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John McCain: Your comparison to Theodore Roosevelt is a commendable overview of your positions. I’ll buy that. Also use more of those Johnny Carson mannerisms and I think you’ll have it made.

At which point is he comparing himself to Theodore Roosevelt?

Would it be when he voted against tax cuts or when he says he will make them permanent?

Was it when he supported campaign fiance reform and put his name on the bill or when he abandoned same legislation?

Would it have been when he was against torture or when he caved into bushco?

Anti or pro ethanol?

For or against overturning Roe v Wade?

Which of his deeply-held convictions represents him today? How about tomorrow?

He is a lesser Democrat.

“Government should take care of those in America who cannot take care of themselves.”

When people can’t get their out of banks due to runs on said banks, those not able to care for themselves will start to be a growing number.

We need less regulation, Mr. Bernanke, not more. Free markets are the simple fixes we need for everything imaginable. /scarcasm

Hahahahahahaha! Only not really. What an ass.

“Government should take care of those in America who cannot take care of themselves.”

When people can’t get their money out of banks due to runs on said banks, those not able to care for themselves will start to be a growing number.

We need less regulation, Mr. Bernanke, not more. Free markets are the simple fixes we need for everything imaginable. /sarcasm

Sorry for the double post, just wanting to be clear.

Like Freddie and Fannie? How about some nice big tax breaks for big oil? big pharma? big business of all sorts?

Uh huh, both parties give away the money they take from taxpayers. Government doesn’t generate revenue, they take it and give it away — and then some!

Government grew larger, stuck her nose further and deeper into places her nose didn’t belong and spent more money than any period before under total Republican dominance — bush as pres, majorities in both the House and Senate. For six years they did nothing but spend more than had ever been spent before.

Every part of government, every member of every party lives in a glass house this time around. No one dares throw a stone!

linda

Fannie and Freddie are private companies run by the government. They have their own set of special rules and laws to run by. And the people who run them (government beaurocrats) ran them into the ground on risky loans.

And now I get to help pay for their screw-up.

Would it be when he voted against tax cuts or when he says he will make them permanent?

Indeed, Linda, that’s a quite relevant question
Can you imagine John McCain uttering this line?:

A heavy progressive tax upon a very large fortune is in no way such a tax upon thrift or industry as a like would be on a small fortune. No advantage comes either to the country as a whole or to the individuals inheriting the money by permitting the transmission in their entirety of the enormous fortunes which would be affected by such a tax; and as an incident to its function of revenue raising, such a tax would help to preserve a measurable equality of opportunity for the people of the generations growing to manhood. We have not the slightest sympathy with that socialistic idea which would try to put laziness, thriftlessness and inefficiency on a par with industry, thrift and efficiency; which would strive to break up not merely private property, but what is far more important, the home, the chief prop upon which our whole civilization stands. Such a theory, if ever adopted, would mean the ruin of the entire country–a ruin which would bear heaviest upon the weakest, upon those least able to shift for themselves.

http://www.tax.org/Museum/1901-1932.htm

“Which of his deeply-held convictions represents him today? How about tomorrow?”

Linda, I thought you were for B. Hussein Obama.

Explain to us, Fleetwood, what is the importance of the “Hussein” portion of Barack Obama’s name. Is using his middle name in such a manner supposed to make us think that he is in some manner related in thought or actuality to Saddam Hussein?

It’s a freakin’ name. George W Bush’s middle name is Walker – I don’t see the conservatives referring to him as G. Walker Bush – so what gives with your usage of Barack’s name?

I’ll answer. Choose me, wsc.

fleetwood has won awards, hasn’t s/he? Has a reputation to defend?

I can see McCain as a Roosevelt conservative when it comes to liberating countries that don’t need liberating and sending in soldiers to get slaughtered so he can sit out the battle but suck up all the glory.

However, I doubt McCain will be the one to promote industry regulation like Roosevelt did. Quite the opposite actually. McCain fought for deregulation which led to such great McCain achievements as the S&L scandal and now the housing collapse due too weakening the Glass-Steagall Act.

“clark, you will have to ask one of your Lib buddies”

Naw, Fleetie, tell me why you refer to Barack by his middle name, but you don’t refer to George as “Walker” or John as “Sidney.”

Why the hypocrisy, Fleetwood?

“Ain’t no thing.”

So why did YOU abbreviate it to B. Hussein Obama – YOU don’t refer to them as G. Walker Bush or J. Sydney McCain – so why the change for Obama?

Eh?

“so why the change for Obama?”

Who cares?

“so why do you do that to Obama but not to Walker Bush or Sydney McCain?”

You will have to ask your Lib buddies.

linda has already volunterred.

It has something to do with geese.

Libs use McCains middle name. No big deal.

“Libs use McCains middle name. No big deal.”

Copy and paste where a liberal has used the name J. Sydney McCain, except in direct response to a B. Hussein Obama comment…………….

Obama goes before the NAACP and states that Black people need to stand for themselves and take responsibility for their own lives and families. Mc Cain goes before the NAACP and tell them that the Government will take care of them. Remember me, whom is the Conservative and whom is the Liberal?

Rage unfortunately I have looked at McCain’s foreign policy, it really is Bush’s foreign policy.
It is bizarre that he is said to be educated on foreign affairs and yet has the same clueless policy of G.W. Bush. I would have thought he was smarter than to fall for the same Neo-con crap that get Bush to invade Iraq and alienate the rest of the world.

McCain is just as clueless on the economics front but then the same people advising him also advised Bush.

“Obama goes before the NAACP and states that Black people need to stand for themselves and take responsibility for their own lives and families. Mc Cain goes before the NAACP and tell them that the Government will take care of them. Remember me, whom is the Conservative and whom is the Liberal?” – WriterDog

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Umm.. WD, I’m thinking that an old white guy going into the NAALCP convention and telling them that the black community needs to stop destructive behaviors and start taking responsibility… well, that might not have been too well received.

I applaud Obama for saying what he did. It’s about time. But there is no way McCain could have.