McCain: Don't Worry, We're Fine, Go Shopping!

I think John McCain read his talking points wrong yesterday when he actually said that our economy is "fundamentally strong." I know these morons do nothing but lie, but my God, even the most dumbed down Neo-Con worshipper knows this is pure Orwellian Newspeak. Even the corrupt, lying, soulless media is talking about runs on the banks and the worst economic disaster since the Depression.

It was pretty telling that soon after, McCain's camp had scrambled to write new prepared text which included the following:

"The American economy is in crisis. Unemployment is on the rise and our financial markets are in turmoil."

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/did-mccain-economy-gaffe-prompt/story.aspx?guid=AB97BD36-9F9C-4239-ABC9-6B9E89D5C194&dist=SecMostCommented

This could very well be the beginning of the complete unraveling of the McPalin ticket. Anyone with half a brain can logically - if not emotionally - see this duo is a complete joke. McCain is a senile warmonger, and Palin is doing nothing but strutting around getting off on the fact that 61% of male voters want to have sex with - err, I mean, approve of - her.

Barack Obama hit a bulls eye with his response to McCain's gaffe. The highlight of his response - and no, I don't support him or think for a minute he came up with this himself - was a statement about regulation which appears to be dead-on. In fact, this afternoon on the Alex Jones show, economic guru and Father of Reaganomics, Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, said that the first and foremost cause of the current economic fallout is the amount of increased deregulation over the wild and reckless practices of Federal Reserve and the big banks. Roberts is the former Deputy Treasury secretary under Ronald Reagan, a scathing critic of the Neo-Cons, and a plain old straight shooter.

Obama responded to McCain's remarks, "...one of the biggest proponents of deregulation in the financial sector is Phil Gramm -- the same man who helped write John McCain's economic plan. [Gramm is] the same man who said that we're going through a 'mental recession,' and the same man who called the United States of America a 'nation of whiners.'"

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/16/obama_ridicules_mccains_econom.html

I don't know if we're a nation of whiners, but we're certainly a nation subjected to a court of jesters vying for title of our "leader," and the "face" of our country.