Fred Thompson: talk of plans to help economy is "boring"

[Enrique]

oh, he'd be a fantastic president :eyes:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hdhpw9QAP-xhD40z4ZQJ8GWXCf9QD8U7QG900

Thompson Would Wait on Economic Stimulus

By JIM DAVENPORT – 34 minutes ago

WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Republican White House hopeful Fred Thompson made light of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's call for a quick economic stimulus Thursday and said it might be best to leave the economy alone for now.

Thompson was answering questions in a restaurant where Bernanke could be seen on a TV urging short-term relief to avert a recession. Thompson was asked what he would do.

"You could probably get a 'Law & Order' rerun on TNT there if you wanted to switch that around a little bit," quipped Thompson, who acted on the series. When the host reminded him Bernanke is a South Carolina native, Thompson joked: "That looks a little boring to me. I don't care."

More seriously, he said he was not ready to embrace a stimulus package.

"We're all concerned about the direction of the economy," said the former Tennessee senator. "We've had a good run, but we can't take growth for granted." He said "we've got to have a potential stimulus package on the table to be discussed if it would make sense to be used in short order, but we're not quite there yet."

And doing nothing might leave the economy stronger, he said.

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[NYCGirl]

1. Well, we are keeping him away from his nap. NT

[sakabatou]

2. Freddie...

YOU FAIL!

[polichick]

3. Well, he should know about boring...

Thompson is a giant snoozzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[Ganja Ninja]

4. I have only one thing to say to Fred.

:boring:

[shain from kane]

5. It's only natural for a man. He's had all the stimulus he can stand. Time to sleep.

[gratuitous]

6. Sure it's boring

For someone with as much money as he has, the subject of someone else's economic insecurity is just blah, blah, blah. You know? Now, if we were talking about movie residuals or SAG equity, then Old Fred would perk up like his trophy wife's breasts. A-ten-shun!

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

7. "lazy"-faire economics

[ProgressiveFool]

8. Yeah, old Fred has tried all sorts of stimulus packages and none of them keep him awake for long.

Waste of time.

[TwilightGardener]

9. The economic well-being of the nation...YAAWWWWNNN-- wake Fred up

when we bomb Iran.

[LSK]

10. I bet he is dissappointed that he beat the uncommitted vote in Michigan

[BattyDem]

11. Well, if anyone knows "boring" ...

it's Fred Thompson! :P

[Strawman]

12. Presidents should just bomb the shit out of someplace every once in awhile

when the public is ready for a new episode of war. Cuz that's must see Tee Vee! Not like it's real or anything. The President takes an oath to make good TV. The rest of the time he should just take a nap and not bore anyone with all that pointy-head macroeconomics bullshit mumbo jumbo right Fred? :sarcasm:

[onethatcares]

13. wtf did he say?

and some people think this guy should be president? Sounds like he just woke up and someone told him about the economy tanking.

[BlueIris]

14. THIS MAN IS SO OBVIOUSLY THE VP NOMINEE.

Everything about him just screams, "Stupid V.P. candidate."

[Zynx]

15. This is the same guy who said he was just fine with oil company profits the way they were.

[onenote]

16. old freddie so clearly doesn't want to be president .

but i'm more than happy to have him stay in the race to further screw it up for repubs (my sense, and its just my gut speaking, is that freddie takes support away from McCain, which is a good thing at this point)

[Supersedeas]

17. a way with words, doesn't he -- imagine the diplomacy we'd get with him in office