McCain to Homeowners: Drop Dead

[Liberal_in_LA]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20080330/cm_thenation/45304786

McCain to Homeowners: Drop Dead

The Nation -- John McCain, unlike his Democratic rivals, seems indifferent to the problems of struggling Americans. Former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich captured McCain's stance when --on ABC's "This Week" roundtable--he called the Republican nominee the "let them eat cake" candidate.

**SNIP**

It is a remarkable feat for a politician running for president to be even more out of touch and indifferent to the economic distress of Americans than President Hoover."

Yes it is.

[CTyankee]

1. McCain has nothing to say to the voting public.

He is an empty suit. He offers no solutions to ANY of the emergent and serious problems of Americans today. He is old, probably mentally unstable and angry. He is a pink faced, somewhat crazy guy, who doesn't even know what his foreign policy issues are (and has to be straightened out by Joe Lieberman for god's sake).

When asked about contraception, he said he was "stumped." Hello, how many voting Americans are in their fertile years and have an interest in this subject? Quite a few, I would think...

McCain is a Washington insider type, not a maverick. His old Vietnam experience, as good as it was, was not based on actual service on the ground in Vietnam. He was a pilot, dropping bombs on the people of Vietnam. He does not have the authenticity of servicemen such as Chuck Hagel and John Kerry.

This guy is a very weak Republican candidate. Let's get busy getting him gone in November!

[Skittles]

2. the Democratic nominee needs to get the public to REALLY KNOW McCain

the more you know of McCain, the more disgusting he becomes

[Ishoutandscream2]

3. Good post, CTyankee. This really needs to be seen at GDP

Good, stable, common sense post. On second thought, it probably wouldn't fly in GDP. Too many folks over there bashing either Obama or Clinton, and not really focusing on the real enemy.

[CTyankee]

4. It's depressing, isn't it? I'm trying hard to get to the real nub of the issue here

which is McCain, himself.

I guess I'm past the point where I sigh and wonder why we, as Democrats, are doing all this stuff to hurt ourselves. I have resigned myself to just letting this play out in the primaries up to a certain point where they stop or I go crazy...

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. I stopped paying attention to the Obama/Clinton fighting. n/t

[CTyankee]

6. Please tell me how you did that!

I need that. My mental health would benefit!

Thank you!

[Liberal_in_LA]

7. Just stopped reading the posts, blogs, articles about it.

:patriot:

[CTyankee]

9. Oh, I'm trying. I don't go into GD:P much.

I'm going to northern Italy in early May. I'm hoping that my ex-fusion of stuff like GDP and my infusion of Renaissance art in Venice will cure me of this stuff. I am so over this!

Someone once said "Art always saves you." I have to believe this because who among us can take much more of this constant pounding of Obama/Hillary day in and day out.

I'll be in "La Serinissima" or the Veneto, in only a few weeks...thank god...

[magellan]

8. McCain supports the status quo

He said he doesn't think homeowners should be bailed out, but neither should the financial sector...except in "extreme cases" like Bear Stearns. IOW, no change from the policy in place now. Taxpayers will continue to pay for CEOs to exit ruined businesses with large wads of $$$$$ stuffed in their offshore accounts.