This is a great video showing McCain’s reaction to a statement Barack Obama has made several times, including at the debate last week. Maybe if McCain would stop with his Chester the Molester grinning and making faces and actually listen to what other people say he might have heard it. Or maybe his age and dementia is really starting to show and he just forgot. All I know is it makes for entertaining TV watching him react. And what’s with the blinking?
McCain really has lost his mind. At a campaign stop today he called Americans his fellow prisoners. Is he having POW camp flashbacks? Is he really fit to be president?
“Across this country this is the agenda I have set before my fellow prisoners…”
The guy that wants to change Washington supports the same deregulation that caused him to be a target of an investigation for fraud. Yes, that’s John McCain, the hero to the corrupt. From Keating Economics.
The current economic crisis demands that we understand John McCain’s attitudes about economic oversight and corporate influence in federal regulation. Nothing illustrates the danger of his approach more clearly than his central role in the savings and loan scandal of the late ’80s and early ’90s.
John McCain was accused of improperly aiding his political patron, Charles Keating, chairman of the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association. The bipartisan Senate Ethics Committee launched investigations and formally reprimanded Senator McCain for his role in the scandal — the first such Senator to receive a major party nomination for president.
At the heart of the scandal was Keating’s Lincoln Savings and Loan Association, which took advantage of deregulation in the 1980s to make risky investments with its depositors’ money. McCain intervened on behalf of Charles Keating with federal regulators tasked with preventing banking fraud, and championed legislation to delay regulation of the savings and loan industry — actions that allowed Keating to continue his fraud at an incredible cost to taxpayers.
When the savings and loan industry collapsed, Keating’s failed company put taxpayers on the hook for $3.4 billion and more than 20,000 Americans lost their savings. John McCain was reprimanded by the bipartisan Senate Ethics Committee, but the ultimate cost of the crisis to American taxpayers reached more than $120 billion.
The Keating scandal is eerily similar to today’s credit crisis, where a lack of regulation and cozy relationships between the financial industry and Congress has allowed banks to make risky loans and profit by bending the rules. And in both cases, John McCain’s judgment and values have placed him on the wrong side of history.
Sarah Palin in all her wisdom decided to, not only lie about what Gen. David McKiernan said, she called him General McClellan. Oops. Guess they didn’t cover the names good enough during rehearsal…. errr. debate prep.
Well, here’s the video of Katy Couric interviewing Joe Biden and Sarah Palin about Supreme Court cases. Sarah Palin is a joke and doesn’t know anything. Didn’t we learn the hard way that choosing a person who doesn’t know anything (Bush) is bad for the country?
During last night’s debates, while McCain was getting hammered by Obama on the Prime Minister of Spain debacle, you can hear McCain clearly say “horseshit” twice. This guy is supposed to be a leader? When someone calls you out because of what you actually did say, you respond with obscenities? On live TV no less. I wonder if the FCC is going to fine McCain. I urge everyone who was watching to contact the FCC and let them know you are not happy with the use of obscenities on the air, in a presidential debate.
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