AMERICAblog: Frank Rich brilliantly encapsulates the past week and the McCain campaign
sittenpretty
· 1 year ago
August 21,2005 They said the evidence of climate change had become too stark to ignore and that human activity was a major cause of the problem.
On a high-profile and bipartisan fact-finding tour in Alaska and Canada’s Yukon territory, senators John McCain, a Republican, and Hillary Clinton, the Democratic senator for New York, were confronted by melting permafrost and shrinking glaciers. They heard first-hand from Inuit people how rising sea levels were irrevocably altering their lives.
“The question is how much damage will be done before we start taking concrete action,” McCain said at a press conference in Anchorage. “Go up to places like we just came from. It’s a little scary.”
BLOGGING BITCH!
· 1 year ago
Let me get this straight..........I love/need me some straight talk, Mr. McCain:
Privatizing Social Security is the right choice.
Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac were just bought up by the taxpayers?
Now I'm confused.
grandma
· 1 year ago
Fantastic Column by Rich.
From what I read of the comments to the article....most adamantly agreed with him.
hawkseye
· 1 year ago
I just wish it got wider circulation. My local daily is owned by NYT, but they rarely publish Rich. Just MoDo and the ultra conservatives.
grandma
· 1 year ago
Maybe....just maybe....voters won't be so naive as to be bamboozled again.....tho we can't count on the smear and slime GOP not to attempt to steal another election.
grandma
· 1 year ago
Watching Barbara Boxer talking about Palin and earmarks....her hiring of a lobbyist and her bragging about the earmarks she got for Alaska.....
All Kay Bailey Hutchinson can reply with is what an extremely popular governor she is in Alaska...
tlsintx
· 1 year ago
oh yeah, that's our Kay. she's a real go-getter.
when the pundits kept saying Kay would've been a better pick than Sarah, I was thinking...riiiiiiight. although to her credit, she isn't a complete right wing nutso...
martha
· 1 year ago
The talking heads are constantly asking Obama (Stephanopoulas today) when he broke with his party?- like John McCain "the maverick". It is a stupid question. Why doesn't he just say "when your party is right on the issues why would I break with it?" BUT, he could also answer that he spoke against going into Iraq when most dems voted for it.
grandma
· 1 year ago
One Dem spokesman (can't remember who it was) said this morning on CNN that Obama broke with repubs AND dems who wanted to go softer on Ethics Reform.
dad
· 1 year ago
good.
lynchie
· 1 year ago
U.S. Automakers want $50 Billion in loans from the government (taxpayers). so they can modernize their plants.
Two things at work, more robotics-less employees, healthcare, pensions, etc. and they get a bailout for running their business in to the ground. Amazing how the rich and elite know where to get the bail out but the average american cannot.
Industry leaders have argued that the loan guarantees are not a government bailout because it would hasten production of fuel-efficient vehicles and reduce dependence on imported oil.
"This is not about benefiting Wall Street," said Ford Motor Co.'s President of the Americas Mark Fields, referencing recent federal support for the investment firm Bear Stearns and troubled mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. "This is benefiting Main Street, the working men and women. The auto industry is part of the backbone of the U.S. economy."
Sounds like the Republican convention. We need to loan them money so they can deliver high mileage vehicles. So their policies of making SUV's that get 10 milles to the gallon were wrong, no this is being done to help us. Hey companies your gross incompetence and lack of interest in having a 5 year, 10 year plan and investing in your own business means i now have to bail you out. I am sure McCain and Palin will be all over these earmarks and have them stopped---right. If you get yourself in debt they tell you tough, no backruptcy protection, if a company does it---How much do you want?
Ass wipes every one of them
dad
· 1 year ago
That ideological sellout, unfortunately, was not the worst leadership trait the last-minute vice presidential pick revealed about McCain. His speed-dating of Palin reaffirmed a more dangerous personality tic that has dogged his entire career. His decision-making process is impetuous and, in its Bush-like preference for gut instinct over facts, potentially reckless.
hawkseye
· 1 year ago
Barbara Boxer and Kay Bailey Hutchinson debated this point on CNN this am. Boxer said McCain explodes and lectures other members of senate. KBH said that wasn't so, but didn't have much ammunition.
BLOGGING BITCH!
· 1 year ago
Did Sarah leave the money from the "Bridge to Nowhere" in Minneapolis?
Thet have a bridge there that could have really used that money. THAT bridge went somewhere.
BLOGGING BITCH!
· 1 year ago
If her church can fix being gay, when does she plan to drop off Trigg?
I can't stand hypocrisy.
shrrrr
· 1 year ago
The last six words scare the hell out of me. They should scare the hell out of every thinking American.
"...By hurling charges of sexism and elitism at any easily cowed journalist who raises a question about Palin, McCain operatives are hoping to ensure that whatever happened in Alaska with Sarah Palin stays in Alaska. Given how little vetting McCain himself has received this year — and that only 58 days remain until Nov. 4 — they just might pull it off."
DThor
· 1 year ago
Less substance and fewer answers than Regis and Kelly!!
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They said the evidence of climate change had become too stark to ignore and that human activity was a major cause of the problem.
On a high-profile and bipartisan fact-finding tour in Alaska and Canada’s Yukon territory, senators John McCain, a Republican, and Hillary Clinton, the Democratic senator for New York, were confronted by melting permafrost and shrinking glaciers. They heard first-hand from Inuit people how rising sea levels were irrevocably altering their lives.
“The question is how much damage will be done before we start taking concrete action,” McCain said at a press conference in Anchorage. “Go up to places like we just came from. It’s a little scary.”
Privatizing Social Security is the right choice.
Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac were just bought up by the taxpayers?
Now I'm confused.
From what I read of the comments to the article....most adamantly agreed with him.
All Kay Bailey Hutchinson can reply with is what an extremely popular governor she is in Alaska...
when the pundits kept saying Kay would've been a better pick than Sarah, I was thinking...riiiiiiight. although to her credit, she isn't a complete right wing nutso...
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080907/automakers_congr...
Two things at work, more robotics-less employees, healthcare, pensions, etc. and they get a bailout for running their business in to the ground. Amazing how the rich and elite know where to get the bail out but the average american cannot.
Industry leaders have argued that the loan guarantees are not a government bailout because it would hasten production of fuel-efficient vehicles and reduce dependence on imported oil.
"This is not about benefiting Wall Street," said Ford Motor Co.'s President of the Americas Mark Fields, referencing recent federal support for the investment firm Bear Stearns and troubled mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. "This is benefiting Main Street, the working men and women. The auto industry is part of the backbone of the U.S. economy."
Sounds like the Republican convention. We need to loan them money so they can deliver high mileage vehicles. So their policies of making SUV's that get 10 milles to the gallon were wrong, no this is being done to help us. Hey companies your gross incompetence and lack of interest in having a 5 year, 10 year plan and investing in your own business means i now have to bail you out. I am sure McCain and Palin will be all over these earmarks and have them stopped---right. If you get yourself in debt they tell you tough, no backruptcy protection, if a company does it---How much do you want?
Ass wipes every one of them
Thet have a bridge there that could have really used that money. THAT bridge went somewhere.
I can't stand hypocrisy.
"...By hurling charges of sexism and elitism at any easily cowed journalist who raises a question about Palin, McCain operatives are hoping to ensure that whatever happened in Alaska with Sarah Palin stays in Alaska. Given how little vetting McCain himself has received this year — and that only 58 days remain until Nov. 4 — they just might pull it off."