McCain Tries To Run From Bush, One Day After Declaring ‘Great Progress Economically’ During Bush’s Tenure
McCain Tries To Run From Bush, One Day After Declaring ‘Great Progress Economically’ During Bush’s Tenure
Yesterday, Bloomberg TV aired an interview between host Al Hunt and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), in which the presidential candidate attempted to distance himself from President Bush and empathize with middle-class Americans who are struggling financially:
I respect the views of people who basically think that the status quo is satisfactory today. I don’t. I think Americans are hurting, and hurting badly. In fact, I think Americans are not better off than they were eight years ago, when you look at what’s happened to middle-income Americans.
Watch it:
These remarks seem disingenous. On Thursday — just one day before the aforementioned interview, McCain also sat down with Bloomberg TV’s Peter Cook. During that interview, he said there had been “great progress economically” since Bush took office:
MR. COOK: You think if Americans were asked, are you better off today than you were before George Bush took office more than seven years ago, what answer would they give? […]
SEN. MCCAIN: I think if you look at the overall record and millions of jobs have been created, et cetera, et cetera, you could make an argument that there’s been great progress economically over that period of time. But that’s no comfort. That’s no comfort to families now that are facing these tremendous economic challenges.
Watch it:
So despite all this “great progress,” Americans are still “hurting badly”? Maybe that explains why McCain has said that many of the country’s economic problems are just “psychological.”
The Wonk Room has more here and here on McCain’s misguided economic plans to help the American public.
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Keep all those flip-flops and contradictions coming, McCain, the Dems will use every one of them this fall.
April 19th, 2008 at 5:58 pmKeep talking McCurmudgeon. Pay no attention to that camera right there, nobody will ever compare what you said yesterday to today, dumbass.
April 19th, 2008 at 6:01 pmWoo hoo!
McFlip… meet McFlop!
April 19th, 2008 at 6:02 pmHAHAHA……RETREAT! RETREAT!
HE’S BRAVELY RUNNING AWAY AWAY….SIR JOHN IS BRAVELY RUNNING AWAY.
April 19th, 2008 at 6:02 pmJohn Cheney McSame can run –
http://desertratdemocrat.typepad.com/ photos/ uncategorized/ 2007/ 07/ 10/ 1mccain_bush_hug.jpg
– but he can’t HIDE.
April 19th, 2008 at 6:06 pmThe Wonk Room has more here and here on McCain’s misguided economic plans to help the American public.
Plan? What plan? McCain has a plan?
I don’t think a “let ‘em eat cake” attitude can be called a “plan”, now can it?
April 19th, 2008 at 6:11 pmBrave Sir John ran away.
(”No!”)
Bravely ran away away.
(”I didn’t!”)
When danger reared it’s ugly head,
He bravely turned his tail and fled.
(”no!”)
Yes, brave Sir John turned about
(”I didn’t!”)
And gallantly he chickened out.
****Bravely**** taking (”I never did!”) to his feet,
April 19th, 2008 at 6:16 pmHe beat a very brave retreat.
(”all lies!”)
Bravest of the braaaave, Sir John!
(”I never!”)
Is that Lieberman in the background of the bottom picture? Always nearby, ready to correct old McGrampy when necessary and point him in the right direction when the old coot gets confused.
April 19th, 2008 at 6:19 pmMcCain’s tough love “economic plan” won’t sell with with an America who is seeing (once again) that GOP-inspired trickle-down, supply-side economics only trickle up and the only real beneficiaries of Bush tax cuts are the top 2% of Americans. McCain’s biggest issue in November will be the fact that he’s a Republican trying to convince a public tired of Bush-GOP BS that Republicans are the right ones to clean up the Republican mess Bush has created.
April 19th, 2008 at 6:22 pmMcCain of the moment is like the weather in New England.
Stick around for a few minutes, it’ll change.
-GSD
April 19th, 2008 at 6:28 pmUncle John is WAY-OVER his combed-over head.
April 19th, 2008 at 6:31 pmMcCain wants the presidency to pad his resume. After one term, he’d be off to an overpaid gig on Wall Street.
April 19th, 2008 at 6:37 pmMethinks the “let ‘em eat cake” attitude” on McCain’s part is appropriate. Maybe the guillotine will be dusted off and used effectively.
April 19th, 2008 at 6:37 pmI think Jefferson & Roosevelt have two valid points about McCain.
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Thomas Jefferson
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
April 19th, 2008 at 6:40 pmFranklin D. Roosevelt
[…]you could make an argument that there’s been great progress economically over that period of time.
I guess you could, people can argue whatever they want -just like there are people who argue the Bible is literally true. And just like them, you’d be wrong.
April 19th, 2008 at 6:49 pmThis guy is not a flip-flopper - he is more like a wind sock (those things that blow every-which-way in the breeze at airports, for those McCainites).
April 19th, 2008 at 7:06 pmSomeone should ask McCain to name ONE average American that he knows. Then ask him some details about their relationship. I bet he doesn’t associate with anyone worth under $1 Million.
As for his economic plan, he urges everyone to forget all their troubles by spending their stimulus check on Bud.
April 19th, 2008 at 7:45 pmHere we go again. Grampa McCain forgot to take his geritol today. Pass the popcorn please…
April 19th, 2008 at 7:48 pmAnd may I say, ray @ 20, you do have a certain way with words. Always enjoyable.
April 19th, 2008 at 8:07 pmI need to stop listening to McCain clips — the whiplash is gonna cripple me for life.
April 19th, 2008 at 8:10 pmDifferent audience, different message.
Who does that remind us of?
That’s too easy.
Right out of the neocon playbook. If you like George W. Bush, you will love John McCain. Like Bush, McCain was a college legacy that was an under achieving party animal barely able to graduate.
April 19th, 2008 at 8:12 pmHe is a McMoron.
April 19th, 2008 at 8:46 pmWhy hasn’t anyone asked the question? Is McCain Sane?
“McCain had a unique POW experience. Initially, he was taken to the infamous Hanoi Hilton prison camp, where he was interrogated. By McCain’s own account, after three or four days he cracked. He promised his Vietnamese captors, “I’ll give you military information if you will take me to the hospital …
“His Vietnamese captors soon realized their POW, John Sidney McCain III, came from a well-bred line in the American military elite. . .The Vietnamese realized, this poor stooge has propaganda value. The admiral’s boy was used to special treatment, and his captors knew that. They were working him.”
“. . .two weeks into his stay at the Vietnamese hospital, the Hanoi press began quoting him. It was not ‘name rank and serial number, or kill me’. as specified by the military code of conduct. McCain divulged specific military information: he gave the name of the aircraft carrier on which he was based, the number of U.S. pilots that had been lost, the number of aircraft in his flight formation, as well as information about the location of rescue ships.”
“…McCain was held for five and half years. The first two weeks’ behavior might have been pragmatism, but McCain soon became North Vietnam’s go-to collaborator….McCain cooperated with the North Vietnamese for a period of three years. McCain was repaying his captors for their kindness and mercy.
April 19th, 2008 at 8:54 pmMacCaine MacCaine… please stop sniffing Bush’s cocaine! Get a sniff on reality!
April 19th, 2008 at 9:41 pmObama didn’t even realize that lowering the capital gains rate increased revenue…
April 19th, 2008 at 9:50 pmLet’s see, it’s Saturday, the day of the week is the 19th, so that’s an odd numbered day, it’s the third week of the month, therefore, McCain must be against Bush and the Economy. Wait till tomorrow, an even numbered day, and the start of the fourth (you guessed it, and even numbered week of the month), and he’ll be against the economy and the middle class, but for smoking in bed.
April 19th, 2008 at 9:51 pmAre you serious??? If we follow Obama’s economic plan we’ll end up like France…
April 19th, 2008 at 9:55 pmQuick! Somebody go back and get a shitload of bamboo shoots!
April 19th, 2008 at 9:57 pmI hear that’s what panders love!
Is there a neocon talkin to me?
April 19th, 2008 at 9:58 pmHmmm. All I hear is blah, blah, drivel… Can’t be anyone talking to ME?
April 19th, 2008 at 9:58 pmNeocon Says:
Are you serious??? If we follow Obama’s economic plan we’ll end up like France…
April 19th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
Oh nooooooos!! Happy, with well-paid jobs, tons of vacation time, amazing food & theater, and decent healthcare for everyone?
We shouldn’t stand for it!!
April 19th, 2008 at 10:03 pm#22 Zooey Says:
I need to stop listening to McCain clips — the whiplash is gonna cripple me for life.
Zooey, Thanks for the laugh, that was a good one.
April 19th, 2008 at 10:07 pmMcPander had another “senior moment”
April 19th, 2008 at 10:08 pmFreedom Rebel Says:
Zooey, Thanks for the laugh, that was a good one.
April 19th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Glad I could be of service, Freedom Rebel. :)
April 19th, 2008 at 10:08 pmHello America…are you paying attention. What do you think of a Presidential candidate who says something one day and the next says something completely the opposite? When are the “pundits” going to start pointing this out? Do you think George Stephenopolis will ask him about this in the interview he is doing next week? I’m guessing not.
April 19th, 2008 at 10:31 pmmcinsane is a batty loon and a total disgrace, which makes hime exactly right as the republican candidate.
April 19th, 2008 at 11:18 pm.
Dear Senator McCoot: You may not have noticed, but as the great Bob Dylan sang some forty years ago, The Times They Are A-Changin’ “If you can’t lend a hand, get out of the way…”
April 19th, 2008 at 11:24 pmClearly, McCain has either never read or has long since forgotten the old fable (attributed to Aesop) about The Man, The Boy, and The Donkey — the moral of which is:
TRY TO PLEASE EVERYONE, AND YOU WILL PLEASE NO ONE.
After all, is that not what McCain is trying to do? He’s sticking just close enough to Bush in the attempt to gain the neoconservative voting block, yet not quite so close that he risks alienating the ever-growing number of Americans who are heartily sick of Bush and recognize that we desperately need change — and he’s realizing that it’s a real juggling act, because he’s trying to be Bush and Not-Bush at the same time.
April 20th, 2008 at 12:01 amMcCain will pander to anyone as long as it gets him elected. Fortunately, this will never happen. He will show his true colors soon enough to all that care to listen to his backward view of…. nearly everything. We do not need this kind of doublespeak. 8 years was 8 years too much.
April 20th, 2008 at 12:35 amMcSame has the dream life, unlimited free VA and Senate Heath-care, Senate Pension, $28,000 a year from Social Security, Military Pension of $58,000, $33,000 VA Disability, free lobby flights and vacations, all TAX FREE, plus a Senate salary and book fees, PLUS a $200 MILLION Dollar Beer Baroness Trust junkie with 8 mansions . . . he past “middle class” LONG before he cheated on and dumped his first wife . . . .
I love those little bears, where do we send that bamboo????
April 20th, 2008 at 12:44 amNeocon Says:
Obama didn’t even realize that lowering the capital gains rate increased revenue…
April 19th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
No it didn’t, and I wish people would stop spreading that lie.
From the Center on Budget Policy and Priorities
Now will you please stop spreading the lie that capital gains tax cuts increase revenues. Not only are you applying a logical fallacy, but you are ignoring the coincidence of tax loopholes sunsetting or being abolished at the same time.
April 20th, 2008 at 12:51 amJohn McFlip/Flop, needs to get off the faketalk express and start telling the truth. The truth of the matter is John is losing his mind and should never ever be elected to office. This man suffers from althemiers already and half the idiots who elected duyba are ready to elect someone whose even worse. Come on there is no way I’d want some empty headed old man with althemiers making life and death decisions for me. Just look at what he did when Joe the trader liebermann had to tell him what to say.
April 20th, 2008 at 1:10 amWhat is sad is that none of his “steadfast positions” seem more reality based than the others. I don’t think he responds to cause and effect with any greater alacrity than Bush.
April 20th, 2008 at 1:17 amWhat no Joe Lieberman over his shoulder telling him what to say and how to say it, he can`t remember which side of his mouth he is to talk out of. Four years of the warmonger, fearmonger and McCains tax cuts for the wealthy are four years of pure hell from which this country will most likely never fully recover from in 20 years.
April 20th, 2008 at 1:49 amAfter watching these two videos. One can see why, when the Right wingers say Al Qaida wants Democrats to win. Because Bin Laden understands reverse psychology.
April 20th, 2008 at 2:13 amHe was for Americans before he was against them.
April 20th, 2008 at 8:30 amMcCain is on TV now explaining how he sought the endorsement of people like Hagee and other bigoted preachers, while Obama’s association with Wm Ayers (former weatherman who is today a respected member of academia, working for the people) is somehow unacceptable.
April 20th, 2008 at 10:52 am#37, when will the liberal MSM tell the rest of America about the Warmonger, never we have no liberal msm as you know so we come here and CAP and the Financial Times for me.Do you guys think the flag pins are made in China? The ones I see at the dollar store are.
April 20th, 2008 at 11:15 amOur Reich Wing dominating MSM is disgusting and useless, it`s like watching Bush Bimbaugh all of the time on all the networks just diiferent faces with the same views and know nothing discourse that spews forth from their pie holes.
April 20th, 2008 at 11:20 amWait ’til November…McCain will dance on Obama’s grave…
April 20th, 2008 at 12:03 pmthen you’ll REALLY be whining…
YOUR A FOOL, NEONATE, SORRY, NEOCON!
April 20th, 2008 at 7:50 pmNews flash: John McCain be introduced as the new starting infield for the Arizona Diamondbacks. You heard it here first, he will be covering all of the bases!!!
April 21st, 2008 at 11:19 amSomeone should ask McCain to name ONE average American that he knows. Then ask him some details about their relationship. I bet he doesn’t associate with anyone worth under $1 Million.
As for his economic plan, he urges toshiba pa2458ur battery,toshiba 3020 battery everyone to forget all their troubles by spending their stimulus check on Bud.
October 15th, 2008 at 8:42 am