If McCain is elected I think there’s a good chance that the current economic crisis will kill him:
Congressional officials said they expected a request for legal authority to buy up the bad loans, at a cost in excess of $500 billion to the government.
This is exactly why it’s a great ad - it attacks McCain’s fundamental issue, which is appealing both to his base and to independents at the same time. He’s flip-flopping so badly because he is trying to do both, and immigration is a big problem for him, since he either gets the immigrant haters mad or the Hispanics. He seems to be losing them fairly rapidly, according to the polls I read.
McCain was at a rally today and I swear I saw the ghost of William Jennings Bryan. He was railing against the fat-cat executives from Fannie-Mae and Freddie-Mac and the millions in compensation they took when they left. And then he insisted to the crowd that it was “your money” and that the fat cats ought to give it back.
Question: Does John McCain realize that up until last month, these two companies were private companies and that in no way was their excessive compensation “our money”? I’m gonna say… no.
Well, this week McCain has simply been flailing. You name a position, he’s taken it at one time or another this week.
first it was houses. now it is cars. the hits just keep chiping away.
even better than bush not knowing what was on his tax return.
What about cars? I haven’t seen or heard that.
This silliness.
C’mon people. There’s more important stuff than this going on.
Yes, it was a bit of a joke…but I forgot that even daring to suggest the messiah is anything but wouldn’t go over well…! 
see, this kind of derisive attitude towards the other side is what going to cost Obama… err MCain the election…
Thanks, DSeid.
Healthcare is dead. We are going to be fighting to save the economic system. Politics as usual is over. All campaign promises have been disallowed.
Come over to this thread. We may be saving the economy by selling off assets.
This very issue was discussed this weekend on Bill Maher’s show. He had a very interesing and timely guest, Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Her thesis is that neocons and extremist capitalists invite disasters like the present one, have their government lackeys bail out the big bcsinesses, leave the taxpayers with the bill, and turn around and point to the bills as reasons not to spend anything more on public wellfare or social programs like universal health care.
Frankly, they have yet to show that degree of competence.
11,000 new people regitered to vote in the past week in Michigan.
Woo Hoo! You guys rock up there! Keep up the good work!
May I go back in time three decades and bear your children?
Sweet! Now we need to GOTV.
To clarify, you mean registered by you, or by the Obama campaign, right? I’m sorry to not recognize your username and what you’ve said in the past, but without context, it could be 11,000 new Republican voters energized by Sarah Palin, for all I know. The only reason I think it might be for Obama is because of the congrats later on, and who’s making them.
Further question: how confident are you that people who register will actually vote? Obviously, there’s probably some reason in the context of the exchanges that led up to the registration, but I’m not privy to that either.
New registrations are generally thought of as likely Obama or at least Dem voters. The Obama campaign targets likely Dem voters in their registration drives.