Comments on: McCain Campaign Has Strong Ties To Corporate Lobbyists At Center Of Bailout

By: jarjarbush

jarjarbush — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:42:56 +0000

It has been evident for years that when McCain speaks of “taking on the lobbyists and special interests” he is speaking of hiring so many of them to run his campaign and presumptive administration. John McCain-Ready to be Led

By: Progressive Veteran

Progressive Veteran — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:12:51 +0000

Hey guys, sign this petition, we don’t want the bailout.

http://www.sanders.senate.gov/news/record.cfm?id=303340

By: shoeless

shoeless — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:49:37 +0000

But, but, but, this can’t be!!! John McCain is traveling around the country telling everyone that Barak Obama is the guy with all the crooked lobbyists!

“The crisis on Wall Street, my friends, started in the Washington culture of lobbying and influence pedaling and he was right square in the middle of it,” McCain said, painting Obama as a Washington insider. “My friends, this is the problem in Washington. People like Sen. Obama have been too busy gaming the system and haven’t ever done a thing to actually challenge the system. That’s not country first, that’s Obama first.”

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/19/1426312.aspx

By: Max-1

Max-1 — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:38:09 +0000

What was Johnny McStraight-talkin ’bout Lobbists and his campaign again…?

By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:40:50 +0000

had enough @17,
CNN must have gotten too many NO’s. They have rephrased the question now. Still, it’s 60-40 NO.

By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:03:06 +0000

Now I see barfly already mentioned Gleason and Dangerfield. I tell you, I don’t get no respect!

By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:54:56 +0000

I got an email from democrats.com saying:

“George Bush wants taxpayers to pay $700 billion to bail out Wall Street for its reckless investments in mortgage-backed securities. That’s on top of $800 billion for other recent bailouts, including A.I.G., Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Bear Stearns.”

Can someone explain this? Is this right or wrong? Is it really $1.5 Trillion?

Robert Scheer on DemocracyNow today said we need a criminal investigation of Paulson, Rubin, Gramm, and others who benefited from this fraud and bailout.

By: christopher wiwi

christopher wiwi — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:54:23 +0000

I thought he was a reformer………oooooh that was so yesterday.

By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:47:36 +0000

Caption: “To the moon, Alice, to the moon!”

By: hussein toasterhead

hussein toasterhead — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:40:30 +0000

Xisithrus Says:

Its like bailing out Las Vegas gamblers, these people do not deserve one dime.
September 22nd, 2008 at 8:25 pm
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Actually, it’s more like bailing out the casinos.

By: kasinca

kasinca — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:23:10 +0000

To McHoover’s credit, I don’t think he understands. Or, he is a lying thug of the crime family.

By: stateofthedivision

stateofthedivision — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:23:49 +0000

It’s about influence. The rich boys on Wall Street have access to their own heading the Treasury. Last week’s crisis came about from a 9 fold increase in credit default swaps.

No poor person purchased them last year when they went for $100,000 for a year’s coverage on $10 million in debt/mortgage securities. When they hit $900,000 the rich boys yelped.

When the big boys won’t cover each other’s debt without charging outrageous rates, someone needs to help out. Now we’re back to the role of the poor person.

By: had enough

had enough — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:59:20 +0000

Quick Vote
Do you agree with the Bush administration’s decision to spend $700 billion to bail out the financial system?
Yes 31% 87613
No 69% 198948

By: Arctic Ghetto

Arctic Ghetto — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:45:42 +0000

To top it off McCain, as a thirty year insider, is running as a reformer.

By: barfly

barfly — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:03:51 +0000

What schtick is he trying to do?

Gleason, or Dangerfield?

Either way, he just looks… wierd.

By: sluggo

sluggo — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:58:02 +0000

So how exactly does someone “Lobby” a sitting Secretary of the Treasury? Do they offer the person a bribe? (In the form of a VERY well paying job after they leave the Treasury position.) To they just hand over a large sack-full of money?

How exactly is this done?

Perhaps they go to the Republicans in the House and Senate and just start handing out money/drugs/hookers/boys/goats or whatever else these people demand for changing legislation.

What a country…..

By: AngryOne

AngryOne — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:27:45 +0000

The implosion of Wall Street last week resulted in a near-death crisis for John McCain’s presidential campaign. His post-Palin bump eviscerated, McCain was staggered by the reemergence of the economy as the dominant issue in the 2008 election. His daily-changing positions revealed that McCain, a man who has repeatedly admitted his ignorance of economics, is struggling to cope with his diminished presidential prospects. Armchair psychologists might call the process John McCain’s five stages of grief over the economy.

For the details, see:
“McCain’s Five Stages of Grief over the Economy.”

By: Xisithrus

Xisithrus — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:25:10 +0000

Its like bailing out Las Vegas gamblers, these people do not deserve one dime.

By: spencers mom

spencers mom — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:20:53 +0000

I’m watching Keith right now, and he keeps flashing a picture of Rick Davis, and I’m struck by just how much Davis looks like Jeffrey Dahmer!

Seriously.

PEACE

By: stateofthedivision

stateofthedivision — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:19:41 +0000

Fother chucker! The WSJ just reported the Fed will allow private equity firms to buy larger chunks of commercial banks. This is a form of deregulation, that gives the PEU boys what they’ve wanted for some time.

The Carlyle Group’s financial group has an ex-Number 2 to Hank Paulson and the brother of French President Sarkozy.