senator
Source: johnmccain.com
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Fortune: McCain's Econ Brain
Economic conservatives take heart: Phil Gramm is influencing the candidate's platform (2/19/08)
"But economic conservatives should take heart. McCain's chief economic advisor -- and perhaps his closest political friend -- is the ultimate pure play in free market faith, former Texas Senator Phil Gramm, 65. If McCain follows Gramm's counsel, and most of his current positions are vintage Gramm indeed..."
Source: Fortune Magazine
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Gramm "does not speak for me. I speak for me.
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Yeah right. Is that a lie, a flipflop, a course change, what?

McCain: Gramm fallout

Bill, MI — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:44:28 GMT

Paul,

You're right. Phil is a great economist for the rich. He allowed the mortgage lenders and oil traders to become absurdly wealthy while the middle class has had to tighten their purse strings. Knowing about economics doesn't make you a good steward of it. Gramm is the epitomy of "evil genius" for the American economy.

McCain: Gramm fallout

Mister Anderson (The Matrix)) — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:45:25 GMT

I see that First Read is covering McCain's butt again by putting the "details of his first marriage" at the bottom of their post to just dump the story. If the "details" of his first divorce became common knowledge, he'd lose women by 80% and we all know it.

McCain: Gramm fallout

Marty In KC — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:48:05 GMT

Gramm is a bitter old man who doesn't give a hoot about families and there struggles. Whe he was unable to make it as a Demodrat he turned traitor and and went to the republicans...good riddance.

McCain: Gramm fallout

Steve, Glendale, CA — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:48:10 GMT

LANDSLIDE IMMINENT

McCain: Gramm fallout

I'm sad I'm a Republican these days — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:49:10 GMT

Anyone heard that giant sucking sound from the Republicans is starting to sound more like a spit and a sputter ......bodes bad for their single purpose...fighting looks bad amongst themselvs and speaks volumes about that convoluted party we call the GOP/RNC..
Also shows real lack of leadership from the top down and the bottom up...

McCain: Gramm fallout

John Alexander,PA — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:56:19 GMT

So, Bill Clinton can balance a budget in four years but McVain can't do it until he is re-elected, hmmmmmm, seems like it takes repubs twice as long to get things done, why, because first some repub friends need to profit and then the 'trickle down' makes it better for the rest of us.
Now Philly 'cheesesteak' Gramm says the whiners are our leaders, thank god he clarified his thoughts, I would think that attacking working americans is not the way to go for the repubs, but then again the repubs have a good history of whining, the repubs are morally bankrupt, time to re-brand and find new fears to elevate their message. We should give them 40 more years to whine in the political wilderness.

McCain: Gramm fallout

donna — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:58:52 GMT

Gramm told USA TODAY that "what I meant is that American leaders are whiners -- they've got excuses for everything," he said.............
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That is a lie. Gramms original statement was, 'America has become A NATION of whinners'.

His attempt to spin that he wasn't trashing the citizenry won't work.

McCain: Gramm fallout

Paul Miller, Woodbridge, VA — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:59:28 GMT

I've noticed the change in McCain's tone, too. Not quite another flip flop, but certainly another pothole under the wheels of the straight talk express.

McCain: Gramm fallout

Phil Gramm can't run happy hour! — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:59:51 GMT

Paul David, name these "successful businesses" that the human basset hound ran!

McCain: Gramm fallout

Democrat — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:04:24 GMT

Paul,

It appears that Phil Gramm forgot just about everything about economics when he sold out to corporate America, including his tact. It is entirely possible that now Senator Obama knows more about what is going on than Gramm does.

I am imagining that the economy is in good shape and that everyone is happy...sorry reality tells me otherwise.

McCain: Gramm fallout

donna — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:04:35 GMT

Gee whiz, Gramm, McCain's divorce, and his citizenship being raked over the coals in less than a 24 hour new cycle.......

Obama: 'Welcome to the party pal'!

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I'm sad I'm a Republican these days — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:10:26 GMT

Struggling for gaffes in this election has got to be a new GOP strategy....
like rope-a-dope...sad, real sad.

McCain: Gramm fallout

Mark, FL — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:13:43 GMT

Bye Bye McSame.

McCain: Gramm fallout

The - Democrat Soldier — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:27:49 GMT

The GOP talk about Americans being whiners, when the very thing they do is whine when we catch them in their lies and BS.

If the GOP would stop thinking everyone is stupid - then they wouldn't need to continue to blame people for the BS they created.

That's all they have ever done and continue to do, whenever they want to continue to steal from our tax dollars - they recklessly spend and invest and then wait for the government to bail them out. This is after they have put the profits in their pockets.

Guess who's funding the government - we tax payers.

Why don't you GOPers just stop finding loopholes and ways to steal our money, and be true American citizens and work for it like everybody else does?

I mean how long do you think you can go on, monopolizing the market - using any kind of lame brain excuse to raise oil prices (speculation) and think that we will just set by and allow you to continue.

The saddest and most degrading part of your charades is that you GOP's think - If you implant words like -mental recession, physiological, etc.

That magically we would think - "oh yea - I just didn't lose my house, oh yea I am not paying $4.25 for a gallon of gas, oh yea they just didn't lay off 50 people at my plant, it was all my imagination and my money is still in the bank - John McCain and Phil Gramm are right, and this sheriff that walking up to my door, to put my "life worth of property “on the street - he's not real either.

You republican have always thought that if you say it enough people will believe it. Well - reality is more substantive than your BS attempts to play "mental mind games".

We all know that the only "mental recession" that is happening is the delusional BS that comes from you idiot republicans.

YOUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED -

Thank you and GOD BLESS AMERICA

McCain: Gramm fallout

Diane from Illinois — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:29:02 GMT

Does Gramm honestly believe we BELIEVE he meant the LEADERS? No such thing. He didn't get the reputation in the Senate for being an "evil SOB" for nothing. This man is as mean, old, and crotchty as McFossil. They've been friends, afterall, for over 25 years. This is CLEARLY the view they BOTH have of the American people and they both need to be REJECTED by the American voter come November. How can McFossil even have Gramm as an Economic advisor since Gramm is responsible for the mortgage crisis many folks are facing today. Fool me once, shame on me, fool me twice..............Send them packing in November! Obama '08

McCain: Gramm fallout

Heather, Charlottesville VA — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:30:09 GMT

Folks, don't get too excited about Gramm's comments. It's only a matter of time before an Obama surrogate says something stupid and we if get exercised over this, then we'll have to take it when it happens to our guy.

McCain: Gramm fallout

ID,GA — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:33:47 GMT

“Gramm defended his recession comments, saying journalists have been ‘amplifying bad economic news’ and too many people believe things are worse than they really are.
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The media doesn't have to tell me my husband is out of a job............gas is 4 dollars a gal.........food price are soaring........war in Iraq is costinging us billions a month.........Gramm you are an old rich idiot.

McCain: Gramm fallout

Shelley, Hayward, California — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:36:24 GMT

Regardless of what happened with John Sydney McCain III during his first marriage, there are still women who will gravitate to him. Join us:

http://www.womenforjohnmccain.com/

McCain: Gramm fallout

Ira, Freehold, NJ — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:43:44 GMT

....and as of today, Gramm has not backed off his remarks, Actually he expanded on them.

This is the man who lobbied for legislaton to deregulate motgage companies and created the Enron loophole while working for a Swiss bank, UBS. Tracve back the impact of this legilation on the US economy and you will know how we got there. He is so isolated from the needs of the American people he believes, in his professorial world, that real people are suffering.

Senator, he may not speak for you but he has not resigned and you have not fired him. He may not speak, but you sure do listen.

Next time some calls Obama an elitist,