I dunno I am pretty tired of Presidents who rely on advisers for EVERYTHING
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:04 PM, Judah McAuley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not overly worried that McCain isn't an economist, honestly. You can't > be an expert in everything and I'm certainly not going to expect a > presidential candidate to be top notch in all areas. In fact, I give McCain > points for being honest about the things he doesn't know as well. Presidents > need to have good advisors though and need to exercise good judgment, have a > steady hand and know how to exercise critical thinking when dealing with > conflicting advice. Thus far, I don't see those characteristics in John > McCain and I don't care for the policies and advisors that he is bringing > forth. > > The gotcha politics of pulling snippets of quotes isn't worthy of electing a > President, I'd hope. I know how important sound bites have become in the > arena of 24/7 cable tv, but we have a written medium here that allows us > more leisure, so I'd hope we could keep it a bit more substantiative. > > Judah > > On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 8:36 PM, Robert Munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 8:07 PM, Gruss wrote: >> >> > * In 1995 McCain pushed for a moratorium on all banking regulation >> > saying that banking regulations were "destroying the American family, >> > the American dream" >> >> old news >> >> > >> > * In 2005 McCain told the WSJ: "I know a lot less about economics than >> > I do about military or foreign policy issues." >> >> As little as he says he knows, I'll bet he lots a lot more about >> economics than Obama. >> >> > * This year McCain defined wealthy as an income of $5M/yr or more. >> >> Spin. That's like the 100 year war claim. Lame, lame, lame. >> >> > * McCain supported Bush 90% of the time. >> >> More spin, most Senate votes are unanimous. Lame, lame, and more lame. >> >> > PEGs hire guys like Obama every day. Obama called this thing 3 years >> > ago. But mostly, our other choice is McCain and his "experience" is >> > Greenspan's book! >> >> Places like Lehman, AIG, and Merrill hire guys like Obama every day, >> and look where it got them. >> >> > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:269696 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
