DISQUS

bluestockton · 1 year ago

That forced smile of McSame's is enough to scare children.

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

Yeah, he doesn't smile well.

Reminds me of those old films of Hitler bending down to charm a 12-year-old boy who's been conscripted to defend Berlin.

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

That would be this Phil GRAMM:

The GRAMM-Leach-Bliley Act, also known as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Services Modernization Act, Pub. L. No. 106-102, 113 Stat. 1338 (November 12, 1999), is an Act of the United States Congress which repealed the Glass-Steagall Act, opening up competition among banks, securities companies and insurance companies. The Glass-Steagall Act prohibited a bank from offering investment, commercial banking, and insurance services.

One of the effects of the repeal was to allow commercial and investment banks to consolidate. Several economists and analysts have criticized the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act as contributing to the 2007 subprime mortgage financial crisis.[6][7]

The 1933 Glass-Steagall Act separated commercial and investment banking after excessive risk- taking contributed to the Great Depression.

unrepentant_expat · 1 year ago

"We are experiencing enormous economic challenges as well as others"
The word "we" is inclusive of the speaker and the listener or the speaker and someone else and/or others. Being that he's married to a multi-millionaire I was unaware that he he had any economic challenges.

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

Recessions are nothing but good news for Cindy Babe and her Old Man:

As Americans face tougher times from a slowing economy, they are consuming more alcohol, Reuters reported Jan. 12.

"People are drinking more, because people tend to drink more during tough times,'' said JP Morgan beverage analyst John Faucher. "That fits into the current environment, both from a September 11 standpoint as well as from an economic standpoint."

Typically, sales of alcohol increase during recessions. According to industry figures, spending on liquor has risen in recent months. Data also shows that more people are consuming alcohol at home rather than in restaurants.

http://www.jointogether.org/news/headlines/inth...

Phoenix, June 3, 2008- New research from The Nielsen Company indicates that alcoholic beverage purchases may be somewhat recession-proof, with the declining economy having only a mild impact on consumers’ alcoholic beverage purchases at off-premise locations, such as grocery, liquor, convenience stores, warehouse clubs and other stores.

Nearly half of consumers surveyed report that the downturn in the economy has had no influence in the amount they are spending for beer, wine or spirits at off-premise locations; less than 20 percent indicate a significant impact. More than 80 percent of consumers say they are spending the same amount or more on beer, wine and spirits compared to a year ago.


http://www.wspa.com/spa/news/local/article/alco...

unrepentant_expat · 1 year ago

That might explain my excessive rants today. Home alone and no one to scold me.

jr · 1 year ago

"giving your daughter 50k a month for her credit card makes you a regular guy"-McCainstream media to McCombover

Busboy · 1 year ago

This is where McCain spent 5 years. His brain is rice pudding. He's still winning because Obama refuses to use his own brain...

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/washington-whispers...

unrepentant_expat · 1 year ago

At high school he excelled at wrestling, at the U.S. Naval Academy he was 894 of 899 of his class, a fraction of the last percentile. Seems his brains were alway pudding. God, imagine being the interrogator who had to extract intelligence from him! He probably still thinks McCain was the toughest SOB he ever encountered.

Polly_Tics · 1 year ago

McCain STILL winning? Egads Bus, Obama has been ahead in the polls for eons now.
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Busboy · 1 year ago

Polly, you aren't paying attention. They're dead even. Mc Cain has come up 15 points in 2 weeks.

I'll try to get a link since I know you don't trust me...

Polly_Tics · 1 year ago

I know the poll you're speaking of (the Newsweek poll, yes?) and I'm not surprised to see it hit Obama finally BUT it is still ONE poll and from what I saw, Obama is still 3 points ahead.

Busboy · 1 year ago

Well, this is the Rasmussen poll. I don't know which one you are referencing. What's astonishing is that McCain hasn't said or done a damn thing to influence his candidacy. So; the change in sentiment has to be due to whatever Obama has been doing.

http://rasmussenreports.com/public_content/poli...

Polly_Tics · 1 year ago

For one thing I NEVER give an ouch of credence to anything Rasmussen reports. They have leaned heavily right since their inception and their results are always skewed.

But I heartily agree that any changes we see in the polls will be influenced by Obama's about face, but part of these numbers also have been influenced by the presses lack of coverage of the oh so many mistakes old man McCain and his campaign are making.

Drives me crazy...

Rab · 1 year ago

I agree, Rasmussen is unreliable, they skewed towards Hillary during her whole campaign, they must poll just rednecks.

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

You do know that McCain always does better in weekend polls, don't you?

Not sure why...most seem to think it's because McCain voters stay at home more on the weekend.

Anyway, the daily tracking polls show Obama doing bad on Monday through Wednesday, then doing better on Thursday and Friday, when the weekend polls are cleared out of the three-day tracking average.

Not sure if that applies here or not, but I noticed that they led with a Saturday poll and the alarm bells went off.

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

Well, if you believe the first Newsweek poll, I guess you could say that.

I never thought Obama was 15 points ahead to begin with.

Polly_Tics · 1 year ago

Busboy, as I said below, it is merely ONE poll at this point AND my point was that you just said that McCain is STILL winning as if he has been ahead all along. And it you believe that, then you're the one "not paying attention"...

Busboy · 1 year ago

Polly, I'm going to buy you a "gravediggers" shovel for Christmas. Even if Obama wins? You won't be happy. You're just one of the women who are pissed off 24/7 no matter what. When was the lst time you smiled?

Polly_Tics · 1 year ago

Busboy,
Thank you for your uncalled for psychoanalysis of me but you won't be making much if that is your new career.

So I shall put an end to speaking with you ever again, you nasty little twit. Go and pull the wings off of insects and laugh your ass off you ninny, I'm sure that would make your bloody weekend.

Yeecch...

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

Here's all the most recent polls and an average of their results.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/pr...

(By all accounts, Obama has a slight lead.)

unrepentant_expat · 1 year ago

Hi Polly,... I guess that means that for the rest of us male and transgendered posters being pissed off 24/7 has nothing to do with our gender.

Polly_Tics · 1 year ago

Hi unrepentant! Yeah, I guess it's just a sexist kind of thang, eh? Busboy seems to think that only women are pissed off 24/7. A true gentleman he.
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Polly_Tics · 1 year ago

I wonder who will be the first "journalist" who, at the debates, asks McCain "do you think that the American Public is whining about their lives" comment. Perhaps George Will? That might be fun.

unrepentant_expat · 1 year ago

Whining...never! I prefer to think of it as gallows humour.

Polly_Tics · 1 year ago

LOL and ouch!

unrepentant_expat · 1 year ago

Sigmund Freud in his 1927 essay Humour (Der Humor) puts forth the following theory of the gallows humour: "The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected by the traumas of the external world; it shows, in fact, that such traumas are no more than occasions for it to gain pleasure".

Shannon · 1 year ago

McInsane does not smile, he grimaces.............he is too ugly to smile.

Aanya · 1 year ago

Karen won't get a good seat on the McCain Plane, but we can add her to our list of honest and ethical journalists, reporters and pundits. Now we have 4! Keith Olbermann, Dan Abrams, Bill Moyer and Karen Tumulty! I'm hoping I''m forgetting a couple more, but going by my sister's theory, Bush/Cheney has been spying and eaves dropping on all of them since first taking office, and those 4 are about the only ones they couldn''t get something to bribe good behavior and cooperation with!

vwcat · 1 year ago

the lapdog express won't allow Tumelty on the plane at all I bet.

Mark in Florida · 1 year ago

Once again, the media does not get it right. In their inept effort to think they have to invent a balance of news, they feel just because a candidate has a gaffe, they must create a gaffe from the other candidate to compare.

Let me explain to the inept media what happened this week:

1) Phil Gramm is MCCAIN'S ECONOMIC ADVISOR! For McCain's economic advisor to tell us it's all in our heads, and we are just whining IS A BIG DEAL. He is not a "surrogate"....ONCE AGAIN...HE IS HIS CHOSEN ECONOMIC ADVISOR.

2) Jesse Jackson is NOT Affiliated with Obama's campaign. He is NOT A SURROGATE. He is an irrelavant fool from a bygone era.

Get it right media, and stop fabricating things just to look 'Fair'.

This is a HUGE LAPS IN JUDGMENT BY MCCAIN. And my hope is that Obama really seizes on this opportunity in the debates and keeps bringing this point back, and back and back.

Sonnyboy · 1 year ago

The only seat of honor for an actual journalist would be in the tail of McDepends' plane by the restroom.