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Unfortunately for Barack, this is the best thing that could have happened to McCain. These ideological dinosaurs will make McCain appear to be a model of moderation and Barack a puppet of their special interest: themselves. Until the Democratic party breaks free from their yoke, it will remain mired in their deluded dreams of collectivization. Set my people free!

You Americans are the most wasteful people in the world. Global warming and species extinction are just some of your handiwork. And look at your trade deficit! Inspite of gorging theselves on cheap imports, your moronic illiterati feel that free trade is bad for you. How about repaying the Chinese, Indian and Mexican slaves who produce your goods for you in a decent currency, say the Euro, instead of printing more dollars? OPEC will ensure that you gas guzzlers will have more than just a little indigestion. Hope Obama wins in November, his pseudo-idealism may well be the last nail in the coffin of your self absorbed and venal empire. May you soon mirror Obama's Kenya. Another super-power that won't be missed.

Is anyone out there still interested in what the AFL-CIO thinks? After more than a half century of siding with Democrats and Liberals who couldn't export jobs fast enough (remember Clinton's NAFTA, anyone?), this group needs to disband and beg forgiveness of America's workers who have been scammed for decades.

It certainly sounds like partisan politics for organized labor to be characterizing the economy as "in crisis". According to the experts, the U.S. economy is not in crisis, but is fundamentally strong.

Posted by: proudtobeGOP | March 12, 2008 04:42 PM
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Really? Then why did W say the other day the economy was in a 'slow down' and why did the Federal Reserve offer to bail out and let the biggest investment banks on Wall Street borrow up to $200 billion in Treasury securities?

I have worked in the Jewelry and Diamond Wholesale trade for 30 years. As several of my customers have noted recently, "We are the first to feel recession and the last to recover". I've been there before and we are there again.

As bad as the Dems look right now, McCain is going to give whoever the nominee is plenty of ammo by wrapping himself 100 percent in the Bush record and agenda.

GOP I pray that John McCain runs on your message: "According to the experts, the U.S. economy is not in crisis, but is fundamentally strong."

Ask those paying $3.50 for gas, has had their homes foreclosed or lost hundreds of thousands in the DOW this year. Warren Buffet certainly disagrees with you but what the heck should he know about the economy, certainly not as much as Mr, GOP.

Texas will surely be in play with your brilliant message.

mibrooks27

Which Clinton do you propose steps down first?

mnteng - Waht we need to look forward to, and quickly, is Clinton stepping down from the Clinton campaign. She has done quite enough lasting damage, thank you.

On a different note, it looks like Ferraro is not-so-gracefully stepping down from the Clinton campaign.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/12/AR2008031203277.html?hpid=topnews

Ferraro: another AWEF, angry white elderly female.

She admits she was put on the Mondale ticket as a token female. And she was.

She also failed to win a Senate seat twice.

And then she compares Obama to herself, as if he is a token Dem Pres candidate?

Obama who has run one of the great political campaigns in American history with a solid history of achievements behind him??

She's delusional. It's the anger. We all know it is. Hillary's women are blind with anger.

Sad. True.

McCain looks better and better.

Sad. True.

bsimon:

How much difficulty do you have with McCain's pandering to the Republican base? I have to admit his smiling face next to Hagee's gave me a bit of pause. Religious extremists (of any creed) give me the willies.

Turning out the base (a la Karl Rove) may not be as important for McCain if he can capture a large block of the moderate/independent vote.

Juan Cole suggests that McCain was involved in the firing of Admiral Fallon from Centcom
http://jtaplin.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/speak-truth-to-power-youre-fired/

It's interesting that a GOP spokesman would attempt to insult the AFL-CIO campaign by calling it "partisan," as if everything he does and is done for Republicans is not "partisan."

I'd like to tell that guy "Of course it's partisan. It's an election!"

If that's the best they've got in response to the labor ad campaign, then elephants may be closer to being extinct than anyone imagines.

The AFL-CIO campaign is a reasonable effort to point out everything in McCain's record that is not so friendly to the rank-and-file workers in this country.

Oh, goody, a "union" that actively enrolls illegals, advocates open borders, is going after a Presidential candidate for at least being honest. Look gang, what McCane said was something to the effect that Obama and Clinton are undermining our foreign policy by talking about renegotiating NAFTA and other trade treaties. Hear that? McCane, like Bush and Cltinon before him, think it's perfectly proper to trade American jobs, YOUR JOB, in support of their foreign policy initiatives. Either our foreign policy is in the interests of Canda and Mexico and Europe or it isn't. If it is so bad that some politcian needs to trade American jobs and money and technology, to BRIBE THEM, to gain their support, then that policy deserves to fail. At the very least, no government official has the right to trade American jobs, our security, our nations future, in support of some miserably botched vision of theirs. Someone needs to tell these people, the AFL-CIO, the Clinton's and Obama, too, that they exist to serve the people of this country, to ensure that our jobs stay here, that any trade treaties, tax policies, the whole wheel of government, are in the interests of the AMERICAN people.

"How much difficulty do you have with McCain's pandering to the Republican base?"

Enough that I hope he's lying. I agreed with him when he talked about "Agents of intolerance". Now he has the same problem all flip-floppers have. Potential voters are left wondering "was he lying then, is he lying now, or is it both?"

The economy is in crises because the American public puts political presssures on our government to try to find the easy way out. Example: The Fed just recently shored up Mortgage companys with liquidity thereby making loans easier but is also diminshes the dollar. A barrel of oil in the Commodities market is priced in dollars, when dollars are worth less, the price of oil goes up. At this rate, inflation will be rampart and a gallon of gas will be approaching $5.00. The best thing to do is just take the medicine and go through a recession for the next 18-24 months and get it over. You think we would had learned this from the Great Depression. Mellon was right, could had it over by 1934, instead we carried on for another 6 years, just so dems could say they care.

Forget Crist. He has "issues."

"McCain, free from the burden of fighting off a primary challenge, will spend the next few months burnishing his moderate credentials and casting himself as a consensus candidate."

The McCain campaign has a challenge ahead. He's been pandering to the GOP base enough lately that he's begun alienating the moderate/independent voters who had long supported him. It is unclear that he will both be able to enthuse the base enough to ensure turnout & likewise attract enough swing voters to beat the eventual Dem nominee.

Maybe McCain can save his soul by picking a VP that is younger, fiscally conservative and an environmentalist. I think he has more to gain by bringing independents on board than by attracting some conservatives who just don't trust him. My two guesses for McCain VP are Crist of Florida and Pawlenty of Minnesota.

http://www.greenpieceblog.com/2008/03/mccains-environmentalist-vp.html

It certainly sounds like partisan politics for organized labor to be characterizing the economy as "in crisis". According to the experts, the U.S. economy is not in crisis, but is fundamentally strong.

The housing correction, credit turmoil, and high oil prices are weighing on growth this year and short-term risks are to the downside, but the Economic Stimulus Act will help protect the strength of our economy as we weather the housing downturn and other challenges that are part of a cyclical system.

Easy to define McCain:

- Ran around on his first wife

- Took payoffs from Charles Keating and helped precipitate the S&L crisis that cost taxpayers billions.

- Campaign finance "reformer" who headlines $1,000 a plate fundraising dinners.

- Decries lobbyists but takes rides on their jets.

- Whenever the heat picks up, throwa a temper tantrum or hides behind POW status.

Jeez that was easy.

I wonder if this will prompt Republican groups to enter the fray on McCain's side. The actual campaign might not start until August, but it seems plausible that you could have parallel proxi-campaign being waged by groups friendly to either side.

I assume the AFL-CIO can produce a professional propaganda project; I suspect it will play to fears of free trade more than anything else. It also may play to an audience that wants a federalized health care plan. It will continue to ignore the runaway growth of entitlements. Perhaps it will try to make out McC as a "war lover". How effective will any of this be with Independents? My guess is the real target will be "Reagan" Ds in the labor movement.

But my guess is that it will be overshadowed and overwhelmed by the attack mode of the HRC campaign against the probable D nominee. Of course, if HRC is the D nominee, then McC can run to the center without fear of losing the base.

I will not get to see these ads in TX. bsimon, lemme know when you see one in MN and tell me if you think it is effective.

Back to work.

Very good point "vbhoomes".

We need to get our USDollar back in our hands, not wealthy, foreign investors who are share holders and the ultimate controllers of our Federal Reserve. We need to concentrate on America, and not fighting wars all around the world. Basically, we need a nation run on what our founding fathers laid out- the United States Constitution.

Let's not be hoodwinked.

Ahh, I could go on. It is sad and I would have hoped to see a presidential candidate who talks straight on these topics, but only Ron Paul really has.

Chris: "That case will be made easier by voters' preconceived notions about McCain -- that he is a moderate, a maverick, etc."

What voters are you referring to? Anyone who has been paying attention to this race for the past year knows that McCain is certainly no moderate and definitely not a maverick. He has been pandering to the conservative right, by telling everyone how Christian values must lead the government and he has been lock step with Bush's economic policies and failed defense strategies from day one.
Voters who are paying attention know that these "notions" of McCain are pure folly.

Watch John McCain in these videos, on how clear his view on the economy is...

http://ronpaul.myfeedportal.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=42

Let's face it- the next president will likely have an economic challenge on their hands, perhaps the perfect storm even.